7 January 2009
This cheesy chip dip is great for celebrations and movie nights! It is not a super-healthy chip dip, but it sure is a delicious one.
Cut up a big brick of Velveeta cheese into small cubes and put in a crock pot.
Fry a pound of sausage in a pan, and add it to the crock pot of cheese.
Poor salsa (as desired, we use about 2 cups) on top of the meat.
Mix together. Turn crock pot on high, until cheese is completely melted. Switch to keep warm.
Enjoy!
5 January 2009
Ping, ping, ping. There is something about the sound of sleet hitting the ground. It makes me feel quite cozy in our warm and happy, imperfect home.
The sleet falls as tiny marbles of ice, many times melting soon after landing. This particular visit from the sleet lasted longer than usual since it lingered for several hours.
The penny gives you an idea of the size of the tiny, cold marbles of ice.
Speaking of pennies . . .
I was just three years old. Momma was driving Bre and I to the library (we were in the backseat). My sister Breezy decided to show off and said, “Hey, watch this!” So, little me watched.
She popped a penny into her mouth, showed it to me on her tongue, then shut her mouth. I was shocked at what she did next: she made a big, dramatic gulp. When she opened her mouth the penny had disappeared. She had swallowed the penny!
Shutting her mouth again she gave me a mischievous look and reopened her mouth. There sitting on her tongue was the same penny. Wow! So, I asked for a penny and decided to try it myself.
In went the penny with a big gulp. My intention was to bring it right back up just like Breezy did, it couldn’t be that hard. But the penny didn’t make it all the way down — it got stuck.
That was definitely not the smartest move I have made in my life.
It was stuck in my throat.
Bre, in a nonchalant manner, told Momma that I had a penny stuck in my throat. Up to that point, Mom hadn’t realized what we had been doing — if she had, the “penny eating” would have been stopped before one even entered either of our mouths.
Dearest mother immediately turned around to look at me and see if this dreadful news was true. It was. She turned back around said something about going to the hospital (which was near where we were headed).
Momma instructed Breezy to hold her hand in front on my mouth to see if I was breathing. I was breathing, but I couldn’t talk.
Frantically, Mom drove to the hospital, all the while looking in the rear-view mirror. About five minutes later, right before we arrived at the hospital, I said, “I swallowed it.”
Bre and I explained what had happened, which was followed by us getting in trouble.
The penny was retrieved the next day. What lessons we learn!
So, my tip for you:
Do not put pennies in your mouth, and even more importantly — do not swallow them.
Have you ever swallowed something that wasn’t meant for swallowing?
1 January 2009
Daddy read this quote aloud to us this morning, and I found it very inspirational.
“People do not drift towards holiness.
Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate towards godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, or delight in the Lord.
We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance;
Toward disobedience and we call it freedom;
Toward superstition and call it faith.
We cherish the non-discipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation;
We slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism;
We slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
- D. A. Carson
May the Lord give me a heart that desires to be holy, godly, prayerful, obedient, faithful, and a heart that delights in the Him! In Him alone is my strength, how weak I am apart from Him! Glory be to God, our sovereign Lord!
1 January 2009
This is the last A Homemade Christmas post of the year (though today is the first of 2009) — AHC in review.
I received this darling notebook from my dear sister, Breezy.
It has a lovely composition of cut out scrapbook papers, what a feminine design!
Along the bottom of the front are old portraits of ladies in hats. I thought this quite sweet since hats are one of my favorite little (sometimes not so little) items from the past.
Breezy also decoupaged the inside. In the bottom left corner she added a little surprise. How I enjoy the appearance of a good vintage post card!
Every Thursday I posted about homemade Christmas gifts and decorations, what fun it was to have so many others post along with me! Thank you to all you joined me, what a blessing it has been to do this! Lord willing I might do it again next year! If you would like to post another homemade Christmas post, feel free to sign Mr. Linky below. I thought it would be nice to get to see the gifts that you had to keep secret until after Christmas, and maybe even the ones you received! Have a wonderfully blessed new year!
| 1. Carrie (Picture) 2. Carrie (Cupcake Kit) 3. Carrie (I Spy Bottle) |
4. Carrie (Handprint Christmas Ornaments) 5. Robin 6. BreezyTulip |
7. Trisch 8. Auntie Lou-Homemade Pasta 9. Molly (vintage photo art) |
