We're Home!

We are back from a wonderful visit to Georgia for Thanksgiving.  I have pictures and stories for later - but for now - I am working on Christmas decorations and making sure Tucker and Tico continue to ignore each other.

We hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving and was able to spend time with family and/or friends!

Bop's!!

We are addicted to sweets, even through all of our diet efforts - we can't kick it.  As many of you know, we are both calorie counters - ask Andrew - he lost 35 pounds counting calories (and walking the golf course, but really just counting).  We have learned the art of saving calories during the day so we can have a treat at night.  A piece of bread or french fries vs fruit can be exchanged for a cookie - which would you rather have????

Anyway - there is a Mississippi custard spot that we love...love...love!  BOP'S!  Call me crazy but their custard (super thick ice cream) is the best I have ever had.  Andrew's favorite is the "Mocha-Chocha-YaYa" and mine is the "Fudge Brownie Sundae."  However, I didn't feel like the super warm, moist brownie topped with amazing vanilla custard, roasted pecans and hot fudge last night - so I got a concrete instead - an M&M concrete.  You know how back in the day at DQ they would turn the blizzard upside down to show you how thick it is - well I am fairly certain that you could leave a Bop's treat upside down and it wouldn't come out for days...it is that thick and creamy and dreamy...

Sooo next time you are in town - we will take you to get a real treat - BOP'S!!

Burnt Nail

Pretty sure I need to go back home and start over...

I just managed to burn my fingernail.  Not my finger, but the nail only.  I was lighting a candle with a lighter and got the nail only.  Gross and odd, huh?

A Glimpse at Our Future

I must share this story...we enjoyed a nice lunch at the Japanese place (after cutting both front and back yards, scooping pop, spreading winterizer, cleaning house including mopping) with a family of five sitting at the same table.  There were three kids, boy, girl, boy...oldest maybe 10 youngest around 3 or 4.  The entire meal they all ate their food, asked nicely for whatever they wanted, and even tried new foods...and never once did any of them do anything out of line (even a minor step).  


During this youngest son asked dad if he could go hunting tomorrow.  Dad said, I am taking your older brother, so you will have to ask mom if she will go with him so I can take you.  Very quickly both boys turn to mom and ask, will you please go hunting with us so both can go? Mom asked sister if she would go spend the afternoon with her grandparents...and she said of course, so Mom agreed to go hunting.  


As we drove away, I said, "wow, that was a glimpse at our future."  Andrew responds, "First, we aren't going to have three, just two and ours will never be that well behaved."  I died laughing...I was thinking more about the hunting discussion than the behavior, but I just loved how honest he is about how terrible he was as a kid.   Once we stopped laughing, we agreed that we will likely face the same hunting situations one day too.

Cooking Club, November Edition

More recipes to share...all from Southern Sideboards (Junior League of Jackson) again...

 Make this cake and make it now!  It is wonderful!  Would be great as cupcakes, muffins, anything, just make it!

 These little fellows were surprisingly good.  We first tried them cold and they were really good, but then we tried them warm and they were even better.  So here's the deal...they are great cold, but they are excellent warm...unless you tried them both ways at the same time, you wouldn't know this though.  Great for a party!

 This is very similar to Grandmomma's mac and cheese...also reminded me of Bear's Den, just not as greasy...  Super quick, super easy.

We actually had this in July, but it is really good.  Sounds kinda odd, but good.  In fact, I think we are going to have it tonight.

Not Right

It is not right to have this amount of candy sitting on your desk when you are trying not to eat sugar during the day.  It just stares at me all day - I wish my coworkers would hurry up and eat it all.

 It is not right to make your dog carry his own bed from the bedroom to the living room, but if he volunteers, then it is perfectly acceptable.  It is my understanding that he volunteered for this task.

Loud Prints, Loving Boys, and Looks Yummy

MB knows me well - I love loud prints, colors, designs, etc on the golf course and while I don't like things to be overly feminine, I don't like to have  "man's bag" either.  So her choice of head covers is just perfect!

Then I caught this loving embrace and look...

Cooking club is tonight. My task for the evening is pumpkin cake.  The recipe indicates that the cake should be made ahead of time and chilled so that the icing may set.  Now in my family, if the cake looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa it will taste wonderful.  If like looks wonderful, it usually doesn't taste too hot.  (Yes the picture is at an angle, so no Leaning Tower of Pisa).  The truth will be discovered this evening.

Oh Mrs. Susan - I need my cake pan back.  I left it at your house last weekend.