Chicken and dumplings recipe

Here you go Stuce, It's so basic but always delish

I take a whole chicken, place it in the pot with water to really cover the chick and cook all day, until meat falls of the bone, then remove chick (carefully it falls apart with the slightest touch) and debone the chick. Take all the meat back into the pot, season with salt and pepper to taste, and mix in veggies (whatever I have on hand honest....sometimes canned...gasp). Now the dumplings. Well Mike loves the bisquick mix kind which is yummy, but sometimes I like the homemade kind, which here is the recipe. Pour 2 cups in a mixing bowl, leaving a hole in the middle. Add 1 egg and enough milk to form a doughy consistency. Sprinkle flour on cutting board, roll out dough, and cut into squares. Drop one square in at a time in to boiling soup allow dumpling to thicken the broth until creamy consistency. (If not making the homemade dumpling to thicken up the soup I'll use cornstarch, that's if I'm making the bisquick dumplings) There you go. Chicken and dumplings Melody style.

Norwegian pancakes recipe

All right my dears here you go

4 eggs 2 cups of ll purpose flour
2 cups of milk 1 cup of sugar...we like them sweet
1 stick of butter melted
1 to 2 drops of vanilla

Mix together well...should be thinner then normal pancake batter. Pour in skillet wait about 1 min, flip, cook then fold and your done

Foundation Tuesday

Today was an fun day. We started out with Norwegian pancakes I'll make sure to post the recipe they are so good. Then we had our lesson about about foundation first we built our pillow fort and talked about good foundation and the same with Christ, the we built our wooden helicopters and painted them. Then finished the day with Chicken and Dumplings. I promise to post recipes up soon.

Menu Monday

Monday- Chicken Lemon rice soup....(everyone in the house is a little under the weather but me :0(
Tuesday- Repeat....I made a huge pot
Wednesday- Taco's with Hobo potatoes
Thursday- Chicken and dumplings ..mmm
Friday- Hotdog and Beans...with brown bread
Saturday-Rest of Chicken and dumplings....I make huge pots of soup to last more then 1 day
Sunday-Steak, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole
Monday-Chicken Fajita's
Tuesday-Swedish meat balls with egg noodles and brown gravy
Wednesday- Farmmhouse chicken with scalloped potatoes
Thursday- Linguisa with white rice
Friday- Chicken bake w/ spaghetti

The drawers we made for the girls room

Michael had this before we got married, that's almost 8 years ago. Anyways he bought it at the Mill store...so then 7 1/2 years later we need more drawers in the girls room. So we found this color at Lowe's and then found these decals at Michael's craft store. We bought some knobs and voila the girls have a drawers.. much prettier in person I do have to say, but you have the idea.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made?

Lately I have been ranting how I want even need to lose weight..in all honesty I do, but I was starting to become obsessive about it as I used to in the past, which will only lead to behavior I cannot and will not go back to. Last night I decided to read the Bible to calm my head. It's amazing how God speaks to you so gently and corrects you, but you must then be willing to recieve the correction. I am a woman by birth-He has skillfully crafted me to be unique. I am learning from personal experience that I can not function the way I need to as long as shame of how I look begins to rule my life. I am learning what I must and can't do, and that I want things to be according to God's word. I have to allow the Word of God and the Holy spirit to help me change. I have to be very clear with myself that I can not show displeased with my looks for that can then be carried to my daughters. How is it I tell them over and over that they are beautiful and God made them beautiful inside out and yet rip myself apart over gaining weight that I accrued from their birth right in front of them? How can I teach them to be confident in who God says they are, yet not do the same? And if God the creator of all things says that "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" then how dare I question the truth of that just over weight that I have gained. Instead of pleasing myself , I will focus on pleasing God first. Allow Him to work in me and change me. He has specifically called me to be and do certain things, And like all seasons I am realizing that I am going through yet another season regarding my weight. So with the help of God and self-control I will return to a healthy weight in due time, and I refuse to worry over it.


"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14

Wanted....Dead or Alive

Missing socks...if you see any of these culprits partners please send them my way.....Seriously where do they go?