Ginger Ale and Pancakes

A couple of weeks ago, I surprised my brother and his wife with a new shirt for their daughter, Emma... the most precious little girl in the world. She was the first baby on my dad's side of the family to be born in 20 years! Being an aunt to little miss Emmagene is one of the greatest things in the world...


And come February, she will be a big cousin! Ronnie and I have had a lot of heartache and trials over the past 6 months, but the Lord has blessed us with a little one on the way. I am 8 weeks and 3 days and feeling every bit of the morning sickness... or rather all day sickness. Mostly all I've wanted to eat are pancakes, ginger ale or any other form of starchy food that I can manage to get down. But I am thankful and blessed... especially for a wonderful husband who is taking such good care of me.

Time to Put Up Some Corn!

A few nights ago, I got home from work to a massive pile of to-be-shucked corn out back - fresh from the garden. Ronnie had set up two chairs and a bucket to put the shucked corn in. And so, once I got all settled and changed from my work clothes, we commenced to shucking.

I'm not an expert on canning (although my hubby is), but one thing I can do and do well is shuck corn. We spent a good hour or so shucking. Then we washed and boiled our corn for 7-9 minutes. After we cooled the cobs in ice water, I proceeded to kick Ronnie's butt at cutting the corn off the cob. Once we had our corn piled up (and kernels everywhere it seemed from floor to ceiling) we bagged quart size freezer bags about 1/2 to 3/4 full.

After about 3 hours of work and a completely ravaged kitchen to clean up... we had a good start to our winter supply of fresh corn!



Happy Shucking Everyone!