After about a year we had saved up some money and decided to start looking for our own place.  We had heard about some mobile homes for sale in a nearby town  so we went to look at them.  We only looked at a couple before we found one that I fell in love with and shortly thereafter we moved into our first ‘home’.

It was just a little single wide trailer in a mobile home park down in Grand Rapids, but it as ‘home’ to us and we loved it.  We decorated it just so and it was all we needed.  A few years later we actually moved it up to the town we now live in and put it on a piece of property Buster’s dad bought for us.

We have since sold it and moved on, but I will never forget that first ‘home’ we moved into with out little family so many years ago when we first got married.

This last October Buster and I celebrated 18 years of marriage and I can’t imagine spending my life with anyone better! I am so blessed!

I know the picture’s a little dark, but when I used the flash, you couldn’t see the lights, which is kinda the point…don’t they look cool! I love it.  I have always wanted this kind of ‘under cabinet’ lighting and now I have it! It isn’t just for the holidays, it’s staying under there! It’s so cool…

Just thought I would share that with y’all.  Don’t be jealous, you can do it, too!! It’s just the multi-color rope lighting!!

I was thinking we could bake cupcakes and take them to the local restaurant and sell them through them.  Then I found out we couldn’t do that.  Not legally anyway.  And since I don’t think I would do well in jail, I don’t think I want to do anything that will land me there. 

Then someone got the idea that we could have a road stand like the Amish do.  I could go and order one of those fancy Display Banner Stands that you can see from the road.  Attract all kinds of attention.  We’d sell all kids of goodies that way!! Only I have a busy summer schedule with camps in and it gets a bit chilly in the fall and winter in good ol’ Michigan.  I don’t think a road stand would be very practical come to think of it.

What I really need is a shop.  A little downtown shop.  That’s what I need.  But then you’ve got all that overhead.  Insurance and electric and gas and ugh! I’m getting a headache just thinking about it! So for now, I’ll just stick with what I’m doing and I’ll make cupcakes and candy in my little home kitchen and I’ll enjoy it!! Cause I’m happy and Blessed!

So I sat here thinking to myself, wondering what I was going to do.  I remembered Buster buying some chicken breast tenderloins the other day and I knew I had a couple other ingredients in the fridge that should go well together.  I was like the mad scientist mixing this concoction together in my head, and I thought to myself, “self, this could work!”

MMMUUUAAHAAHHAA Just kidding, sort of.

So this is what I came up with.

Cream Cheese Chicken (for 2)

find this:

• 6 chicken breast tenderloins
• 1/2 block (about 4 oz) cream cheese
• about 1/2 -3/4 c.  (I just eye balled it) sour cream
• garlic salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• 2 T. butter, cut into pieces

do this:

• season your chicken breast tenderloins and place tenderloins in baking dish (mine were frozen, would take a lot less time to cook if you thawed them first)
• mix your cream cheese and sour cream together in a bowl
• pour cream cheese mixture over chicken
• cut your 2T. butter into pieces and just put pieces randomly into pan all over chicken and sauce
  
• bake at 350°F for 35-40 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink and cream cheese sauce is bubbly and hot
• periodically stir your sauce as it cooks maybe twice or three times during cooking  so it will be smooth when done

This turned out really good for being thrown together very quickly.  You could serve it with rice or noodles.  I just served it plain with some corn.  I thought about making some egg noodles, but like I said, I wasn’t feeling well, so I didn’t.  Next time I will, It will be yummy!

You could make  it with more chicken to feed more people or less to feed less!

Hope you enjoy  it.  I am linking up with Lisa for Tempt My Tummy Tuesday! Let’s go see what other goodies we can find!!

See you soon!

So, it’s been a while since I’ve done this. A long while.  I thought I’d do it again just for giggles.  We’ll see how it goes.  One of the prompts for this weeks workshop was…

1.)  Share a Thanksgiving recipe you will be cooking up this week.

Thanksgiving was yesterday, I know. So, sue me.

This is what I brought. No, I don’t have any pictures.  Maybe next time…

Green Bean Casserole

find this:

• 4 cans french style green beans (or whole green beans or cut green beans if you prefer, what-ev)
• 1 family size can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup (yes, it must be Campbell’s, come on people!)
• 1 container Frenchs Fried Onions (yes, it has to be French’s, pay attention folks!)

do this:

• open and drain beans
• put beans in casserole dish
• open and pour soup over beans; mix with spatula
• top with fried onions
• bake @350°F about 30-35 or until onions are golden brown and soup is bubbly and hot
• remove from oven and allow to sit about 5 minutes before serving
• enjoy with family

This is a family favorite not only for the holidays but at other times during the years whenever we decide we get a craving for it.  It’s a great dish.  And it’s easy to make! Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

And all the dust and cob webs.  It’s like it’s drawn to them! Although, I’m pretty sure it really is, something about static electricity and all that jazz look at me all my smarty pants).  Anyways, it was a disaster area back there, but I got it all cleaned up now and it’s looking much better now!  Just thought you’d all like to know that! It’s one thing I hate to do so I don’t do it very often. How often do you dust behind your computer equipment??

I anxiously await your response… 

This one is a little more labor intensive than the last and has more ingredients, but is LDL friendly, therefore I can eat as much of it as I want and not worry about controlling portions.

Strawberry Salsa

• 2 c.  fresh strawberries, chopped
• 1/2 c. kiwi, chopped
• 1/2 c. seeded cucumber, chopped
• 1 T. honey
• 2 t. lime juice
• 1/2 t. ground cinnamon
• 1/4 t. ground ginger

Mix all ingredients in medium bowl until well blended.  Cover.  Refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving to blend flavors.

This would be great on corn thins, by itself, with some lowfat cottage cheese, the possibilities are endless…enjoy!!!

]]> http://blog-diggidy.com/index.php/2011/07/another-new-recipe/feed/ 0 http://blog-diggidy.com/index.php/2011/07/some-day/ http://blog-diggidy.com/index.php/2011/07/some-day/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:49:41 +0000 Jo http://blog-diggidy.com/?p=4150 Some day, after we sell our house, or when we become rich and famous, whichever comes first, the hubster and I would like to add on to the little house we live in.  It’s nice and cozy and isn’t really a bad little house at all, but there is no storage at all and really no room to entertain, which we would love to do if we had the space.

We have been talking about some of the things we’d like to do.  We have discussed putting in a dishwasher.  Maybe adding a few more cupboards to the kitchen.  I figured while we are working on the kitchen, and since we plan on staying here forever, why not make  my ideal kitchen….nice gas range with sealed burners and the center burner, dishwasher, one of those undermount sinks, a side by side fridge, you know, the works.  If were gonna do, we might as well do it big!!

Go big or go home, I always say!!!  

Then we’d like to add a nice size family room and make what is now living room into dining area and make the “dining” area more kitchen area.  Just to make it so everything isn’t on top of everything else.

Also, we are thinking a bigger master bathroom might be nice.  With a tub in it.  Right now our bathroom only has a shower.  Which most days is fine, but sometimes I like to soak in a nice warm bath and I have always wanted one of those jacuzzi bath tubs!!

Anyway, it’s a long ways off and nothing we can’t live without for now and we are content with what we have, but hey, a girl can dream , can’t she???  

Last night was a little better, I got about 5 hours of sleep.  I don’t know if I am manic right now or what, but I know I need some rest.  These are the times when I like to just run a nice warm bath and throw some bath salts in the tub, climb in and just soak all the worries away…even though it’s not sleep, it rests your body and soul and you feel rested and rejuvenated…

And, I love how bath salts make you feel all smooth and soft when you get out and they smell so good…gotta go…

Okay…

Now, by another show of hands (more giggles), how many of you just have those little speakers propped up in the corners of the room that are hooked up to the receiver you already have??

Okay…

Is there a difference?? Do I have to have a big fancy home theater system or can I get by with just the bare minimum?? My husband would have me believe we MUST have the whole nine yards, the whole kit ‘n’ caboodle, the whole enchilada, the whole….okay, you get the idea…

While we’re on the subject, am I the only one with a husband who has to have the volume jacked up so loud when watching a movie that you actually feel like you are IN a movie theater while you are watching a movie in your living room????  Love you honey……

She has always been a good child and always wanted to please her dad and I, but lately, she has wanted to do her own thing and didn’t really care what we had to say about it.  It was really kind of exasperating.  She felt like we were being unfair and refused to see our point of view about a situation.

My husband prayed with her and had her do some praying and extra bible reading and I really think she is coming around now.  I am thankful that she does have a tender heart and that she has a heart for God and want to do right.

Although My husband and I are far from perfect parents, we have raised our daughter right and she knows what she is supposed to be doing and not supposed to be doing and I just have to trust that if we lovingly but firmly guide her back when she begins to stray that God will keep her where she needs to be.  So far so good, I will continue to pray for her and guide her the best I can and leave the rest up to God…

]]> http://blog-diggidy.com/index.php/2011/06/shes-not-my-little-girl-anymore/feed/ 0 http://blog-diggidy.com/index.php/2011/06/at-a-loss/ http://blog-diggidy.com/index.php/2011/06/at-a-loss/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:27:49 +0000 Jo http://blog-diggidy.com/?p=4094 For those of you who know me, you know this is something odd…that I would not know what to say…

It’s not so much that I don’t know what to say, so mush as I don’t want to say too much or say the wrong thing.

Just know that there is a lot going on with me right now.  I need some prayer, please. Some of what is going on is not going on “with” me, and doesn’t even really directly affect me, but it shakes me to the core that the devil is attacking  so “close to home”.

And the other stuff I’m going through is going on “with” me, but I am in prayer about it and I am seeking God’s guidance and His will in this situation, which is always hard because as a human being, I rely too much on my feelings and emotions…Of course, I never want to do anything that will cause anyone pain, especially my family and myself.

Please friends, keep your loved ones close to you, tell them and show them you love them every chance you get.  Be slow to anger and quick to forgive, for we are not promised a tomorrow to try again!!!