Archive for May, 2007

• What a day

  Date: 2007.05.29 | Category: personal | Response: 0

  You never know what a day holds.

  Thankfully last night I had taken my shower. So all I had to do this morning was get dressed, get the girls dressed,  and get all 4 of us in the car.  I dropped Rob at the church, and headed to walmart.

  I was prepping to cook for Kotulas.  I needed to buy salad ingredients, 3 whole chickens, and Velveeta cheese, bread, etc.   I couldn’t decide on the bread so ended up with a plain loaf of Italian sliced bread for 1.33 when I wanted to buy the seed-topped bread.  I forgot the Velveeta because the foil pans are in house- wares, not in the baking aisle. whatever walmart!

  I get home at 10.21 am, with plenty of time to  cook the whole chickens.  There was a message on the machine. Lynn had a miscarriage and was at the hospital right now.  I just broke down and sobbed for a minute.  I got all the groceries in, grabbed a quickie lunch for the 3 of us girls, grabbed a diaper bag of toys, and headed back to church to pick up Rob. Thankfully Margaret offered to watch the girls.  Rob and I head to the hospital. Lynn agreed to see us and we just hugged each other  and cried.  I still want to cry for her.

  Anyway, I ended up offering to make dinner for them too.  So back to Walmart to get the Velveeta, more salad ingredients, and the seeded bread I’d wanted in the first place.  I get home, and realize I don’t exactly have a way to cook these 3 chickens which I know I need.  So I just prayed and the Lord reminded me that I owned a pressure canner which has direction for cooking meat.  So the 3 whole fryers fit perfectly in the cooker, and they were done and ready to bone in an hour.   While they cooked, I got the brownies cooked and the veggies saute’d.  The chicken rotel recipe kept growing and growing and it was a good thing that I had the canner/cooker out because that is where I mixed the whole thing together.  No way would 1.5 pound of spaghetti (now cooked) and 2 lb of velveeta fit in my Revere “stock” pot.  That stock pot has never been deep enough, but that’s beside the point. So I ended up with two 13×9 pans of Chicken Rotel, one 8×8 pan and one 11×7 pan.  I made two 8×8 pans of salad.  I took the 2 loaves of bread and divided each in thirds, so each family got 1/3 plain and 1/3 seeded bread.

  So, I actually got all that done from 1pm until 430 pm.  430 was the time on the car clock when I was heading out to pick up Rob from the church again and start  my version of “meals on wheels” delivery.

  The real news is that Rachel ate 3 helpings of Rotel chicken and Alexis  ate none.

• Girls Bible Study

  Date: 2007.05.28 | Category: Bible Study | Response: 0

  I’m teaching a Bible study for girls this summer and came across this video while preparing for the lesson.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6915842737034217262&q=dove+evolution+beauty&pr=goog-sl