getting your education

I just thought I would share with you a couple of places that I have been to in the last couple of weeks for my current class, The classics: Africa to Asia.

First we visited a Hindu Temple

and then this weekend we went to the Yellow Springs Dharma Center where we learned some very basic meditation.

It was very interesting.

In fact, this whole class has been interesting.

I think that I enjoyed learning about ancient Egypt the most.

a little snow day fun!

It was a snow day yesterday and Tatum and I decided to make our Valentines cookies and cupcakes. ( yes, I know, but its better late then never, right??)

our cookies, sorry for the funky color, it is a cell phone picture.

here are our cookies

we had fun, only problem ... I couldn't figure out why the cupcakes didn't seem to be baking ... I had cooked them twice as long ..hummmm....

here I had turned the oven off after I took the cookies out ...silly me!

win the cover look

Do you love this look as much as I do???

I just love the lavender and red together, so calming.

This is the cover of Country living this month and you can enter for a chance to win this look!

Isn't it great!

Shameless

Yep, my husband and I have a new series obsession..... Shameless.

former obsessions have included Rescue Me and Sons of Anarchy.

and I personally have a big obsession with the Tudors, but I have a strange obsession with the whole Tudor dynasty.

Anyway, I love the characters on Shameless, they pull you in and the most annoying thing is  listening to Frank when he goes off on his little mini diatribes.

Does anyone else watch Shameless? Do you like it? What series are you nuts about?

Can't put it down!

Josh bought me Pioneer Woman's book Black Heels to Tractor Wheels for Valentines day!

I LOVE it. I have it all but read.

Every moment I get a break, I sneak in a couple of pages.

Through class and homework, running the kids to school, dinner and dishes and some laundry...I have been reading. A little obsessed.

Has anyone else read this book? Are you obsessed or is that just me?

I am soo disappointed that Ree was in Cincinnati on Friday and Columbus on Saturday and I couldn't make it either time for a book signing. Oh well, maybe there will be another one someday.
   

Ready for summer!

I just bought 2 swimsuits from Lime Ricki!

They are having great sales right now!!!

I got this great one piece for $ 15.00

soo cute!

and I got this tankini for $17.00
with the bottoms for $12.00

I love the little bee's!

Come on summer, hurry up and get here! I am ready for fun in the sun!

Recipe Binder

Its time to play catch up on my weekly challenges. I finally have the recipe binder done!

Above in the picture is the binders I choose for the recipe binder and the home management binder. {see the blue in both matches, plus the blue matches Toni's printouts! lol...}

Alright, here we go.

I stated here, with a big folder with papers hanging out every.

everything, I mean everything loose got shoved in there.

So, I took the binder and placed tab separators inside.

I printed out Toni's sheets to put in the front, side and back of the binder.

doesn't the blue look really good with the binder cover?

Then I separated everything, hole punched it and put the in the binder.

I used five catorgies:

dinners

snacks

dessarts

Grits

Pioneer Woman

I didn't want to make it too complicated so anything that I used to make dinner, side dishes and all went into the dinner category. Snacks is where everything else fell like apple sauce, snack mix and dips, ect.

Desserts are self explanatory. Grits and Pioneer Woman got their own category because I have so many of their recipes and felt I would look for them in their own spot.

( this really is the best Lasagna ever!)

Sweet Amy's cupcakes, yummy!

So, there you have it! Home Management binder is coming up next!