I am so excited.  Yeah. Really..

I have been submitting images to Foodgawker and TasteSpotting for awhile.  I love those sites because there is always something cool on there and it makes it easy to find posts for Saturday Blog Surfing.  None of my images was ever quite good enough: over exposed, blurry, blah….

And I had pretty much decided to stop sumbmitting because I don’t take rejection well.

So I submitted my last one last night..and decided to submit three that I thought were my best over the past week or so.

• Eclairs
• Cauliflower soup
• Sopapillas

The first two were turned down and the sopapillas were pending when I went to bed.

I woke up this morning to find that I. Was. In!

The sopapillas made it!

If you hadn’t seen that recipe, or want to make them here it is:

Authentic Sopapillas

Marc and I have another afternoon at the VA today…so send some prayers and good wishes our way.  We have been referred to another doctor because his main doctor has no more ideas.

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Over the past couple of weeks the recipe posts have been a little lame.  I know.  Sigh…and I have gotten several, YES! SEVERAL awards that I have not posted..but I will! I swear! I will!

We have had a lot going on here so I thought that I would update you and then you would understand why I have been a little more …hmm…relaxed than usual.

Well, you know about the Marriage Actually blog.  It isn’t that I have so much more time than anyone else..it is basically that since Marc lost his job (his boss felt that the wheel chair might mar the jewelery counters) after his disability our income comes largely from my writing.  So…I write.  And I love blogging so it is o.k..but sometimes, especially at the end of the month I have deadlines looming (gulp…Daring Bakers) and I spend more time writing than baking.  By the way, thanks to those of you who have visited and promoted  Marriage Actually on your blogs… I was so blessed to see your names over there in the comments and in the stats! :::happy sniff:::

But I have a secret that I haven’t shared.  Well, you see, I couldn’t because I wanted everything to be fer shur.

I am doing a cookbook. I have been contracted by Adams Publishing to do a cookie book that should come out sometime early next year. :::flushed with pride:::  I am very excited, but I have to have all of it done by….gulp…early September.

I also have been hired to do freelance writing here and there for Corporate Snobs and  HQ Wedding Favors.  I am still editing the Antiques channel for Love to Know as well as writing for several different channels there.  And, of course, still writing about homesteading and green issues on Hubpages.

I can tell you that this will do a lot to alleviate our financial stresses right now, God is good.

The tenant in our rental house is still there.  She moved but left some of her stuff in the house, so we changed the locks.  She told the police that  we had locked her out and the court ordered us to let her back in. Sigh.  We have until the 6th of August to find some money to bring the payments up to date or the mortgage company will foreclose.  I have no clue when this tenant will actually leave and at this point I am almost ready to let the mortgage company and the tenant hash it out and just walk away.  I won’t  do that without a fight though..I just don’t let go of things that easily. I know the God has a great plan, He has just not emailed me with the specifics yet.

Marc goes in to Waco in September to meet with a medical board about his disability.  The VA still has him rated at 20% even though he can only work very part time, is in constant pain, and uses a wheelchair.   We will be trying to figure out if they have an actual brain over there in Waco, so that is coming up too.

If you remember that my daughter and her husband and two kids moved in with us last December, it looks like they are moving into their own place.  Jon got a job two months ago and they have the money together to move.  This will be both happy and sad…they aren’t moving far but I am awfully used to having them around. On the other hand…I am not losing part of my family, I am gaining my sewing room back.

Then of course, there is the gardening.  I am having a losing battle with the weeds in my garden this year.  I planted heirloom corn and some weird bugs got into it..so that is a complete wash.

My house? Don’t ask.  If we get a good wind I am opening the front and the back doors and calling it dusted!

Busy? Who ME?

So, If my posts seem a little rushed, or I visit you less than normal, please know that I am still praying for you, thinking about you, and maybe even sneaking in a quiet visit…just not enough time to chat.

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