SUGAR MOON

  Cleaning and cooking for two days produced a wonderful New Year's Eve party with family and friends. Lots of food, music and Texa...

Today starts a new year and, as I am a person of lists, I have been working on my resolutions. It's not that I always keep them, but it ...

Here it is the last day of 2012. Looking back I would say it's been a good year. Since I am a huge fan of Oswald Chambers' daily...

      Happy New Year's Eve!!!  

 In Texas we like to eat our black-eyed peas for luck each New Year's Day.  Today I went to the pantry to make sure I had a can....

We had to have an early Christmas party with our kids this year due to some scheduling difficulties. It was my turn to host. Originally I ha...

Whenever I leave the house I have a little orange kitten that loves to run down the sidewalk ahead of me. I am always afraid I might run ove...

A couple more gift cards and I'll be through with my Christmas shopping. Yeah!!!  Who would have thought a GI Joe would cost ...

Thomas Kinkade's "SANTA'S WORKSHOP TOYS" for $3.15. It's going to take center stage on the living room mantel.   ...

A Texas Fourth of July.  Hotdogs, watermelon, music and fireworks. Happy 236th Birthday America!!!

Just returned from a wonderfully, fun and quick trip to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. It's about six hours from hom...

We had a successful egg hunt yesterday despite the 2.5 inches of rain we were blessed with. We huddled under our umbrellas and waited on the...

Hubby left about 7pm to drive the two hours it takes to get back to the city and back to work. Getting back to "normal" is always...

Thanksgiving has come and gone. We had a truly wonderful holiday with much to be thankful for. Twenty-two family members gathered at my dad...

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I hope you all have a great Holiday!

I had never read this before and for that matter didn't even realize it existed. Our preacher put it in the bulletin this week and I tho...

Today I started preparations for the holidays and part of those preparations include making Crisp Peppernuts. Peppernuts are wonderful littl...