My Sweet Mommas Birthday

 We celebrated my mommas birthday. 

She is my best friend. I am so glad she was raised in a Christian home and raised us in one as well. She will hit her knees on your behalf and she will also tell it like it is if she has too. She will still have your backside too if need be. I'm still kind of scared of her. I am so glad my kids are close to her just like I was my grandparents. And now her great grandkids. She is a hoot and a force to be reckoned with. She can shoot straighter than most sharp shooters. She can hit a snake right between the eyes on the first shot. I've seen her do it.  She is my rock when I need encouragement and prayer. 

Need To Spend Time With Family

 Due to so much devastation, sadness, and work in our community and the lives of our loved ones and friends and enlight of what this weekend brings us, I will be taking some time off for  a few days or maybe a week. 

We need to spend time with family and despite of all that has happened, still Praise the Lord for his goodness, mercy and kindness. 

We need not forget about what this week is all about. This is Holy week. The week Our Lord did miraculous things and taught so much in such short time. 

We are upon Easter Sunday. We need not forget HE IS RISEN!!!!!! Death did not have the victory over us. May we forever be truly thankful and Praise him. 

I will see everyone sometime next week after we have had suffecient time with family and friends and celebrated this wonderful holiday. And believe me, there will be pictures. You know me. 

I hope everyone has a very blessed week and Holiday weekend. Hug your loves ones tight. Really tight. 

How To Get To Our Pages On Our Blog

 

I want my blog to be full of so much information that it will help someone in some kind of way. I am very passionate about helping people simplify their lives. If I see, hear of, or heck, even try some of these tips and hacks and they personally blow me away and make my life easier, OF COURSE I WANT TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOF TOPS!!!!!! I will instantly post on FaceBook, Instagram, Pinterest, our YouTube channel or something. We didn't or don't get to where we are today by not listening to or reading someones knowledgeable advice that is given in such a loving and caring way. My goodness, think of the older generations that have gone on before us. My Grandparents for example. I learned so much of what I do today by growing up on the farm and watching EVERY LITTLE OR BIG THING they did. I learned from my precious Momma. I learned from reading, reading, reading (before Google and YouTube)...lol.

This is the reason why I took 3 years designing, creating, writing, collecting links, etc to put on my blog to share all the wonderful things I have learned (alot from personal experience) so you could see and read it too.

The best part is, it is all right here on this blog. I know you're saying, "Where?" "All I see is journal posts like a diary." Look closer.......... You see those titles in the header at the top? Yes, those thingies..... They are extra Pages. The titles are links to extra pages on our blog that you click on and a whole new world...hmmmm....page will pop up. Whatever the title is of the page, is what you are going to find and I will be talking about that particular subject. For instance, I love being a Homemaker. Well, the title Homemaking is where you are going to find all kinds of information. If you want to know how to Can or Preserve Food, click on our Canning and Preserving page or title in the subheader.....viola' There you have it folks. But I will say, I love writing and you might want to grab a cup of coffee, tea or a big ole glass of sweet iced tea because there is alot of information. I can't give advice on something that I know nothing about, but trust me, these things I can.

I hope you will take the time to check them out and most of all I hope you find something you love and enjoy and book mark it. Please feel free to comment. We would love to hear from you. 

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Have a very blessed day. C ya'll in the next post.

Devastation

 It is with sad heart that I am having to write this post. 💔 

All day Friday, we had been watching the weather move clear across the states from the west to the east. That night at 9:30 pm we kept getting alerts and notifications on our phones to GET IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AND SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!!!!! 

We kept calling, texting and checking in with our family and friends. 

There was nothing we could do, but wait. We could not do a thing. You see, we were not there. We are in another state that had no storms whatsoever.  All I could do was PRAY. 

Family finally got back with us. A tornado had just come through close by and surrounding counties in another state with more family and friends.  My momma and daddy included. So much devastation. Thousands of people out of power, ours included. Our sons and daughters in law were hunkered down in one house thankfully. Our oldest who works for the local power company got called in to help fix our communities and counties power outages. You see, there is a myth, that people who work for power companies get special privileges and there's is the first homes to get power restored. THAT IS A LIE!!!!!

Everyone was ok, scared, but ok. But more bad weather was threatening and coming. Another tornado was on that ones heels. My son is out in the bad weather trying to get to work to get into a work truck. Lightning striking everywhere and thunder rolling. 

An hour later, here came the other one. Families scrambling to get back into safety. Some, never came out of their shelters from the first one. 

This, this is what rocked our community. Came within a quarter mile of our home on our end of it. 

I got this picture from a news source the next day. We finally got a hold of family again. Again, all were safe and our homes were safe. Some, not so. 

Our area and surrounding areas, have been devastating.  Homes leveled, people trapped in their homes, homes with just damage, and sad to say lost lives. Search and Reacue teams were sent out and still looking through rubble today as I write this. 

We see pics on Facebook and other places of the routes and disaster they left behind and my heart hurts. 

It looks like a war zone and I had severe flash back of when this exact same thing happened back in 2013. I know my boys were having flash backs to a younger selves when we were in the exact same house with a loving praying grandmother who was pleading the blood of Jesus over us all in 2013. Trees had fell on that house then and much damage. Same scenario. Just years later. My husband was out of town during that one too and when he was called home, as he drove he could not believe his eyes. But as he walked into his mommas house and saw me and his children and family alive, he was better. Same as now.  

We are so thankful none of our family or homes were gone. However, in a day or two, we will be driving home once again to a place we may not recognize but to our families who are ok. Scared, but ok. Our oldest son is still out working over 36 hrs now, no rest,  exhausted and his own home still with no power. Our power will eventually come back on. But our hearts are hurting for friends who have lost everything and even loved ones. The toll has reached 9 now. 

I don't have alot of pics to share out of respect for families. I'm sorry. 

Things can be replaced, but family can't. We are all ok by God's grace. 

Hug your loved ones tight. 

This Weeks Menus Are Fantastic

 I did my meal planning for the week and came up with some pretty good meals. 

I do have to say, I have made some pretty awesome meals in the air fryer and instant pot this week. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't make a whole chicken in the air fryer because I just did. It was so juicy and the spices were spot on. 😋 I also did a pot in pot method and cooked brown sugar and cinnamon glazed baby carrots and copy cat Newk's smoked Mac and cheese 🧀.  

Let's just get a gander:

Then the next night 

I slaved  over that  air fryer and instant pot all day......🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just had to say that.....But dear hubby has more breakfasts to last a week or little more and we are now eating Instant Pot Chicken 🐔 Alfredo Lazy Lasagna. 😋

Breakfast sandwich this morning with some of the deer bacon David made. 🥓

Then we had instant pot shrimp boil:

Me and my two goof ball sisters. This was one of the first store bought Easter dresses we had. My momma and MaMa Oliver always made our dresses. I'm the baby gotta love me 😅😅😅😅😅

Dear hubby came home from work and brought in this:

Dear hubby loved the granola bars I made last week in the air fryer, that he requested more. 

I love Video calls with our crew:

Well, that wraps up this week. Thanks for hanging in there with me. 

Have a blessed weekend. 

I Am So Proud

 I am so proud to announce that I think I have a way now that all my friends can now sign up to get email notifications of when new posts have been made on the blog. 

As you all know, some time ago, Feedburner was no longer available on Blogger. This left alot of us with loosing alot of followers and not knowing what to do from there. Well, I discovered Follow It. It is a Email Subscription Tool that you can now use to replace Feedburner. It  is easy to sign up for and follow all the prompts. TRUST ME, IF I CAN DO IT, YOU CAN TOO.   I am not a computer gooru, and I was so  intimidated to try it, but I did and you can now see it on the right hand side of the screen, under the Header, with a nice purple hue for the box...😃 

If you would like to sign back up to start receiving emails to get notifications each time a new post is up and running, please try the new sign up button and most of all, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS OR YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE.  I need to make sure it is working properly. But be patient as I am still learning this  new feature. I would like to apologize to my subscribers who were on my email list from Feedburner. I do not know how to transfer your emails over to this new site. They were probably deleted. Please feel free to re-subscribe. 

I hope this will help other creators as in giving you the courage to try it and get this feature for yourself. It was of no cost to me for the Basic set up. There are packages if you are a bigger blooger or business. 

I would like to thank each and every one of you who so faithfully follow my blog. 

Have a blessed day. 

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Another 5 Minute Breakfast 

Homemade Lunchables

Get The Most Out Of Your Meals

I Had To Spit This One Out

Hope you enjoy.