Gotta Have...Gotta Make...Gotta Love...

In my never ending quest to come up with a blog format that I love...lol...this is my new Thursday format...see title above!

I have to find these shoes...everyone every where in the world has sold out of my size...
I don't even care that I will fall out of them when I walk...right now they are at Anthropologie...but not in my size...



If I can't find them...I will settle for these...I think...



But this is a safer option...


I also just have to make this...little teeny tiny baby Lemon Tartlets...the recipe is on Pinterest. The top is Italian meringue.

Oh me oh my...




And here is my "gotta love"... my shameless posting of Lucy photos...I guess if she was a child I would have to blur her face!!!

But seriously...she is watching tv with me!!! American Idol...

You "gotta" love that!!!

Sipping More Soup?

My friend Elisabeth posted this soup yesterday.


It is a little bit chicken and a little bit spice and a little bit herbs. One third of our little family swears he has a chest cold so I am making this for him today.

You can find the recipe on Elisabeth's blog...food and thrift finds...she makes the most beautiful food.

Reading this...I haven't read a YA vampirey book in ages...this is from NetGalley...it is extremely good. It is even sort of Dystopian...with vampires ruling a world depleted by a plague...sort of scary good with a spicy heroine emerging. I love this author's work.



Lucy and I are trying to mentally prepare ourselves for the fact that our roof is going to be replaced soon...our across the street neighbor is getting hers done now...the houses in our neighborhood have been undergoing roof replacements over the last two years. Our development is two small unconnected blocks...the blocks are far apart due to common ground and two ponds. Our development used to be a dairy farm. Last year I heard sort of soft pounding all around me...but my neighbor called and said that when you are in the house it is so loud you can't hear anything!!! My neighbor Jane lives in the original farm hand's house....they have added and added on to it to make it this unique house...she has porches and a loft and a barn...the barn is so cool...they are always doing something to their dwellings!!! Another neighbor lives in the original farmer's house and another in an 8,000 square foot dairy barn...the dairy barn people live in an apartment within the barn as they work their way through their renovation...the rest of us live in regular ordinary houses that were always meant to be houses...no dairy cows in sight.

I saw this on Pinterest today. I wonder how fast I can build it...but I want a bathroom and a tiny kitchen.


Lucy saw this on Pinterest today...and she's been so good about getting her Chakra adjusted that I bought it for her...more about the Chakra later...lol...


I'm off...to make soup, read, and offer my neighbor a home away from home!!!

It's Got To Be A Soup Kind Of Day...

This is Mel's Meatball soup with pasta and peas. Mel says the meatballs can be your favorite recipe and the pasta can be orzo.

I have been yearning for this soup ever since I first saw this photo. The recipe is on Mel's blog. It's easy and our favorite meatballs just happen to be the almost homemade ones made by our Country Butcher.

So this soup is on the menu!!!




Just finished...a wonderfully meandering dysfunctional family saga...loved every word. It made me want a trip to the Berkshires. It made me think about how much fun the Fourth Of July was for my family minus all of the dysfunction.

Of course...




Up next?

Still deciding...


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I am on point!!!

At least I would be if Amazon Vine had not tempted me with these babies...

I am weak...what can I say...I am weak and I love to read and thank goodness I can multitask and read reasonably quickly...and I love Amazon and Amazon Vine...love them!!!

Here we go...

Silk...sex, money, power, London!!!


Suspense filled murder mystery!!! Gruesome? I love gruesome!!!


Literary thriller in Vermont!!! Love it already!!!


A princess and a powerful magician!!! Need I say more?


A little girl with tons of faith dealing with the bullies in her life!!!


Love, loss, and change within a family!!! A restless Irish family!!! Drama!!!


A pilot's wife...some kind of life altering event...yummy!!!


Now...what are you reading this week? We want to know!!!



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Let's Just Relax!!!

Every Sunday we have a wonderful yet ordinary routine...breakfast, papers, movies, iPads, books.

It doesn't really change and we like that it doesn't. It's pleasant and relaxing and easy and fun.

We like staying home on Sunday...that is until about five ish when one of us...not me...says...shouldn't we be doing something useful?

Since this same question is asked every Sunday...I should come up with a really amazing answer...

and yet I have none...

I think we are doing something useful!!!




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