May 24th Tuesday

I have had a crazy day today.  There was a class at the Bosch Kitchen Center once again. I was glad that it wasn't me doing the class.  I've got to get home right after work to check on my house being clean so that the Activity girls can come over.

I needed to do some touch up on my home.  The main level at least needed to be clean.  The sewing machines were down on the table, they just weren't hooked up.  I went to the sewing room and got some scrapes so that I could practice with the girls before they began to sew on the quilt.  All I wanted was for them to be able to sew in a straight line.  It was an interesting experience to watch them sew.  Some took a long time on a lot of scrapes to finally get the straight line straight.  Others caught on pretty fast, but others took a lot of time to finally get the sewing right.  But we got the quilt done and it looks great.  I am impressed that all those little activity girls would learn how to sew just for there activity day leader.  She will be plenty impressed with the great looking quilt.  I have been adding on some strips so that the front will be the same length as the back.  I will need to get some batting for the middle and have it done by Thursday, so that we can have another activity day.  Lisa decided to quilt the blanket on the sewing machine because it is such a cute quilt.  We do not want to tie it because you will not see how cute it is.  So she will sew it while I am at work.  Once I get it all put together.  I have been working on it since the activity day girls left.  I am excited about it,  it looks so good.  I will get it finished tonight, so Lisa can sew the lines and then I and the girls will sew all the edges together.

May 19th Thursday

It seems as though I am at work alot and I would like to do something fun with Lisa, but that seems to just not happen.  It is fun to get up in the morning to her cute little children.  I will certainly miss them when they go home.  They have been here for over a week.  I hope they don't go home for at least a month, but it depends on when Lisa decides it is OK to go back home.  And right now we get the happiness of having her here.  She has been going to the temple alot.  Being with us gives her that opportunity.  I love it when she goes to the temple with us, but sometimes I think she just wants to go alone.  So we don't always get the wonderful priviledge of having her company.  Today we did.  I love to go to the temple.  Our experience there is one of peace and reverance.  I think we understand our many blessings when we attend the temple alot.

May 18th Wednesday

I got all the Activity Day girls project done today.  I got all the pieces cut out and the quilt is ready to do.  I know that once they come over I will have a great time with them.  It will prove to be interesting to see if they enjoy learning to sew or whether it will be an activity where they can't wait to see it over and done with.  I am happy to do this activity because it will be rewarding to everyone that participates.  Sister Eshelman will be happy to have a new quilt for her baby.

Lisa is here and has been wonderful to help in every way since she has been here.  Her girls are wonderful.  They are good little girls.  It is funny to watch Madison and her quiet ways and cute little voice.  Sierra is defiantly the older child, because when it comes to bed time she doesn't want to go to bed.  She loves to be a part of the group and is afraid she will miss out.  I see that in a lot of ways she is like Jennifer, especially in the no sleep area.  Now that Jennifer is older I know that she would give anything to be able to sleep once in a while.

May 17th Tuesday

I had a wonderful time at the Bosch Kitchen Center today.  I did the class on all of the attachments for the Bosch, it ended out fantastic.  I took the creamy soup mix and put all the ingredients together in the food processor, then I mixed it up.  It was a wonderful soup mix recipe.  2 cups of powdered milk, 1/2 cup potato flakes, 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. of corn starch, 1/4 chicken powdered chicken bouillon, 1/2 tsp. of dried marjoram, 2 tsp. onion powder, 2 Tbsp. vegetable flakes (or in my case vegetable powder, I will explain on a latter post) 1/4 tsp. garlic salt, and 1/8 tsp. white pepper.  Put it in your food processor and process until all is mixed well together and flakes are mixed. This will store in an air tight container in a cool dry place for 1 year. The next thing I did was to use the Bosch meat grinder and make hamburger from a roast.  Out of that hamburger I made a meat loaf, and formed it in to tiny meat paddies.  I used the slicer shredder attachment next and made sliced potatoes, shredded carrots, sliced celery and chopped onions to saute' together so I could pour it in my cream soup mixture, after I made it.  To do that you add 3 Tbsp. of above mixture to 2/3 a cup of water. Delicious.  Next I made a grapefruit drink in the lemon squeezer.  The last thing I made was an orange julius in the blender.  It was a very rewarding class and everyone there got to taste the delicious food. 

May 16th Monday

Tomorrow I have a class on all the Bosch Mixer attachments.  As usual I am wondering what attachments are the most beneficial to know about.  I am excited about the class but at the same time a little apprehensive.  I found the greatest recipe on the Internet for cream soup base.  I can use my vegetable powder that I grind up each year when my garden over produces.  It is just a lot of different vegetables that I dehydrate.  Tomato's, green pepper, onions, yellow squash, zucchini squash and carrots.  Just anything I can dehydrate.  This particular vegetable powder is made with peppers, yellow and zucchini squashes, whatever happen to be left over in my garden that day.  Of course I always dehydrate more and add to the mixture I already have.  Then I put it in my freezer and take it out during the winter months and add a couple of tablespoons to any soup that I make.  It has wonderful flavor, I love dehydrator's.  They are wonderful.

May 15th Sunday

Today my second counselor went out of town so my secretary took charge of sharing time.  She had 4 separate men come into sharing time acting out a great man taken out of a story from the Book of Mormon.  It was incredible.  What a great idea.  The children were so excited and the men who acted out these great men from the scriptures were amazing.  I couldn't help but be totally impressed.  It gives me a great idea for my sharing time next Sunday.  Because I have become so busy these last few weeks it will give me a great opportunity to come with an amazing idea.  My sharing time is on the priesthood being restored to the earth and how that whole process happened.  So I will chose a couple of young men from our ward to talk about there individual calling in the priesthood and experiences they have had being in the Aaronic or Melchizedek priesthood. Then share the story of Joseph Smith and how both priesthoods were brought back to the earth.

May 14th Saturday

We attended the temple this morning.  Sometimes Saturday's can be a crazy day so attending the temple isn't something that we normally do.  But we have made a commitment to attend at least once a week, so when the only day that you can do that is on a Saturday that is what you do.  It has a calming effect on my week, that should be earlier in the week because I have church on Sunday to do that exact same thing. So about the middle of the week is a really good time to attend the temple, but at this particular time it ended out being on Saturday.  My daughter came to see us with her 2 little girls on Thursday.  I hope they stay for awhile, but I never know when she will feel like she needs to leave and go back home.  I love her and her little girls, and as I feel with all my children, they can stay as long as they need too.

May 13th Friday

I found out a miracle this morning.  The cutting blade in my cutter was in wrong and that is why it hasn't been cutting.  I only had a few pieces to cut out this morning, but the whole baby quilt is cut out and I am ready for the Activity Day girls project.  I do have to sew one square together, before the activity so that I can really see how this whole thing works.  I will take a picture and put it on my blog when it is all done.  I should be pretty cute, but will take a little work.  I had to work this afternoon.  I seems as though my working has really helped me to realize that I can accomplish alot when I need too. We planned on attending the temple today but will attend first thing in the morning.  It has been some what of a crazy evening and I had to work this afternoon until evening.

May 12th Thursday

Time seems to fly when you are having fun.  I have the activity for the Activity Day girls on the 24th and 26th so that alone is a stress for me.  I have a Dehydration class coming up on the 26th and there is a lot of preparation for that class. So between that and trying to get all the pieces cut out for this quilt is quite interesting. Sometimes I feel as though there are not enough hours in a day. But luckily I did have the day off yesterday so that I could  figure the pieces out for the quilt that the Activity Day girls are going to do.  I love it when I have a day off.  I plan on having at least a day off a week, I hope that happens.  This week I am loving it because I also have Saturday off.  It's great! I worked this morning so I have been cutting out pieces to the quilt this evening.  My cutting board is so bad that it takes me forever.  But I will get it done yet.

May 11th Wednesday

I got to spend the day at home. No work today! I love days like today. I can clean my house and of course I have been preparing for the activity day girls to come to my home. I made up a pattern for making different shapes in a baby quilt. Then I went searching for pieces in my extra material that would match and make the quilt look good. We are making a baby quilt for Sister Eshelman who is one of the Activity Day leaders. Sister Field gave me some really cute material for the backing of the quilt, so all I am doing is the front. But it takes a long time when you are making your own pattern. Everything has to match up and look good. I have been trying to make this pattern most of the day. I need to take every spare minute that I have to get ready for the day, the girls will come, especially when a lot of my time is spent at work. So when I have a free day I like to take advantage of it.