Menu Plan~~~.November 27 ~December 3~~~ Printable

 

🤍Happy Homemaker Monday🤍

 

Waving!!!

Sandra over on "Diary of a Stay at Home Mom" Is hosting "Happy Homemaker Monday"
Please go visit and check out all the other wonderful blogs that leave their link.  I have met some really amazing women.
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This week is going to be a super busy one. 
School starts back up and we are doing a little bit of home renovations.  With Thanksgiving and all the shenanigans going on this week, I am behind on laundry.  I thoroughly enjoy laundry, so i don't mind, I just don't like having so many clothes in the basket that someone might want that day.  I will get it done, it will just take a little time.

Ponderings in my head.
Christmas

Getting a new planner, trying to find the perfect one.

Happy Planner? Erin Condren?

Picking out new pajamas for everyone, tee hee.  That is a tradition, I will probably be doing forever...lol

* Outside my Window *

Menu Plan

Takeout

Turkey casserole with lots of cheese

Turnip Greens

Salad

Pork Chops with onions and mushrooms

Steamed broccoli
Rice

Salad

Creamed Chicken

Mashed potatoes
Green Beans

Cucumber and tomato salad

Fried Tacos

Family Fun Night

Leftovers.

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The weather this week in North Georgia

 is going to be quite chilly.

I made a huge donation to Goodwill, I am getting rid of so much stuff I have held on to for years.  It is so freeing to let go. I make donations on the regular, but this one was quite different.  It was huge!!!!

On my camera was a picture of my table for Thanksgiving!

Me

The CHRISTmas season has begun!!
Every Christmas I make a birthday cake for Jesus.  

For my devotional, I want to share one of my most favorite songs.  This surely brings tears to my eyes. I am God's girl, y'all.

LIVING HOPE

Lyrics 🎵

How great the chasm that lay between us
How high the mountain I could not climb
In desperation, I turned to heaven
And spoke your name into the night
Then through the darkness
Your loving kindness
Tore through the shadows of my soul
The work is finished, the end is written
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Who could imagine so great a mercy?
What heart could fathom such boundless grace?
The God of ages stepped down from glory
To wear my sin and bear my shame
The cross has spoken, I am forgiven
The king of kings calls me His own
Beautiful savior, I'm yours forever
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Hallelujah, praise the one who set me free
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me
You have broken every chain
There's salvation in your name
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Hallelujah, praise the one who set me free
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me
You have broken every chain
There's salvation in your name
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the roaring lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me

Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the roaring lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me
Jesus, yours is the victory, whoa!

Hallelujah, praise the one who set me free
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me
You have broken every chain
There's salvation in your name
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Hallelujah, praise the one who set me free
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me
You have broken every chain
There's salvation in your name
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Jesus Christ, my living hope
Oh God, you are my living hope

Thank you for visiting my little corner on the net.  

Homemade Christmas Cards

 

Water Color

used a number 6 round and a number 2 :)

 

White Bread Stuffing

 White Bread Stuffing

Just like Grandma used to make....🤍

Ingredients

• A loaf of stale bread, you can dry the bread out in an oven at 200' for about 30 minutes or leave in an of oven over night or up to 24 hours on a sheet pan. 

• 2 tablespoons butter
  1 large onion, finely chopped
  2 stalks celery, finely chopped
  2 cups chicken broth
  2 large eggs, lightly beaten
  2 tablespoons water, or as needed (Optional)
  2 teaspoons rubbed sage
  1 teaspoon garlic powder

• salt and ground black pepper to taste
  

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.

  Break bread up with your hands into a bowl
  
  Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in onion and celery; cook and stir until soft, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat.
  
  

  1. Add chicken broth and eggs to bread crumbs; mix until combined and moist, but not mushy. Add water, if necessary, to attain desired consistency. Mix in cooked onion and celery, sage, garlic powder; season with salt and pepper. Spoon Stuffing mixture into the prepared baking dish.

  2. Bake in the preheated oven until the top is brown and crisp, about 1 hour.

  3. 
     

  
  

Weekly Menu Plan || NEW November 20~ 26

 

Banana Bread #YUM

 This is by the best Banana Bread recipe ever.
I have been making it forever.
It is a no nut recipe, because we are a no nut household, but you could surely add nuts for your own bread.

Enjoy!

Happy Homemaker Monday!! 11-14-22

 I am joining Sandra over at her amazing blog, for
Happy Homemaker Monday. 
 Please go over to Sandra's and visit, and then check out all the other wonderful Blogs that play along.  I have found some amazing blogs and friends 😊

Another week is here and another week closer to Christmas. 

 I am so over the moon excited for Jesus's Birthday!!!

Finishing Decorating

Laundry

Cleaning everything
I want my home to sparkle for the holidays, so that means on going upkeep.

Costco run

Food drive 
Dentist
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ON MY CAMERA 

(Photo courtesy of Google
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These are not my nails, but I am thinking of getting my nails done for the holidays, I have not had my nails done for awhile....
so I was thinking..red or green..mmmmm

Then I have been playing with making Christmas tags..these are supposed to look old...lol

Ponderings
I am thinking of all the things that I need to do and get done, I am hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus doing all the homemaker mom stuff.

Reading List

I have been trying to finish my books but to no avail, I haven't had a chance.

I sometimes put an audible and do my running, but I went for a run yesterday and was not prepared for the cold weather to hit me in the face and freeze my ears.  If you ever see a runner with ear muffs, it is probably me.  My husband teases me, but I don't care.  I wasn't able to run long, because I didn't dress warm enough. 

Speaking of Weather, here it is for North Georgia!🥶

Dallas, Georgia, y'all, not Texas...tee hee

Jesus is incredible and He's worth following with your whole life!!
Have I mentioned I am God's girl?🤍

Well I am and he is my rock.  I start off my week with church and God is the reason for my every days.

I thank him for the up's and the down's.

I know everything in my life is happening for a reason and thank God every day for my beautiful days.

I cry when I think of what Jesus did for us..

Just remember, if you feel broken and can no longer stand,

Kneel and know God loves you!

Weekly Menu Plan #NEW!!!

 

Happy Friday!

 I hope everyone is having a nice Friday.  It is a wet day today, not too cold, just wet.  It's the kind of rain that just drizzles all day enough to be annoying...LOL. My little dog, doesn't like it either. It is hard to go potty in grass when you have little legs.

I had to take my youngest (15) to the doctor for his epi pen refill.  I am grateful for the epi pen!!!  Having a nut allergy can be scary.

I am not quite sure what our Family Fun Night will entail for tonight.  Sometimes we like to go and just get takeout and have a cozy night at home .

I will be doing a video on my Christmas Notebook.  I think that will be fun to do.  I am so excited for the holidays.

Here is a little video of snippets of my week.
I hope you enjoy it.  Let me know you were here with a comment or a wave..

Chess Squares

 

🤍Happy Homemaker Monday🤍

I am joining 

Happy Homemaker Monday

over at 

Sandra's lovely Blog

Please go over and visit and check out all the beautiful blogs and join in the fun.

I have met some fantastic and amazing women in such a short time of me joining.

I find peace finding women I have things in comment with.

 Waving!!!!

I am so very glad you are here!

This was an extradentary busy week, and I loved it.  

Our weather is amazing...I MEAN AMAZING!!  In the 80's this week.  My heating and AC are thinking I have lost my mind...ac on, ac off, heat on heat off...lol

I started decorating and I am loving it so much.

I made a donation box of things I have decided to retire, hoping some else might enjoy it for awhile.

I also started a pile of food donation for my youngest son school.  

We will drop that off Friday

🤍Weekly Menu Plan🤍

I am feeling really happy.

I had something that made me very upset, but I worked through it with God.  I did a lot of praying and talking to him.

I am God's girl.
I am my biggest critic and sometimes I am very hard on myself.  I need to learn to be kinder to me :)

Church Sunday was 

Amazing!!!!

From my Camera:
The buttery Garlic Knot from our local Italian restaurant we went to on Friday.

SOOOOO YUMMY!!!!

On my To~Do List:

Put the finishing touches on my Thanksgiving Scrapbook, so it is ready for Thanksgiving for all to see from last year.

I give people disposable cameras and have them take pictures during our party.

Cook, Clean, Laundry

Vacuum Stairs

Finish decorating.

Paint a fall page for my book

finish painting a Holly on my frame

and this and that....

Be still and know that I am God!!

YES!

I always say, Let Go and Let God!

So, this is what I am sharing this week.

We all must be still in the quietness of our thoughts and know that God is with us and loves us with his heart and everything will work out and be okay.

He never says no, he might just be saying not yet.

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Thank you for Visiting!

Weekly Menu Plan *NEW* November 6 ~ 12

 

Weekly Menu Plan

Steak on the grill

Loaded Baked Potatoes

Mixed Veggies

Cheeseburger Pie

Green Beans

Salad

Crockpot Chicken in Pepper Gravy

Mashed Potatoes

Broccoli

Salad

Rolls

Pork Roast and potatoes

Macaroni and cheese

Peas

Rolls

Baked Chicken

Wild Rice

Broccoli

Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Night out~~Reservations

Take out/Leftovers

Homemade Veggie Soup
Homemade Dinner Rolls

Cheeseburger Pie

 

Happy Friday! 🤍

Happy, Happy Friday.

Here is a little video of simple moments of the week I had.

I had a lot of fun chatting and putting this together.

Let me know if you watched it.

Have a glorious and wonderful weekend!

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See you in the next post!!

xo

 

FUDGE!!! Heavenly 🤍

 

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Fudge Recipe:

2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

1 can (14 oz.)Sweetened Condensed Milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

LINE 8- or 9-inch square baking pan with foil.

COMBINE morsels and sweetened condensed milk in medium, heavy-duty saucepan. Warm over lowest possible heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla extract.

SPREAD evenly into prepared baking pan. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm. Lift from pan; remove foil. Cut into pieces.

Chocolate Spiral Cookie

 CHOCOLATE SPIRAL COOKIES

(Photo Courtesy of ToH)

Prep: 30 min Chill: 2 hours plus overnight

Bake: 12 min per batch

Ingredients:

1¼ cups all-purpose flour

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup regular stick butter or margarine (not

spread), at room temperature

¾ cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 large egg

1 square (1 ounce) unsweetened chocolate,

melted Directions:

1. Mix flour, baking powder and salt.

2. in a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, vanilla and

leg with electric mixer until pale and fiülf,

With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture

until blended

3. Divide dough in half. Mix melted chocolate

into one half. Wrap each half in plastic. Chill 2

hours or until firm enough to roll.

4. Dampen a flat surface with water and cover

with 18-inch-long sheet of plastic wrap. Lightly

flour wrap. On plastic wrap, roll plain dough out

to form a 16x6-inch rectangle. Repeat with

chocolate dough,

5. Invert chocolate dough on top of plain dough.

Peel plastic off top. Press it down gently with

rolling pin. Roll up from one long side, peeling

the plastic away from the dough as you go, into

an even log, making sure center is tight. Cut logs

in half. Wrap halves in plastic and chill over night

6. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease cookie sheets).

Cut each log into 36 slices. Place 1 inch apart

on prepared cookie sheet(s).

7. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, 12 minutes until

lightly browned around edges. Remove to wire

rack to cool. Store airtight at room temperature

up to 2 weeks or freeze.

Christmas Cookies!!

 I am going to post some Christmas cookie recipes like I am doing with the soup recipes.  I am going to post my favorite cookie recipes and put them all in the sidebar for easy access.

I just love this time of year, it just is happy.  Jesus's birthday should be celebrated and I celebrate Jesus everyday, that is why I find nothing wrong with starting Christmas early.

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