Project365: Week 42

Did you get that?  It's week 42.  There are 52 weeks in a year. :)

So, here's my page for this, the 42nd week in the year.

And the prompt was "Favorite Fall Memory"
I was thinking what I would write about when I was in the car, taking the kids to the Honeys so I could go to my party and “Final Countdown” came on the radio. Then, “We Will Rock You”. I realized I was driving to a party on a Friday night in Ohio... prime time for high school football.

I arrived and my hostess’s teenage son was heading out to go to an away game for his sc...hool.

*sigh*

Talk about memories...

My fingers started tapping the steering wheel as if I really remembered the fingering to those songs we used to play in the stands and my memory started to fade around the edges going back to those chilly, fall nights. The emotions and the drama and all the memories of high school romance played out under the radiance of the stadium lights.

I am not the same I was then. But I think we’d be friends.

Operation Love {ReUnited} Page 1

Tough Times

I honestly love the kit I used from Dianne Rigdon- Sweet Liberty.  It's got just the right about of antique and I love that it's not overly in your face.

Operation Love Reunited is a huge positive for so many families.  They give us memories of our loved ones when we have to be apart and capture the moment when we get to be together again.

My photographer was phenomenal.  We did the pictures of the kids first and then she turned on a kids show and gave them (blue) suckers.  And asked me to put on my husband's coat.  I'm not an overly emotional woman at this point in my life aside from the normal pregnancy hormones.  I'm no longer a hopeless romantic (had my heart broken a few times and broke some myself).  I love my husband, but it's not that crazy, puppy love you get when you're 16 and we both recognize that.  It's deeper and goes way beyond that now.  But, right now, my focus is my home and family and not focusing on what I'm missing (my husband, my partner, my love) is powering me through.  So, when she asked me to put his coat on...  it was the first time I'd touched that fabric since he deployed (other than grabbing it in a flurry of activity before rushing out to our photo appointment that morning).  It was the first time I really let it sink in that we were past the halfway point and that at some point, I'd be getting the best hug in the world...  The one I've waited almost 7 months for.  And one that, once again, will have a growing baby in the middle...

Finally catching up

I kept this blog open for as long as I could but now had to close it down.  So, I guess the positive is that I am more open to post things.  The bad is that it became necessary to do this...  Ah well.

Here are the last few pages I needed to create to be up to date (through TODAY) for my P365.  I have to say I'm thrilled that I'm going to be able to print this as a huge, beautiful project at the end of the year. 

And tomorrow, I am picking up a CD of images from my OpLove photographer.  She's giving me permission to scrap with them, so obviously, I am very excited to get my hands on those images.  And very thankful a photographer is willing to share her images like this.  She'll be photograping our reunion at some point in the future, God willing.

Beautiful Girl

I love this photo...  Beautiful kit by Dianne Rigdon- Tuesday Afternoon.  Click title for credits and products linked to the project.

Enjoy the Day

Party Day!

Project- Daughter's Third Year Album

Current Count: 51 pages

Goal- Finish before Oct 28.

Party Day

I've been so bad...

please forgive me.
Still using the template set from Wild Blueberry Ink and Joey Lynn Designs available at MScraps.  P365 Version 2011

Crock Pot Chicken & Dumplings

I have this master list created for once my husband comes home and we settle in to the craziness of the holidays and waiting for baby.  I stuck to the old favorites, but this was a new recipe I added.

Crock Pot Chicken & Dumplings
Serves- about 4 depending

Ingredients:
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1 c peas (or other vegetable of choice)
1 tube refrigerated biscuits

Directions:
Put the chicken and soup in to the crock pot.  Let cook on high for 5 hours or low 6-8 hours. 
About 1 hr before serving, add vegetables and biscuits (torn apart).
Cook until biscuits don't look wet.

The kids liked this as well which was a huge plus for me.

I will experiment with using an alternative to the cream of chicken soup and a prepared biscuit mix from the organics section of our grocery store like this one: Red Mill Biscuit Mix