Jenny's Journey

Want to make your kiddos some AWESOME bubbles?!? Heck, I want them for myself! Here's the recipe for Guys Bubbles: 5 1/2 cups water 2 cups Ajax orange dish soap 1/2 cup Karo corn syrup Mix and bottle. Note: the above measurements fit perfectly in a 64 fluid oz juice container. Yes, I know it sounds like a lot of bubbles, but bubbles always spill and they are SO MUCH FUN! Right?!?!?  Hopefully this amount can last through the summer. Also, while perusing through my recipe box(that's where I keep my bubbles recipe - duh!) I found 2 little oddities that I also have stashed in my recipe box, both written on recipe cards. This one from my Mom - Just a tiny little minute, Only 60 seconds in it, Forced upon me - can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But its up to me to use it. Just a tiny little minute, but Eternity is in it. AND This one heard from like the 2nd season of Survivor - if ifs and buts were candy and nuts we'd...

I have to start off this blog post giving props to my husband. That man is one determined individual. He puts his mind to something and he doesn’t stop. He also is very competitive, unlike myself. I like to compete against myself, try and do better than I did last time. Last year after I completed the Climb for Air he said he would “kick my ass” – so, what did I do? Yup! I signed his butt up for this year’s climb! Knowing he couldn’t go into the climb without any prep that boy took up running. Gotta work on that cardio. And guess what? He likes it! He likes running! Anyways, to make a long story short…he did beat me. I wouldn’t say he “kicked my ass.” But he did beat me by 2 seconds. 11:20 vs 11:22 Yes, TWO fricking lousy seconds. I should have pushed myself even harder but I was already pushing my way through all those stairs as hard as I could. I know he was excited to beat me, but he didn’t rub it in. (Though I know what he is telling all his buddies!) I can alwa...

So I tried something new today. I baked a tasty treat that called for 3 whole vanilla beans. Yeah, exciting…I know. :P I have seen it done but never attempted anything with real true fresh from the bean itself VANILLA. I do love myself some vanilla bean ice cream. I didn’t make ice cream. Sorry. Anyways, I attempted a rather involved (even though the degree of difficulty was considered EASY) it was a bit more involved then I like to usually do AND it involved cutting in butter/making a dough. I stay far away from any recipes that tell me I need to make a pie crust or roll out dough. I would normally buy a premade crust at that point. I just don’t have the patience…usually. I get frustrated with the many problems dough can give you. Though today, I did not give up when the dough had me worried. I added a little more heavy cream and it was much much better. My Godson Jacob got me a Pioneer Women Cookbook for Christmas and I record her cooking shows and breeze through the episode at a lat...

I don’t know about you but I cannot wait for all the sweets and goodies to be gone. Yes, I don’t have to eat them, but we all know that’s easier said than done. Now that the New Year is here, what better time to start once again eating healthier. I know my scale is showing the typical holiday gain and with the cold cold weather we have been having any chances of me getting a run in outside is slim (I did do it the other day when the temps hit a record 31 degrees!) I have not yet learned to love my new-to-me treadmill either. It’s B-O-R-I-N-G!!! I do like it for attempting interval training because the timer is right in front of my eyes…and I can count down to when it will all be over with! So anyways, the other evening I threw this recipe together in my trusty old slow cooker and was pleasantly pleased to wake up to rather tasty and healthy oatmeal! Yeah, I know….Yum….not. But it actually was. I added chopped pecans and golden raisins (ever tried golden raisins? They kick regular raisi...

Well, just like that Christmas has come and gone. And next year it will be just as fast, as Thanksgiving is late again next year. I did not have to work Christmas this year, though I did have to work my next least favorite day to work - the day after Christmas. Boo Hoo. Its over, done..I got through it just fine, now 5 days off. I do have to work New Years Day. Big deal, much to old to even want to stay up that late. We attempted to stay up and watch SNL this past Saturday and we did it, but both of us dozed off at different times throughout the show, we each saw completely different skits! Since I was home this year for Christmas morning, I was looking for something quick and easy to make in the morning to have after opening gifts. I wanted to attempt Monkey Bread. Lots of recipes out there for it all with slight little differences. With time constraints(the girls wanna get to opening their presents, duh!) I opted for a quick and easy version(that I prepped what I could the night befo...

Happy day after Turkey Day, everyone! I sit here waiting for an Amazon lightening deal (I am on the waitlist, so I am hopeful, but doubt I will get the deal) and trying to decide what the girls and I are going to do today. Yestereday, my M-I-L and I competed in the Watertown Run Turkey Run 5K. OMGosh! Was it freaking cold. I was hoping to have a Thanksgiving Day like last year. YOu may not remember, but I do. It was beautiful. Sunny and a ton warmer. James went hunitng in the morining, shot a buck, brought it back for the kids and neighbors to see and then had to rush off and get it processed because it was to warm to let sit around! Yeah, well not this year. My MIL's goal was to run/walk the 5k and finish in 45 minutes. She did that and then some. She did it in 40:40!!! I think she is hooked. My goal was to do it in under 30 minutes. Though at like 1230 on Monday at work that goal was looking unreachable. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am clutsy. Well, carrying 3 large bo...

So today is my day off for working next Saturday. Though unlike the last days I had off I did not leave the house (yet..its 1:37..I still could). I asked James to guess what I was gonna do today…he said “run Fowler (lake)” Nope. I am gonna do NOTHING! I guess the 5K I ran on Saturday really kicked my butt and I also am sick with a cold so that's not helping things either. Can’t say I haven’t done anything today but I haven’t left the house but to go to the mailbox and see Jenna to and from school. Even when I say I am not going to do anything…that’s not really true. I have a very very hard time doing nothing. I did a load of laundry, folded another load, put clean dishes away, put some laundry away, got dinner cooking in the slow cooker, fed Jenna lunch, cleaned some smudgy fingers prints off a few windows…oh and conditioned my hair with coconut oil. Yup, a lot of my time today has been spent on Pinterest and FB. Pinterest is where I found some pins accidently about conditioning yo...