Wednesday Hodgepodge

It's time for Wednesday Hodgepodge with Joyce, who blogs at From This Side of The Pond.  Each week she'll pose some questions for us to answer. What a great way to journal life.

1. What does productivity look like to you? Well, in my own life, I'd say productivity is more using my time wisely and to get the most out of it. Staying on task, though often for me that can be tricky and something I need to work on. I can be easily distracted. 

2. What was your fondest (or one of your fondest) memory of High School? While I don't have an amazing memory, I know that I loved the people I hung out with, my youth group and being in band and on the drill team. 

3. What did you do the summer after High School? Oh boy..no idea. I probably babysat to make money, and got ready to go to community college.  

4. June 14th is National Strawberry Shortcake Day...are you a fan, and if so will you celebrate? Well I didn't know that so I probably won't celebrate, though I do have some berries, so I could make some. How do you make yours? I DO NOT like the store bought spongy cake, if I make it, I'll do a sweet biscuit or angel food cake. Have you been strawberry picking? Years ago I picked a few times, otherwise I just bought them pre-picked. If so what do you do with all those berries? I used to make freezer jam for years but then we weren't eating it as much, and berries got more expensive so I stopped. Here's a post I wrote about making jam.

Strawberry shortcake using Joanna Gaines recipe for biscuits. 

5. What's something you always splurge on? Hmm..when I think of splurging I think of treating myself, so I suppose I would say coffee shop coffees. On daily living things, I would say now I am willing to spend more on grocery items that have better ingredients though I still try to find the best deals. This wasn't always the case because of budget and lack of knowledge. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. I'm writing this at midnight. My daughter who is in Hawaii for a month has been texting me. They are camping for a week, and tonight they are the only ones camping at the park and she felt a little nervous so I encouraged her to either sleep in their car where it could be locked or try to find a room and we'd help with the cost if needed. I think they're going to try and find a hotel, so I'm waiting up to see the end result. I know I won't fall asleep til I know they find one. They ended up finding a hotel. I think they were going to just sleep in the car, but I think they did find one eventually. Hopefully they were able to get a good night sleep.

She sent me these yesterday.

My son in law is in Mexico for the week so my daughter and the grandkids came and stayed the night. That was fun. We did bacon, sausage and crepes for dinner. I was craving a crepe like one we had on our October vacation, which had nutella, bananas, strawberries and whipped cream. Well, I don't like to buy Nutella (not the greatest ingredients) and the stores I went to didn't have any better options. My daughter suggested I put some cocoa powder in with some peanut butter. I did that with some maple syrup to sweeten it. Wow, that was good. Tomorrow is my day to babysit the grandkids so I'll watch them here, and then take them home when my daughter is done working. 

My hubby and I went away for 4 days last week/weekend to Anderson Island, Wa. That was a nice trip. I'll probably write more about that on my Weekend Coffee Share post. It is an island about 8 sq. miles. There are a few thousand residents, but only one small general store, a cafe, and a golf course that has a restaurant. There's also a historical museum. We had a lot of down time. We took lots of walks, visited 3 of their parks with hiking trails. I did two puzzles, read and we played a few games. 

Arrived at our house. It is owned by one of my hubby's co-workers so we sent her a pic when we got there.

The house. It was so cute inside. 

Hunting for sea glass, shells and pretty rocks.

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirsting