Mom's peanut butter fudge

This is my wonderful mom making her chocolate peanut butter fudge, for one of the last times. This picture was taken December 1999. She got sick November 2000 and died January 2001. Her specialty was her peanut butter fudge. It was TO.DIE.FOR!! She would pack up tins of this fudge and send it to us in Indiana from their home in Florida. My sisters and I make the same recipe, but it just doesn't seem to taste the same. We miss you mom!

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Richard and I have been having a hard time with me being sick, his work being so slow and a layoff coming on December 18. I decided to cheer him up a little with some of Mom's fudge. Let's hope it works!






~*~*~Mom's Peanut Butter Fudge~*~*~
3 cups sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1 jar peanut butter (creamy or crunchy)
1 tsp vanilla
(you can add some choc. chips, if you want choc/peanut butter)

mix sugar and milk in heavy saucepan
cook on med/high heat, stirring constantly until rolling boil
continue cooking for exactly 3 minutes, stirring constantly
remove from heat, stir in vanilla
add whole jar of peanut butter, stirring until smooth
pour in a buttered 9X9 baking dish(I just use a deep dish pie plate that my mom made me when we got married. I have always used this for my fudge)

let set and ENJOY!!

The Partridge Family...

"Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted"...okay who's brave enough to admit that they are old enough to have loved the Partridge Family and David Cassidy? I am!




Heather and I & Chris and Jay went to a free "Pay it forward garage sale" last night. We got a lot of good stuff. Some we will use as gifts. Some for ourselves and our families.

Heather and I were looking at the books and CDs and she came across this CD. She was making fun, asking if I wanted it. To her surprise, I DID! I am listening to it right now and it is taking me back to my high scool days!!

(I will post more of what we were blessed with last night, in another post)

My favorite kind of recycling...

The "ugly" pumpkin that I bought for a decoration was getting rotten. Instead of throwing it out, I broke it open and put it by the bird/squirrel feeders. As you can see, they love it!

Hey, honey...do you hear water dripping?

Well, I didn't, but it was.

A pipe under the bathroom sink broke and flooded the bathroom, ran under the wall into the spare room (where all of my Christmas gifts were kept) and flooded the basement. Directly under the leak in the basement, were 2 LARGE storage boxes full of clean spring and summer clothes. WITH NO LIDS ON THEM. Why were there no lids? No one knows. Was it my fault? Was it Richard's fault? No one knows. What I do know is, I spent all day today rewashing those 2 boxes full of formerly clean clothes. Man was I pi$$ed!

Richard went to Menard's, got the parts and fixed it. Thank god he is a handy man!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I want to wish everyone a very happy and yummy Thanksgiving! Kylah and I are volunteering at the Salvation Army and then we will be going to Heather and Justin's for our family dinner.

Belated Halloween pictures...

Kamrie, Jaiden, Kenzie and Kylah!


Rocky, "carving" his own pumpkin!!

Didn't he do a great job?

Jordan wearing his pumpkin shirt. He thinks he's too old for a costume!


I'm pretty sure that Ozzy contemplated peeing in my shoes, after I made him wear this bat hat!!



Cowboy
Witch
Giraffe
My beloved Spikey in some of his costumes!! I look much happier than he does, don't you think? LOL!

Happy Birthday to me...

20 days late!! My darn computer was down on my birthday, but I wanted to show everyone the cake that Richard and Heather surprised me with. I didn't think I was going to have a cake this year (funds are kind of tight). They ordered it for Halloween day(my bday was the 29th), when we were having Heather's family over for chili before trick or treating.
Yes, that is a squirrel with a witch's hat on!! I absolutely loved it and so did the kids!!

Thank goodness they didn't put 52 candles on it!


Kammie, the good witch---Jaiden, the ninja---Kenzie, the priate(Kylah's best friend and Kylah, Little Red Riding hood!

Lupus, Lupus go away....

It's cold and rainy and I'm hurtin' for certain.