Well, I did it!!! I'm all caught up!!!
Thanks for all the welcome home messages!!! It sure feels good to be back! I had a great time with my mom (minus a few plumbing problems, good thing my brother is a plumber!). She's doing really well, but we are a bit concerned about my grandma. She has several small strokes a week, and there's really nothing they can do except wait for the big one that will eventually take her. She gets very confused and doesn't know most people anymore. She didn't know me or my kids the first day we were there. The next day, she knew me, but didn't know how old I was. She was mad that I was driving, and she knew I wasn't old enough!!! She got angry at my grandpa for not putting money in her purse (he's been dead for 17 years). Oh well. that's just the way it is, right now!
I came home to a house that looked like a tornado had blown through! It toom the better part of yesterday to reclaim my kitchen and family room! I'm still working on the bathroom and my bedroom! Hopefully, by tomorrow things will be better.
I promised Jennifer that I would post my recipe for garlic butter green beans, so here it is:
1 pound fresh green beans
1 garlic clove, minced
1 Tbs. butter
2 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. sugar
1/8 tsp. pepper
Place beans in a steamer basket; place in a large saucepan over 1 inch of water. Bring to a boil; cover and steam for 7-9 minutes or until crisp-tender. Meanwhile, in a small nonstick saucepan, cook garlic in butter until tender. Remove from the heat; stir in the lemon juice, sugar and pepper. Transfer the beans to a serving bowl; add garlic butter and stir to coat.
I finally decided on a dessert for Easter. Last year I made the Strawberry Margarita Cake that Shana posted, and it was a big hit. Unfortunately, all the kids were more interested in their Easter candy, so the cake hung around a bit long! So, this year, instead of the cake, I'm making brownies with chopped up Malted Milk Easter egg candy in them. I'll decorate them with more eggs and maybe some tinted coconut. I can cut them to good portion sizes, and it won't hang around for days and days! What do y'all think?
But I had an epiphany at the table....while I was trying to talk sensible to Grandma and she was so disrepectful to ALL of us...my Grandpa just sat there...didn't tell her to be more respectful (I would expect that from Jim...even if he agreed with me, if I was as disrespectful as she was I would want him to call me on it). That wasn't my epiphany...it was that he's done that as long as I can remember...
It was only about 47 degrees when I left there at about 2pm today, let's just say it did not get to the 70 degrees like they thought it would. Although I came home and it was almost 70 at 6:30pm here.
that you can get her allergies under control.
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