a day off

i woke up this morning to make the love bug some coffee so he could be some what awake during class, then i looked up recipes for gravy so i can make fab chicken gravy to go on the mashed tatoes. tonight we are having crockpot chicken and i'm going to make some chicken stock form the leftovers. i love having my own kitchen to cook in :)

i look around our apt and all i can think is God is good. even when "bad things" happen they are to his glory. monday night the pastor was starting ruth and he talked about her circumstances after she left with her husband to go out of Bethlehem. how it had changed her whole demeanor going from pleasant and good to bitter. and understandably so. so when i look at the things that throw me for a loop i think what do i have to complain about? why does my attitude move rapidly like the needle on the richter scale? i am slowly growing in being able to see the good before i am overwhelmed by what seems terrible thus keeping a consistent attitude of praise rather than grumbling.

lots to do today, cleaning, cooking, and other errands. love you guys and know that you are in my prayers.

because my job requires very limited mental skills i have a lot of time to think. so much so that sometimes after work i am so tired of hearing my inner monolog all i want to do is veg out. lame i know. also, because i think so much, i always intend to write blogs about what i have seen or thought of until i get home and i forget to because i feel like i have already gone through the process of writing it down and analyzing it.

we met the pastor of our new church and got to talk to him and his wife (Jack and Debbie). it was so very cool. they are very down to earth people and i totally feel like we can relate with them and learn so much. i had a dream last night that they invited us over to their house to hang out and we just sat and talked for hours about everything and anything that entered our brains. it was a nice dream.

tonight we go to the college/young adult ministry. Debbie introduced us to Chris the pastor of that group and he was around our age, maybe a few years older than Aaron. tonight will be their Christmas Concert type deal yay!

any who i need to get ready for work seeing as how i have to leave in like a 1/2 hr and i'm still in the state i was when i rolled out of bed. and i'm not talking about California.

the tree!!

mom and dad came down and gave us their old tree and bought us decorations and everything :) they are awesome. it was nice spending time with them (even though dad fell asleep so mom and i went in the other room to watch a movie)
the love bug and i decorated it the next day after work and of course we added a few interesting touches of our own. nuff chit chat here's the pics.

brr it's cold in here, there must be some ice cubes in my....

every morning when my alarm goes off at 7 i get out of bed and go stand next the the lil window in our bathroom and open it just a teensy bit and put my face up to the screen, then i take a deep breath and blow it all out waiting to see if i can see my breath. i have seen it for the past week. and every morning it makes me very happy to see the smelly morning breath puff floating away.

meatballs for breakfast

i was downloading some pictures from the camera and i found these from when jo and i decided to make meatballs enjoy the greatness.

Glaize Chow House

a sampling of some of the amazing stuff we have been making.
on sunday the pastor was talking about how they would eat in that time and he briefly mentioned that they used bread as their utensil and even a napkin at times. Of course that was a point that stuck out to Aaron and I. So I made us a dinner where we sat on the floor and ate off a tray that had our meats and veggies on it. we used fresh baked flat bread that i made for the meal. it was a lot of fun. our neighbors walked by a few times i'm pretty sure they thought we were nuts.







i also have been wanting some minestrone soup. so i used some of the left over meat and veggies and added them to the amazing soup i made from scratch. it was delish.





i wish i had more pictures of the different foods we have been making, but most of the time we end up eatting it before i can even remember to grab the camera :)

things i have learned since working at the KB Farm

1} people say that the key to being able to stand on your feet for so long is your shoes. but i would counter that while the shoes are very important they are nothing without a nice pair of high impact socks and shoe inserts. also epsom salt and a foot bath will do wonders.


2} you can never show up too early for work, but too late is very easy to achieve


3} one of the older gentle men i work with informed me that all women are like apples, there may be different types and colors, but in the end they are still just an apple. so when men go around trying and taking a bites out of different apples in the end he will always end up with an apple. men should be happy with the apple they have.


4} this man also taught me that your teeth are the most important part of you to take care of because if they are sick, you are sick.

5} most people who work at amusement parks will lie to your face when you ask them how to get some where if they don't know. you're better off looking at the map