Just being a Mom..

Happy Sunday everyone.. 

Hope your day is blessed..

Friday we had a farm day.. 

Early in the morning Terry and I headed out..

The day was a bit chilly but it did not take the old wood stove long to get the front part of the house warmed up enough for me to putter away.. 

We were expecting Dustin and his family for supper so I wanted to bake some bread.. 

It is generally the first thing I do when we get there and then it sits by the stove to rise.. 

We had cooked a turkey that week so I made a Turkey and Rice soup for our lunch.. 

Terry is starting to enjoy soup most days... 

The poor guy may as well since I can't help myself from making it.. 

Most every day.. 

I am a soup junkee after all..smile..

Anyway... 

He went out to work on the fire wood and I decided to pickle a huge cauliflower that we had picked up at the market.. .. 

I will share the recipe with you all later this week since they turned out so well... 

Supper time was coming so I peeled veggies and baked the bread.. 

I made two rolls so they could take one home with them..

 I set the table for the six of us and as all was ready I sat in the rocking chair and read..

We were expecting them around 6 o'clock or so.. 

Terry came in about 5:30 and laid down out in the porch.

Six o'clock came and then six thirty..

When it was almost seven I kind of woke Terry up and we thought perhaps their car had broke down or something.. 

We do not have a phone there and cell phones do not work.. 

Terry said we would wait until 7:15 and then perhaps we would eat and then head home.. 

They still had not arrived so he ate his supper.. 

By that time my mind was in over drive so I could not eat.. 

It was now 7:30..

Really, it made them about an hour and a half late..

We started packing it up so we could go and call them.. 

He went out to load up his stuff and I just dumped all the veggies on top of the meat in it's roaster.. 

 I had heated up the left over soup so I poured it into a jar.. 

They don't all like potatoes so I had cooked some rice in turkey broth.

I asked Terry what I should do with all of this food like the rice and he said just to put the rice in the stove.. 

Voila... 

Into the stove.. 

I looked out the window and there they were. 

Thank you, Jesus.. 

Even though the table was stripped and most of the food was now all in one pot except for the salad which I had thrown into a freezer bag.. 

OK.. 

In runs one little lad... 

Grandma.. I'm hungry ... 

Then another little chap.. 

Grandma... What's for supper? 

Then a couple of dogs and Dustin and Veronique..  

I tried to explain to them that Supper would take a few minutes.. smile.. 

They thought my face was kind of pale..  

I explained that of course I was worried as we had  expected them no later then 6:30..

He looks up at the clock and said it was 6:30... 

Daaaaaaahhhhh...

Terry had forgot to turn the clock back.. 

Lord help us.. 

Anyway, we did not have a nice fancy meal but all in all it still tasted alright although the rice was gone.. 

Aren't you glad you're not our kid?  grin.. 

In my defense... 

Dustin is like his mother and is seldom ever late... 

And it was not my fault that the clock was not turned back.. 

Right?  grin..

Oh well.. 

All's well that ends well.. 

They came bearing gifts, too.. 

A lovely early birthday gift for me and dessert, too.. 

They loved the salad as it had real bacon and the croutons were a slices of bread fried up in the bacon fat.. 

A nice company treat.. 

The wee boys told me they knew where hamburger came from .. 

MacDonalds... 

So cute.. 

Well, I must get ready for church tonight so may God bless you all.. 

I hope you don't think less of me for my worrisome ways.. 

Hugs..

These Spring Days..

Hello my dears.. 

Here we are into the second day of Spring here in Eastern Canada.. 

This is what the first day looked like here.. 

A snow storm moved in over night and we woke up to this.. 

Typical March weather.. 

But that is fine.. Warm temps today ... 

We had some sweet company after church on Sunday.. 

Someone had a yen for looking at Mom's photos.. 

smile.. 

And someone else has lost a tooth.. 

They are getting to be such big boys... 

They enjoyed the ribs and rice and salad..

Salads go over well in this family..smile.. 

Then one day this week Terry and I had our town day.. 

Look what I found.. 

Several crocks from the Thrift store again..

Please note... Laurie..

 One for you.. smile.. 

And two heart molds which I love.. 

This is what I did with one.. 

I love the new look in kitchens of hanging tools and pots and pans.. 

So like the UK mags.. smile.. 

I put up a tension rod above the stove and hung utensils on it..

Terry put a hole in the heart mold so I could hang it.. 

Then I have one to sell in the shop this summer.. 

Doing some planning these days for the shop and Keepers Meetings, of course.. 

We have another meeting in 2 weeks.. 

How are you girls doing with your homework? smile... 

Have you done a back to basics chore for your home and family yet?

Here is mine... 

I will share what is in it later.. 

And give you the recipe.. 

Here is another pic of a visitor we had over the weekend.. 

Dear old Charlie.. 

All decked out and ready to visit.. 

I am so glad you dropped by.. 

We have had quite a week.. 

My sweet Aunt Eva was put to rest today.. 

She had a lovely funeral and everyone was so kind.. 

I will miss her... 

Life is full of saying good-bye, isn't it? 

But some day we will all say good night here but good morning up there... 

Thank you for your visit and I look forward to hearing from you all.. 

I see I only need one more person to join this site and we will have 400 followers... Neat, eh?  smile.. 

Oh and thanks so much for your sweet emails wondering if all is well.. 

I finally figured out my problem with the computer pic thing..

And Sammi is stable for now.. 

He is not well..  

It has just been that kind of week.. 

I will try to get and comment on your lovely blogs now that the worst if over.. 

Take care sweet friends..