Just a Winner...

a week late! I'm so sorry I am so behind in posting this, but things have been crazy busy in the last week and today is the first day I had time to sit down and think about this! And without further ado the winner is...

Franchesca from Handprints from Heaven!!!

Fran- please send me an email at ka_hall(at)att(dot)net and I promise to get it to you a lot quicker than I announced that you won!

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day and week! I promise an actual post later tonight or tomorrow, I really have a lot to talk about! And I'm going to try to read up on all I have been falling behind on in the past week!

100th Post

I MADE it! Can you believe it? I can't. It has been a rough 16 days...Last week I really didn't think I would make it! Thank you to so many of you reading and commenting, I really do appreciate it!

This past year has been a little crazy and it really is nice to have you all reading and I enjoy getting to know all of you as well! So in honor of all of you, IRL and Blog Friends alike I have a giveaway! I saw this the other day and I thought she was fitting.

She is The Angle of Wishes...

And she is my wish to all of you, well at least too one of you! Truthfully I wish I could give you each one.

So too enter all you need to do is comment to this post, I would love it if you were a follower but it is not a necessity and if you want tell me what your favorite Valentines Day was! As a bonus if you left a comment on any of my last 19 posts, before I wrote this post, you get a bonus entry for each comment! Oh - Lola and T, don't worry I will count your email comments too!

You have until 5:00pm CST Friday February 12th to enter!

Good Luck!!

How do I put this...

Please do not be offended by this post it is just my thoughts and feelings...

I went to High School with a girl, I wouldn't say we were friends exactly but we knew each other...she is my friend on FB, not that that means anything.

A few years after HS she gave birth to a little girl at 24 weeks. After over a year in the NICU and more than a dozen surgeries she came home. Which we all know is a miracle and amazing! The little girl has several very severe health conditions and now she has started having seizures...which I am sure must be terrifying and difficult for her parents to watch. I can not imagine the stress and pain that they go through on a daily basis. And I do feel for them, I really do.

But over the last few weeks her status updates have been about how she hates her life, how much of a struggle it is to be ____ parent and how life is not fair.

She is absolutely right...life is not fair! And I can not imagine what her life is like, but her daughter is with her. She is not in heaven, with MyGirls or any of your babies for that matter. Some days I want to say to her that it could be worse...but I can't imagine ever doing that to anyone! I just wish there was a way for me to make her see show her how much different things could have been. And how blessed she really is.

Sunday Mornings

I normally like to spend my Sunday mornings sleeping in a bit and then having tea and toast on the patio, but it has been much too cold here lately for that! So we have just been staying in bed until we absolutely must get out. Yesterday Mr.K and I were joined by ever so loved furbaby…

Oh did I mention that she brought her duck? The bad part is where she is laying is where my legs were not 10 seconds before she jumped into the bed! I really was hoping she had forgotten how to get on the bed already, but no such luck! I guess this is how I will be spending many a Sunday morning for a while! But she was really good and slept at the foot of the bed for over an hour!

7 Layer Dip...

Can you tell that I am running out of things to write about? I have a couple different things in my head but I’m just not sure about writing them yet! T suggested a while back that I share a recipe or two and seeing as I made this last night I thought I would share it. Even though I’m positive that everyone has made or had this at least once, it is just too easy not to share!

7 Layer Dip

1can - Refried Beans
1can - Bean Dip
1pkg. - Guacamole
1cup - Sour Cream
1/2cup - Mayonnaise
1 pkg. taco seasoning
2cups - Shredded Jack and/or Cheddar Cheese
1can - sliced black olives
1sm. – Tomatoes- Chopped
2 bunches - Green Onion – Chopped

-Combine refried beans and bean dip; spread in bottom of small rectangular baking dish.

- Top bean mixture with guacamole.

-Combine sour cream, mayonnaise, and taco seasoning; layer on top of guacamole.

- Sprinkle with cheeses.

- Then top with olives, tomatoes, and green onion in that order.

- Cover and chill for about three hours - ENJOY!

Note: I like to make my own guacamole and for that I use: 2 large avocados, salt, pepper, garlic and lime juice. If you do use packaged guacamole add a teaspoon or two of lime juice to get if from browning as quickly.

From time to time I will add a half pound or so of taco meat to the bean mixture just to make it a little hardier, plus Mr.K likes it that way!

Oh and if you are wondering we always omit the onions because Mr.K is alergic...so I guess we just eat 6 Layer Dip!

This was not what I wanted to do today...

Do you ever have those Saturdays when you have nothing planned and hope to do nothing? Yah I didn't think so...me either! Except today we didn't have any concrete plans just things we wanted/needed to do, and none of it happened!

Our original plan was to; sleep in, take Maggie to the DogPark, run to PetsMart, swing in at a happy hour/jewelry showcase and maybe catch a movie. Instead we were woken up EXTRA early from a phone call from my mom! Apparently they made plans for us today! Mr.K and my Dad planted two trees, cut down a bush and added a board to our fence to help keep Maggie in. My mom and I got the pods started for my vegetable garden, took my grandmother to the dollar store, and ran errands for Mr.K and my Dad! Oh what fun! And somehow it took all day! I hate when they make plans for us and don't tell us! And even more than that it drives me crazy that Mr.K and Dad spent all day planting trees and working in the yard of my parents house that they do not even live in! Oh...it makes me so mad!

The one thing I did get done that I have been wanting to do for weeks was clean of the patio...and I'm supper excited about it! Mr.K and I are going to sit out there with our little fire and take it easy the rest of the night!

Hope you all had a good and productive Saturday!

One of those days...

This morning I woke up and I didn't feel like getting out of bed, so I didn't. I really didn't sleep well last night and my head was pounding, so I went back to sleep. Plus it was raining and rain always helps me sleep.

I woke up again at 10am and still I had no interest in getting out of bed! So I didn't, it was not until almost 1pm that I decided that Maggie might need to get out. Out she went and then I was right back to bed!

I just don't feel like myself today, today I am sad...although I haven't really been able to cry! Which really makes it worse. I just wish I knew why I wasn't crying! Not that crying would make me feel better, but something would be better than nothing!

Maggie decided I needed company in bed this afternoon...

She has officially remembered how to get in our bed! Not good!

Any way, I hope you all had a better day then I did and don't worry I'm not going to spend tomorrow in bed...I actually have things I need to do!