I think that life is a lot like pie. What we fill it with will determine how sweet and enjoyable it will be for others and ourselves. What we fill it with determines the course of our life. It's the most wonderful time of the year! Spending time with good people, celebrating our Savior's birth, making friends delicious food, and a lot of dirty dishes (o.k. that I could live without the dishes). Pecan pie is an overly sweet, crunchy, gooey centered wonder that contains nearly as many ... View the Post
Tailgating in the South with Ham-Stuffed Biscuits with Apple Butter
We plan weddings around bye weekends, put on our Sunday best a day early; and set up makeshift living rooms under tents complete with our great-grandmother’s silver, floral arrangements and flat-screen TVs outside the stadiums. Welcome to tailgate season in the South. Where I’m from, tailgating isn’t just a way to kill time before kickoff. It’s a daylong ritual, a family reunion, class reunion, fashion show, foodie’s dream event and cocktail hour all in one. No party is complete ... View the Post
Bench From An Old Headboard
The previous Superintendent of our park, who is a dear family friend of ours, left an old family headboard at our house when he retired that was a total mess. He told hubby just to toss it in a fire, one less thing to move. Well, you know how I love to have pieces in our home that tell a story...... So, hubby and I got busy repurposing the old headboard into a bench for inside our mudroom. There was a lot of old varnish and gunk on the boards so the first thing we did was seperate all the ... View the Post