My favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe

I have stunk at blogging this week, so I thought I'd sling up my chocolate chip cookie recipe. There is only one person I know that doesn't like this recipe, and I love her tons, so I forgive her!!!! :)

http://www.bigbiteappetite.com/2007/07/here-it-is-my-no-fail-from-scratch-no.html

A fun, crazy weekend!

I know I'm (in)famous for my "It was a crazy week" comments, but holy cow. It really was! Between the no-door-on-the-house fiasco to some other giant things we had going on last week, I was worn out by Friday, like I usually am. This weekend was a NO REST weekend, though. I had a blast, and loved every minute of it, although I am more than beat this morning!

Allen started the craziness by playing on Good Day Alabama on Friday morning. Here is the link, for those of you who were mad at me for not telling them he was going to be on television. I am a bad wife, okay? Back off now!!!!! ;)

http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=2954C13B6F4C2D141B65A18DF8155515?contentId=7714162&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

It's good that he's playing with this guy. He had a band that played at the White House this year, and they are playing the Governor's Christmas party in December. How fun is that?

There was an art show here too, and we had a blast walking about looking at all the wonderful artsy stuff. I love doing that sort of thing, and it's something that we haven't done as much since Zane was born. I am ready to get back to doing fun stuff like that! I love it.

That's my mama. She always seems to be there to help out, and that's really great. She loves to boss me around, and actually that works for me, since *I* get tired of bossing people and like to have someone else take over every now and then. :):):)

Then, after watching a bit of the Alabama game (ROLL TIDE) some of the girls met up for dinner to celebrate my not-biological-sister Jennifer. We all adore her and just had a great time laughing and eating Mexican and lemon squares. Her precious baby E joined us, and I just love that kid. Really almost too much.

My Jenn loves owls, and I found one for her at the art show. I'm not sure which is cuter, her or the owl. She makes me laugh, and we get each other. Most of the time. Some times we look at each other like, "Waaaaa?????" The beauty of friendship.

My twinkie, other half, my sister and my treasure. I just would rather not live life unless she were there. She wouldn't want to get to Heaven before me anyway. I want to see her face when she gets there! She wants to be there more than any person I know. Such sweet devotion she has to our Jesus. She's an inspiration, I tell ya. Smart one too. I call her my "walking Google." Ah, enough. I could go on about her forever.... ;)

Ahhhh the Shelby Crossings Fall Ball. We just had to go back to see old friends. The kids were looking forward to it all week. It was so good to see those that we've missed so much.

Laney's other half. Her twinkie... you know. Her twinkie just happens to be the daughter of my twinkie. Funny how that worked out, isn't it?

Zane was okay with Will holding him, as long as he could pretend that Will wasn't holding him. I have the craziest kids. I love them to death, and they have their quirks, for sure.

Mimi was Susan from Narnia to match Laney. Laney was thrilled with that...

TWO Sarah Palins???? I'll not make a joke here.... Isn't she cute, though?

The party lines are blurred....

WAAAAAY BLURRED....

Jenn was Tiger Lily from Peter Pan. E, the baby, was Peter Pan. Get it? :)

My sweet girls....

Zane was terrified of Barack.( No surprise there...) No jokes here either. So we hid it from him. You know, keep your friends close and your enemies closer....

Write it down. A card carrying Republican for one night. "I'm not a Republican. I just play one on Halloween..."

Whew. We aren't even doing school today. We are going to clean and rest. And hibernate. If you don't hear from me for awhile, don't worry. I'm just here, puttering around, digging us out of a huge mess. And waiting on the chicken pox. But that's a post for another day.... ;)

Weird day

It was supposed to be a simple door install. I knew we had termite damage, but had no idea it was this bad. It's going to be about a week before we get our door installed. At least it's in the garage, where I can look at it when ever I want to.

The firemen came to check the hydrant, and Laney got to "drive the truck." Jude refused to get in the truck or put on a hat. Sorry about that, Mr. Fireman. My kid is weird.

This whole day was weird. My front door looks weird. Termites are weird. I hate termites. Sorry, God. They are eating my house. :)

Boo at the Zoo!

It was our first year to ever go to Boo at the Zoo. We had big fun with Emily!

My pile

I always have a pile. A pile of stuff to read/take care of/do. Sometimes it's much bigger than this. So much so that yesterday it fell over on me and went everywhere, so I was forced to deal with it at least temporarily. I certainly didn't feel like "doing" the pile. I only piled it back up, so it wouldn't eat me.

I'll tackle that pile... tomorrow. Scarlett is just *not* up to it today.

Thank goodness for EASY!

I panicked this morning, when I realized that it was science class day at McWane, and I needed to have a slow cooker meal going for when we got home. Class is over at 4, and it's usually 5 before we get home. I hadn't given dinner any thought, and that's usually when we do fast food.

I dug in my "no eating out" heels and went to the pantry to see what I could find. I spotted some of this cream of mushroom soup that I keep on hand for emergencies. They have it at Publix and it's not nearly has bad as that "other" brand!

I slung two cans of it into my Crocker, along with two cans of water. I dumped in one and a half cups of organic long grain brown rice and 4 chicken breasts. I put in some McCormick's Garlic Pepper Grinder seasonings, some more garlic powder and some more pepper. I set it for 4 hours on high and that was it.

When we walked in the door after science, I couldn't believe how good it smelled!

I spooned it out on a plate, cut up the chicken and layed it on the rice and sprinkled some cheddar cheese on top and YUM!!!!

And there's enough for tomorrow night too! Whee!!!