Fudge

Anybody know any good recipes for fudge.

We have tried one with powdered sugar/butter/choc chips, and one with sweetened condensed milk/choc chips/butter.  Neither were just right.

Does anyone have a tried and true recipe.

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Merry Christmas

So I thought it would be really fun to post something everyday of December.

Favorite traditions.

Fun finds.

Cute pics (you should see the # of ways a nativity can be set up...maybe you are seeing it in your own home)

But alas it is the 3rd and this is my first post.

So Merry Christmas if I don't make it back.

But I do have great intentions.

Printer Suggestions

Our printer has officially bit the dust.

Do you own you like?

Any suggestions?

I like to print some pictures, I do scan and copy some, but mostly print black and white words and letters.

I would prefer one that doesn't guzzle ink.

Free Photobooks

I have links to 2 free photobook!

One was through Oprah and has to be clicked on and claimed by tonight (Friday) and finished and purchased by Sunday night.

http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081029_tows_messyhouse/7

The other offer is located at:
simplemom.net/photobooks



You just have to pay shipping on both (around $7)

I love these albums for myself and for gifts!

October Catch Up

Reed the "mummy" waking up from shoulder surgery.  I was hoping to catch him being loopy but he came out of it joking.  He is recouping well.  It was an old injury and good timing to fix it.
Halloween Houses.  A traditions we started a few years ago.  I love the jack o' lanterns on the front porch.
I had heard there were a lot of bees/wasps in the canyons, more the usual, on the news a while back.  Well we experienced them on our first trip up there.  Emily with her bright pink dress on was the victim of one's stinger. 
Jadey turned 12.  Having her turn 12 was huge for me.  It was sort of like the first child in elementary school milestone.  I have a young woman, it's crazy.  
The harvested pumpkins.
The rooster strikes again.
Emily is a fan of perfect looking pumpkins...thus her choice.
While Jadey was looking for the biggest...120lbs of pumpking there!
After several frosts the garden was dead and the pumpkins were ready to harvest.  From one plant we got 13 pumpkins.  A couple of them were 70 and 80 lbs and the largest was 120 lbs!

And we had a fun visit from our cousins and one of my angel sister in laws (I have many) saved my day with dinner when the day was appearing to be more then I could handle.  You gotta love angels.

Herds

I was quizzing Max about school the other day.  It's hard to get much of an answer from most boys, so I was trying to ask probing questions that would elicit more then a 2 word response.  Knowing that I wouldn't get anywhere asking him which girls were cute I opted for which girls were nice.  He listed a few.  I asked who they hung out with at recess and his answer was so enlightening..."They hang out in herds."

Can you just imagine it?

Not gangs.

Not cliques.

Herds.

I suppose some would refer to them as gaggles

or flocks

or pogs (i had to research this one)

or raftors.

All right I'm getting carried away.

Herds it is.