In the Storm

something greater than him

There is a possibility that my Hoosier Man will once again don a military uniform. I'll be honest and say that I am praying that he gets the job he has interviewed for and he once more wears the uniform of a soldier. In the years I have known my Hoosier Man I have come to know these things: my Hoosier Man has the heart of a warrior and without a doubt he considers serving his country something greater than him. I will be proud, and I shall not fear, should my Hoosier Man become a warrior - again.

The Hour is Late

and I can't sleep. So I thought I'd post a few pages I made today. Because my computer is extremely slow at saving my layouts I can't really get a bunch done, nor can I do anything else on my computer while it's saving. Crazy. Anyway, the first is the last 4th of July page for this year I think and the other two are just documenting the summer in a small fashion.

 

 

Lot's of todays.

There are alot of days like today. Taking care of school assignments. Drinking morning coffee that Jeff made for me. John and Jarrod doing an early morning run then coming back in to read for an hour. Today they're writing their times tables 1-12. A bit of brain usage. Because they got on each other's nerves they've lost television for the rest of the day. Once they finish their times table I've got a couple more 'activities' for them to do.

Today after working on some school assignments I fashioned a couple more pages of our 4th of July. Again, I used quick pages and modified them slightly.

 

Capturing

just a portion of our 4th of July weekend. I'm still working on more. I basically used quick pages and added journalling.

 

 

Grade Report

First MBA class down. It was Management. I got an A (actually a 98%). Not to shabby.

Concentration

I made these Concentration cards (remember the memory game concentration from way back) for Ella. I used 8 different cliparts of Tinkerbell, cut them to three inch square and affixed them with Modge Podge to this MME heavy-weight patterned cardstock. I love how they turned out. I hope Ella will play with them for awhile. Btw - this was not my idea. I saw it in a scrap magazine and tore out the page to copy. I thought about using pictures of family but knew Ella loved Tinkerbell so thought she'd play with them more.

I also changed out my desktop wallpaper for July by modifying a quickpage desktop.

 

Decadent Recipe

For small group on Sunday I made this decadent, mouth watering dessert. Jeff came in the door and asked when would I ever make food that smelled good!!! Of course, he was kidding. He makes me laugh. This is an extremely easy recipe. Delish! It is called Sopapilla Cheesecake. I got it online (well, at several places really with slight differences in the amount of sugar and butter used); unfortunately I have no idea where. Pioneer Woman, at one time held a 'submit your favorite recipe' call and I saved a bunch of those and this recipe was in there but I know I didn't use that one. Anyway, here is the scrumptious, to-die-for, all of it was gone in one night recipe:

Sopapilla Cheesecake Recipe

(2) 8 oz Philadelphia Cream Cheese (Softened) (I am going to probably double this part next time)

1 cup sugar

1 Tbsp vanilla

2 cans Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

For the Topping

1 stick butter (please use real butter)

1 cup sugar combined with (2) Tablespoons of ground cinnamon (mix together for topping, do not put into mixture cheesecake mixture reserve for top)

 

Beat cream cheese, 1 cup of sugar and vanilla in a bowl with a mixer. Set aside. Unroll and press 1 can of crescent roll dough in a greased bottom of 13x9" glass baking dish. Spread cream cheese mixture on top evenly. Arrange second can of crescent roll dough on top of mixture to cover cream cheese. Melt stick of butter in microwave. Pour butter on top of crescent rolls. Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over all. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes in preheated oven. Once you pull from oven, let cool. (I baked it for 20 minutes and then covered it with foil for another 10 minutes and it was perfect)

Unphotographable

This is a photo I did not take of my medicine on the counter waiting for me every morning. Both pills are out of their package because my Hoosier Man knows how hard it is for me to get the one medicine out of the little foil package. So he does it for me. 

Character.

We've been discussing ethics in business in class this week. We had to take an assessment of our 'ethical values' and what is the underlying belief that drives our decisions. Character? Obligation? Results? or Equity? Mine is character. Good to know. One of the frustrations in business that a 'character' belief deals with: The word 'integrity' is used by many in ethical discussions, but modeled by few. The assessment is right. It does frustrate me. Integrity is modeled by few. I wonder what our world would be like if everyone lived a life of integrity. A life of character. I imagine our world would be closer to the way God imagined world could be.

Last Week

It is the last week of my first class in the MBA program. I completed all of this weeks required assignments, today , except the paper. I wanted to be able to concentrate on my paper, turn it in ahead of time, and have a couple of days of freedom before my next class starts - next Tuesday! Business Law. Yikes! I haven't had any kind of 'law' classes since...drumroll please...1981. No, I didn't make a mistake on dates. I meant 1981! I graduated from high school and started criminal justice classes in the fall of 1981 so I know there was some such 'law' class meshed in there. Do I remember any of it? You must be joking!

Pork Chop Supreme for dinner tonight. Sorry, I know - what does that have to do with class? Nothing, it's just my mouth was watering thinking about the pork chop supreme so I thought I'd interject that.