yeah, it rained

What a surprise to have rain today. Long over due, and now it's beginning to feel like winter just might come! I love to drink hot chocolate.
Bought some pretty poinsettas today, I want to start doing some baking but I need to clean out my freezer, ( that is not a fun job, a big jar of homemade jam spilled in my freezer, and if the word sticky comes to mind .. oh my)
I've been looking up blogs and I'm very impressed what good cooks there are out there, yum.
Some of my girls will be coming over to do a cookie exchange and then celebrate Kristen and Carolee's birthdays, I'm looking forward to that.
Well not much else news except Dad and I got the tree up and we are all decorated!

Yippee all my shopping is pretty much done and wrapped and the Christmas cards are ready, I guess that is pretty discusting huh? But that's what you get when you don't have little ones under feet all day.

Thanksgiving was GREAT

Palmers got a new car

Well, at least new to them!

and by the way, boy am I embarraressed I accidently posted this on a recipe site.

aren't I intelligent!

Yesterday was a good day

well, the day started out with my dentist appointment, No cavaties! well, when you get my age all the teeth have fillings in them or they are capped so no chance to get a cavavity. But anyway, the hygienist was saying my teeth were white and had I bleached them lately ( she was getting good points from me) I told her it hadn't been for about 4 years since I had done it. She said the new product now is that you wear the stuff for only 25 mins. a day for about 3 days. The cost is 25.00 for 3 tubes.. Hey, I"m going to go white again!
Then off to the Church to help my friend Cheryl work on the reception details for Saturday. I'm not much of a decorator, but found my way into the kitchen to cut up fruit.

Then I drove to Kristen's house to help her. We had such fun, who knew, doing laundry, cleaning up the house would be so fun? But we spent the day together , she fixed a great dinner of baked ziti, and then we ended our fun day by going to Walmart! you know when you go into that store you look around and think interesting people !
anyway, it was a great day, and then best of all I went back home and worked on genealogy for about 2 hours, I've connected with a distant Mccook cousin who is 90 years old and He sent me papers on the family, it's been great!
so fun.
Satuday, Dad has promised me a FULL day of helping me, I'm estastic, it's been about 3 months since he has had the time to help around the house and do my wish list.

This past week

Yikes, it's been a long time since I posted, lets see, this week went by really fast. Since I last wrote, I went to the dentist, to the eye doctor, got my carpets cleaned ( I used to never have it done, and now I'm on an every six month plan, you just can't believe how good they look after they come and clean your carpets!) taught a friend to make cinnamon rolls, went to the temple, a regional RS president's meeting, and got my car oil changed! Whew, how did I ever fit in children in my life?
I'm getting excited to go to Arizona for Thanksgiving, I've started wrapping some presents, problem is I forgot what I've bought and who they are for. Oh, it's tough getting old. And my children will all tell you, that when they all lived here I would hide presents, and then forget to give them out on Christmas, I think it happens every year!
I am so serious about this thing about getting our three months supply of canned goods, I know I know I've been called "chicken little" but hey I want to be ready and there is absolutely NO reason why I can't do this, I have the room in my house now and I have the money ( since I"m not feeding an army ) to do this. I hope everyone else takes it seriously and puts more effort into it.

Well sorry my blog isn't too interesting, but I did come across a good recipe I found on someone else's blog that I think I'll try since I love to cook in my crock pot, here it is for you too.


Whole Chicken Crock Pot Recipe
4 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 large roasting chicken (with pop-up timer if possible)1 cup onions, chopped

In a small bowl, combine the spices.Remove any giblets from chicken and clean chicken.Rub spice mixture onto the chicken.Place in resealable plastic bag and refrigerate overnight.When ready to cook, put chopped onion in bottom of crock pot.Add chicken.No liquid is needed, the chicken will make it's own juices.Cook on low 4-8 hours.Note: I highly recommend a pop-up timer in the chicken because some crock pots cook faster/slower than others (my crock pot cooks this recipe in 4-5 hours