Share Four Somethings

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Things we've loved, learned, that went well and let go of- linking up with Jenn for Share Four Somethings

Things I loved:

1. I loved getting to see my family in Indiana

2. I loved getting produce in the garden. 

Two days worth of tomato pickin'

Here's a garden salad with everything picked from the garden- lettuce, a tiny amount of peas (one pea plant came up recently), carrots, tomato and green pepper

I added items to make it a Cobb salad

3. The weather- this was taken on route in Indiana. It was the first time that rain had hit my windshield in over a month! Thankfully it rained in Springboro as well last weekend. It was the first rain we had in over a month. Last week, it was rainy and gloomy on and off the entire week. I loved it! We needed the rain desperately and I was thankful for every drop. The forecast looks lovely temperature and sunny wise this upcoming week which will be nice. But I will miss the rain :).

4. I loved seeing a movement grow. I think the hate surrounding Charlie Kirk's death had the effect of righteous anger stir in the hearts of those who appreciated his mission and message. I loved hearing Erika's eulogy- her strength, wisdom  and forgiveness of Charlie's killer made quite an impression on me and I know from discussing it with others that I'm not the only one who felt that way.  

Things that I learned:

1. I have a problem with histames in my body running amok. No word on why nor did the dermatologist seem to care too much. Maybe I shouldn't care why and be thankful that taking antihistamines seemed to do the trick to rid the effects of the bad histamines- terrible rashes on my body. 

2. You can use hand sanitizer to get rid of glue-y paper on jars. Silly me, I thought water would do the trick. When that didn't happen, I turned to the 'net for help. Hand sanitizer was listed as a hack to dissolve the glue that sticks to the jar when you try to remove the paper.

It worked though the lid foretold the jar's former contents.

Things that went well

1. Several good meals- meat loaf, Mac and cheese

I had a Mac and cheese recipe that I used in the past but it was a little fussy. You had to melt butter and then add an egg but you had to wait until the butter cooled down before you added the egg or the egg would start to cook. Then you had to bake everything. I looked for an easier, stove top recipe and found one that we really liked. It also just called for milk- no cream or half and half. I was a little leery of the sour cream because I detest it but it blended in such that I couldn't taste it. I added additional cheese, pepper jack  (mainly because I had no idea if I was using 8 ounces of pasta and I wanted to error on the cheesy side.) 

The recipe can be found here.

2. A little project came to fruition and turned out cute. I will write more about this later as I have many thoughts about it and words to share about it! 

Things that I let go of:

1. I got rid of a number of items from the crafting area of the house. We don't have a room or anything dedicated to crafts. I have a kitchen cabinet and some plastic bins that I have items in. One thing led to another when I was looking for a craft items and I started purging old markers and items that had outlived their usefulness. I also organized the cabinet and it looks a lot better. 

There are probably other things that I guess that's the only one that is coming to my mind as I write this!