Thank You, Martha!

OMG...I love these! Yesterday's email from Martha's Every Day Food talked about Sheet-Pan Dinners...here are a few! There are about 14 dinners in all and everything bakes and roasts on one cookie sheet. I have new sheet pans and old ones, some that were my mom's and some that were my Aunt Annie's...Den always wants me to toss them but I love them...the darker they are the better they seem to roast things.

More than anything I love cooking dinner on one pan...and I am not a huge fan of casseroles! These seem nearly perfect!

Here is the URL...http://www.marthastewart.com/1041326/sheet-pan-suppers



































Finishing this book...so wonderful!
It just got better and better! Kara...main character...is as wondrous as Harry Potter!



Happy Reading!

Reading And Reading And Reading!

Today is my day off! I won't make dinner, I am not doing laundry...I actually am not doing anything I don't want to do. I am relaxing. I did so much laundry yesterday that I was numb from folding and really really tired! We both wear too many outfits in a day. If it's a workout day there is a workout outfit, then an after shower outfit and then a bedtime outfit...oh my!

Reading this...it is everything a book like this should be...Kara and her brother Taff...sweet "almost" orphans living in a village that despises and hates them. Their mother was tried as a witch and their father is a shell of himself. Taff is sick...Kara is bullied at school by a horribly clever classmate. Everyone in the village is waiting for the witch side of Kara to make itself known. Plus the Thickety...the scary forest part of the village is getting closer and closer to everyone. This book is so good. I am invested in Kara...she is what is holding her family together.







Possibly up next? I am in a fantasy kind of mood!




Happy Reading!

It's Snowing!

How can I describe it? It's flurries. It's blowing. It's scattered but it is snowing! It is getting colder and colder.

Time to pull out the mittens!

Reading this...loving the writing, the story...the action!





Just finished this...oh my...so oddly fascinating.






The girls are sleeping together! It's a miracle! One that will ultimately end in an uproar but for now it's peaceful.






We are having chili topped baked potatoes for dinner...just like at Wendy's but I am making the chili with very lean organic bison...for some odd reason we love chili topped baked potatoes! This recipe and photo are from Southern Living and myrecipes.com! But ours will look just like this!



Photo: William Dickey; Styling: Cindy Manning

Today is yet one more day of all day laundry! Today I am doing sheets and towels. Yum!

It's a day long battle of trying to wrestle hot sheets and towels away from heat seeking kitty girls!

Happy Reading!

A Week's Worth of Books!

I am so out of order with books and reviews BUT I just got this and I want to read it now! Here is a quick summary that came right from the author's site...so excited!

"A dark, forbidden forest. Vicious beasts. Deadly plants. An evil spellbook. Secrets. Mysteries. A Forest Demon. Witches both fair and foul."

Welcome to the world of The Thickety...and I think there will be more books in this series! Oh my! I love, adore, and totally go crazy for this kind of book!











I have these, too...which just came...yummy yummy yummy books...more fantasy and a historical fiction...which I am also learning to love. Plus who wouldn't love a Christmas book about vampires...lol! And dragons!











Dragons...dragons! I love dragons!























I love these covers!

Today is my fave kind of day...I am doing laundry all day long and reading in between...making an easy dinner...grilled cheese and tomato soup...with a homemade caramel apple from The Produce Place for dessert!




Happy Reading!

The Aftemath...LOL...

The papers are read, the Starbuck's coffees are gone, Den's fab scrambled eggs and ham are devoured as are the cinnamon rolls from Talulah's Table...dinner has been determined, lunch is whatever...and football is in our future...plus lots of good reading time for me...

Reading this...


Playing with this...



Watching this...


Happy Reading!