I’m Still Here!

I am amazed that I still have people viewing my blog, even when I haven’t posted lately!  I want you to know how much I appreciate it.  I see that many are looking for gluten free recipes in the searches that bring you here.  I hope the few I’ve shared have been a help to you.  I’m not a chef by any stretch.  I’m a southern cook who doesn’t measure things when I don’t have to do so and my husband is a meat and potatoes man, so when ideas run low, it’s back to the hubby basics.  That’s pretty much where I’ve been lately as the last two weeks have been difficult ones.

Tuesday of last week was the delivery of our last Wheat Montana order.  It was an order of over 29 thousand pounds, 8 thousand of those being at the Louisburg drop and the rest in Cary.  All went well except for a possible labeling error.  We are still checking into that.  I am so blessed to have Nancy O’Connor who is handling the bulk of the Cary delivery for me now.  She is full of energy and did a great job, for the second time.  The Forney’s who handle the Louisburg drop are a blessing to me and the families they minister to in Louisburg.  The week before this delivery was full of calculation and order forms.  I’ll be ok if I don’t see an Excel document for a bit!

One exciting thing that took place at the delivery, at least for me, was watching Andrew.  Since he has his back brace for scoliosis and kyphosis, he wasn’t allowed to lift the heavy bags and buckets at the delivery.  But his job was just as important as I put him at the entrance of the parking lot with a huge orange sign to signal the member where to enter to pick up their wheat.  I’m sure that sign was a relief to many who were driving in unfamiliar territory.  He was starting to grow weary of his job around 11 a.m.  We had been on site since 8:30 a.m.   Not long after that a couple young men walked up to him, very nicely dressed in black suits with backpacks.  Their bikes had been parked across the street I found out later.

Andrew has had a desire for over a year now to have a job so that he can be a witness to his coworkers.  With his workload for school, that hasn’t been possible.  Little did we know that holding a big orange sign would give him opportunity to share his love for Christ with two who are only “pretty confident” that they will be in heaven one day.  My first reaction to their approaching him was to run over and give them a one liner and send them on their way.  But God clearly held me in my place so Andrew would have opportunity to be a light for Him.  I kept looking for a signal from him that he wanted to be rescued from this awkward situation, but it never came.  He didn’t even look over at me.  He relayed to me later how easy it must be for those with little knowledge to get sucked into this cult because of how they present so many of the similarities with followers of Christ.  But it’s the differences that are key.

Overall Andrew spoke with these men for 20-30 minutes.  He learned a lot about what they do believe and was able to discuss things in detail with his dad that night.  It was a life teaching moment for him, and me, and I’m sure he will feel more prepared the next time he encounters the men in black.

Ever since the delivery my pain has been much worse.  I went to the doctor on Thursday and we plan an epidural cortisone injection for Feb. 24th.  I have pain down my right leg which just started within the last month.  It is getting much worse though, as I thought I was going to be stranded in the tub while Kenny was at church yesterday.  The pain was so bad, I thought I’d have to wait till he got home to help me out, but thankfully, I was able to get into a position that lessened the spasms and helped my muscles to relax.  I’m going to PT tomorrow and hopefully that will help.  I feel pretty much back to square one….well, I actually feel at square negative one, if there is such a thing.

I have several meats in the freezer so I’m going to attempt finding some new gf recipes for them that I can post in the next few days.  I’m thinking the crock pot needs a workout, don’t you think?

I’d love to hear from you!  Comment away, especially if you have liked a certain recipe that I’ve posted.

Blessing!!!

Wow…It’s February!

I can hardly believe it’s been a month since Christmas!  In one way though, it feels like it’s been ages because it is in the 60’s here today!  One needs two separate wardrobes for NC weather….I think there’s a mention of flurries tomorrow.   Weird.

There won’t be any recipes for this past week.  I took advantage of being able to freeze past meals and used those blessings for dinners this week.   Chili, Bacon/Chicken Wraps, Quiche…wait a minute!  I did do something interesting with my quiche this week.

Two Quiches; One Dish

I try to add veggies in where ever I can tolerate them and quiche is a good place to put them.  I’m the only one though, who likes green stuff added to quiche.  So I determined to make two quiches in one dish.  I took a 9 x 13 glass dish and put double the cheese and bacon in the bottom of the dish.  Then I put one box of chopped broccoli on ONE SIDE of the dish.  I poured the egg mixture over it and baked as usual!  The broccoli stayed put and everyone was happy!

The Wheat Lady

What?  How dare I mention WHEAT in my blog?

For the past several years, I have been running a grain co-op so that folks in the area can get whole grains at a good price for grinding into flour and making their own bread.  It has grown by leaps and bounds and continues to do so with every order.  The fact that I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease didn’t change the fact that other still want grain at a good price.  It also didn’t change the fact that I really enjoy, for the most part, being able to coordinate this for them.  I have been blessed by how everyone works together on delivery day and have people stepping up to the plate to take over for me since my health is not so great right now…the Celiac and my back issues.  You think I should change my name to The Gluten Free Wheat Lady?  LOL!  That will confuse newbies, won’t it?

I am thankful that God has allowed me to do this.  I can still bless others while I’m on my back in bed, because most of it is computer work.  Speaking of this computer work….off to put formulas in some Excel documents and get this order ready for Wheat Montana!

Gluten Free Dinner Table – Week of January 18th

Gluten Free Dinner Table – Week of Jan. 18th

Here are the recipes I used the Week of January 18th with a little commentary on each one.

Bacon Wrapped Chicken

This is the recipe I referred to last week but didn’t get a chance to prepare.    I found this on Recipezaar while looking for meals that could be frozen ahead of time.   I also love this website because the comments given for each recipe give me other ideas for ways to improve on a good, or not so good, recipe.   Allrecipes.com is very similar in this respect.

Click here for the link for this recipe.   This got mixed reviews at our house.  Andrew loved it and wants it again.  Kenny and I both felt like something was missing.  Well, it was.  I did not have flavored cream cheese so I used plain cream cheese and sprinkled some Montreal Chicken seasoning from McCormick  inside the breast before rolling it up.  That was just not enough seasoning.  We don’t care for chives but after reading a few of the reviews, I think just about any flavored soft cheese would work well.   Alouette has some awesome cheese spreads that I think would be awesome inside these wraps.  I’m specifically thinking of the Garlic and Herbs flavor.  By the way, you will find these in the gourmet cheese section of your grocery store.

The thought of pounding all this chicken flat was not my cuppa tea,  so I went with the Perdue thin sliced chicken breasts.  Prep was quite easy and I’ll definitely make these again with flavored cheese spread.  Andrew has quite a few to eat in the freezer now though!

Spicy Italian Chicken Soup

I LOVE this soup!  I got the idea from Carrabba’s restaurant, which has a nice gluten free menu.  They have a soup called Mama Mandola’s Spicy Chicken Soup that is really good, but you have to request no pasta be put in it.  So I start with a basic chicken soup recipe and want to make it Italian!  I’ll post the ingredients, but measurements will only be approximate.  My mother taught me to just dump it in when cooking things like soup, but I’ll try to give you some sort of amounts with the ingredients.

Start with boiling chicken.  You can use a whole chicken and debone it or you can use chicken breasts and boil them.  Just make sure you are dealing with lots of water so that you end up with a good amount of chicken stock.  I used a my cast iron dutch oven and three chicken breasts this week.

When the breasts were almost fully cooked, I removed them one at a time, shredded the meat and put it back in the chicken stock.  Then I added:

• 1-2 carrots, sliced (I used about 20 baby carrots, but put as many as you like)
• 1 medium sweet onion, chopped
• 2 cans Rotel tomatoes – mild or original, depending on how spicy you want it
  
• 1 can tomato sauce (15 oz.)
• salt and pepper
• 2 crushed garlic cloves
• 1/3 cup Italian Seasoning

If you want this to be thicker, like a stew, then use tomato paste instead of tomato sauce.  Simmer over low/medium  heat for a minimum of 1 hour so the flavors blend together.  Stir occasionally to prevent sticking.  You may add water if you want a thinner version of this soup.  It’s an easy soup to tweak and make it fit the tastes of your family.  Also should freeze well.

Chicken Parmesan

• 4-6 Boneless chicken breasts, whole or cut into smaller pieces
• Olive oil
• salt and pepper
• 1 jar Classico pasta sauce
• Parmesan cheese (or Mozzarella, if you prefer)
• gluten free pasta

This is one of the easiest dishes to make and it is very tasty!

Pour olive oil into skillet, covering the bottom of the pan.  When oil is hot, place chicken in the pan.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper.  Sear chicken on both sides and remove from the pan.  Chicken will NOT be fully cooked.  That’s ok.

Pour excess oil out of pan.  Add pasta sauce of your choice.  I have used homemade and Classico.  Just make sure it’s gluten free.  Return chicken pieces to the pan, in the sauce.  Simmer on low/medium until chicken is fully cooked.  Top with cheese and serve over gluten free pasta.

Garlic Parmesan Beef (or Two Ingredient Crock Pot Meat)

This is a crock pot recipe that is SO versatile and some variation is used in this house at least once every couple weeks.  The name of your recipe will change with your ingredients, so be creative!  For THIS particular version, I chose the name Garlic Parmesan Beef.

• 1 crock pot
• stew beef
• Newman’s Own Parmesan and Roasted Garlic Dressing

Place meat in your crock pot.  Pour dressing over meat, giving you 1-2 inches of dressing in the bottom of the crockpot.  Cook 3 hours on high or 4-5 hours on low.

Now for the versatile part.

Meat

• Chicken – any part of the chicken, thawed or frozen
• Pork – chops or a pork loin
• Beef – roast, stew beef, steak

Liquid

• salsa or picante sauce
• salad dressing – I’ve used Italian as well as the one noted above
• soup

I have used Pace Picante Sauce with all of the above…beef, pork and chicken.  Unfortunately, Pace products are no longer considered gluten free so I’ll need to find another brand to use, but the principle is still the same.  I’ll assume you know your crock pot and how fast it cooks.  The smaller the pieces of meat the less cooking time.  I have cooked a roast all day till it was falling apart but it was SO delicious and tender!  I have also used frozen meat when it was smaller, like chicken breasts.  Just make sure there is liquid in the bottom of the crock pot.  I tried chicken with just dry seasoning once and the frozen chicken/hot crock combo brock the ceramic insert to my crock pot.

Salad Dressings or bottled marinades are both very good.  I’ve tried Italian dressing, many varieties, and the one mentioned above.  I tend to use the more oily ones so you’ll have to let me know how some others work for you.  Again, I’ve used these with beef, pork and chicken.

Soups – I have not personally used soup in my crockpot in quite a long time because of the fat content of creamed soups and also due to the fact that most contain gluten, but there are many great varieties that would work well.  Creamed soups like cream of mushroom are the traditional favorites.  Use your imagination!  If you love a certain soup and can imagine it as a gravy of sorts for some type of meat, give it a try!  Don’t forget to come back and let me know how it turns out!

1000 Blessings- We Don’t Get This One Often in North Carolina

1000 Blessings- We Don’t Get This One Often in

North Carolina

The Blessing of the Local Church

Yesterday was the first day I have been able to go to both the Sunday morning and evening services in a VERY long time.  Last week I went in the evening, to the Lord’s Supper and the teaching that followed.  Yesterday I thought it would just go in the morning, to Sunday School and the Gospel meeting, but God had different plans for me.  I spend most of yesterday afternoon in bed, either on the computer or napping.  I fought with myself on whether to go in the evening…would sitting that long in one day make Monday a dreadful day of pain?  It would be so easy just to stay here and piddle on the laptop.  No one would expect me to make both services.  The Lord brought back to my mind how refreshed I was from the Lord’s Supper the week before.  Even though I could only sit for less than half the meeting, I was able to stand in the doorway of the back room, a table close by to place my Bible on to read.  I was still able to partake of the emblems…well, just the cup because of Celiac.  I had missed so many meetings.  Being back at the Lord’s Supper, even though I was not “sitting” at His table, touched my spirit in a special way.   This meeting is meant for worship, not for petition.   Even in my silence, I was able to worship Him in a different way, being among His people, rather than praying at home.  I know he wants us to worship Him always, but corporate worship much be so pleasing to Him, a sweet smelling sacrifice of praise.

Yesterday, the thoughts of being in His presence with other believers the week before, drew me to go again.  I literally decided 15 minutes before walking out the door.  I knew I’d have to stand for much of the service, but it didn’t matter.  I wanted to be there again, among His people.  The prayers and scripture shared were so rich!  These prayers and scriptures offered up to HIM, to bless HIM, were in turn blessing ME!  How much more satisfaction we feel, when we empty ourselves of ourselves and purpose to think on Him, His life, death and resurrection.  What a gift He gave to me and how small in comparison was MY gift to be there with His people worshipping Him.  It is only when we empty ourselves that He can fill us with Himself.

O God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You!

The Gluten Free Dinner Table – Week of January 11th

It’s been a busy week here in the kitchen!  As I said, cooking isn’t my favorite thing to do, but I think God is granting me grace, or mercy, whichever one I need most, so that I am enjoying this more than I thought!  I am low carbing it right now, trying to shed many extra pounds and the recipes I am posting will fall into that category, as well as being gluten free.

There were a couple really crazy days where Kenny and Andrew got Stouffer’s from the freezer, while I threw together something small for me.  That is one plus to being the only one in the house who has to eat this way.  There isn’t squat out there in the frozen section that is gluten free AND good, IMO.  So Stouffer’s is a blessing on occasion.  I have frozen a great deal of stuff lately by making large batches and that will help as well.

Gluten Free Meatballs

I got this idea from The Schwarzbein Principle Cookbook and adapted it to me by needs.  It is still low carb, but now GF.

• 2 lbs. lean ground beef or turkey
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1/2 medium onion, chopped
• 1 cup gluten free breadcrumbs (I made my own from leftover GF bread)
• 2 Tbs brown mustard
• 2 Tbs wheat free Tamari sauce
• salt and pepper  as desired

Mix together ingredients in a bowl.  I just squished it together with my hands.  Form into 1 inch balls and place on greased cookie sheet, 1 inch apart so they are not touching each other.  If you want to freeze them, put them in the freezer like this and then when frozen, place them in a freezer container or plastic freezer bag.  To cook, place thawed meatballs on greased cookie sheet and bake at 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes.  Will want to turn them a couple times while baking.   These are great alone or with your favorite sauce.

We had Quiche again this week, using the basic recipe from two posts ago.  I wanted to please everyone so I made one with swiss cheese and bacon; one with swiss, bacon and spinach; and the last one with sausage, pepper jack and other cheeses in a mexican blend.   They were all great, but I DID learn that only TWO will fit in my oven at the same time!

Crockpot Pizza Soup

Samuel and his roommate came over for dinner Thursday evening and it was a COLD day, GREAT for soup!  And having it in the crockpot made the house smell yummy all day.  My neighbor who stopped by even thought so!  This recipe is from a wonderful blog where Stephanie used her crockpot EVERY day last year for a different thing.  I have used several of her recipes and they are ALL gluten free.  For the link to her recipe, click HERE.  Everyone liked it and some loved it.  Next time I will use a different italian sausage as I didn’t love the chicken italian sausage in this recipe.  I also doubled the recipe and halved it before adding the gluten free pasta.  You do NOT want to freeze gf pasta.  You don’t even want to save it for the next day…gets major mushy.   Freeze however much soup you choose and add pasta to the rest.  When you thaw out the soup on a later date, just cook the pasta separately and add it to the reheated soup.  We will definitely have this again!

The Bacon Wrapped Chicken got pushed back a few days, but we will probably have it over the weekend.  The recipe is here.  I’ll post the taste verdict in a day or so.

Hmmmm, what about next week?

Gluten Free Dinner Table…What’s Ahead This Week

These are the new recipes I plan to try this week, at least two of which I hope to make enough to freeze.  Recipes coming this weekend!

Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Gluten Free Meatballs

Crockpot Pizza Soup

The Gluten Free Dinner Table – Week of Jan. 4th

There are very few gluten free options at grocery stores that are quick and easy, prepackaged, etc.  Even if baking/cooking is not your thing, it BECOMES your thing!  It’s the only way you can survive and not be sick every day.  I am not in love with my kitchen or anything that happens in it…well, maybe when my Honey kisses the COOK!  I’m going to be posting our menus, probably more after the fact than before, and hope they are helpful to someone searching for simple meals.  I’m not a gourmet chef and you won’t see recipes with weird ingredients here.

I’m also attempting to make large batches of some things so that I have some quick meals in the freezer for those hectic days.

Ginger Lemon Girl’s Spicy Chili

Carrie has an awesome chili recipe that I have made several times.  I originally knew it as “Carrie’s Chili” and thought I had measured my spices wrong when Kenny kept saying, “Wow!  This is spicy!”   NOW I know it was SUPPOSED to be spicy!  LOL!  I’ll probably decrease the spices a bit next time for my hubby’s sake. although I personally thought it was awesome!

Below is the recipe.  Carrie is an awesome cook and loves to create GF versions of so many things.  She has been a blessing to me on my journey.  If you would like to benefit from her recipes as well,  join the Yahoo Group she has started or visit her blog Ginger Lemon Girl.Com.

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 (15 oz.) can red kidney beans (with liquid) (
• 1 (15 oz.) can petit-diced tomatoes
• 1/2 cup diced sweet onion
• 1/2 cup diced green peppers
• 1/4 cup diced celery
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground chipolte
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 cup water

Brown ground beef in a dutch oven or large pot. Drain off fat. Add

onions, green peppers, and celery to ground beef and cook 3-5 minutes

until vegetables are soft. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for 30

minutes to an hour. Makes roughly 6 servings.

This would be excellent in the crock pot all day, as the flavors would

truly have time to blend.

Note from Beth…I leave out the beans, green peppers and celery for my family’s preferences. Still great!

This would be great on hot dogs or used as a taco filling. Freezes well too!

Gluten Free Basic Quiche

This next recipe is a combination of two recipes that I found at All Recipes.  Great site with tons of very helpful comments.  I have always loved a quiche but thought they were out because of the crust.  I was thankful to find recipes for crustless quiches at this site and I altered the recipe to meet our needs.   Below is a basic recipe that has loads of possibilities!

• 3 -4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1/2 cup gluten free baking mix (Pamela’s is what I used)
  
• 2 Tbs. butter or margarine, melted
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 cup cooked meat (ham, crumbled bacon, sausage…)
  
• 1 cup shredded cheese (swiss, colby jack, pepper jack, cheddar or a combo)

Place cooked meat and shredded cheese  in the bottom of a greased (I used a GF spray) pie dish.   Whisk together the eggs, milk, baking mix, butter and pepper.  Pour over the meat and cheese.   Bake uncovered in a 350 degree oven till knife inserted in the middle comes out clean, 30-45 minutes. Let stand approx. 10 minutes before serving…if you can!

Yummy additions can be chopped onions, broccoli, asparagus, spinach…the possibilities are limitless!

Other meals we threw together this week were…

Samuel’s Famos Grilled Pork Loin Chops – desparate for meat…Samuel and Kenny got some frozen sliced pork loin out of the freezer and Samuel grilled them every so slowly, since they were still frozen, and basted them with Bone Suckin’ Sauce.  They were A.W.E.S.O.M.E!  Bone Suckin’ Sauce is GF as were the Beanie Weanies they had on the side.   Gotta love how men cook!

Italian Beef

I was not feeling like going to the store one night and decided to throw some frozen beef stew into the crock pot.  I used to cook beef in the crock pot with Pace Picante Sauce but Pace products have been declared NOT GF, so that was out.  I poured in some Kraft Italian Salad Dressing and we were good to go.  Great taste and very tender.  Went well with potatoes and green beans.

The Family Night Special! -  I won’t even bold this one as there is no recipe involved.  Well, maybe there is!

• 1 loving hubby
• 2 crazy sons who love messing with fire
  
• campfire outside on the driveway
• GF hotdogs
• homemade french fries
• 1 bag of marshmellows

We had a blast but let me tell ya…it is hard to roast a hotdog on a skewer!  It’s better to get it a little dirty and use a MUCH LONGER stick from the woods!

The Blessings of a New Year

2008 had many blessings for our family, no doubt.  It also brought a great deal of difficulty and change that I was not prepared for…who is?  I am praying that 2009 will bring me an opportunity to take charge of my health.  Let me elaborate…

I mentioned this to Andrew on the way home from West Virginia yesterday…that I was realizing that I could not make being healthier a “goal” for 2009.  I can do more research on Celiac and learn new recipes that make life with Celiac easier.  I can work slowly to increase my exercise so that my energy increases and my back strengthens.  I can eat properly and loose weight which will also improve my health.  BUT…those are thing within MY control.  I love to be in control, I really do!  But I’m not the One IN control!  God is the creator of my life and the One that controls my body and if it functions properly or not.

Part of me wants to get bent out of shape over that fact, to be honest.  How sinful THAT would be!  No one wants to have ill health, but I am to welcome ANY circumstance into my life that molds it into the likeness of His dear Son.   Let’s face it, there is a great deal of molding still to be done on this piece of clay.  I need to choose to be prepared for hardship, as the Bible tells us it will come, but not live day to day with a fatalistic mindset.  The enemy would be so thrilled if I lived each day waiting for the “other shoe to drop,” wouldn’t he?!  I’m not going to give him the satisfaction…at least not today.

So today I am recognizing 2009 as a blessing (#9)!  During this year I would LIKE to post more day to day blog posts.  They will not likely be too exciting, but I would like to blog more about Celiac and recipes I am working on each day.  Cooking is becoming more important to me than it has in the past; hopefully it will bless others that may be on this journey.

One thing I would like to begin this month is cooking in bulk.  My energy level is still quite low, but I can handle more in the kitchen than I could months ago.  There are days though, when the schedule is crazy and cooking is hard.  I would like to be able to pull something out of the freezer and have dinner be a breeze!  My plan is to make a menu for the next couple weeks that includes many dishes that can be frozen.   For example, one night we will have chili and I will make an insanely large amount of it and freeze the rest for future meals.  I’m going to start posting recipes, especially gluten free ones, so others can benefit.  Maybe even pics!

Tonight I cooked beef stew in the crock pot.  I normally would have cooked it in Pace Picante sauce, but there has been some recent chatter about Pace products no longer being gluten free.  Until I find out what’s going on there, I decided to use Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing.  It was quite good!  Rice would have been best to go with it, but I was later getting it going so we had potatoes instead.  With green beans, a large pot so there would be some for another night, it was a tasty end to the day.  I should add that as another blessing! #10…my crock pot!  It is one of my “hand maidens”.  Read Proverbs 31 and you will know what I mean!

What’s YOUR favorite “hand maiden?”

Happy Birthday to my Biggest Blessing

Today is my best friend’s birthday.  Kenny has caught up with me again, as I am 6 months older than he is.  So we are both now 45 years old.  I prefer to say 45, rather than Samuel’s version…”halfway to 90!”  Ugh!

I cannot say enough about my husband.  I know this post is going to make him blush, because his humility is one of the things I love the most about him.  He never brags about anything and hates to be complimented.  He has so many strengths but he doesn’t acknowledge them.  I think it’s because he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that without Christ, he HAS no strength.

Kenny is my Mr. Steady…I have friend’s with Mr. Command husbands Mr. Visionary husbands but Kenny is so clearly a Mr. Steady.  They all have their pros and cons, and of course there are one or two things that might annoy me about him, but compared to what he has to put up with me, it’s minimal, trust me!  He is very predictable, in a good way…I can always count on him.  He has supported me so much, especially recently with my health issues.  He will hold me when I’m in a “life stinks” frame of mind and knows I just need to get it out, not that I’m giving up.  He puts up with me watching movies in bed late at night on my laptop…as long as I use my ear buds and my right hand is rubbing his back so he can go to sleep quickly.  I think he gets his best sleep during that time because every time he starts to stir, I start to rub again.  (It’s also the only time of night I’m not snoring, so he’s doubly blessed during this time!)

The phrase “love is blind” is so true.  I havn’t been able to exercise in months and….it shows.  You would never know it by how he treats me.  Hopefully the coming year my health will get to a point where I can have the energy to exercise and get back to a more useful “normal.”  The fact that he is a “messy,” like me, is such a blessing when I cannot stay on top of things with the house.  My first priority is to feed the man, and then the house comes next.  Last year he and the boys even picked out our Christmas tree on their own.  I was so pleasantly surprised at their choice…and look forward to the same thing happening again in a few days.

What blessing am I on?  That’s right…#8…my awesome husband and best friend, Kenny.  I love you, Honey!