A Family Christmas Tradition

Every Christmas of my whole life, my family has enjoyed a family recepie on Christmas Day....my grandmother usually makes them for us for Christmas Day - hers are always the best, even if we all use the same recepie. Anyway, my grandmother & her sister (my great aunt) make them for family & friends at Christmas time and enjoy them with us on Christmas morning just like their mother - Annie Belle, my great grandmother, used to. I made them for my daugther's day care teachers last Christmas and they LOVED them...so I have decided I should share the recepie with you too.

Sausage Biscuits (Bite Sized)

Yield: 4 rolls (12-15 bite sized sausage biscuits per roll)

First you will need 4 cups of Self-Rising Flour (sifted)

Next, add 4 tsp. of sugar to the flour & mix. Then add 1 cup of Crisco to the flour & sugar mix. I also add a few pats of butter and/or margarin.

Then cut the Crisco (& butter) in with the flour mixture with a pastry blender/cutter or a fork.

Next add 1 1/3 cups of buttermilk

Mix all together to form a biscuit dough. Kneed and then divide dough until 4 equal parts. Roll out each part of dough with a rolling pin.

Then you will need ground sausage - We use Jimmy Dean Mild Pork Sausage. The tube of sausage should be enough for all sections/parts of dough.

"Sprinkle" sausage over the rolled out dough section(s). Then sprinkle with paprika & roll the dough (with sausage on it) up into a roll & roll like you are making a snake with play-dough. Pinch the ends together.

You should have 4 rolls of sausage biscuits.

Wrap in foil and/or freezer paper & store in freezer.

When you are ready to use, thaw roll a little and slice like you would a cucumber or roll of cookies. Slices better when slightly frozen.

Bake at 400 degress for about 20 minutes.

They are great sserved with grape jelly or orange marmalade.

Hope you enjoy!

Christmas Home Tour

Welcome to our Home!


Staircase & Hallway


Nativity Scene in the Hall

Fireplace Mantel Arrangement

Living Room

Living Room

Kids table in the Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen tree decorate with Christmas Cards

Emmeline's Vintage Aluminum Tree & garland we made & used as a tree skirt

Sophie's Room - Tree

Garland we made for her room

Welcome to our Home!

Christmas Time

A trip to Bass Pro Shop for a little Christmas shopping, visit with Santa, and for the kids to enjoy the games & toys.

The girls are excited about Christmas!

The decorations slowly came together & we fill the tree in the kitchen with our Christmas cards and the girls handmade ornaments for church & school/day care


Checking the lights for the tree
Sophie helped me decorate


The children at Union United Methodist Church sang a song in the Christmas Cantata

We enjoyed the Christmas parade with my mom & brother. ....it was very cold!

We attempted to take pictures for a Christmas card - but it was getting too dark & no one would cooperate


Neither would my camera

We did a little baking

The church I grew up (Trinity UMC) at & Sophie attends their kids "Big Fish Club" on Wednesday nights, had the children's Christmas program Sunday...it was so cute & Sophie did so well. She even said her speaking part, although very quietly.

That should catch me up for now.............

Happy Thanksgiving! (I know it's days from Christmas)

November 2009

Off to the "Tea Cup" Sale at church Saturday night (11/7/09).


Going to school

Homecoming at church (Union UMC) 11/01/09

I think that catches me up for now...

Halloween 2009

Halloween Parties!

Emmeline had a Halloween Party @ day care on Friday, October 30th. They wanted them to wear a costume, so she went as a witch (it was easier to go to the potty in than her other costume for trick-or-treating). The witch costume was a "left over" of Sophie's. Emme was so cute & loved the costume, epecially the witch hat. She did NOT want to take it off and had a fit to sleep in it.

Treat Bags (bowls) & Black Cat cupcakes for Emmeline's class. Public school doesn't allow parties for kids anymore, so Sophie didn't have one at school, like we used, to way back when I was in elementary school....I swear, times have changed and not for the better in some ways.

So, my friend Sherry & I hosted a party for the kids at her house on Friday night. Everyone had a great time, even those that came that didn't have kids. We had chili, cornbread muffins, "mummy" dogs, and an assortment of snacks & appetizers. To our surprise, gracious friends of ours made a hug pot vension stew, & another family brought oysters. We had a "graveyard hunt' in the edge of the woods. They had a trail back to a field through the woods and we set up tombstones, lanters, candles & spider webs. We threw out glow-in-the-dark skeletons, skulls, skeleton hands, bugs, critters, eyeballs, and rats....the kids were given flashlights & they searched to see who could collect the most in the dark....they loved it! Then they did the pinata & hay ride....adults & kids loaded up in the trailer & we were pulled through the woods & fields on their farm...then those daddies & adult men who did not go on the hay ride, hid in the woods at the end & jumped out and scared us....I about wet my pants, but it made for a great laugh!

Trick-or-Treat October 31, 2009

Sophie was a black princess cat.

Emme a pumpkin.

Am-ma (my mom) & Ammie (Ron's mom) went with us. First we had to make the required stops at our grandparents (the kid's great-grandparents) & my great-aunts for the special treats. Then we went to Erika's (our babysitter) parents neighborhood for more trick-or-treating. Erika's dad drove us in the back of his truck. Emmeline wouldn't let Shane, Erika's boyfriend, go. It was, "My Shane" all night long. The girls really enjoyed it. With Erika & Shane's helped I got to enjoy watching Sophie & Emmeline enjoy trick-or-treating....Sophie sacked out on the way home Emme called for her "Shane" or would ask, "Where my Shane go?" all the way home.

We had a fun Halloween weekend!