"Cat"-ching Snowflakes

It snowed today -more than what we thought would come. The kids did not have school today. They had their coats on and were waiting for the bus, but it was called off and the buses turned around. The cats were going bonkers trying to "catch" the snow flakes. Here are two pictures of them! They are ferocious! LOL

Strawberry Whipped Sensation

Here is my recipe which I adapted from the Kraft cooking magazine.
Strawberry Whipped Sensation
4 cups fresh strawberries, divided (I only used 2 cups - mashed strawberries)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 c. lemon juice
1 tub. (8 oz.) Cool whip, thawed, divided (I used real whipping cream to make 2 cups
(I added 1 8 oz. cream cheese softened and whipped in with the sweetened condense milk)

Fold all ingredients together. Line a 8x4-in. loaf pan with foil. Pour into a pan

Top with 8 Oreo cookies crushed and 1 T. butter melted (- but I didn't add the butter)

Freeze at least 6 hours. To serve invert onto plate. Remove foil. Frost with remaining Cool whip. Top with remaining strawberries.

Very easy and very yummy!

Looking for a Recipe for Strawberries

Cole's fever broke Wed. night. He was able to go back to school on Thurs. and made it to the party on Friday night. He came home happy, tired and without a voice. He lost it sometime during the day but he doesn't feel bad. I am going shopping today by myself! Glenn and the boys were going to go but Glenn is still on crutches half time and thinks it will just be too much. He can start physical therapy in a few weeks. So I get to go by myself. I did call my mom to see if she would like to meet me and she probably will do that.
Does anyone have an easy recipe for a dessert with strawberries? Just post it on your website and leave a comment here. I love spring when the strawberries are big and juicy!

How was your Easter weekend? Mine was good. But on Tuesday Cole woke up with a headache. I thought maybe it had something to to with our black lab, Chance. We had to put her down on Tues. due to health problems. So after he stayed home from school in the morning and I gave him ibuprofen at 9:30 he was feeling better and I took him to school. Then at around 2 pm the teacher called and his head was pounding. Don't you just feel like a good mother then... not! Then this morning at 5 am complained of having a headache but then had a fever too! So no school today. With the Ibuprofen he acts fine but when that runs out I can see it in his eyes. No fun especially because on Friday he is invited to a birthday party for one of his friends and he so wants to go. He keeps feeling his head- "I don't think it's so hot mom." I made him take a nap, not that he wanted to. I hope he feels better soon!

Boys will be Boys

Yesterday, the boys went out with a neighbor boy to a creek that is not far from our house. Cole, our youngest, came back about 20 minutes later soaked to the knee in mud because his one leg had fallen into the creek when he tried to jump across. He said they had found some field mice swimming in the creek and were trying to catch them! YUCK! I hate mice. Glenn came home and stopped by to tell Grant to come on home. Grant wasn't home yet by the time we were ready to eat, so we sat down and started. We found out then from Cole that Grant took a dead mouse on the bus last week and scared some girls! He said the girls were screaming. Grant came home, feet, pants and boots wet, and Glenn asked him about it. He just sort of smirked, not admitting anything. Glenn told him that he shouldn't do it again, but could see why it was kind of a fun thing to do. But that he just can't bring mice on the bus and that we weren't mad. Cole then said that the girls were screaming, Grant quickly said that they did not scream. I can't believe Grant got that one by me, he must of picked the container up outside on the way to the bus! I guess that is the thing about being a mom of boys you never know what will come up next!

A Favorite Song

I'm not sure how to get the little box in here to view this here but I guess this will have to do.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c1017d3df6b44b7c4550

Kind of a grey day. I know the sun is just beyond the clouds, shining in all it's brilliance but I can't feel it's warmth today. Sometimes I can feel like it's a grey day in my Christian walk too, I know the Lord is right there but it seems as if clouds are covering, keeping me from His warmth. But as I remind myself once again, who makes the clouds in my life - my own busyness, my own attitude about things, circumstances that I have no control over? What are your clouds in life? "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8
God you are true,
God you are noble,
God you are right,
God you are pure,
God you are lovely,
God you are admirable,
God you are excellent,
God you are praiseworthy,
God let me think about you!