Family time fouth...

Hello
Hope that all of you found contentment in your weekend.

We were so happy to have My Love off on Friday for he had worked two 10 hour days to help the boss on a job. We did a few things here and then got together and set the house in order.
I worked on a project to clear out the clothing that was needing to be given away.

We spent a wonderful afternoon here Friday with Steve's folks here.
We had missed Fathers day with His Father and it was my MILove birthday on Thursday...
the perfect excuse to all get together and enjoy a meal.
I baked some chicken legs and then grilled them with a smoked BBQ sauce.

We had my first batch of pinto beans from scratch
Soaked the beans and all.
Not really hard at all just took a little planning and a lot of forethought.
They were crock pot after soaking and then all night in the pot outt in the garage.
Oh the smell not nice to my nose next time outside on the porch.

Then I made cowboy baked beans after the pintos were well cooked.
The other half of them were cooked on the stove into pinto for made from scratch re fried beans.
They turned out real good.

Our afternoon with the folks was nice.
They were able to return home before dark

She came with a wonderful idea to enjoy her grand kids...
She made rice crispies with them as I tended the grill.
She came with strawberries, carrots and tomatoes too.
It rounded off a real nice meal of BBQ chicken and cowboy beans.

She gave me a nice cookbook, it is one of age yet new to me.
I Just love these older cookbooks...sorta like the velveteen rabbit...they have been made real
:)
also a thermos with the old glass insert and an extra insert too look at the box.
Thank you

Steve and I did the budget for three hours yesterday sending out a three month projection
We are now better set to plan well.
This being the first 7 months of this new to us method we are yet working out all the bugs...
We rearranged the categories to fit my style of planning a bit better.

We then took the kids to a public pool, came home and watched Charlot's Web and had broiled honey mustard chicken kabobs...
It was real nice so nice that they fell out by 9 p.m. and we opted to get some much needed rest.

I awoke around 3 am to a dream about a niece that sent me to prayer and disturbed me.
I got up around 4a.m.
Ironed over 30 shirts as I held out in the silence in our master closet.
It will be real nice for my MR to have ironed shirts like in the BC days (before kids)
Now that I am getting this estate back to normal and the kids are healthy it seams things are getting back to the days of old when our home was better organized.
There is still a long way to go.


Dash and I played a game he created
then we has a phone call the kids together with a little pal .
The call needed intervention by that time Steve and I talked about some of the things I had been talking to God about all those ironed shirts long...
I set the table for a game and the kids came in as we were having a visit to find it almost set up.
Those two just sat right down and the game commenced
MOM and DAD time will have to wait until later.

Well the kids just ate lunch

The kitchen caught up by my darling while I Had tried to rest a little .
It is so nice to get a break from dishes.

I'll have bread to make this afternoon.

We asked the kids about camping again this month for it is going to be tight and they showed little interest...said that they were a little board going camping?!

Well perhaps that will make us able to do some other activity that would be out of the question otherwise. Well see.

Dove will be turning 12 this month perhaps I can do a little something extra for her.
She is growing up so fast.

Pray for a girl named Jennifer I am so concerned.