My Perfect Self or The Perfect Pastor's Wife

Our church ladies have been doing a Bible study on the book "Grace for the Good Girl" by Emily Freeman. One thing we did at our first meeting was to write a description of our "perfect selves". If we could have and meet every expectation or goal what would that look like? I thought I'd share mine.

My Perfect Self I'm a size 8 , no make that a size 10 (I'm really tall) and I don't want to be TOO skinny. I thrive on 5 hours of sleep each night and awaken delightfully charming after sleeping in my perfectly color coordinated bed, perched high atop 7 throw pillows (that I made myself). I spend 1 hour studying the Bible and praying for others before awakening my children and serving them a hot, from scratch breakfast every morning (with cloth napkins of course). I grown my own organic vegetables, which I can , I haven’t had a diet Coke in 5 years. There are never dirty dishes in my sink and my laundry is folded the second the dryer beeps. I help the needy and often roam around looking for homeless people to invite to dinner. I make lovely care packages for college students all from my giant stockpile of items that I bought on sale...with a double coupon. I knit for orphans in Bulgaria, I call lonely widows on the phone and witness to the mail man daily. I teach my baby sign language, and make all my own clothes. I delight in pre treating laundry, cleaning up fur balls and balancing the checkbook. I can quote whole chapters of the Bible from memory and never need a song book as I know them all by heart. I make lovely, romantic dinners for my husband 5 nights a week after the children go to bed. I mow the lawn, change the oil and resided the house, not because I had to but because I like too. I floss after every meal. There are never month old McDonald's french fries on the floor of my minivan. I'm such a good person and wonderful Christian that I don't really need God's help, but he always needs mine.

$1 Thin Crust Pizza Recipe

On Wednesday night the RevDr doesn't ge

t home till late due to Bible Study and Choir practice, I usually make the kids dinner at 5 pm then will fix him something at 9 pm. Tonight it was thin crust cheese Pizza. Crust 1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon yeast 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 cup warm water 2 teaspoons olive oil Put water, yeast and sugar in bowl and let "bloom' for 5 min. then add rest and using your hands or a dough hook kneed for 4 min. Let rest 10-15 min. and preheat oven to 425 degrees, yes, you MUST preheat and you MUST do it that hot, oil round pizza pan (if you double this it will do a cookie sheet) and pat dough out evenly (make sure the center isn't thick). Use a scant amount of pizza sauce and cover with cheese and toppings. Prick crust all over with fork or crust will get thick, bake for 12-14 min. longer if you used a cookie sheet, watch this close it can burn quickly.

Kraft Homestyle Mac N Cheese Review

I'll be honest I never look at my blog stats. I only have 13 followers and don't get that many comments. Well I looked today...I get a lot of hits! mostly on my old funeral dinner posts. I guess I now know what people are really looking for. Anyway as you can tell by my title I thought I would do some product reviews. I bought this Mac N' Cheese it was $2 at my Wal Mart bnut I priced matched with a Publix ad and a coupon. It was really good, it has you cook the noodles, drain them and set aside then it has a little "flavor package" that you brown (it's really like making an old fashioned from scratch recipie with a rue) but it's pretty fast. It also comes with a crumb topping which my 5 year old didn't like. If you were to add some diced ham this could be a complete meal. It doesn't have a fake taste I give it 4/5 stars.

Huge Egg

We got a huge egg today, I will crack it open for breakfast tomorrow, I wonder if it will be a double yoker

King Josiah

Can you see the little gecio hiding in my hydranga?

I've also been sprouting mung beans this week, a good "fresh food" crop when the garden isn't producing lettuce

Pretty

Sadly Hibiscus blooms only last a day, both my bushes have multiple colors,not sure if that means they are a hybrid or natural.

Chicken to Door Service

Fall...O, Wait I live in Florida Now

So it's fall here, except it's still in the 80's-'90's, people are putting in fall gardens which ammuses me bacause we have always lived where you we're lucky to get one growing season much less have two! The chickens are doing well and it's still exciting finding brown eggs in the nests.

I have been working on raised beds for next year the soil here is pretty poor.

Our yard has been filled with butterflies the last two days, they all must have hatched.

First Egg

We got our first egg this week from our Rhode Island Red girls,amazing how excited you get! The girls have made themselves a nest beside the front door...5 acres and they pick the front door! I even made a nice one with pleanty fo straw, o well! Chicken to door service.