My Quest for Meatless Meals

I am trying to serve at least three meatless meals per week - not only to economize, but to try & eat healthier in general. I found THE greatest waffle mix - yes I said waffle mix - for dinner!!! It is Carbon's Golden Waffle Mix awesome - simply awesome. I purchased a case of this from Amazon's Subscribe & Save which I highly recommend (15% off & free shipping & the ability to control the shipments).

Anyway - I made them for dinner last night - served my DF & DB theirs topped with blueberry yogurt & dried cranberries, me & DS had them with heated syrup & butter - all with a sprinkle of powered sugar. They were unbelievably good - good enough to rotate them into my regular menu - perhaps with different toppings & even as a dessert.

Another Etsy Treasury for me!

This time it is one of my fairy pieces - I am the 4Th item!

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~Bern Williams

Spring in my garden......

Clumps of Crocus' greet me each morning.

Buds of a sweet smelling Hyacinth forming.

Delicate shoots of grape Hyacinths strong enough to lift dirt as they push their way out of ground.

Delicate Pussy Willows budding on my dwarf tree.

Swollen, yellow Daffodil buds waiting to pop!

Baby Strawberry leaves awakening from their winter nap.

Green Montauk Daisy buds sprinkled along dry, winter branches.

So much to look forward - so splendid to see.

Another Etsy Treasury Feature!

This is my second one in two weeks! - I am only sorry that I did not save the first one. Having no experience in how this works, I posted a link, but that expired - anywhoooo...... I'm the 9Th item pictured.

I Am Really Alive!

A Wild, Wacky & Wonderful Woman!!!!!

Art and Poetry by Artist Suzy Toronto www.3wackywomen.com

I feel so out of my skin lately.

In four months I'll be fifty - age has never bothered me before - but for some reason this sounds so ominous - so old. I keep thinking that I only have thirty or forty years left (God willing) and I still have so much I want to do and get done - if the last 50 years went by in such a whirlwind - what will the back end of my life be like? So morbid sounding - so final - and yet being out of work and finally making the decision not to go back leaves me endless days of time - time to do what I want and what I dreamed of - so I guess I should look at this time in my life as a blessing and as a gift from God.

DS is graduating eighth grade - I remember my eighth grade graduation like it was yesterday - as I mentioned in a previous post, my elementary school years were some of the best years of my life - I think Guy will feel the same way about his - as St. Elizabeth is truly a wonderful place - anyway I always looked at my graduation as a huge step in my life - by the time I graduated I was going steady with a boy (Steve -my first love)I was already in a bra and my period started that year. I look at my son and feel such pangs - he will be starting high school in September, he is already a head taller than me - I guess the magical "baby" years are over for me - never again to hold him and rock him to sleep - hear his sweet giggles or have his hand held out to me to be picked up and cuddled - yet I feel good that I raised him to this point and he has turned out so good - so happy for him that he too is starting a new chapter in in his life. I guess him being this age and independent enough to care for himself - will leave me time to be me - I hope he still will reach out to me for a cuddle now and then.

There are days when I still can't get over being laid off (sounds better than saying "fired") - giving them twelve years of true dedication and hard work - to be cast aside like a piece of trash at the curb - I get upset when I think about it - but then I want to thank God and shout from the rooftops that I am free and gone from that place.

I think I am beginning to go through (whispering) "the change" as my mother would say. My friend, which I started getting back in eight grade hasn't been my friend for a while (been sporadic the last year anyway) - but worse I am getting (whispering) "hot flashes" - more like holding my foot to the fire and having my whole body go ablaze. I feel the heat start in my very core and then radiate out to my very fingertips - ending with me sweating - I never sweat in my life until now and I never felt anything like this in my life. I also, at times, want to rip someones heart out - for no apparent reason other than I just feel like doing it.

So you can see I really am in a flux and have diarrhea of the fingers - as I just keep on typing and typing.........I feel good just getting these feelings out in the open - not an interesting post - but tough shit (boy that felt good!)

8th Grade Enlargement Project

It has become tradition at my DS school for the 8Th graders (his school is K-8) to do an enlargement for a Math project (it involves measurement, multiplying fractions and the like) in time for the schools open house and curriculum night. We have been seeing these since 2000 when he first started school and were always so impressed with what the kids turned out, always anticipating when it would be his turn - finally it is here! He decided to do my palm pilot. He had to measure it and all it's features, jot down the measurements and then decide whether to enlarge it 5x or 10x - we decided in 5, as 10 would have made it ginormous (notice I said WE, as after his calculations, he did need my help!). So follow along and you will begin to see a bunch of cardboard boxes become an enormous palm pilot(the first one is the actual PP)




















It was a long process, but a lot of fun to do - I think it turned out pretty well!