Vacation

I don't know about you but I use almost every bit of vacation time that I earn from work every single year! In Fact, I could use much more vacation time! I don't know how so many people can ignore their time off. I work with people that lose half of their vacation time every year because they don't use it. How do you do that? I wish they could donate it to me! :)

I could use a staycation! I rarely take time off to stay home not to mention I don't have enough time left usually to just stay home... What would I do...  spend time with my kids, my house, my dogs, my garden (that I have yet to plant- HAHA)! :) Still I don't know if I would end up staying home anyway. You see, I love to travel. You might even say that I am a bit adventurous. I like to go somewhere new every single trip that I take. I want to see places and do things that I have never seen or done before. The only reason that I haven't seen the world yet is that I miss my family! Since no one lives near me I often want to visit them. They are a bit spread out so that means a couple separate trips a year... By the time the years goes by the time is gone....

I think about my family and I miss our family trips. Growing up we usually didn't have the money to go on an exotic adventure and with as many kids as my parents had... I don't know how we went ANYWHERE! BUT we did and those trips are some of my favorite memories! We all piled in a car which was usually the family station wagon (and we only fit because no seat belts were required then) and took off driving. We drove everywhere! NO TV's in the car. No video games. Just the license plate game, the "I see something blue" game and a lot of patience (on my parents part). Driving to OK to see Uncle Dennis, Aunt Pat, Josh and Jake. We loved stopping in St. Louis on the way to see MEME. She always took her teeth out to scare the little kids! Her laugh when she did that! I can still here her! I remember driving to Florida to see my moms family and to go to DISNEY! WOO HOO! Swimming with the alligators and dodging my grandfathers machete as he walked around shirtless being macho while my grandmother strutted around in her tini tiny string bikini! YES! My grandma! You can't make that stuff up and you cant ever forget those times! Memories.

 I was so blessed growing up! Of course you don't think that when you are a kid but I know it now!
I love Vacations. They are almost always great but they are the best with family! Especially mine.

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Substitute for Buttermilk

I never have buttermilk and find quite a few recipes that call for it. OF COURSE I'm usually looking for a recipe just before I decide to cook so when I find one that calls for buttermilk I end up skipping it! NOT ANYMORE! Great quick hint.... Ta Ta for now...

1 cup buttermilk-  use 1 c milk and 1 1/2 tsp vinegar... let them sit together until little bubbles appear on the top, about ten min

NICE! 
T-