Still Spring

Another glorious weather morning here! Unusually cool for May. I love this weather although it makes me a little nostalgic. I want to go to my Mom's and sit on the porch and visit. We could sit for hours there and discuss everything in the world! I miss her so much.

I also love this time of year for all the fresh veggies available. I've been picking eggplant and tomatoes already and enjoying their deliciousness!! I bought some green beans today from a friend whose grandkids make a garden with her and her husband. They call it their Making Memories Garden. How sweet is that? I think I'll just stir fry my beans to keep that crispness that I like. We'll have that with some pasta and shrimp etouffe' for supper!

Since I don't have a picture of tonight's supper, I'll post one from a few weeks ago. I roasted my first whole chicken ever. Researched some recipes online and brined it for a couple of hours. Then I stuffed it with lemon, onion and garlic. I chopped some of my fresh cilantro, green onions and parsley and mixed that with butter which I pushed under the chicken skin. It was soooooo good!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Easter Giveaway

I love Spring! To honor the gorgeous weather and Easter I'd like to have a little giveaway to my readers. I made some lavender or rosemary sachets for my littlest "peeps" and have a couple extra. Please comment on this post with your email and I'll choose two winners next Monday to send them some extra springtime love.

Linking with We did it! Wednesday at sewmuchado.blogspot.com/ and Pink Saturday at howsweetthesound.typepad.com.

Lots of luck!

(Not a great pic but I wanted to get this post up today.)

Grateful Sunday

My mom had open heart surgery last month and has been in the hospital since with complications before and after. This past Sunday we brought her home for the day to visit her house and enjoy the wonderful spring weather with all of us. Including some pics from that day-hopefully she'll soon be home for good!

Mom

Gabe and Georgia

Avery

Enjoy Spring where you are!!

anthropologie trip

i had to go to the doctor in baton rouge, so to make the trip worthwhile (ha, ha) my bh brought me to anthropologie first. my kids had given me a gift card for Christmas and i knew i'd find some fun stuff for spring (which i'm so looking forward to).  this towel was so cute and was in the sale rack so i couldn't pass it up. all that stitching!!these dishtowels are so pretty too. the cookies are from eric for valentine's day (from la madeline) they're so delicious!
this apron was on sale too!! isn't it cute?
and i decided to buy some more bowls because my polka dot ones are chipped. i wanted the pink and red ones too but the red was too dark and there were no pink right now. gives me a good excuse to go back.
the doctor prescribed some physical therapy for my foot so hopefully that will help with the pain and i'll be able to walk for more than 30 minutes before i really have to call it quits. that really puts a damper on playing outside with the grand kids or shopping! keep your fingers crossed for me!