dear glorious Oreos,

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
1. Dipped in milk so you get a little soggy.
2. Crushed and smushed and formed into truffles.
3. In a neat little stack next to me as I eat you one by one twisted gently apart.
4. Secretly snuck and stuffed in my mouth as I pass the pantry after a child leaves the room.


Four ways!  You lucky little things.
Though I count myself the lucky one to have had you in my life lo, these many months.
However, I fear we must say good bye in a short while as the weather warms and I try to slough the deliciously added insulating extra holiday poundage.
So until my next good excuse comes along to sweep you off the grocery shelf and onto my pantry shelf...
I bid you a regretful Adieu.


You will forever be in my thoughts.  But hopefully not forever on my gut.  
No offense.


Love always,
Corrie

heirlooms and cool stuff

My momma is a tatter.  Oh yes indeed!  And this last visit my sisters and I made requests.  I wanted more snowflakes for my Christmas tree and Cally thinks mom could sell her tatting on Etsy pretty easily.
So mom brought stacks and stacks of tatting for us to divide up amongst each other.
Look what I did with some of my pieces!!!

I've got some more and just need frames.  I'm not sure if I'm going to leave them there on the mantle or put them on a wall somewhere...I have decorating issues.  But Pretty!  right?!

In further news...
I am almost through five days of being a jaunty 35 years old.  Felling pretty good so far.  My hearing is going and my vision blurring a little but that's to be expected, right?  I do think however my cranky old lady persona could have waited a few more years before manifesting itself.

So here are some of the wonderful things I got for my birthday.  It was a very good year for me.

A beautiful bejewled ring from Miss Erin.  Very lovely.

Do I even need to say anything about this one?  They know what momma likes!

We have a few favorite movie posters in the basement so this one was a must.

Heidi and Eden brought me over these two things of beauty.  A scarf to keep my neck warm and a pie to keep my belly warm.  Miss Eden insisted on the owl.  She knows I love owls.

Those two keep my heart warm.  Awwwww.  I know.  I'm good with words.

I made creme brulee for my sister and had to use my husbands huge propane torch to crystalize the top.  It was a little unstable and would flare randomly thus sometimes burning the sugar a little too much.  She found me the torch pictured above.  And a great book of a bunch of different creme brulee recipes.  Perfect!

From my youngest sister.  She found these on Etsy.  I love them!  Owls are my favorite.

Whooo's thankful?

I am.

mac momma

Momma's got her a new toy!

As a wise old brand new 35 year old I was given by my man a Macbook.  In my old age it is taking me longer than usual to get this thing figured out and all ready to go.  I don't have any pictures loaded on here yet.  But I am on the soft couch in front of the fireplace on this cold cold morning instead of in the chilly den on a hard wooden chair.  So, yea!  This thing is fun.  And my own.

AND as a wise old 35 year old...I still have to do laundry.

the dryer chime beckons

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alls I'm sayin'

Out of a desparation to get out of the house and have some girl time Maddie, Grandma Beverley and I went to see a movie.  We saw New Moon. 

It was kind of sunny.  Good to get some of those rays on my face a little.  (who in their right mind would chose edward over jacob?)

It's good to get out and see the town.

don't judge me.



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mailbox surprise

I went to the mail box to see if we got any mail today and to my surprise...guess what was in there?
Christmas cards.  Lots of them.  I was excited for a brief moment until I realized they were the ones I put in there!  The mail lady has been bringing the mail to the door the last few days because of packages and I guess never checked to see if I had outgoing mail.  Soooo...Some of my cards have gone out even later than they were supposed to.  Better late than never?  ugh.  sorry.

So here you go.

A Merry Christmas to you!

before Christmas.

I took those cards to our little Choccolocco post office that I realized is a lot closer than the one I've been going to for almost 3 years now.  This one isn't even a mile away!  Crazy.  Next to the post office is the Choccolocco History Museum/gift shop.

It's cute and made me laugh.

Lookit.

Look closer.

Look closer.

AWESOME!

Now I know just where to go if I'm looking a little pasty white this winter.

I love this town.

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

Muah.

ramblin' on

It rained like crazy this morning.  Our septic alarm went off meaning the water got in and shorted out the plug for the pump that pumps the poo out of the tank up to the field so the tank wont fill up and come back into the house.  So.  No shower and we have to ration the flushes.  Brian can fix it as soon as he gets home I think, so thats good, but ugh and ick.

ALSO I went to the post office to send back a Christmas present!  YES!  I sent one back.  Bad, bad kids.  Just kidding.  They're not really bad and I think I've intervened with all the attempted peaking.
What happened was this:  I'd realized when I was up putting Nash to bed one night that he already had what we had gotten and upon further covert investigation found out we had given it to him LAST Christmas.  duh.  duh, duh, duh, duh.  But it's cool.  check it.  They love legos. 
While at the PO I stepped over a huge puddle right into a deep puddle.  And my sock was soaked right through.  So I took it off, took care of the post stuff and went to drop off the recycling at the mall.  Maddie is with me today cause she got such good grades she didn't have to take her exams and got Thurs. and Fri. off. 

We were there (at the mall where the recycling bins are located) so I had to go in.  Our mall may be itty bitty, but I had a cupon.  So in we went to my fave store since I was 12. 
The Gap.  I would love to move on, but they have what I need.  It all started with my huge maroon chunky sweater with the hunting dogs on the front.  So cool.  Well actually, so warm and cozy.  It was the perfect security blanket for my awkward early teen years and many insecurities.  So I stay loyal. 
And...nothing too interesting happened but I hit a great sale and with my cupon I got a 50$ cardigan for 18 buckaroos.  Awesome. 
Then we picked up the preschool princess, who will be the only girl in her class in the new year, and went to the video store to pick out some old movies.  But to my disappointment, NO oldies or musicals.  No Polyanna, no Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, no Three Stooges, nothing.  The best I could do was Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.  I'm sad. 

All with one sock on. 

Also, I ran out of christmas stamps for the cards I finally got to.  So some of them have The Simpsons. 

Do you get sugar headaches?  I do.  I've had a headache for 4 days - ish.  Oreo truffles.  Yum and ache. 

Off to piano lessons.  Head ache, dry socks, unwashed hair and all.

Merry Merry

it's a first!

It's a Wonderful Life!
I'd never seen it before.  Neither had Brian. 
We watched it last night.
I thought it would be kind of boring, but holy cow it was so funny! 
And then not funny, but you know, it had to teach a lesson and the lesson was indeed taught.  Loved it. 
I think we may even join the throngs of folks who watch this every year at Christmas time.  Never to late to bring on traditions, right?
So great.