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This Moment} A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember.

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Strawberry Bread Pudding

At our house when we get to the end of a loaf of bread and all we have left is ends we save them. We pop them in the freezer in whatever bag they were in and there they sit. Every week or so when another loaf is polished off we add it to the others on the door of the freezer. When we have enough of these unwanted pieces of bread we know it is time to make some Bread Pudding. We toast the bread in the oven until it is dry, that way it will soak up all the milk and eggs, but not browned.

My Grandmother Blidberg made her Bread Pudding with raisins, but since Jason doesn't like rasins I'm trying it a little different today.


Fruit Bread Pudding:

• 12-20 slices of bread dried in the oven but not toasted.
• 3 cups of milk
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1tsp vanilla
• 1tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup of sliced fruit (try peaches, blue berries, strawberries, apples) or 1/2 cup raisins

1. Break up bread into chunks and put in 9x13 pan. 
2. In a big bowl combine milk and eggs and beat with whisk. 
3. Add remaining ingredients and stir. Dump over the top of bread and stir, making sure all the bread is sopping wet.
4. Bake 350degrees for 45mins or until top springs back when lightly tapped.
5. Serve hot with milk, maple syrup, whipped cream, ice cream, and/or strawberry sauce

Strawberry Sauce:

• 1/2 cup whole strawberries
• 1/2 cup sliced strawberries
• 2Tbs water
• 2Tbs sugar
• 1Tbs maple sugar

Simmer for 45mins or until thick while Bread Pudding bakes.

I hope to post pictures, if it lasts long enough for me to buy some batteries.

Happy Easter!

Easter morning Owen and I (Delia) got up as early as we could managed and tried really hard to make it for SonRose (8pm) service at church. We didn't make it. We did make it to breakfast and we ate with Grammie Kay, Grandpa Tom, Auntie, Uncle Zack, and cousin Isabella. Then we went upstairs to watch the new Easter VeggieTale and Owen fell asleep. Grandma sang in the Easter Cantata and that was a real treat for us since she hasn't done that since I was a kid. 

Once home we started some prep work for Easter Dinner and waited for everyone to come over so that we could get the rest of dinner ready. After our work was done we played some Head and Foot with Teams. Grandma and I won (Auntie and Uncle Zack lost).

Easter Night we had the Hamlins and the Blidbergs over for dinner. Jason and his Mom (Mimi) had to work until 6, so we decided to eat late and eat with everyone! We had 13 people at the table and Owen in his high chair. There were a lot of laughs, I'm not even sure what we were laughing about!

There was a huge scramble at dessert time, "Me, me, give me some, I want some of that, don't forget me!"

Owen went to bed right after opening his basket from Mimi, he had all he could take of the busy day. In addition to the basket from Mimi he got a new shirt, vest, and shoes to grow into from Grandma and a new Easter outfit from us.

The Table is Set for Easter Dinner.
(See Friday's post for all of us at the table)

  

Opening his basket from Mimi. The basket is the one that Papa
used to use when he was little!

Watcha doing with my new binks Mimi?

So many binks, so few mouths

Blueberry cake, single serving apple pie, one scoop of ice cream,
banana muffin extraordinaire, and one slice of pistachio pie

Handsome Baby Boy

{This Moment}

{This Moment} A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember.
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No Wheels, No Problem

We are with out a vehicle at the moment. No Impala (how I miss that car!), no truck, not even a bike, or a train, or a bus, nothing.

We now travel at the mercy of family.

I am thankful, grateful, and blessed by and for our family! 

I am so thankful that God blessed us with loving parents and relatives and extended church family who will let us borrow their wheels or scoop us up or bring us back when we need them.

With any luck By God's grace and mercy the truck will not be broken too bad and it will be an easy and cheap fix. And if it is not an easy or cheap fix then I know that God has something planned. He knows the balance in the checkbook and where we need to go each week, it will all work out.

4/15/2011

Truck is fixed. It took $200 and the garage owner said we can pay him when we have the money.

Thank you God!

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Spring is Here!

Today we got Owen outside for a little while. Mumma dug around in the dirt and the leaves to find some little shoots sprouting! This spring and summer we hope to do a lot of gardening together. I have a few small things I want to do around the house. Mostly weed killing this year so that next year I can plant flowers. 

This spring I hope to move around a few bulbs (hopefully I won't kill them) since they are sort of growing under the front of the house right now. As soon as the garden dries Jason is going to do some tilling to get ready for another tomato forrest    a new potato patch.

Owen played in his Jumparoo while Mumma and Papa worked. Then Papa took us out out supper at Country Delight for some Boondock Burgers. Yum! I don't think Owen's taste-buds work. Today he had a pickle and some ketchup and didn't make a face. 

Jumping

Owen's View

Little Growing Things