Yummy!

Hey y'all! I added a new blog to the sidebar called Chickens In The Road. She has lots of farmy stuff and yummy recipes that I think would make great Christmas gifts! I'm linking to a few that I just came across. AND, she's located in West Virginia, which is where I was born, so I thought that was pretty cool too!

Caramel Apple Jam & Spiced Applesauce

Pumpkin Butter

Homemade Vanilla: Big Bottle & Small Bottle Method

I would like to try all 3 of these. I recently bought some pint and 1/2 pint canning jars, so I have plenty of jars for canning the jam and butter, along with my salsa I plan on making.

Blog Categories

Alright, I tried separating the blogs I'm following into categories, as you can see if you scroll down on the right side. If I put you into a category, and you'd rather be in a different one, please let me know. I mean, some of you are very funny and I'd like to visit you. Some I'd like to visit, but you're spiritual too, and so on and so forth. So, if you're like "Heck no, I don't want her to want to visit me! I think I am just too dang hilarious and I can't believe she didn't put me in the 'Funny as heck' category!", then just let me know and I'll move you over. I can find you to stalk your blog no matter where I put you. And who knows, if y'all start slackin', I may start a category for that too! "Blogs that used to be entertaining, but now bore me to tears"

Okay, not really, but that would be almost funny if I did.

Follow Me, Follow me!!

I added the 'following' thing on the top right of my blog. It doesn't really jump out at you, so I figured that I better blog about it so that all the millions of people who are currently sitting on the edge of their seat, holding their breath waiting for my next exciting blog can be added to it so they'll automatically be notified when I blog instead of wasting the precious few seconds it takes to come all the way over to my blog and check it! Now, don't be shy about adding yourself, I know you're all out there...

On the blog again.... Just can't wait to get on the blog again...

Wow, I have been SLACKIN' on this blog! You see, I was abducted by aliens... Why, yes, they were the little green ones! They took me to their planet and wanted me to be their queen, where I'd do nothing all day except eat whatever I wanted (with no adverse reactions) and watch cheesy TV shows while they waited on me hand and foot. But, alas, I had to refuse their offer. "I cannot stay here another minute! There is food to be cooked, dishes to be washed, clothes to be laundered, medicine to be handed out to every sick member of my family, and poop to be cleaned off the shower walls!" (Yes, that does really say poop.) (Don't ask...) (Well, if you really want to know, you can ask.) So, they promptly returned me to my little slice of heaven.

Okay, I wasn't REALLY abducted by aliens, but I'm sure some of you might've already guessed that. I've been working as a substitute aide at my kids' school, so I've had about 20 less hours a week for blogging and what-not. So, I'm sorry if anyone felt neglected during my absence, but I had pre-schoolers to attend to. They even made me a card!







So, I gotta say that this made all the nose wiping (theirs and mine, since I'm sick now too.) worth it! Next week, I'll be starting my new job at our daycare center in town, so I'll have even less time to blog, but I'll try to figure out something, sometime, somehow, so that months don't go by without blogging. But for now, I must try to catch up on my blog reading!

My Bloggy Shout-Out!

As I was browsing through my favorite blogs, checking out some new ones, I noticed something that made my day! I know what you're thinking. "Alicia, your house is a mess, there's laundry and dishes to be done, not to mention the fact that you've got an accumulative total of 32 years of your children's memories to scrapbook, AND boxes that haven't even been un-packed from your move a year ago. Do you really think you have all the time in the world to be checking out MORE blogs???" Okay, well, no I don't. But, what I DO have is an unhealthy obsession with reading about other people's lives. I don't know if all you ladies know it or not, but y'all are pretty dang funny! See, now you have me off-topic and I'm rambling on like a crazy person, talking to people who aren't even speaking to me. OKAY, so what made my day, was that I was on This Crazy Thing Called Motherhood and Beth has me on her list of favorite blogs! I feel like I just won an Academy Award and received my little naked gold statue! Although, this does crank on some pressure to try to be witty and entertaining in all my blogs. Now, I have to keep up a certain standard of blogging for fear that I may be 86'ed from her list of favorites. This may set off a whole new set of issues...

Just getting started...

You'll have to excuse the lack of scenery on my blog. I'm working on getting it set up. Although, I'm not too sure what I plan to blog about. My bestest friend kept on me about starting one,

"We should set up blogs." says her.
"Why would I do that?" says me.
"You can keep people updated on what's going on since you've moved!" says her.
"Okay, well, the only person who would check it out is you, and I talk to you everyday, so you know what's going on." says me.
"What about this person, that person, him, her and the other?" says her.
"Umm, okay...." says me.

So, I'm guessing this whole blogging thing falls into the category of "If you build it, they will come."

So, here goes...