Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Babe of Bethlehem

Where is the Babe of Bethlehem?


In the stable small,
With Mary His mom and Joseph so tall?

No He's not there still yet,
He is in heaven with His Father I'll bet.

The story says He will come again 
bringing Peace and Love 
from our Father above. 


How can I show my love to Him?
By doing His will with every whim.
~ jet


I had to rework my first poem and then remove it.
I am much happier doing it from a little child's perspective.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Cooking For A Crowd Everyday

Tahoe Reunion 2000


And that is what you do if you have a large family, 
cook for a crowd everyday. 

Starting dinner in the morning for younger moms allows you to have things like 

homemade bread, scones, pots of beans or slow cooker meals. 
Then at dinner time you know what else has to be done to finish up quickly. 

You aren't going to blow the budget for a fast food deal. 


Back in the day I didn't have money to go fast fooding. 


With seven kids and needing to save as much as possible on food 

because I wanted my kids to take piano, gymnastics, 
dance and play sports, etc.  I would plan for meals 
a month in advance and go to the store just once 
or twice a month. 
(I told you it was back in the day) 

Also my kids loved Susie Sunshine, (the recipe is here)

a hot cereal made with cracked wheat and 
they loved breakfast for dinner with pancakes 
and eggs too so that was an easy 
fix in a pinch.

Love,
Grammy T.

Friday, December 2, 2011

You cut my hair Miss Jiggy Gum

A Little Chinese Pixie I Met In My Travels

Do you remember the time that you cut my pony tail off because you were mad at me Miss Jiggy Gum? 

I remember too but we made up and were BFF's anyway. 

Our moms were always getting into tiffs and I never knew when it would happen. I'd get home from school and be told that I wasn't allowed to play with Jiggy anymore. 

"Why this time Mom?" Because, blah, blah, blah.......

So I couldn't and that's-that for sure. 

My hair grew and Jiggy and I always forgave each other. 

But it sure took our mom's a lot longer to be nice.

Love,
Grammy T.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

What does that goof-ball do around here?

A talk from our Stake President today:


A large company, 
feeling it was time for a 
shakeup, hired a new CEO. 


The new boss was determined to 
rid the company of 
all slackers. 


On a tour of the facilities, 
the CEO noticed a guy leaning on a wall. 


The room was full of workers and he wanted to 
let them know that he 
meant business. 


He walked up to the guy leaning against the wall and asked, 
'how much money do you 
make a week? 


A little surprised, the young man 
looked at him and replied, 
"I make $400 a week." 


The CEO went to his office and came back with a 
$1,600 check and yelled:


"Here's four weeks pay, now get out and 
don't come back."


Feeling pretty good about himself the CEO 
looked around the room and asked, 
"Does anyone want to tell me what 
that goof-ball did 
around here?"


From across the room came a voice, 
"Pizza delivery guy 
from Domino's."


 Now that’s what I call 
a dang good tip!!

Love, 
Grammy T.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Sisters Cafe and Spiritualizing



I forgot to post our Witchy Palooza pictures for this year.
It was so fun!


"Once we allow people to start spiritualizing and refining, 
or as they might say 'deepening' 
the sense of the word 
Christian...
it will become a useless word....
It is not for us to say who, 
in the deepest sense, is or is not close to 
the spirit of Christ. 
We do not see into men's hearts. 
We cannot judge...
It would be wicked arrogance 
for us to say that any man is, or is not, a Christian."   
~ C.S. Lewis


Now to a fun blog I want to share with you. 
It is called..
"Sisters Cafe"
and these girls can cook!
http://www.thesisterscafe.com

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Holiday Glazed Doughnut Muffins


Don't These Look Delish?!

I saw these this morning and
by this evening I was able to find the post
for the picture and the recipe.

I thought with the holidays coming up
that we could all use some fun new ideas
of make ahead recipes.

So this is the first I am sharing.

For the Muffins:
  1. 1/4 cup butter
  2. 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  3. 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  4. 1/3 cup brown sugar
  5. 2 large eggs
  6. 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  7. 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  8. 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  9. 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  10. 3/4 teaspoon salt
  11. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  12. 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  13. 1 cup milk
For the Glaze:
  1. 3 tablespoons butter; melted
  2. 1 cup confectioners’ sugar; sifted
  3. 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
  4. 2 tablespoons hot water
  5. Zest of orange (my addition) abt. 1-2 TBLS.
Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line 12 muffin cups with muffin liners or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together butter, vegetable oil, and sugars till smooth. Beat in eggs, one at a time. With the mixer on low speed, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and vanilla until just combined. Stir the flour into the butter mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour and making sure everything is thoroughly combined.
  3. Spoon batter into cups, filling the cups, and smooth tops. Divide batter equally among prepared muffin cups. Bake until muffin tops are a pale golden and springy to the touch, 15 to 17 minutes, rotating halfway through baking time. Cool muffins in muffin tin for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack and cool 10 minutes before glazing.
  4. To make the glaze, In a medium bowl mix together the melted butter, confectioners’ sugar, vanilla and water. Whisk until smooth.
  5. When muffins have cooled slightly, dip the muffin crown into the glaze and allow the glaze to harden. Once hardened, dip a second time  and allow to harden then serve.
Yields: 12 muffins
Note: Muffins will keep at room temperature for about a day.
From: www.sweetpeaskitchen.com

Love,
Grammy T.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

I Love Fancy Guppies



Did you know that I love Guppies? Well I do. They are gorgeous.

When I was little I lived on Argo Way in Sacramento, California. 
It was a little house that sometimes had a silver side when the rest was 
painted pink and I could tell people to look for the silver house when they 
were hunting for me. 

Any who... the neighbors had guppies. Not a big tank just a big bowl and those guppies had guppies and then those guppies had guppies. 

Whew it was so fun to see the explosion of little pretty fish and I got 
some guppies too.

Much better than the poly wogs that I caught every spring at St. Mary's Cemetery, the place I was forbidden to ever, ever go.  

"Where did you get those poly wogs?"  Mom would ask and of course being the angelic child that I was I answered "In the gutter by Jiggy's house."
Of course she really believed that. 

Back to my guppies...So when I couldn't do a lot with my hands and because some of my Granddaughters came to help me clean my house so that one of them could raise $7.00 for a frog house and we had to go hunting for all of the important things that go with little critters. I wound up at the pet stores 
and couldn't resist the beautiful guppies that they have now. 

Guppies have really changed since I was little. They are gorgeousThere are red, blue, green, purple and much more. 

There is a blue and a leopard mama in my tank. And I had a leopard daddy that Christi bought me for my birthday. He died but I am going to get another one because he was so, so beautiful. 

One of the funny things that happened is that about 30 little baby guppies 
that were six weeks old had babies! I had to put on my reading glasses to see them. 

I keep my tank at about 80 - 82 degrees and I guess that is what happens when they are kept nice warm. 

So now I have many, many Fancy Guppies. 

Love,
Grammy T.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Fighting Cancer One Hug at a Time

Jenny's Quilt
Nikki's Quilt


I have been busy lately making quilts. 


One for a new baby arriving in December 
(picture of just the top is above) 


and two for two of my cancer sisters that are 
having a hard time right now. 


I hope they will be able to feel love and hope 
like a hug from their new quilts.
 The finished quilt is for Jenny.


Please pray for her and Nikki.


Thank you friends. 

Love,
Grammy T.

Friday, October 14, 2011

We Don't Bow to Things

The Christus on Temple Square in SLC
A great man in our church once said:
 "We teach our people correct principles 
and then let 
them judge themselves."


I love this saying and I love 
"The Gospel of Jesus Christ."


Two summers ago, after our family reunion, 
we took some of our family to Temple Square in SLC 
and of course we went to the Visitors Center 
where the Christus 
is displayed. 


While we were looking at the Christus 
a little boy of middle Eastern decent 
walked up to the Christus and stood 
in awe of the beautiful representation 
of Christ.And then bowed to Him. 
It was very touching. 

That is something we don't see in our church but my little granddaughter 

thought it was a nice thing to do so she followed 
him in his praise of Christ. 
Very Sweet!!

Love, Granny T.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Precious Little One's


Our Savior Jesus Christ also has a body 


Because we, the members of 
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
don't believe in the Nicene Creed we are deemed 
by some folks as not being Christian.


In other words we believe that 
God is our Heavenly Father, 
He has a body and we are made in his image.

and is one with the Father in purpose, 

not in body. 


The Holy Ghost is also a separate being. 

Having been raised in one of the "other" Christian Churches, 
 that believe in the Nicene Creed, 
I asked my Momma 
what God looked like.

She said that I should think of Him as a big head floating 
and listening to my prayers and that 
He could be everywhere. 

As a little tiny girl my teachings of 
Jesus Christ was much easier to understand.

 Jesus came to the earth and was born of Virgin Mary 
and He loved me and He walked the earth
 just like me and he was good and kind 
and He truly loved little children.


He said we would go to Heaven if we were good like He was 
and if "we were as a little child". 

I loved Him so much and many times 
I felt Him with me. 

The Holy Ghost scared me at first because ghosts were 
scary to little girls. 

In fact my little friend Sally Jo was saying her prayers one night 
at my Nana Pills' house and she ended her prayer...


"In the name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost".  

Well that did it for those two little one's 
and my Nana had to sleep with us to get us to calm down. 

Children are so Dear you know. 

Love,
Grammy T.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

I Will Not Complain

Tate is getting so big.
He is such a cute little guy.


Hi all, this is my first time back to my Blog in a very long time.  


I broke my wrist when I fell in the shower the middle of July 
and to mend I needed an operation of a metal plate 
and seven screws. 


I am just now back to typing with two hands. 


With physical therapy I am hoping to be able to use it better through the 
next few months. 


I just watched Nie-Nie and I don't dare complain. 


Here is her blog:
 http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/


And here is a video about her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDvxPjsm8E


So you see why I will not complain.

Love,
Grammy T.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Successful Marriages Require A High Degree of Mutual Toleration,


My Grandfather George William Pillsbury with his siblings 
Leonard and Adeline Jane.

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal
is going to waste a lot of time running around 
shouting that he has been robbed. 



The fact is that most putts don’t drop, 
most beef is tough, 

most children grow up to be just like people, 
most successful marriages require a 
high degree of mutual toleration, 
and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. 

Life is just like an old time rail journey ...
 delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, 
interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. 

The trick is to thank the Lord for letting 
you have the ride." 


Saturday, July 23, 2011

How to get back to Classic Yahoo Mail


So I know I'm a slouch. 
I haven't written forever.

But, I have had issues.

One of the issues is in the 
picture above.

But the good news is that I just figured out how to get my Classic Yahoo Mail back.                                                        

Go to your Control Panel in your Windows 7. Change the resolution to make your screen 800x600 resolutions.

Go back into your Yahoo Mail and it will give you the option to change your email back to classic mail.

Now change it back.

Now go back into your control panel and change the resolution to the one you want and save it.

And that is all there is to it :)

Love,
Grammy T.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Remember That Time When We Used to Make Homemade Root Beer?

Homemade Root Beer

When my husband was going to school 

at BYU in the late 60's 
a young man named Finlinson 
from Delta, Utah 
taught me to make 
homemade
 root beer.


He brought me his families bottle capper and away 
we went having the best time making 
it and then putting it in 
the dark basement 
until 
it was fizzy. 


It was so fun and very yummy.


This morning I happened upon this recipe for 
homemade root beer and wanted 
to share it. 


Ingredients:

Serves:
80

Serving Size: 1 cup

Please go here for the full recipe.


Love,
Grammy T.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

I Love My Buddy Burners


Frying EggsWhen I was a Girl Scout my leader, 
Mrs. Thorpe, taught us how to 
make buddy Burners. 

They were so much fun and I used mine 

all summer long to cook 
my breakfast.

Frying Hash-browns
 Well a few month ago I saved some large tin cans from my food storage, the one's you get at the Bishops Storehouse or Cannery, and I washed and saved some tuna cans. 
Frying toast
 Then This morning Sarah, Matilda and I made up the burners.

It was so much fun to cook our breakfast outside and 
it was the best breakfast they had ever had, 
for sure! :)

Love,
Grammy T.