Whew! Yesterday was super-busy getting ready for the ladies’ meeting last night, where we worked on favors for the upcoming ladies’ luncheon. I am going to wait to show them, though. 🙂 Traditionally, for some reason, we have fewer ladies come out to the type of meeting where we’re doing anything hands-on than when we have a speaker (I would have thought maybe some were wary putting together anything crafty, but even when we do something like wrap missionary Christmas presents, we have fewer.) But I really enjoy the fellowship over whatever we’re working on plus the creativity of the other ladies. We got quite a few favors put together.

I only had time for a quick drive-by of some posts yesterday, but I hope to catch up with everyone today.

I saw this over at Mama Bear‘s and thought it looked like fun.

1. Do you have magnets on your fridge? Yes. I did a post on them once. I have so many I had to take some down and store them in a drawer. This is one of my favorites:

2. Do you have a calendar in your kitchen, if so, what’s the theme of it? Yes. It’s the Faithful Moments 2010 calendar illustrated by Lisa Blowers. It has homey drawings with Scripture verses. Here is this month’s page:

3. What is your favorite kitchen gadget? My wire whisk. I could never make gravy well until I got one. I don’t know how my mom managed without one. Now I use it on white sauces, cream of wheat — anything that needs to be smooth and lump-free.

4. Are you lucky enough to have a pantry of some kind? No, and I miss having one.

5.What is your favorite appliance? I probably should say microwave, as much as we use it, but I’ll say toaster oven (assuming, of course, that whoever made this up meant smaller appliances. I’d have a hard time going without the stove and refrigerator.)

6. Do you have an eat in kitchen (table in it)? I guess you would say so. It’s all in the same room but separated by cabinets and the stove. We do not have a separate dining room.

7. Do you have a bread box? Yes.

8. Do you have a picture of your kids on the fridge? No. They’re in the hallway. 🙂

9. Do you ever cook breakfast in your PJs? On weekends.

10. Do you have a favorite cookbook that you use? Yes, an old Betty Crocker one and my church cookbook.

11. Are you lucky enough to have recipes that were passed down from your mom or grandma? I make some of the same dishes my mom did, but I don’t have her recipes written down. I do have a couple from one grandmother but I have never tried them.

12. What’s your favorite food? It would be too hard to choose one overall favorite  — I like many things, and what I prefer each day varies.

13. What’s your favorite thing to cook? For dinner, something with chicken tenderloins. I like that you can take them straight from the freezer and have a meal made in 30 minutes or less. Chicken Enchilada Bake is one family favorite using them.

14. Is your coffee pot electric or stove top? Electric. I grew up with a stove-top percolator but didn’t think anyone used them any more.

15. Do you ever make your own bread? No. Well, banana and pumpkin bread, but not sandwich bread. I tried a few times in early marriage but it always came out really heavy in texture.

16. Name one thing that you have hanging on your wall in your kitchen: A pegged shelf with little heart ornaments accumulated from various places we’ve visited.

17. Is there a clock in your kitchen? Yes, one in the microwave, one on the “dry sink.”

18. Do you have a bowl of fruit sitting on your table or counter? No, all fruit except bananas are in the refrigerator. I like them cold. And I don’t like fruit flies.

19. What type of canisters do you have? An old Tupperware set, the kind with the accordion-pleated lids.

20. Does your kitchen have a theme? Hearts and pink roses.

21. What’s for supper tonight? Good question! 🙂

22. Do you have enough cabinet space? No. Some of the bigger stuff is in the living room closet.

23. Does your family use paper plates? Frequently for snacks and lunches, occasionally for dinner if we’re having something like hamburgers. We use them for Sunday morning breakfast so as not to have to wash plates again before dinner.

24. Do you have a good set of china? No. Just my Tea Rose Pfaltzgraf, which I love. There is no room for a china cabinet, anyway.

25. Do you wear an apron to work in your kitchen? No. Some of the ones I see these days are really cute, but I just don’t like to bother.

26. Name one thing, if anything, that you would like to change about your kitchen. More cabinet and counter space, a pantry, and more room around the table. Sorry, that’s three. 🙂 But we can’t do any of that without knocking out a wall, and that’s too expensive.

Feel free to borrow this as well. Let me know if you do!