Rezgirl

What have I been up to?

 

Well, in a nutshell, we now have 4 kiddos, 3 of them we adopted. The 4th one, has a hearing next week and we are hopeful that his adoption will be granted. The oldest is a girl who is 7. She was placed here when she was 22 months old. The other three are boys, ages 4, 2, and 1 this coming Monday. All of the boys were placed here as newborn, the youngest 2 were preemie, 2 months and 1 month early respectively. I am homeschooling the oldest, and the 4 year old when he is in the mood to cooperate.

 

So with all that, and Early Intervention, and therapy, and Dr. appointments. I keep kinda busy.

 

Happy that God has granted us the desire of our hearts to be parents

I'm Baaaaaaccccckkkkkk!

 

 

Thanks for the birthday wishes

 

 

C4C, did you ever read the sequel to Turkey Red? It is called Harvest Gold.

 

Your list brought back some memories for me.

I loved these! By; Maud Hart Lovelace
turn-of-the century Minnesota.

for jogging my memory.

This is tickling my memory, what fun!

 

I faintly remember Mandie books, so I went to Amazon to look at titles and I believe I have read a couple. I had no idea there were so many.

 

And yes, Grace Livingston Hill. I even have a bunch of those in paperback now. My mom would get the old hard cover ones from our public library. I still like to read those when I want to read something with a good ending. We laugh about them, mom and I, cause every story began with someone dying, but everything ends up marvelous.

 

Johnny Tremaine, I have it. A teacher read it out loud to us. She loved to read out loud and would often forget the time. Of course we didn't bother to remind her either

 

 

Anne of Green Gables I enjoyed more as an adult. Never could really get into it as a kid. I also discovered the Emily books by LM Montgomery as an adult and laughed till I cried. There is also a book by her called My Blue Castle or something like that, which is quite humorous too.

 

Jeanette Oke- check

 

Bobbsey Twins, I had forgot those. They were in my grandparents library.

 

Most movies made from books can't hold a candle to the book. They ALWAYS mess it up.

 

I saw the movie "The Firm" before I read the book. When I read the book, the phone beside me rang, and I jumped 12 inches off my chair. And I KNEW what was gonna happen, but I was still startled by the phone ringing

Arby,

It has been years since I made this, but I think it would tend to be sweet with all that sugar in it. The Herman cake is so good and moist. In fact I could eat a piece right now. Guess I'd better get started on Herman if I want a piece any time soon

All this sour dough talk reminds me of this favorite-

 

Basic Starter for Herman

2. unsifted-purpose flour

1 tsp salt

3 Tbls sugar

1 envelope dry active yeast

2 C. very warm water

 

 

Combine flour, salt, sugarand yeast in a large bowl, use stoneware, glass or plastic (not metal). Gradually stir in warm water until mixture resembles a smooth paste. Cover with a clean towel and let stand in a warm place (85F) to sour and bubble for 2-3 days, stirring several times a day. At the end of the souring period, feed it 1/2 cup sugar, 1 C. flour and 1 C. milk. Pour into a large container, partially covered to let gases escape and store in the refridgerator. Stir each day. On the 5th day, feed Herman again 1/2 cup sugar, 1 C. flour and 1 C. milk. On the 10th day, use 1 cup Herman to bake, 1 cup to start another Herman, and give 1 cup Herman to a friend.

 

 

 

 

 

Herman Cake

2 C. Herman

2 C. Flour

3/4 C. Milk

1 C. Sugar

2/3 C. Oil

2 Eggs

1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

2 tsp.Baking Powder

1&1/2 tsp Cinnamon

1 C. Nuts

1C. Raisins

 

 

Mix all ingredients together except Nuts and Raisins at medium speed. Blend in Nuts and Raisins last.

 

 

Topping

 

1 T. Flour

1C. Brown Sugar

1 T Cinnamon

1/4 C Soft Butter

 

 

Mix together and sprinkle on batter before baking

 

 

350F for 30-40 minutes

 

With the time change over this past weekend, the long evenings are great for reading out loud to the kids. Some of my most pleasant memories as a child revolve around books. Books that made us laugh, made us cry, books that built character. Here are some that I remember fondly and hope to read to other children.

 

( no particular order )

 

The Large and Growly Bear-Gertrude Crampton

 

Horton Hatches the Egg- Dr Suess

 

The Babar books-Jean de Brunhoff

 

can't remember this title, but it was about 3 chimney sweeps, Snip, Snap and Snurr

 

All 20 volumns of Uncle Auther's Bedtime Stories

 

Chapter Books

 

The Little House on the Prarie books (of course)

 

Where the Red Fern Grows-Wilson Rawls

 

Watch for a Tall White Sail-Margaret E. Bell

 

They Loved to Laugh-Kathryn Worth

 

Banner in the Sky-James Ramsey Ullman

 

Thrilling Escapes by Night-Albert Lee

 

The Mad Scientist Club-Bertrand R. Brinley

 

Homer Price-Robert McCloskey

 

The Sugar Creek Gang Books- Paul Hutchens

 

Danny Orlis Series-Bernard Palmer

 

 

This is just a start for me. I would love to hear about your favorites

 

 

We lived without electric for the first 20 months of our marriage. We'd rent a generator to vaccuum every 2 or 3 months. In between I used duct tape to pick up dirt from the carpet.

DH can fix/rig just about anything with duct tape, baling wire or JBWeld. (or any combination of these 3)

 

.....and why is it that about every 3rd time I empty my dryer, a piece of duct tape is tumbling around in there??? I'm positive I toss it in the trash and it just keeps returning....

I've done this before. Place the tape on the wart at night. ( mine was on a thumb, so if your wart is not on your hands where the tape would get washed off, perhaps you could keep tape on it all the time) I'm thinking 2 or 3 months until it was gone.