Gratitude

We have eggs!

Guess my chickens are thanking me for keeping them warm and giving them a nice warm breakfast!! Yesterday, I let down their ramp and a lonely egg rolled down. While I was going to get Steven to get it, I came back to find the chickens eating it. YUCK!!! I was disappointed and really hoped this wouldn't become a habit.
Today I went out to let them out, but I check their nest before letting down the ramp and lo and behold they had laid me three eggs. Oh they are so little and cute.

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas!

I think this will be the first White Christmas I can remember. We started getting snow on Wednesday and have gotten snow everyday day since. It has let up for today Monday, but is we are expected to get more Wednesday and Thursday (Christmas).
We have all had a great time playing in the snow! Of course I have taken lots and lots of pictures here are just some.




One morning I looked out in the yard and saw two deer. As the morning progressed the deer kept coming, in all there were 6 deer (3 nice bucks and 3 does).



You know it's really cold out when you wake up in the morning and the first thing you think of is fixing your chicken some warm oatmeal to help keep them warm.

Baking Sugar Cookies with my boys

The snow started falling on Wednesday and so no school! I decided it was a good day for baking. The boys and I made up some sugar cookie dough with frosting sprinkles and all.

Grandma Katie's Povitica

While reading my monthly subscription to Family Fun I saw a picture of some bread, I was so excited because I knew that it was povitica. I quickly turn to the recipe and sure enough it was.
You see my Great Grandmother Katie use to make this for the holidays. My sister Deanna and I have made it a couple of time over the past few years, but it always seemed to be quite challenging. Grandma Katie’s way of making it was that you rolled the whole batch of dough (enough to make 4/5 regular loaves of bread) over the entire kitchen table and tried your best to spread it as thin as you possibly could without tearing it. Then you would spread the yummy nut filling across the whole kitchen table that had the dough on it and then do your best to roll it all up like you would cinnamon rolls, again without tearing it. As you can see this became an almost impossible task.
When my sister came to visit I showed her the recipe and she said yes, it seemed like the recipe, but Grandma Katie’s used ½ -n- ½ instead of milk. No this isn’t a lowfat kind of bread.
I decided to give it a try one day, and I was surprisingly amazed it wasn’t all that hard, when you don’t roll all the dough out at once. Now, why we didn’t try this earlier when attempting to make it with my sister I am not sure, maybe because we wanted to make it just like Grandma Katie? I ended up making 4 loaves and I must say they are quite tasty. I am going to make some more when a couple of days before Christmas so they will be fresh.