This week...

I had such high hopes of getting my "To-Do" list completed or mostly completed this week.

Instead I have realized that having a garden will take much of your time. Chris (my husband) and I planted a garden this spring with the help of his parents. It is our first garden together. In our garden we planted corn, green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, jalapenos, green peppers, red peppers, banana peppers, romaine lettuce, broccoli, onions, cherry tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, Cherokee purple tomatoes, and 3 different large slicing tomatoes. In addition we have had more tomato plants pop up as well as spaghetti squash and cantaloupe visit us! It has been an adventure and have picked, eaten, given away, and frozen an abundant amount of produce!

This week I had planned to clean a couple rooms and finish unpacking my stuff. I wanted to get my home in order, cleaned and organized in time for me to go back to school. Less stress during the school year is always best!

So far this week I have donated a car-load of stuff to Goodwill, gone to the gym every morning, completed all the laundry from being out of town, canned 8 jars of pickles, made homemade pizza sauce and tomato sauce to freeze, picked, blanched and froze a couple gallons of green beans, and of course made dinner each night. The vegetables definitely keep me busy. We picked another bucket of tomatoes to go along with the bucket I picked yesterday.

Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I made a beef brisket. It tasted pretty good. I think I may have to try it again with a different recipe. I have a desire to make my own BBQ!
My husband being the good-ol-southern-country-bumpkin he is, loves fried squash. I attempted this once before, it did not turn out well. This time was much better. I think it is something you master over time... but it doesn't look too bad does it?!?

Oh and I also had to fix my car door handle. About 2 weeks ago my sister pulled too hard or something because the door handle came clean off in her hand. My wonderful husband showed/taught me how and then made me change it. It is nice to not feel like a "redneck" (as he put it) having to roll down my window to open my door. It sucked, especially when it rained!

Here Goes... The Lowdown...

I have decided to blog again. The last time I blogged was about 3 years ago when I returned from living in China for a year. My other blog (clandestine future) was about my life and time in China. A way for family and friends to stay connected with me while I was overseas.

I have been back in the states for about 3 years. In that 3 years I have been teaching Kindergarten, gotten married, and been living life. As friends of mine will say, I have surely become little miss suzie homemaker. I love to cook, scrapbook, and watch movies. Occasionally I get on a cleaning rampage and that feels pretty good too, though I don't necessarily look forward to that.

This summer my husband and I went to Jamaica and have also ventured into gardening. We have had many vegetables come from it! It has been amazing! I have enjoyed cooking with the vegetables, canning and freezing them as well!

We have also begun going to a new Church that we really enjoy! The small group has been great so far for getting involved with other Christians who are in the same time of life as we are. We hope our relationships with and God continue to grow.

I plan that this blog will be about our life, cooking, cleaning, gardening and all else it entails as we travel life's journey!