we ate popcycles. . . . .
we went for a walk by the stream
and found this little guy:
We climbed rocks
and looked for more creatures. . . . . .
We found pretty wild flowers. . ..
and made no-bake cookies.
David (dripping wet from swimming and still in his life-jacket) wants that one:
NO BAKE COOKIES
3 T. cocoa
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. shortening
1/2 c. milk
1/2 c. peanut butter
1 t. vanilla
3 c. oatmeal
1/2 c. nut meats
Boil all of the following: cocoa, sugar, shortening and milk for 2 minutes. Then add peanut butter, vanilla, oatmeal, and nut meats. Drop on wax paper and let harden.
Also, on a hot day sometimes it’s a good idea to hang out in the kitchen sink:
toes
May I indulge in a show and tell? 
On my kitchen windowsill you see: a blue glass vase that reminds me of my mom because she collects blue glass. A fiesta teapot clock is behind the vase. I found it at a tag sale for 10 CENTS! See that piece of wood? It’s something I picked up on a walk, the knot fell out leaving a perfect circle. I stand at the sink and look at the perfect circle and think about God. The piece of wood is in a thingy that you use for canning to keep the rim clean while you add the hot liquids (I don’t know the name of it). I love my old canning jar that I filled w/old white buttons. Last but not least is my little nutmeg grater, a vase of wildflowers that Jacob picked for me, and a small pitcher that has loose change in it. They are all things that I like to look at.
What do you have on your kitchen-sink windowsill?
It’s another hot morning but I’ve heard that a thunderstorm is coming. I may get to run around outside in the rain today!
By the way, that picture above of the stream reminds me of Psalm 23. Maybe one of you can quote it in your comment.
Good to be Home 
Great post. I miss the kids.
Love the wrinkled baby foot =] We love no bake cookies! Mmmmm My recipe is the same it just doesn’t call for peanuts. Hubby would like ’em with nuts- maybe I’ll try them like that. Sounds like you all had a good time surviving the hot day =)
On my window sill right now is a recipe book holder. A wooden sign that reads “Kitchen Closed due to illness, I’m sick of cooking” lol I got that a few years ago at a flea market while I was pregnant and was going through a time where I didn’t feel like making dinners! I am cooking lots more now a days but I still like it so I keep it. Also a wooden cut out of the word “princess” that I got for the girls to paint and put in their room but we laid it up there to dry and it’s been there ever since =] And a mason jar filled with pop can tabs that Haley has decided she wants to start collecting to see how many she can get. And finally a smooth flat rock that one of the kids brought to me and I laid it up there.
Hope you have a lovely day!
Blessings,
Theresa
Sounds like a wonderful way to spend a summer day. down by the stream looks so cool and refreshing. And I have been looking for a good no bake cookie recipe. I will have to try it out soon. I will tell you how we like them.
Kelly
Your entry takes me back to when I was a little girl and walked in the farm creek and looked for creeping things. The sink reminds me of pictures I have of our two oldest children in our kitchen sink – at the small farmhouse we rented during the first few years of marriage.
“He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.” Psalm 23:2-3. And on my kitchen windowsill? Teensy, tiny coffee mugs that say ‘Grandpa’ and ‘Grandma’ ~ a placecard with my name on it which is decorated with a sticker of a wren ~ and a little tiny antique children’s book with the title ‘The Blue Bird Book’. Beside my sink, there is a little vase held by a brass wren that used to belong to my best friend who died from cancer a few years ago. I keep a fresh flower in it sometimes.
Above my sink you will find an aloe plant, a philodendron, a pretty stone, and a plant pot which matches the curtains. (I keep my sponge in there.)*** I made those cookies for my cell group when it was too hot to bake. ***We have been having cool weather here, though. It’s only 55 degrees, very windy and raining buckets! Last night I needed two blankets on the bed. I hope next month when we are having lots of company coming it will be more summerlike. I don’t think they would like our umbrella killing weather!
On my kitchen ledge is a plant I was given when Ainsley was born and a plant Kare-bear gave me for my last birthday. I am not good with houseplants, so to say they are still alive (especially the one I was given for Ainsley’s birth) is quite an accomplishment. I also have an assortment of vitamins, baby and children’s ibuprofen, other assorted drugs :)… I guess I treat it as a little medicine cabinet. There’s also a cute little pitcher I got at a mother-daughter banquet at my mom’s church after I had already left home. I won’t quote the whole thing, but “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me” from Psalm 23 has always been a special part of that Psalm to me.
Fwren quoted it for me!I laughed with delight at your little naked guy in the sink. The one of him turning the water on is “such a boy” picture.My kitchen sink is filled with dishes and pots…it was family movie night last night, so I left everything to go watch a movie with Bri and Spence.We have a pop put window over the sink. It’s filled with produce from our garden…avacados, peaches and bananas. There is also a clear glass cross.When I 1st saw the cookies, I thought how could she bake on such a hot day? Clever recipe!
My window sill is not very “glam” today…it has a meat thermometer, some fresh thyme, a clove of garlic, a little basket that seems to catch things…in the basket? parts from a canner, a small rock that I painted “Starry Nights” on for my son’s grad favors in 2000, a vintage heart cookie cutter with the light green handle, other stuff that I am not certain of. There is also a metal kazoo that is drying on the sill(found when cleaning this morning) and my candle in the window – always on, day and night- ever since my son went to Iraq. He is stateside now…so I should maybe put it away- like I did the yellow ribbon on my door.
Whew! Such a rambling comment!
The photo of the water made me think of Psalm 1…..”He is like a tree…planted by streams of water that yeilds its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers….” Love that Psalm.
The no bakes were a staple when our kids were growing up. My daughters made them almost every night…and the three boys and their dad had no problem chowing them down!!!! :o) My groceries last much longer these days. Girl, girl, girl…..when those boys of yours hit the teen years…LOOK OUT!
I have a mix of small cobalt blue glass and milk glass toothpick and salt cellars.
Love it all Shanda. I do not have a windowsill :(, but I wish I did! Love your treasures.
Hello! Just stopping by. I enjoyed reading, as always. (The no-bake cookies remind me of my grandma. She made them often, and they are a favorite of mine. Sadly, I have no window sill in the kitchen, but I love the view of the tree outside.)
I began a new blog after a much-needed break. The new blog has friends lock, so I sent you invite. Hope you are well! Heather
‘He restoreth my soul…’ (Verse3) A comfort I have found so true again and again.
On my window sill is 4 house plants, one of which is blooming right now. They are all in various pots that I have collected over the years. Not much else there. But I know that it need washing. I was going to quote the verse but I see it has been done already!
Col
What a beautiful shot of the stream. I love the reflection. I love the clarity that your new camera captures in things and people! I don’t have a window over the sink but the window BY the sink has a crystal vase and some blue glass and my hand made curtain.
HOW FUN…. I use to catch crawfish and bullfrogs all summer long when I was a kid…… awwwwwwwwwwww fond memories. On the shelf above my kitchen sink I have sea shells and sea glass that we collect while walking the beach. I also have a small cobalt blue vase that I love the way the sun shines makes it look.
I loved those pictures in sepia, and the photograph of the river! What a blessing to live where you can get out in nature with your kids…~Colleen~
Your blog is like still waters that restore my soul. I have tea pots on one window sill, A sunflower decorated metal container with purple and lavendar african violets nestled inside on the second. On my counter by the sink I keep a tiny hedgehog with a tiny cup of tea. On the counter just above the sink is my collection of crystal given to me over the years, (one with candy in it for grandchildren), some candles (red white and blue right now) and a orangey gerber daisy in a crystal vase. My blue glass is at the dining room window. (only three). It has been a long long time since there were little toes dangling out of my sink. I loved that one! Love you, M in SC
i am so excited to comment becuz i have a window in my kitchen for the first time in 20 yrs!!i have small silk plant that my dh gave me for valentine’s day, a small wooden basket with a country apple design on it, a wooden apple with the words “teaching is a gift of the heart” (i homeschool), a wooden amish couple, a straw doll from a trip we took to a living history farm and a ceramic angel reading to a little girl (dh gave it to me after i miscarried our emily). we make no bakes here all the time!!! i absolutely love your pictures.
Great pictures — we have pictures of our children in the sink too — what memories. I think they were getting baking soda baths when they had the chickenpox. Catching toads (or frogs) and crayfish — what fun! We used to put jellyfish in pails when we were kids and watch them turn into tadpoles. Most of our pictures of our children (when they were younger) are slides and I’m in the process of scanning them (only 2 at a time!) onto my computer and then I’m going to transfer them to DVD’s so we can see them on the TV. It’s quite a job but needs to be done, and someone has to do it! I’ve posted pictures of what’s on my windowsill at my site.
Jealous of the wood, I have a few like that but none so large! His toes are adorable!