Friday, May 29, 2009

Friday Fave Five


1. Open windows on a cool, early morning. It's such a nice breeze and the birds sing so sweetly before the sun has had a chance to heat up the house.

2. My VitaMix. I know I've told you how much I love this machine for smoothies, but did I mention it also makes hot soup from raw ingredients in 5 minutes, ice cream (also from raw ingredients) in less than 2 minutes, grinds flour, makes mayo in less than 1 minute, and grinds/purees anything for baby food? It even cleans itself! I got this for free, but it is becoming so valuable, I'm thinking I'll have to replace it if it ever goes bad! (No, I do not get a commission from VitaMix...I just seriously love it!)

3. Long weekends. We had productive fun this weekend. Saturday we cleaned up the yard (sore muscles from raking!), Monday we had a cookout and played basketball (sore muscles--again!), and Tuesday we ran errands as a family, took our first Spring Hiking Spree walk and cleaned the basement.

4. A husband that writes me notes. In church. That make me blush. In the middle of my sermon notes. Don't worry, I already confessed to the pastor. He understood. :-)

5. Free sandwiches. This is a great thing to post during healthy eating week, but I got a coupon for a free Arby's Beef 'n' Cheddar sandwich. And, I love Arby's Beef 'n' Cheddar sandwiches. And my husband was late for supper so we got hungry. What would you have done?

12 comments:

  1. Went to ARBY"S!!! LOL! Love that your husband writes you notes!

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  2. The beef and cheddar is my favorite sandwich from Arby's! And a coupon make sit even better. Love long weekends, too, and it's fun to get love notes from hubby! Looks like you've had one busy week.

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  3. we have some very romantic and sweet notes of our own that we have wrote each other and also noticing that breeze more and more since we are not using the ac

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  4. I totally love a good breeze! Wish spring could go on forever ...

    I would have used the coupons and went to Arby's too.

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  5. Great Fave Fives this week. I love productive weekends.

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  6. I´ve never tried a vitamix but it sounds amazing! I´ll give it a try if I ever get the chance

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  7. I love #5! That is so cute. :) That brings me back to a memory of sitting on the edge of my hospital bed waiting for my first child to be born and wolfing one of those down. My husband snapped a picture of it and it's in my son's baby book. Aren't those good? I think with that coupon, I would have done the same thing. Sometimes, when my husband has to work late or something like that, I'll make pancakes and eggs for dinner. He is not a fan of breakfast for dinner but the kids and I can go for pancakes anytime. I will have to post my recipe for pancakes sometime. We have one we really love and it's healthy too. Do you have a pancake recipe you love?

    Hope you have a great weekend!

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  8. I always like to try new healthy recipes. Go ahead and post it in the comments or e-mail it to me.

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  9. Aww, the note passing in church is sweet. As is an understanding pastor. :v)

    My MIL loves her vita mix too. You got yours for free?! You are one blessed lady!

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  10. Hi, I just sent you an email about pancakes and posted about making sourdough bread if you are interested. Have a great weekend!!! :)

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  11. Yeah, Susanne, my grandmother got it for my mom and she never used it so she gave it to me to try it out. I tried it and now it's a necessary fixture of my kitchen! I am indeed very blessed.

    Thanks for the e-mail about the pancakes. I haven't checked it yet, but I'm getting ready to.

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  12. I'm glad I nagged you into using the vitamix!

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