The Life of a Farmer's Wife: Life in General

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Monday, April 4, 2016

A Helpful Tip from the Farmer's Wife

Yeti cups. The most popular thing since sliced bread. Everybody has one. Everybody has to wash them because they are not dishwasher friendly. Boo.

Here you have your dirty Yeti cup.

Of course, you know to clean the inside.

And how to clean the outside.

Even how to clean the lid.

Uh oh, what is that black ring? A seal? Does it come off??

Why, yes it does! This is a recent discovery to me, and although I may be the only Yeti owner on Earth who didn't know this, I'll share how you pop that sucker off! Just poke a knife, flat head screwdriver, or other pointy flat object and pull it off the lid!

Tada! I keep it clean now, but the first time I washed under the ring, there was a bit of gunk. Ick.

And there you have it. The Life of a Farmer's Wife helpful tip of the day!

Saturday, January 16, 2016

It's Almost Halloween...

Wait..it's not? You're right. I may have gotten my holidays mixed up. It may not be Halloween on the calendar, but it is on my blog! I always post our Halloween pics on here, and I'm always late. So, keeping with the tradition...Here they are!

Can you tell what we were? Cavemen and two dinosaurs! Since I have no idea how to make a homemade dino costume, I bought the kid's, but I made our cavemen outfits. How you ask? Oh, I splurged. Went all out. Bought a full size black bed sheet and two leopard print pillow cases. I cut a hole in the middle of the sheet, stuck it over Lance's head, and went to trimming. Lots of points. Cavemen love pointy stuff. I cut down the seams of one pillow case and wrapped it around Lance's waist and pinned it like a skirt. Then I tied it all up with some rope. I cut a diagonal across the closed end of the other pillow case, leaving a spot un-cut to hang on my shoulder. Then I cut a hole for my right arm. I cut jaggedy points at the bottom, cause you know, cavemen love pointy stuff. And don't forget our awesome accessories. Lance has a club. Reed has a small soft bat, and I covered it in crinkled paper bags. I have a bone in my hair, like every good cave woman should wear. I printed off an outline of a bone, cut it out, and glued it onto a small ruler to it would stick out straight. Tada! Instant cave family.

Our trunk or treat was moved inside cause of rain this year, so it was table or treat?? Anyways, I covered a table with a brown sheet, set a 13 gallon trash can on top, and covered it with a fitted brown sheet. Inside the trash can I put flicker flame lights and a red sheer table cloth. Used a box to sit it on. And you have yourself a volcano. Add some of Reed's thousands of dinosaurs, and watch the kids go nuts!

Here's an up close shot of some dinos, and Lance defending himself. That looks like an angry T-Rex.

Happy Halloween in the middle of January from the Millers!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

A Surprise Alabama Football Party!

So, on November 29th, my dad turned 60. It's not every day a person turns 60, so why shouldn't they have a party? Or better yet, a surprise party! Or even more better (is that a thing?) a surprise party at their house, set up while they were gone to church! Yep, that's what I did. Put all the stuff together at my house the day before, drove over an hour, snuck into my parent's house, and set up a party. Boy was he surprised! So surprised, in fact, when he drove up and saw all the cars, he kept driving! Thankfully, my mom convinced him to turn around, lol.

Here's how I decorated the party...

I made him this for the flower bed, so I thought I'd decorate with it first.

Outside the door was a "A" for everyone to sign. I had it made, and then I painted it.

Some of the table decorations...

I blew up 8 balloons, no, make that 9 cause one 1 popped. I don't think I've ever blown up 9 balloons in my life. I thought I was gonna die.

Football plates, and check out those "penalty flag" napkins, haha.

And now for the best part...the food!

My friend Brandy made the Alabama jersey cake. I'm terrible at decorating cakes. I decorated a cake that looked like a chicken once. I'm sure people thought it had the bird flu.

This is peanut butter football dip. You can get the recipe here.

I also made football brownies, parched peanuts, and a cranberry cheese "football". I didn't get this recipe online, so here it is...

Cranberry Cheese Ball

3 oz pkgs cream cheese, softened

1 can crushed pineapple, drain

1 pkg Craisins

1 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup confectioners sugar

1 cup chopped pecans

Mix all ingredients except nuts. Place in fridge for 1 hour. Form into shape. Add nuts. Cover and chill.

I also fixed boiled peanuts and little smokies (recipe here).

For drinks, we had coffee and "crimson" colored fruit punch Gatorade!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

A Quick Pre-Harvest Update

I thought I would give a quick update on things around here, well, on the kids at least, before we got up to our eyeballs in harvest!

College football has begun! Roll Tide!

Reed even started Pre-K!

He did get a timeout on the first day, but things have greatly improved! I think he likes it!

Here's the big shocker...Reed went to his first dentist appointment! I know, I know, he should've already been, but if you knew what this kid did at just a haircut appointment, you would keep confining chairs and sharp pointy objects way away from him.

But, he loved it! Completely blew our minds! No cavities either! I'm hoping this means the wailing, flailing, gagging, and everything in between will stop at the beauty shop!

And Jade is giving us lots of smiles (and occasional crying too, lol). She's basically outgrown newborn everything, is in size 1 diapers, is drinking 4 oz of milk every 3 hours, and sometimes even lets me sleep 5 hours in a row!

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Surprise! Again...

I have some impatient children. This one wasn't quite as impatient as Reed, when my water broke unexpectedly at 32 weeks, but when she came, she was sure in a rush!

Meet Jade Cheyenne Miller!

She was born July 27th at 7:55 AM, weighing 6lbs 8ozs and was 19 1/2" long. A whole 3 lbs and 3 1/2" more than Reed. A ginormous baby, lol.

In just like Reed fashion, I woke up early Monday morning at 4:10 (Reed was 5:00 AM on a Sunday) with my water breaking. Of course, I was 37 1/2 weeks pregnant, so I could have just peed on myself, lol.

After deciding this was not the case, I woke Lance up, and we started getting ready to go to the hospital. About 5:00, contractions started around six minutes apart. By the time we got to the hospital, contractions were three minutes apart, and I was dilated to a seven!

The nurses said that if I pushed, she would probably come right out, but don't push! Yep, breech, just like Reed. She was supposed to be a scheduled c section anyways, so that wasn't a big deal. I was just supposed to get to skip those pesky contractions this time. I got the, uh, best of both worlds with both kids.

I had to lay there 20 minutes waiting on lab work to get back before I could get any drugs, geeze Louise! I swear I had a hundred nurses working on me at once. I was in the express lane, lol. At 7:55, Jade was born!

Reed likes her, so far, haha. He wants to help do everything for her and likes to rub her head and sing to her.

He also likes to high five and give her fist bumps.

She's already flopping back and forth, can raise her head for a few seconds, and only wakes a couple times a night for a bottle. A big difference compared to Reed!