Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. -Joseph Addison

A few rain showers today, but overall a beautiful Sunday. I was able to sleep in until 9a then a quick trip to the city to pick up a few essentials. Now kicked back waiting for my zucchini bread to finish baking. Scary thought that I was in the kitchen [again], I know.

Here’s another new recipe. Campbell’s Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings. It was delicious.

A few Sunday loves…found an awesome cross stitch pattern, bought the aida cloth today…problem-the aida cloth isn’t big enough for the project. ugh. Found these two great books at Goodwill. Root beer barrels candy. Amazing how a little candy can bring me back to so many wonderful memories with my nannie and grampa. Love, love, love netflix. Was so surprised to see that Dairy Queen came out with a mini blizzard!! So awesome for those of us who use ‘portion control’. This was my first blizzard in years!! No lie. And of course, love looking at this little creation in my front garden.

As usual time is flying by at full-steam ahead, and I have a few more things I need to do before I call it a night. Hope your Sunday has been a beautiful one! Until later…

-Jenny

I am beginning to realize that it is the sweet, simple things in life that are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

In Terri’s words here’s a look at a few of my new ch-ch-ch-changes that are also meant to challenge myself.

• The look of my blog posts
• Weekly tried and true recipe
• Daily 15-minute project
• …more stuff in the next few days

A few more photos from our trip down to Rockland and the Farnsworth Art Museum yesterday. Such a charming town!

Today we’ve been kicked back relaxing, and being lazy. Playing around on my blog, writing down ideas, things to do, watching movies, and slowly reading thru these pages, and I have to say Jo’s studio simply rocks!!

Cooking up some new foods here [seriously need to put all of these cookbooks to use], Chicken Divan, delicious!

Loving this fast, and simple card that I created tonight. I am going to attempt to ‘create’ something everyday. 15 minutes of creating ART without worries of perfection, etc.

For here I am going to run along to enjoy the remainder of this beautiful Sunday. Here’s to a beautiful week full of good stuff for each of us.

-Jenny

and every once in a blue moon I go in there and cook! And every once in a while the recipe comes out delicious, like this Blueberry Buckle

Ingredients

Topping:

• ¾ sticks Butter
• ½ cups Sugar
• ½ teaspoons Cinnamon
• ½ cups Flour
• 1/4 teaspoons Salt

Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, and a salt. Stir and set aside. Cream 1/2 stick plus 1-tablespoon butter with cinnamon and sugar. Add egg and mix until combined. Add vanilla and mix. Add flour mixture and milk alternately until totally incorporated. Do not overbeat. Stir in blueberries until evenly distributed. Grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan. Pour in batter. In a separate bowl, combine topping ingredients and cut together using two knives or a pastry cutter. Sprinkle over the top of the cake. Bake cake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Sprinkle with sugar. Cut into squares.

On another note, I head into work tonight and in the morning my week vacation begins [insert the sound of angels singing here]! We had made some plans, but it looks like we’ll resort to plan-B, which involves a few local day trips that I’ve already mapped out, and a handful of projects around the house.

Random Stuff

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you

 as by what you bring to life. -John Homer Miller

• Love Eminem.
• Just began listening to John Grishams, The Broker on audiobook.
• I’m on Season 2 of The Sopranos. Yeah, I am addicted!
• Working on a Summer 2010 playlist. Can’t believe the number of great songs this summer. I’ll share my playlist once completed.
• Saw this on Facebook: Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don’t even deserve to be an issue in your life. ONe word. Amen.
• The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have…and of course, this little guy makes my life that much more perfect!

 Well friends, it’s that time. Shower, throw those scrubs on, and hit the interstate to head South for the night. Talk to you tomorrow!

xO-Jenny

Happy Sunday friends! Coffee’s on, and the first load of laundry is in the wash machine. Washing my scrubs, bedding and in general getting prepared for another busy week ahead.

One of my girlfriends sent me this cute ..You know you’re a Nurse, and thought I would share…

Top Ten Reasons you Know You’re a Nurse

• 1. You wash your hands before you use the bathroom. Oh, the benefits of that microbiology class.
• 2. You know the smell of different diarrhea to identify it. C-diff. Enough said.
• 3. You check the caller ID on your day off to see if anyone fromwork is trying to call and ask you to work. <3 caller ID!
• 4. Discussing bodily fluids over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you. Is this abnormal?
• 5. Every time someone asks you for a pen you can find at least 4 of them on you. But don’t think you can keep it!
• 6. Your bladder can expand to the size of a Winnebago’s water tank. Amen.
• 7. You find yourself checking out other customer’s veins in grocery waiting lines. A 16 is good!
• 8. Your finger has gone places you never thought possible. Yeah, that.
• 9. You think caffeine should be available in IV form. Oh, to dream.
• 10. You’ve used the word, ‘rationale’, ‘as evidenced by’, or quoted a nursing diagnosis in everyday life.  Love my ‘r/t’ personally.

Woman’s Day, March issue shares a few of the Pioneer Womans recipes from her new cookbook. I flipped thru it at Borders a few weeks back, but have no plans of purchasing it. Maybe it’s because I’m not a ‘cook’…who knows. But, I am going to use her recipe for ‘comfort meatballs’ next time I do cook… Here’s the recipe: Comfort Meatballs.

I picked up another dress form at an antique store. Isn’t she beautiful!

HOpe your Sunday has been a beautiful one. Here’s to a wonderful week ahead of us…Until later.

xo-Jenny

Hello Friends, and Happy Friday!

I’m here, but have been busy. Between family, and getting myself situated to be ready and organized to begin working, and as usual, there are just not enough hours in the day for all I want/and need to get accomplished!

Tonight I had a craving for molasses cookies with raisins, so I ran to the grocery store for raisins and extra flour, and used this recipe after doing a search.

Well. Seriously, if it’s not macaroni and cheese [homemade of course], or spaghetti and meatballs, I should not be allowed in the kitchen. I blame this on my nannie. Nannie cooked great meals, but her theory about the kitchen was:

1. You can never cook it too fast. Cook everything on HIGH!
2. Get in the kitchen and get out!
3. If a fork isn’t touching a plate the person is done and it’s time to take their plate so the dishes are all done, so we can get out of the kitchen!!

Yeah. That’s me. I find no enjoyment in the kitchen, because something will be overcooked, or undercooked, no matter how hard I try.

So…the molasses cookies. I made two batches one with raisins and one without. First batch comes out and I realize why the recipe said to drop the dough 2 inches apart.

Thankfully on the second batch I decided to keep the dough 2 inches apart–and we went from square to round cookies.

Of course, by time I got to the dough with the raisins, they came out beautiful!

What else did I learn tonight? When you take the cookies out of the oven you shouldn’t immediately try to place them on a wire rack, and square cookies taste just as good as round cookies. And I know that nannie would agree!!

Have you checked out my One World-One Heart 2010 post? My post has 378 comments right now. Right now there are 828 participants, and I still cannot believe that my ticket number is #14!

Have you stopped into the Log Your Memory Community? There is a Sweet Talk Journaling Challenge beginning February 1st, so stop in and join in on the fun with us!

Much to do this weekend, and hoping time will be on my side. Until tomorrows Unscripted post, have a wonderful remainder of your night, and stay warm!

xo-Jenny

Happy Thursday friends!! Woke up this morning to a chilly beginning [no complaining], and 101 ideas/plans and schemes. Well, I didn’t accomplish all 101 but I did accomplish a few, so life is good.

After the afternoon chores, Keith and I made a trip to Goodwill and it’s Thrift Store Thursday. I found this brand new rolling suitcase and inside was the samsonite carryall…Grand total: $1.99!

On the way home we stopped at an antique store and I found this lovey to add to my collection…

In the first photo, not sure if you can see it clearly, but the case is monogrammed L.A.K.E. There was no price on the suitcase so I asked the gentleman expecting to have to walk out the door ‘without’ it and after a moment of thinking he said, $5.00! WAhooo!!

Inspire Me Thursday topic for today is Pears.

Pear, Apple and Cranberry Crisp recipe by Ina Garten [The Barefoot Contessa].

Oh, and if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been running off to with my boys for a month now in the big city, here’s my Project 365 photo for today.

They are a little late going to drivers ed, but driving is a priviledge and unfortunately they made some wrong choices when it came to school grades so they were not rewarded.

They are going to be the death of me….but, I’m being told there are a lot of women still walking around that survived their sons, so maybe I’ll be one of those lucky ones!!

Well friends, I hope your day has been a beautiful one, and until tomorrow…

xO-Jenny