Yesterday I....

Took these...

to try and make these...

After 4 batches of this....I ended up with only 4 good-ish ones. So, I gave up and moved on to these...

(Chicken roll ups for make ahead meal group) and then moved on to these...

which actually turned out really yummy. (I didn't wrap mine as nicely, but they were on a nice tray!) Then I moved on to these...

Which actually looked pretty close to this pic, and tasted delish! Then moved on to these...

Which were SO yummy. Then moved on to a birtday cake for Mom's boss...
Then moved on to a cheese ball rolled in poppyseeds with legs to look like a spider and finished off with THESE!!!...

which I then put in super cute pumpkin pails with candy corn and gummy worms acting as my moss. Sorry forgot to take a picture of that, but I'm doing it again Friday, so I'll take one then!! Today, I packed up all my goodies and took them to book club, as it was my night to host! Thanks again to Cheryl for letting me "borrow" her house!! I did more, but its very late and I need to get back to my homework! What have you been up to?

Failure

So, its been a while since I've posted. And my last few posts weren't really anything of note. Mostly just to say I posted. There has been a reason for that, and its one that I'm not too anxious to share. However, I'm going to bite my lip and do it. Share, I mean.

This last month has not been a good month for me. In fact, it has been one of the worst in a very long time. And it has all been due to one word.... Failure. More specifically, the fact that I am one. Or at least that is how I have felt this past month. There are oh so many reasons I have felt like this, and they all seemed to come cascading upon me at once in an overwhelming flood of nastieness. Things just were not going the way I needed them to go and I was having to change my life plan again, for about the millionth time this year, ... well, you get the idea. Not really the point of the story. So, there I was being a grump and complaining to my sis, when she gave me some smack-you-in-the face advice. She said, "Tisha, you're being dumb. You're only a failure if you give up." (Kind of ironic since I'm pretty sure I said the same thing to her a few months back!) Great advice, but I'm pretty thick. I didn't catch on right away. Actually, it took me a little while. Like, more than a week. Not too proud of that, but what the heck. Its the way it was.

Then today, I was going through my day, feeling bad for sleeping through conference, (In my defense, I have had pnemonia this past week and am just now starting to feel human again.) when my little old brain got to thinking. It was one of those spiritual 2x4 moments. You know the kind; where the Spirit smacks you in the face with a "Umm, you should know this stuff" feeling. So, there it was right in my face, saying get off your but and get busy and be happy. So, that is what I'm going to do. Get off my but, get busy and be happy. I'm not so worried about the first two, the third one might take a little more work, but it will happen!

And since I realized I haven't posted any pictures in way too long, here are some pics of the thing that makes me happiest!!

FREE PURSES!!

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100 and Counting...

Ok, I'm a LONG way from 100 posts, but a few close friends are there. Check out Kelly's great 100 list and the awesome contest on Sarah's site!

When Upon Life's Billows...

Ever have something you feel like you desperately need to talk about, but you are afraid people will think you're crazy. I'm there. I have been for the last several months. I think I may have to move to Cardston so I can save on gas going to the temple. I won't bore you with the details, but I apologize if I have been less than congenial recently. Please forgive me and be patient. And to those of you who would offer a to lend an ear, thank you, but its just not possible.

The song "Count Your Many Blessings" has been rolling around in my head for the past few weeks now, most specifically the following line:

"When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed, when you are discouraged thinking all is lost....."

So, I'm going to follow the instruction in the song and count my blessings, one by one. I'm not gong to list all of them here, that would take a while. But, I am going to list some. So, here goes:

1. TJ. I love being a mommy. I wish I was better at it, but I love it.
2. My family. They love and support me in all my craziness.
3. The gospel. I know the church is true and that gives me a reason to get through this.
4. My friends. I have some really great friends. Even the ones who I'm not super close with, I know if I asked them for help, they would be there.
5. Health care. This may sound silly, but being able to have TJ would have cost us WAY more somewhere with a different health care system and we would have had to wait even longer.
6. Freedom. Need I say more?

Well, there are some of the major ones. I don't feel much better, so I guess I'd better keep going. I'm off to get some paper.

Later

I was going to post today because the coming week is a ridiculously busy week for me, but I'm not having a good day, so my post would be a lot of whining and bemoaning my situation (which really is not all that bad) so its going to have to wait till next week. Sorry.

Inspiration....

Need a little crafty inspiration? Want to spend time getting ideas? Check out The Crafty Crow. The site itself may not be that inspiring to you, but you literally can spend hours checking out all the blog links in "The Rookery" (on the right hand side of the screen a little ways down.) Check it out. Just set an alarm so you don't get too carried away!!!