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Buttercup

My husband and I have been married 15 years too.

We always go out to eat (without the kids) and

we don't buy each other gifts.

I'm glad to hear about your van. I laughed when

you told about everyone sitting on each others

laps and got stuck in the mud. Everyone will be

glad to have their own seats.

I'm here. I come here every morning about 7:30 - 8:00.

I'm doing great. My due date is the end of this month.

Boy, am I ready. So far he's been a good baby, doesn't

kick too hard (lol). My hands and ankles have just started

to swell, so far that's been the only bad part.

I don't post unless it's something I know or have an

opinion on. I'm one of those people to like to sit

back and watch or in this case read.

Looks like the board has been kind of quiet. It looks

like noone is preparing. I can say the same. I haven't

gotten anything extra. I don't have any more room to

buy anything else and I don't really know what I would

buy.

Thanks you guys! Yes, I like it!

Me too. I've been a stay at home mom for 7 years.

Our weather is HOT! We got very little rain and the grass

is still crunchy.

This weekend we went to the Kentucky State Fair. One the

way home we got a flat tire on the interstate. We took my

parents with us so we had 2 men to put on the spare. They

were very fast it only took about 5 minutes to change.

I also canned 18 pints of crushed tomatoes. I think our

tomatoes are finished, except for one or two here and there.

I had a very busy day. I just got home and

have not been home since this morning. I had to get

a new tire, plus we needed a tire alignment, which took

forever! (20 miles to) Then I had to run some scrapbook pages to my mother (20 miles back) then go pick up my daughter from school then go get my other daughter from

school (20 miles to) and then come home (20 miles back).

I was only driving today, but I am exhausted!

Time to go fix some dinner. Shake-N-Bake chicken legs.

Have a good what's left of the day.

Most days are like that but not all.

Sorry but I don't like soaps. It's like once

you are drawn in you can't get out. I like to

read and watch Dr. Quinn. Right now I am reading

a christian romance called Texas Belles and it is

really good.

I use Hooked on Phonics. This is the only program that

worked on helping to teach my daughter to read. It cost alot but well worth it. I wish I could have found it

used, but it is such a good program I can see why people

are holding on to it.

I'm like you, except I cleaned the kids room before school

started so that they would know where everything is on

their own. My husband made new beds for all the kids so

basically we hade to take everthing out the rooms so it got

really cleaned up.

I've also got most of the kids Chirstmas shopping done too.

I'm the kind of person who likes to have 90% of my shopping

done before the end of September. My family thinks I'm crazy

but who want to go shopping with a gazillion people clawing

and trampling all over you.

Our weather is calling for rain this afternoon also. We

also need it, when you go outside the grass is crunchy.

I didn't really post what I was going to do because my

days are kind of boring with the kids in school now.

Let's see.... I homeschool my kindergarten son, I have a

big bowl of tomatoes that I'm trying to figure out what

to do with. Did laundry yesterday. See kind of boring!

I hope everyone has a good day.

Buttercup, I like the new siggy picture, it's so cute!

I wasn't hiding, I just don't have alot of advice when

it comes to sewing. But I do love aprons!

Westbrook, may I ask what your fist name is?

Buttercup, who were you talking to? Westbrook or me.

Shannon

Buttercup: Good buy on the milk. I'm like you, I have

lots of eggs, 10 dozen right now. I hope to get those

sold next week. I got an order from this guy who is going

on a fishing trip and wants 15 dozen at the end of Sept.

That's alot of eggs!

Milk in our area has gone down. I didn't notice until

you mentioned it. In July it was $3.39 and I went

shopping yesterday and the price was $2.99. I keep

my grocery recipts just for that reason, so I can see

the price differences from month to month.

I also love aprons. I have a collection of about 20 or so.

I tried to make my own but since I can't sew it didn't

turn out very well. Since then I have found cheap ones to

wear. I wear a cobbler style apron for ease of putting on

and taking off. Here is a link for really cheap aprons,

this is where I got mine.

http://www.amerimark.com/cgi-bin/am1live...s&mode=

When traveling you learn some interesting things.

When we were in Maine my dad ordered a milkshake

and he noticed that she put milk in a blender and

that was it. He told the girl that she had forgotten

something. The girl told him that he ordered a

milkshake and that's what he got. He told her that

he wanted ice cream in it and she told him that he

should have ordered a frappe. We had never heard of

anything like that!

While we were in New York at a steakhouse we ordered

chopped steak with mushroom gravy and they told us they

only had mushroom sauce. It turned out that they were

the same things.

Shannon

Schools start Aug. 11 here. (KY) They start

early because they get a fall break in Oct.

This is fairly new in our area.

If you are needing a new microwave, now is the time to

get one, with kids going off to college they are priced

really cheap.

Mine died last year and I was lucky that it died

while back to school sales were going on and was

able to buy a cheap one.

If you need new bedding now is the time to look, same

great sales.

I put something together tonight that was cheap and fast.

It was like Hamburger Helper but homemade.

1 lb hamburger, I use ground turkey

1 bag of egg noodles

2 packets of brown gravy

3 cups of water

dash of pepper

Brown the hamburger, drain. Meanwhile, cook the egg

noodles in water, per package directions. After draining

the hamburger add 3 cups of water and the packets of gravy.

Drain the egg noodles and add to the hamburger/gravy

mixture. Cook over med/high heat until the gravy thickens,

stirring every once in a while. When thickened up add a

dash of pepper.

I live a couple of miles, 3 or 4, from a wildlife preservation and about a month ago they had wild

turkeys that were overpopulated and so to combat

the turkeys they brought in rattlesnakes! They

did not tell the community that they did this and

people were finding them all over the roads and

in their yards. Well my husbands friend told us

about them a week or so later and told us to watch

out for them. I'm sitting there thinking "I hate

snakes and you are telling me to watch out for

rattlesnakes!" I figure since we haven't seen any

that we wouldn't. The next day I need to drive to

town and town is in the oposite direction of where

the snakes are. If you turn out of my driveway and

go left you go to the wildlife preservation and if

you go right to go to town. I get 2 miles past my

house and see a dead snake in the road so I stop,but

do not get out of the car and sure enough it is a

rattlesnake! Now everytime I go out of the house I

always am on the lookout for snakes! I hate snakes!

I went to this site and I LOVED it!!

Thanks so much for sharing it.

I ran into this problem last year. Here is what I did to

solve it. I made a list of all the meals that we eat.

Put them into catagories like beef, poultry, pork, fish, pasta, etc.

I go grocery shopping every two weeks, so the Thursday

before shopping day look at my list of meals and choose

14 of them and make my list out. If I see something on

sale while I'm there I go ahead and get it, that way

the next time I make out my list I usually have some

of the meals already.

If you are looking for cheap meals or just something

different here is a link that has just that. I use

some of these meals when I am planning.

http://www.justpeace.org/better.htm#Recipe...rugal%20Kitchen

Theyd, did you have a hard time finding the Fels?

I have just started getting my ingredients together to make

laundry soap. First I couldn't find the Fels bars, then

finally my Walmart got in Zote, so I am going to use that.

Every store I go in has the borax but I have yet to find

the washing soda!

I got the Zote for 66 cents and was really happy about

that! At that price I got 8 bars. I will have to get

more next week. If I don't ever get around to making

the homemade stuff at least I will have the Zote for

washing.

I just wanted to say thank you.

My birthday was yesterday. It's on the 24th.

Shannon

They have two kinds, what I call white turkey (it's really

white!) it has like 1 or 2% fat. Then there is the

15% fat turkey which looks just like ground beef (it's

pink).

We only use ground turkey and the 15% ground turkey

taste just like ground beef. The only difference in

cooking is just a little oil to the pan before cooking.

Shannon

The only problem I see with this that we don't even have

an EXXON or MOBIL in either town that we shop/work at.

I did notice that alot of people were not buying gas

yesterday (5/19). I don't know if it helped or not

because today the gas jumped up to $2.05 for regular.

It was $1.89.

I just don't see a solution to this problem.

Shannon

I got curious about rag rugs after I saw your post,

so off I went looking for patterns. Here is one that

I found, I added it to my favorite links, it looks and

sound easy. See if this is what you are looking for.

http://rubyglen.com/crafts/ragrug.htm

Shannon

Most Walmarts have the Ball Blue Book.

Shannon