Hello,

Ahhhh...it's so nice to have my mixer back.  Yes, it has been driving me crazy and yes, there's really no reason for us to have had it in the shop twice already - but it *is* working now and I'm sooooo thankful!

So today I was able to bake up a couple loaves of honey wheat bread, some garlic dough (which I will be using to make some cheesy bread and deep dish pizza for tonight's dinner) plus some awesome banana bread with a few muffins on the side.  AND, if I'm not totally worn out by tonight, I just may whip up a batch of PB cookies with those cute little chocolate kisses in the middle.  I also just found this site:

Tammy's Recipes

I've only had a chance to check out her Bread Recipes (in right hand column) but I bet there's other great recipes in the rest of the sections as well.  I think I'm going to try some of her muffins.  I *still* have yet to find the PERFECT muffin recipe...I'll keep searching - and my family will keep testing.

What I *didn't* get done was any cleaning around here.  It's not bad actually, but I need to stay on top of things before they GET bad.  I'm about to tackle a huge pile of laundry, and I'll continue with that tonight as well.  I also just cleaned out my Dyson (sp?) vacuum inside parts and it's filter.  I need to cut away all my hair wrapped around the bottom turny-thingy (descriptive, huh?).  Then, I will vacuum the whole house - I am a sick woman - I'm really looking forward to that.  I expect to have to empty the canister numerous times during the process - man, it's terribly dusty out here in Colorado.

No news on the house as of yet - I sent the property manager people 16 pics of the house to put up on rentclicks.com .  They should have that up in the next day or two (or I'll be bugging them again - as my mother says, the squeaky wheel gets the oil).  If we don't have something happening by Christmas, I may start getting a bit anxious - but I am praying that won't happen, and I'm also praying for HIS peace no matter what happens!

Ok, time to get back to the baking stuff - bread in the oven - perhaps pics and recipes to come....

~In Him~
MommaJoy