A Greener Just Another Drill: Soup Today...Cookies Tomorrow

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Soup Today...Cookies Tomorrow

Tis the season for much time spent in the kitchen...cooking, baking and washing dishes.

Today was our annual Petty Christmas with my Mom's side of the family. We always bring soups and other treats, have a great white elephant exchange, share some books and just enjoy each other for a few hours.

Thanks to the Craig's (Dan, Carrie, Owen and Joe) for hosting.

As Manda just said "Our family is hilarious."

6 comments:

Jenn said...: And just a note...those are clean dishes...waiting to be put away by my house slave :-); 9:34 AM
MUD said...: If you can't laugh around your family, who can you laugh with? The description of your folding the teeny tiny clothes was worth the trip. How did your pictures come out? I posted what we got. The battery died and we only got about 80% of the people.
MUD; 10:24 AM
Manda said...: Not EVERYONE is kind enough to fold their house slave's tiny ass clothing!!!; 4:05 AM
Jenn said...: It's good to have a house slave...I must keep her happy :-); 6:26 AM
Amy said...: She's pretty easy to please...just keep chocolate around and participate in a puppy pile every once in while and she'll be content. I miss those days when Manda mom and I would cuddle up on the couch together. It's the simple things in life;); 9:28 AM
Manda said...: Mom and I cuddled up on the couch at Carrie's Christmas party while everyone seemed to be leaving...then Kim, Jenn, Carrie, Dan, Mom, the Boys and I all did a lil yoga in their living room just for fun. You and Keith would have been laughing yourselves to tears! Miss you sis!; 9:53 AM

101 Things (or 48 Things, whatever)

1. Have lunch with Andrew at school.
2. Write an actual letter to both of my Grandmothers.
3. Plant trees in my backyard.
4. Serve lunch at a shelter.
5. Do a flip turn in the pool.
6. Go to the zoo.
7. Pick a light out for the kitchen.
8. Build a compost container.
9. Make a rain barrel.
10. Learn how to use a chainsaw.
11. Ride a tandem bicycle.
12. Water ski.
13. Go to Splash Cove with Andrew.
14. Organize the pictures on my computer...and back them up.
15. Wax my car.
16. Go to a drive in movie.
17. Take a walk in the pouring rain.
18. Learn to play a song on the piano.
19. Do another triathlon.
20. Ride another century.
21. Ride the entire Katy Trail again.
22. Catch a big fish with my Dad.
23. See Van Morrison live.
24. Pay my last payment on my last credit card.
25. Take a photography class.
26. Go 48 hours without my cell phone. (not while on vacation)
27. Go 48 hours without my laptop. (same)
28. Go a week without the TV.
29. Race my single.
30. Run 3 miles without walking.
31. Take my dogs to the dog park.
32. Attend a holiday service at church.
33. Bake a decent loaf of bread....from scratch.
34. Sew something.
35. Finish another Holiday Challenge
36. Camp with Andrew.
37. Paint a picture.
38. Race a double with Ed. (And we won!!)
39. Fly a kite.
40. Take and post 1 picture a day for 1 month.
41. Stay at Cruses Cabooses.
42. Sell something on Ebay.
43. Empty one side of the attic.
42. Build a piece of Furniture.
43. Visit little Saoirse Rae Thompson.
44. Go to the dentist.
45. Ride in a hot air balloon.
46. Stay in my jammies all day and watch movies.
47.Go on a trail ride.
48. Attend a Prarie Burn.

Words To Live By

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Marianne Williamson

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Soup Today...Cookies Tomorrow

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