Another week has come and gone.  Looking forward to the Daylight Savings Time ending and getting that hour back 🙂 Hope everyone has a safe Halloween.  We don’t really celebrate Halloween, but being that we are at my mom’s house, she does pass out candy for the trick-or-treaters.  She always told us that she would have about 400 kids, and it literally is that many, that is when the weather is nice.  Today I am enjoying a day off from home schooling. 🙂

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

WHAT I’M READING/HAVE READ:
Haven’t been doing too much reading this past week, hoping to get to some this week.  I’m  still reading Delicious by Susan Mallery, hope to finish it.

NEW RECIPE I TRIED THIS WEEK/RECIPE TO SHARE:
I don’t think I ever shared this recipe, but it’s one of my favorite desserts.  My mom used to makes these when I was younger.  They have also been called Prison Delights.  Where we used to live, my oldest son’s friend lived next door, and seemed to spend a lot of time grounded.  But his room was right next to our driveway, so they would still talk through his bedroom window.  I made these one day, and knowing that they would be gone before he was no longer grounded and would be back at our house, I asked him if it was OK to feed the prisoner.  He did not hesitate to push the screen out of the window, to receive his treat.  These snacks had become his favorite, and that is what he named them 🙂 But I’ve always known them as:

Fudge Jumbles
1 cup butter/margarine
2 eggs
2 ½ cups flour
1 ½ cups Oatmeal
1 tsp. Salt
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Baking soda
½ cup Peanut Butter

Filling:
12 oz. Chocolate chips
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
2 Tbsp. Butter/margarine
½ t salt

Preheat oven 350

Mix all ingredients together.  Take 2/3 of mixture, spread on bottom of 10 x 15 pan.
Mix filling ingredients in a double boiler or over low heat.
Pour over first layer.
Drop spoonfuls of remaining mixture on top

Bake for 25 minutes.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

 ON THE TV:
The usual, Castle, The Good Wife, Blindspot.  Wish I was watching the World Series…there’s always next year. #diehardCubsfan

CREATIVE CORNER:
My daughter decided to do a craft with my youngest son the other day.  They walked to the Dollar store to get the supplies, and then put these jars together, I’m sure she got the idea on Pinterst.  They also bought battery operated candles to put in the bottom of them, and when they are lit, they look really pretty.

FAVORITE PHOTO FROM THE CAMERA:

© 2015 Liv’s Photography

QUOTES/INSPIRATION:

Nice warm sunny day…looks like we’ve got some Indian Summer out here, I’ll take it.  It was pretty chilly the last couple of days.  Have a wonderful week!!

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

WHAT I’M READING/HAVE READ:
I’m starting a new Susan Mallery series, it’s one of her older ones I haven’t read yet.  I know it will be good, everything I have read of hers is good.  It’s the The Buchanan Saga, and book one is called Delicious.

NEW RECIPE I WANT TO TRY:

This.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

ON THE TV:
Cubs lost the last two games, they play the next 3 in Chicago,  #LetsGoCubs!!  Blindspot, Castle, The Good Wife!!  Quantico looks like a good series too, don’t know that I would have time to catch up on the episodes I missed so far, but it does look good.

CREATIVE CORNER:
My son Elijah has been creating custom Lego mini figures, and I wanted to share them with you.   He’s 14 and he’s a big guy, and it amazes me how he can do such detailed work on these tiny figures.  He paints designs on them, cuts up fabric and attaches it to them.  He uses pieces of pop cans, modeling clay, and magnets.  He has found some other guys on YouTube doing this as well, and they are how he got started doing this.  You can view my son’s YouTube channel here.

🙂 He’s the mini figure in the blue shirt, lol.  He came up with the idea to display them in this plastic storage drawer he found at Walmart, which I thought was such a clever idea.  It’s all see through so they can be viewed by all angles, and when he needs to get to one he slides the drawer out and can get to them easily.

FAVORITE VIDEO/BLOG POST:

peanutizeme.com

This is just a fun waste of time thing to do, lol.  I was supposed to be doing some work one day, and jumped on Facebook “real quick” before I got started and came across this.  I love Snoopy and cannot wait until the movie comes out.

FAVORITE PHOTO FROM THE CAMERA:

QUOTES:

Here’s to a great week ahead!! 🙂

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

MOVIE REVIEW:
The whole family watched this the other night.  With the twins hardly home this was no small feat.  I LOVE the Avengers!!  There’s nothing like an action packed movie with Super Heros, not to mention the dry humor from all the characters is the best.  This one was good, because they included the personal life of a couple of the characters in the storyline.  Two thumbs up!!

NEW RECIPE I TRIED THIS WEEK/RECIPE TO SHARE:
I had forgotten about this recipe and made it some time ago.  This is really good on toast, and is probably good on bagels too…if you like that sort of thing 🙂

Roadhouse Cinnamon Butter

1 stick of Butter (room temp, soft)
¼ cup powdered sugar
¼ cup of natural honey
1 tblsp ground cinnamon

Mix all together and store in the fridge.  Use a jar with a lid, or a soft margarine dish.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

ON THE TV:
Cubs games when they play!!  Blindspot, Castle, The Good Wife!!

THIS MAKES ME HAPPY:
All day breakfast at McDonald’s!!

WHAT I’M CREATING:
Finally set some time aside to work on my calligraphy.  With a hot cuppa coffee, Pandora streaming my favorite tunes in my earbuds, I lost track of time, even though my fingers were aching.  This is after several hours, practicing two of my favorite quotes, and this is just one style of letters.  The Round Lettering with the brush pens is going to take a whole lot more practice, but I am determined to learn that technique as well.  Eventually want to add all those swirly thingamajigs around the words, but needed to start somewhere 🙂

FAVORITE PHOTO FROM THE CAMERA:
This is my favorite spot in the park by the lake.  On the other side are stone steps that go up and down and are built into the hill.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: