So Much!!!!!

Second bedroom

God has been blessing us so much. Not only has he provided us with a home....He is providing it so fast! The apartment will be available for us to move in this weekend! I am so excited to have our own place again. I miss it so much. Being in charge of my own house, and cooking and cleaning for my husband and me. It just gives me such a feeling of accomplishment.

Partial view of Master Bedroom

Livingroom view

This apartment is half a house, two bedrooms and one bathroom. The kitchen is kinda small.....but I can make it work. I have to say, I am most excited about being able to have my kitchen table, in my kitchen!!!!!!                                                      
I have also been discovering, that I am appreciating more and more doing things for me and my husband. Like making growing vegetables that we can eat, freezing and canning food for the winter, doing our laundry and making things that we can use. I LOVE IT! God really is giving me the attitude of a housewife. I think that is just amazing, because when we lived in Scranton, right after we got married, I struggled with having an attitude of wanting to clean and cook and take care of my husband. Perhaps part of God's plan in having us here with my parents was to get me to long for all those things that I didn't enjoy doing before! He has such a sense of humor.

Front of the house

 I am looking forward to going to our new apartment in the next week and cleaning, and organizing again. I can't wait to set up my furniture and to decorate. I LOVE the fall. I just love the crisp air, the smells, and I love the fall decorations. I am longing to have my own apartment just so I can decorate! Then I want to have a harvest party, just so I can be a hostess!!!!!
A friend of mine just gave me an Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer. I love it so much. It makes one of my favorite jobs, (baking apple pies) so much easier. It literally cuts out half of my work. Now if only they could come up with a machine that could make the crust.........

  Unfortunately, I don't have a way to tape this thing in action, cause that would be so cool to post here! Anyways, I used this fancy new machine to make two apple pies last night. (My family is so gonna miss me when I move out!) It is somehow so relaxing to me to come home from work and cook and bake. I love the fact that I can do so many things at once in the kitchen and they all turn out fantastic!!!!! So just in case you were wondering, here is the recipe I used.
                                            APPLE CRUMBLE PIE

   1 cup Sugar
2 tablespoons flour
6 cups thinly sliced, peeled cooking apples (I used 9 apples)
Pastry for single-crust pie
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/4 cup butter
Combine 1/2 cup of the sugar, and the 2 tablespoons four. Sprinkle apple slices with the sugar mixture and toss to coat. Fill a pastry-lined 9-inch pie plate with apple mixture. Combine remaining 1/2 cup sugar, the 1/2 cup flour, and the spices. Cut in the butter until crumbly; sprinkle mixture atop apples. Cover edge of pie with foil. Bake in a 375 oven for 30 minutes. Remove foil; bake for 30 minutes more or till topping is golden.

                                                                 
                                                      8-9" PIE CRUST
Use a pastry blender to cut 2/3 cup shortening into 1 2/3 cups flour. Stir in 1/4 cup water with a fork. Roll out on floured board.
 So that was all the fun I had last night, and today my family is reaping the benefits of having a Sarah who loves to bake. The other fun I had last night was playing with my kitty Sammi. Sammi was a wedding present from one of our groomsmen, and she has been with us since the day we got married. She was then only 5 weeks old and so tiny!!!! Today she is a bundle of energetic insaneness. Her favorite pastime being torturing my parent's dog.

Duncan looking so depressed...

God continues to amaze me day by day. Earlier this week I was struggling with a co-worker, someone who I didn't quite get along with that well. I spent that entire day praying that God would give me sweet and kind thoughts and words about this person. Then later this week I have been presented with opportunity after opportunity to talk with this person, and to get to know them better. God knows that when that happens I learn to like the person more and more. It is just amazing to me how quickly prayers are answered sometimes. Sometimes, as I well know, His answer is wait. But other times it just amazes me.
I want to end my post with a couple of thoughts from work.....first the serious one.
I was standing there....munching on a chip, and a really good one at that. This guy approaches, one that I know from work, see him all the time. He says "Why is it that the skinny ones are always stuffing their faces? And yet they get no fatter." I just laugh. Then he says, "That's why I don't believe in a god, it just isn't fair." I was speechless. What am I supposed to say to that?!
Now the funny one....
"Have you heard the one about spinach and boogers? Kids won't eat the spinach."