I love fall and one thing I love about it is canning!! YEAH for food storage!! I have been bottling stewed tomatoes all day, and I LOVE the sound of the lids sealing on the jars!!!! Next up will be Spaghetti Sauce, than Salsa and Tomato Stew YUM!! I have been slowly making new recipe cards so today while the tomatoes were boiling I made a few new cards:
this is one of Chawndells recipes.
and Stewed Tomatoes
and a fun favorite one Carmel Popcorn (This recipe is one of my friend, Peggy’s)
Hi everyone!!! I don’t know who all follows this, but I like to blog so I will keep on going even if no one cares. LOL I like to blog so much I have decided to start a different kind of blog, one with the bits ~n~ pieces in my life, like recipes, favorite books, poems, scrap booking stuff. You know just that kind of stuff. So if you would like to take a look the blog address is http://bitsnpiecesbynoelle.blogspot.com/ and you can get there by clicking HERE So far I have upload a few recipes, and a how to on making your own fonts.
Now I have the 3 blogs Family, Scrap, and Bits n Pieces
Now on to important things. Last week was school pictures for Chawndell and she had a HUGE HUGE zit on her forehead, so before school I thought I would take some pictures at home and compare the two to see what ones would be better. (I figured I could edit the home ones, you know to get rid of the zit) I think they turned out sooo cute, but any picture with Chawndell in it is CUTE. LOL
See I told you HUGE! Why do we need zits?????
and the edited one, this one I have ran a action on to give it a different feel.
I can’t believe how much our little girl has grown up!!!
So we started school last week, and I have been BUSY so I have not blogged about it. She said she LOVES her new school and she seems to be having FUN. She has not had any head aches YEAH it must be going good!!!!!! As for me, changing school has been hard!! It is like starting all over, each school does things different!! But over all it is OK! So now we are back on my FAVORITE schedule, the school schedule life is getting back to normal, but hay what is normal???
Chawndell is growing UP! and it is sooo sad to know she is in the 8th grade and in the middle school, the kids there look soooooo grown up!!!!
Check out the SILLY Dogs peeking out the door!
and now check out how much she has grown, this is a picture of her FIRST day of school when she went to developmental preschool in Bear River. She was sooo little!!
one thing that was nice about her being little, I could pick out her clothes! LOL I loved this little dress!
"When I was young, I'd often say,
I'd like to be a mom someday
While playing with my baby doll,
I thought that job's not hard at all
I'd have a baby, maybe two,
a girl in pink...a boy in blue
Well I grew up and sure enough,
I'm now a mom and gosh it's tough
The baby that was sent to me,
was born with disabilities
At first I'm frightened through and through,
there's much to learn to care for you
This wasn't in my plans at all,
when I was young and played with dolls
Your mind and body were so weak,
you might not ever walk or speak
So much special care required,
I'm often scared and often tired
As months and years go slowly by,
I smile a lot but sometimes cry
To watch you grow and not complain,
though you endure your share of pain
Oh, how I'd hold you and I'd pray,
that you'd be healed and whole someday
But I knew that was not to be,
not physically or mentally
And so I taught you best I could,
your progress wasn't always good
But then one day I realized,
as I gazed into your loving eyes
That I had learned so much from you,
determination...courage too
A love so unconditional,
it floods my soul and always will
I'm proud to say I gave you birth,
for you're an angel here on earth."
Author Unknown
