A Dusting of the Cobwebs: The Cook's Book...

A Dusting of the Cobwebs....

welcome to my blog!
...allow me a brief introduction...

In a reacent conversation with my daughter, her questions were why I, and her Dad were so quiet about our lifes? Meaning writing or telling about our own personal historys.

I didn't think there was anything important to write about. As I was just a normal person, getting up in the morning and getting the day started, getting kids off to school, or meeting schedules of the whole family, cleaning house, and landry. Keeping little ones busy, and changing diapers, comming home fixing dinner, helping with homework, putting kids to bed, watch some news, go to bed. And then do it all over again the next day. Then some days was teaching lessons in Primary, RS, MIA, Sundayschool, cub scouts, or helping at schools, ect. Family home evening, Visiting teaching, and even some Home teaching and being the family schaefer. most of the time we had one car, 6 kids, one working husband. Oh yes, the multi years of music lessons, and baseball teams, coaching, and even one major jumproap champion, for one daughter.

We had trials too. some were very hard, just thinking about a single memory of losing our son, brings tears. But we are told that this life is to meet trials, and how we handle them will be for our own eternal growth.

A very wise Stake President, President Alred, once said "We are here to be schooled in the principles of eternity. We will work by the sweat of our brow, to work our way through this life... But remember we are here to be schooled in the principles of eternity."

So, I welcome you to my blog. Please feel free to stay and go as you please, and wander where you wish. And, as always, feel comfortable in sharing those stories that you may feel are just "an every day" thing as well...

Jan 3, 2014

The Cook's Book...

This year I realized my Recipes were fading in my cookbook. Recipes that I have used through my married life. Recipes from my family, and friends that are just to my liking. I included people's names from whom the recipes came from. What a neat way to be able to remember who they are, and how they touched my life.

As I was typing the recipes on my computer, I realized my daughters always call me to get recipes, from time to time. So I thought I might make one for each of my girls for Christmas.

Much to my Surprise I had over 146 Recipes.....Some are doubled--so about 150 or more.

Paulette picked out beautiful binders. I placed the recipes on top of card-stock, to make the pages a little stiffer, and slipped them into a good Top-load plastic sleeves, before placing them in the binder.

The Top-load plastic sleeves make it easy to make notes or improvements on the recipes by sliding them out when needed. It protects, and is easy to wipe off when needed.

My Girls may not like all the recipes in the book, but that's ok...I want them to make it their own.

Take out what they don't like or want. Make notes on recipes the way they like to cook them.

Just enjoy reliving things, from when they were living at home...

Made one for my Granddaughter Ivie, who was here for Christmas...

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A Dusting of the Cobwebs