Oh, So Easy

You will love this.
It's soooo easy.
And ooey, gooey yummy.
We ate them warm.
A little hard to cut.
But well worth it.

S'More Cookie Bars
3/4 c. butter/margarine, melted
3 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 c. butterscotch chips
1 cup mini marshmallows
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In 9x13 pan, combine butter with crumbs; press in bottom of pan. Evenly sprinkle with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and marshmallows. Pour condensed milk over mixture. Bake 25 minutes or until bubbly. Cool. Cut into squaresThis recipe comes off the Imperial margarine box.
Well, really it's not margarine.
It says: 53% vegetable oil spread.
It's old-fashioned looking packaging.
It's probably extra unhealthy.
It's what I use for nearly all my baking.
My grandma always had it.
And she was a wonderful cook.
So now it's what I use.
Hoping that wonderful cook-ness will rub off on me.

Besides, butter is just too expensive.
Especially as much as I bake.
My grocery budget would be busted.

Hubby: Gina, why don't we have any toilet paper?
Me: Well, dear,
(cuz, that's how I always respond to my hubby)
I had to buy butter.

See, if I bought the real stuff,
tp would have to take second place.
That. would not. be good.

Wow.
This is not all where I thought this post would go.
Down the drain.
In a hurry.

I will quit with the bathroom references.
Now go enjoy some s'more cookie bars.
You can even use real butter.
I won't hold it against you.
I just may not come to visit you.
Since you won't have any tp and all.

Farewell to Steve

My parents got back from vacation Sunday.
On Monday evening we all gathered together.
To pay our respects to Steve.

My mom said my dad disappeared to the garage
for awhile Monday afternoon.
When he returned, he came bearing a coffin for Steve.
Mom had the kids decorate it.

The boys all put ties on for the ceremony.
The girls put bows in their hair.
Then Steve was removed from the freezer.
And placed in his pine box lined with tissue paper.
Brookelynn prepared an obituary.
We tried to be very somber.


My daddy placed the final nails in the coffin.

Well said, Jakie.
Well said.

New Headwear

They are their father's sons.
That's all I'm sayin'.

A Tutorial

Bet you never thought you would see
that title on my blog.
I don't sew.
Make jewelry.
Design cards.
Knit.
Pretty much, I do nothing crafty.

But here you go.
My first tutorial.

Step one:
Gather your little kids' old Sunday School papers.
Step two:
Look for brads, turn the paper over and remove them.

Step 3:

Save the brads for some unknown project in the future.

Yep.

I really do this.

All. The. Time.

Have never had the need for them yet.

But when I find the right project,

boy, will I be prepared.

See?

My floors really are clean enough to eat off of.

Oh...

Hahahaha!

I make myself laugh.