Weekly Winners Sunday Meme-Foot Fashion

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Spring has sprung!

My daffodils

Downtown Bradford pear tree

My Bradford pear tree

P.F. Chang's Citrus Soy Salmon

For the past three weeks I have had a deep tissue massage at a spa. My husband gave me a gift certificate at Christmas. I must say it was the best gift possible. I have a lot of knots in my shoulder muscles and boy did she ever work on them. It has been a wonderful treat. Last week I ate lunch at P.F. Chang's where my youngest daughter works as a hostess. She had me eat at the bar and order the Citrus Soy Salmon which is new on their menu. It's on the lunch bowl menu. I have to say that it was the best salmon I have ever eaten. The citrus soy sauce was perfect. I can't wait to eat it again. They serve it with rice on the side and soup. Excellent. This week I ate lunch with my daughter at T.G.I.Fridays. It was nice to get to spend time with her. So I have had threee wonderful weeks of spa. I booked another one in April. I am also going to take my mom next time. So I highly recommend the salmon dish. I am going to get the ingredients and if I get the recipe I will post it too.

The Lamb has a new home

The lamb has arrived:
A new home in Mississippi to Kitten's daughter.
Here is the lovely video footage provided by her mom.

Wordless Wednesday-Me and the Gang

Wordless Wednesday comes every week!

Here's Dallas!

Here are a few pictures of Dallas with the firemen

who rescued him.  They said that Dallas was in

full arrest.  He is now back to his normal, active

self.  What a happy ending!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

John Mayer's St. Patrick's Day:



Fun Monday post below:

Fun Monday-Weird Family Speak

Nikki from My Husband Calls Me Weird is this week's hostess with the mostest.  She would like to hear/see our weird family speak creations.  I have a few I could post about so I thought I would join the party this week.

We actually have lots of made-up words.  For right now, I will tell you two.  My youngest daughter when she was very little would walk around and say, "Will a basket do?"  It was the cutest thing I ever heard.  So whenever people are searching for things that is the line we give them.  It took me a while to figure out where this came from.  We used to watch Disney's Cinderella continually and I believe the mice ask this question.

  Another quotation from the same little daughter was "monsteryier hugs."  She used to give and recieve these kind of hugs from her daddy.  Ah, so precious!  We still give them.  

  I am truly a mastermind of made-up words but I don't want to overwhelm you.  

I left one very funny word my oldest daughter spoke when she was two years old.  We used to go eat at a Casa Bonita quite often.  She always ordered "cheese hyenas" that's what she called cheese enchiladas.  So we still refer to them as cheese hyenas now.  

Oh my gosh, I thought of something else that my oldest daughter used to say.  She was about 1-1/2 years old and became afraid for some reason to go into our bedroom.  We would tell her that nobody is going to get you.  So she kept saying "Nobody's  going to get me."  It took us awhile (not being too brilliant apparently) that she thought "nobody" was "somebody that was going to get her."  That took some explaining.  

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!  Go Green.

A New Home

Little Lambie is going on a trip.
Details soon to come.  


A lamb so soft for someone "sweet".
A home, a heart, a place of rest.
She'll travel far to meet and greet.
Giving is by far the best.

I Can't Tell You Why

Wordless Wednesday-Worries

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Dallas is Home!!!

Dallas is home!!!  Praise God for His healing power.  Once again I would like to thank everyone who prayed and thought about Dallas.  It's truly a miracle.  

Fish and Chips

Here is a wonderful recipe from Ina Garten for Fish and Chips. I tried it with great success last night.
I apologize for the blurry scan and the hair that seemed to be on my scanner plate! Ha Hopefully
when you enbiggen them you can read the instructions.

Blessed Be the Name of the Lord

Rebecca St. James

Matt Redman

American Idol-Hallelejah

Jason Castro sang "Hallelejah" on American Idol the other night.  It was written by Leonard Cohen and sang best by Jeff Buckley.  I couldn't embed the Buckley version. Here is Rufus Wainwright singing it. Someone made a video with the Thornbirds movie.


This is the Jeff Buckley version:

Dallas Update

Dallas was moved to a regular hospital room.  He has all tubes out, neck brace off, and is eating jello and popsicles, and drinking juice.  He should be going home Sunday.  God is great and so are doctors and nurses.  

Emotions

This post is about emotions.  I am an emotional person.  For one thing I'm a female.  For another I'm left-handed which supposedly means I'm using that part of my brain.  I confess I don't understand all that right brain/left brain stuff but I'm definitely over in that emotional department.  But I also will tell you that I'm an a very optimistic, up-beat person who can smile at the drop of a hat.  So I'm telling you all that to say this:  Don't some things in the world just get you down like extreme poverty and drug wars and blood money for diamonds and suffering children and women, and sex slavery corrupting children.  All these things are horrible and tear your heart inside out.  But then there are the little things too.  I hate to even mention these things but my husband had gone to bed and we have a cat that lives in our house (rules) and I went into the bedroom to get some pjs.  As soon I as came out of the bedroom, there was my kitty waiting outside the door.  And I don't know why but that touches my heart to think of an animal loving you and wanting to be near you.  And then I think about the dogs that haved died or had to be put to sleep that a few bloggers have written about.  I guess I must be a little overly emotional right now.  I don't know how to express the sadness but I know I can't dwell on it.  I know life is not fair and that life is hard, much harder for some people and that makes me sad too.  I try to do my best to make the world (my world) a better place but then I can turn right around and get cranky that somebody behind me in the bank drive thru is getting very close to my car with their huge truck with a clutch looking like they are going to ram me every time we move forward.  I guess you just have to lighten up to get through life.  Let me tell you something else silly.  In my brand new bathroom (I should just be glad I have one, huh?) the sink drain turned out to be painted with plastic like coating over brass and guess what?  I was scrubbing around the rim of the drain and off comes great pieces of the plastic revealing brass.  I can't fix it so I tear some more of it off.  I don't think anything can be done without some major repair so I have decided that it is the way I wanted it anyway.  Is that crazy?  I look at it now and think "Flintstone" because I have slate floors and a slate countertop and I look in to the sink and see "rustic" sink drain.  Ha ha.  I honestly can do it.  I can make myself like it.   Oh well, enough of this nutso post.  I pretty much ran the gamut there, didn't I?

*Edit*  If you want the best laugh ever, visit Peter at Holties House.

Thankful Thursday

I joined Thankful Thursday this week because I can truly be thankful that the baby Dallas is recovering so completely from his near drowning.  They removed the oxygen tubes and he still has one in his nose but he is coming out of the sedation and recognizing everyone.  His uncle Jason was playing with a stuffed animal with him and he was grabbing and pushing it.  He probably has to lay still since he has a few things connected to him but he is following his mom and dad with his eyes around the bed.  They are expecting to move him to a regular room tomorrow and hopefully just a few more days in the hospital.  I thank God that he still does miracles and I thank you for your prayers.  It was a wonderful thing to have people all over the world caring about a little boy.  Awesome is all I can say.  


Join Julie at Another Chance Ranch for more Thankful Thursday participants.

Dallas

Here is the family of Dallas. He is the little boy in the red shirt.  He has three sisters.

Isn't he a doll?  They all are!  Tomorrow morning they will be taking the oxygen tubes

out and the first eight hours are the most critical.  Please be praying for that.  

Dallas News

I just talked to Dallas' mom and dad.  He is doing better today.  They gave him a blood transfusion to help his blood gases.  They were better immediately.  He is still on oxygen a little and they are hoping to remove that tomorrow morning so his throat doesn't get infected.  He's breathing much better, still fighting pneumonia.  They are 99% sure his brain will be undamaged.  He is still sedated but very much wants to get up.  Maybe after the tubes are out tomorrow he can.  Thank you for your prayers.  His mom said she had just learned how to swim last year.  So she had several scary events going on for her at the same time.  Jump in deep water, rescue your child, pull him out and yourself, administer CPR to your own child.  She said she thought he was gone when she got to him, so he is doing so much better now.