I ended up catching a nasty flu last weekend that had me in bed for the duration of Sunday and Monday with the vertigo on top of it. I did too much on Saturday! I ran all day without eating hardly anything and then trying to eat that night. BIG mistake!

Well this week has been focusing on getting some cookies in the freezer for the holidays. I made chocolate chip cookies, cranberry raisin currant oatmeal cookies, cream cheese sugar cookies and oatmeal raisin with cinammon. I also made the amish friendship bread starter and seperated it out into 6 bags for giving away and freezing. I made 5 loaves of bread with some starter. Banana bread made with the starter is YUMMY!

I made cheese Thursday and seasoned it with onion powder, garlic, and Hidden Valley Ranch mix! Yummy too! 1 gallon of milk heated to 185 and then 1/4 cup of white vinegar added and let sit for 20 minutes strain in cheese clotth and let hang and drip for 1 hour. Refrigerate.

I am currently going to make a dessert and veggie dish for the Thanksgiving potluck tomorrow at church. We have Bethlehem practice tomorrow also.

Candles and ornaments are my next project for the Bethlehem weekend. Cinnamon roll candles and wax ornaments that smell for the tree or gifts. These are cut out with cookie cutters!

I cannot hear out of one ear which has been a side effect of the vertigo. I do not want to go to the doctor and be put on prednizone so I am trying to take care of it homapathically. I pray that it works. Alll I hear right now is noise!

The stove project is done and we now have nice warm wood heat piping into the house. It is so cozy and warm!

I was given a turkey for thanksgiving and now have everything for the holiday meal! I purchased 13 pounds of sweet potatoes at 33 cents a pound and will store some in my basement for Christmas too!

God has been so good to us! I will Praise HIM! He takes care of his children sometimes in the neatest ways! Well I am off to cleaning the house and cooking!

NOTE: church potluck went great and great fellowship! We practiced for Bethlehem and it really finally got me in the spirit of the season and preparing!

Today, Moday I am planning for Thanksgiving dinner for the inlaws and my hubby's bachelor uncle and our crew. So there will be lots of cooking for the next few days getting ready for Thursday.. One joy that I had this weekend is purchasing an antique sewing rocker at an auction for $15 dollars! I also came away with antique blue mason jars (which I collect) and antique pictures of people from the early early 1900's. I want to research and find out who they were. Some names were on the back of some!

God Bless!