Totally insignificant findings in my study today... maybe not all insignificant

Proverbs 30:15-16

	The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
	the grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

How many times did you use your vegetable peeler this week?

What about watches? Is it really important that my watch have all the bells and whistles?

Dinner, was it alright? on time? done? did you have any?

For me, I used it enough that I had to pull out the second one because the first was buried in the stack of clean dishes not yet put away by my kids who never cease to amaze me in their skills used to avoid work. Don't worry, it's a new thing for us... perhaps it'll stick with us.

MM bought me a new watch today. Perhaps the face of this watch won't be decimated or removed as the last few watches I've had. My new watch isn't very big - some might call it feminine. It's supposed to be feminine. If it'd been up to me, I'd have bought the one with the dial on the face that shakes on your wrist at the alarm time. That'd be nice. However, I learned years ago that a gift received is not returned - love it or re-gift it, if you don't you'll never find one when you need it.

Note to MM, please don't ever ever leave me to tend to the smoking fire while you are gone for four hours. Most assuredly the meat will be no where near done as you think it should be and you'll be mad at me. I don't like it when you are mad at me!

I didn't write that for MM, he doesn't read my blog... neither does anyone else, for that matter.

I digress.

The point is this, I had a great day. I got to close the curtains in the house when I wanted to elminate radiant heat from turning my house into an oven. I enjoyed a great evening with my family. I got a new watch that makes me look a little more like a lady...

Now, don't get your hopes up, there's not wardrobe change coming any time soon!

Lessons in obedience...

So I went to bed last night after a df typed in and e-mailed a recipe to me for white chili. It's wonderful use of chicken breast and it's fun to enjoy rather than it's sink staining predecessor - Texas Chili.

If you want the recipe, you'll have to beg...

Back to my dreams of white chili: It was my plan to make it for dinner today. While others, ahem, have been busy redecorating their homes, I've been remodeling our lives! We've been on a roller coaster for the past month or more and it doesn't seem to be ending any time soon. So some semblence of order is necessary to keep S, M and L happy. My first goal is to be up before them, easier done when I don't have a blog to write in the middle of the night.

Today happened to be a banner day. S woke around 7 a.m. hungry at least for milk. I sent him on a bathroom errand and back to bed - it's way too early for you to be up... Do you feel the time change coming? I do. Not much later, L woke. MM had informed me that he'd be making biscuits with sausage and eggs, breakfast wasn't going to be first thing. Making sure that the boys are busy I got L started on his lessons. S got a bowl of cheerios without extra sugar TYVM. M is now awake. I pressure cooked the great northern beans (who needs canned beans?) while MM fried our eggs.

MM laid breakfast on the table and we all ate heartily. Knowing that we needed to get going I did what all good mommies do - call a friend. The boys were all busy playing and working. I pulled out the recipe for white chili and continued my work. Sauteeing onions and celery, boiling chicken with onions, chopping cooked chicken, seasoning and simmering it all. Oh boy, it was smelling great. It was simmering before 11 a.m.

Blah, blah, blah, so you had dinner ready before noon... So what?

So what, at 5:30 this afternoon we were cleaning up (see next blog) the mess left after Fay's flooding and we heard the tell tale sound (that we'd heard at G & Ps Sunday night after Fay) of a tree falling. Sure enough it fell right across the power line to our house and our neighbor's house. Four males trapesed up the road while I did what every woman does when the power goes out... call the power company.

Now I'm really glad I followed the nudge to get dinner done early... The weather has changed recently and with the tables we acquired from our neighbor after the flood we moved our dinner from the semi-dark and cave like house to the front lawn. We watched a medium sized gator play hide and seek. Mullet leaped upstream and breezes blew gently around us making living here worth it.

How was I to know that power'd be out this evening?