A Pajama Mama

I don't know about you but I don't think I stopped all weekend....Even now, I'm waiting on two more loads of clothes to finish so I can fold them and FINALLY go to bed! My back is KILLING me! Why so busy? We're headed to NC to visit the Hero's family for Thanksgiving. Since it's our only holiday visit, there's MUCH to be done before we leave, besides packing for 5. To help me get in the Christmas spirit, I've been playing Christmas music all weekend. This has not been a welcome sound to the Hero who insists on waiting until the day after Thanksgiving for Bing Crosby. Saturday, I made soap. (Sounds so easy but that included the wrapping, tags, ribbons, bows.) Today, I tackled the laundry. 8 loads. We have to pack it all up tomorrow. In between laundry loads, the girls and I were in the kitchen..for hours. We made 4 makings of Paula Deen's Gooey Butter Cakes in two flavors: butter pecan and pumpkin. Once cool, I packed them in containers to take to N...

Look what came in the mail today!!!! The other day, my blogger friend, Heather at Twin Birch , announced I had won a pretty bar of Peace. That would be... Peace soap. With a very pretty dove on it and a lovely scent. It's actually a relief, really, that true peace doesn't come from a bar that you rub all over. Nonetheless, I was in need of a little pick me up that week and it was fun to be expecting something in the mail. Today, my package arrived and Heather just plain outdid herself! Look at all the goodies she included! I must say I was squealing like it was Christmas morning! I think my love language has something to do with yummy bath products and maybe bedroom slippers. Heather has some wonderful products for sale on her Etsy page . Check them out! And to my sweet Vermonty friend, thank you so much! You're awesome!

Do you see that?!?! That's what sitting in my refrigerator at this very moment. Silk Chocolate Soy Milk. I feel like I'm cheating on so many sweet little holstein cows. I was raised on a dairy farm, y'all! SOY and MILK aren't allowed in the same phrase. But there it sits...right beside the real-live milk...acting all big and bad. Why does PJMama need to stoop to this anti-bovine behavior, you ask? Well, it seems that when I turned 40 earlier this year, my body mistook 40 for 50 and then said,"It's time for a cool Change. I know that it's time for a cool cool Change." ( Little River Band ) I might tweak the words to "cruel" change. There's nothing cool about The Change...more like an 895 degree farenheit furnace change or a -895 degrees celsius icy freeze . Because I google everything, I of course, have been googling this situation for days bc it is not something I planned to deal with in my 40s... so I wasn't exactly "prepared...

I haven't posted for 47-evers. I know, I know. Life going on. Last night we watched the last of a movie that the dh and I like (and would like a whole heap better if the language was tamed a bit.) The movie is a Tyler Perry movie called "Madea's Family Reunion." Cicely Tyson plays Aunt Myrtle and has one of the best lines in the movie. It touches my heart when I hear it bc I feel this way. This very same way.... "God has blessed me to share time and space with a man He designed Himself for me. I've not only been blessed but divinely favored."

We met Beachmama and her girls at the beach for a Mommy/Daughter Weekend. We planned it spontaneously at the beginning of the week. It's one of those things that all just fell into place from the timing to the beautiful weather. Guess who we got to meet FINALLY??!!?!?! Isn't she beautiful? We took the girls trick/treating at a nearby mall. Em wasn't sure about the whole dressing up thing...but she soon figured out the free candy idea. She and her squeaky shoes had a blast with the two Cinderella's. All Rayray and I can do is gaze at her and marvel at His wondrous hand in the lives of our sweet friends.