Meal on the Grill!

This tasted every bit as good as it looked! And low calories!

 

 Spicy Peach Glazed Grilled Chicken

By: Chef Bobby Flay

Spicy Peach Glaze:

• 2 cups peach preserves or jam
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 small jalapeno, finely chopped
• Combine in bowl. Set aside.

 8 Bone-in with Skin chicken Breast

• Wash Chicken breast pat dry. rub with olive oil add salt and pepper.

• Place chicken on hot grill skin side down first, once that gets a good color turn the chicken over and brush with the peach glaze. I kept turning the chicken and brushing it every time I turned till alll sides had a nice blackened look and the outside was "sticky".

 DESSERT!

• 4 ripe peaches, cut in half and pitted

Place peach halves, cut side down on the grill and grill for 2 minutes. Turn over and brush with the peach glaze, grill for 3 to 4 more minutes until peaches are soft.

 Serves:8; Calories: 415 ;Total Fat: 7 grams; Saturated Fat: 1 gram; Protein: 28 grams; Total carbohydrates: 61 grams; Sugar: 55 grams; Fiber: 1 gram; Cholesterol: 68 milligrams; Sodium: 255 milligrams

Grilled Asparagus

Wash and cut ends off asparagus. Drizzle on (about a teaspoon) Olive oil and get it all over each stem. Sprinkle with Salt and Pepper. When the chicken is about done you put the asparagus on the grill at the same time you are putting on the peaches. I just grill them till tender. and rotate them so they get a little "grill mark" look to them on all sides. Remove from grill .
Finely grate FRESH Parmesan cheese  and sprinkle with FRESH thyme. SOOOOO good!!

Happy 9th Birthday Jadyn!

9 years ago today I was VERY pregnant, very miserable and VERY  impatient, unfortunately I wasn't as pregnant as my OB thought. Still yet though I was 36 weeks (38 according to the OB) , so things should have been ok.
So around 3 I was sent to the hospital to have my baby, I can remember the hospital not being very happy thinking I was going to be induced and they were crowded beyond what I had ever seen them! Turns out I didn't have to be induced (thank God "Pit"  I am convinced, is of the devil!) things happened rather quickly and Gary barely made it to the hospital from work. I remember holding my baby girl for a few minutes then they took her to clean her up and do the newborn test. It seemed like they were gone forever, and finally a nurse came back and we asked and were told Jadyn was breathing very rapidly and they weren't sure why. They assured me it was nothing to worry about and I believed them. So Gary went to see Jadyn.  It took a while before I realized everybody was real serious around me, and exchanging glances with one another and all of them looking at me with this worried and scared look, all my friends and my family, and the nurses, still they hadn't brought Jadyn back to me.
I think it was Gary who finally told me, it was a serious problem. So from that point on I wanted to be alone with just my sister or Sara, or Gary. Once again things didn't work out that way, the hospital was so crowded that instead of going to a room like normal, I was put in a "extra room" with another new mother who had annoying, loud family & friends. The whole night all I remember was trying to walk to the other part of the hospital where the newborn ICU was to just watch Jadyn. My sister stayed with me that first night, and we didn't sleep much that I remember,  just went back and forth from the bed to the ICU as much as I could.
The next morning things were worse, still the rapid breathing and finally a nurse was honest with me about the situation. She told me that Jadyn couldn't continue to breathe at that pace because it would wear her out. They had not called in any DOCTORS, or specialist to examine Jadyn, just my pediatrician on call, which was a new guy, I had never seen who was young and dressed in jeans and very retarded. Finally, one of the pediatricians I had seen before came on call, and I was able to let her know I was not happy with how nothing was being done and she still acted like everything was going to be okay. I think it was the 2nd day that the hospital called in a lung specialist from MVH NICU. He told us Jadyn had a hole in her lung. This is also when we found out Jadyn was only a 36 weeker, which they consider premature. As the day progressed it got worse, the air escaping her lungs was filling her chest cavity and moving her heart, which was even more dangerous. And she was getting tired from fighting.
They were going to transfer her to the MVH NICU , and put her on a ventilator, and get the air out of her chest somehow. I think I had held it together without breaking down up to that point. I was afraid to cry because so many people were there, not in my room but just in the waiting area to be supportive which meant a lot. I couldn't see anybody except family and close friends. Hospital staff kept saying it was going to be okay but instead things just kept getting worse, until I was facing that awful thought that was yelling at me in my mind the last two days, my baby girl that I had prayed for, for forever it seemed, she was going to die.

 So as they prepared to transfer Jadyn I got checked out and they told us to go home to get things we needed and it would take a while to get her situated before we could see her, just meet them back at MVH. The drive from Kettering Hospital where Jadyn was born to Miami valley Hospital is maybe 15 mins or so. We lived actually a little closer to MVH, but really in the middle of the two,I am saying all that so  you understand it was a short and fast drive from one hospital to the other. In the meantime, Richlands campmeeting was going on (prob Camp Golan?) as was Eastern Indiana Campmeeting, \
I guess  people were called and they had a special prayer for Jadyn and our church was praying as well as a lot of others.  when we arrived at MVH we were expecting the worst, we were told that from the drive from one hospital to the next that the hold in Jadyn's lung had closed, her heart had moved back where it was supposed to be and that her breathing was normal. They would keep her for observation for a week but didn't foresee any problems. Words can't describe what I felt in that moment, nor what I had felt those 2-3 days prior. Just a deep thankfulness, that all though sometimes God gives and sometime He takes away, this time He had given us, the gift of my daughter's Life. And she is definitely a priceless gift to our family.

soooooo

HAPPPY BIRTHDAY JADYN BROOKE ISAACS, I LOVE YOU!!!
Mom

I AM SOOO HUNGRY!!!

I can honestly say I have been "spiritually fed" the last 2 nights. I guess if you have never had a relationship with Christ that doesn't make sense to you, so here is what it means.
 You know when you go through a rough time in Life, or your depressed, or you just aren't happy no matter how good life gets. Maybe you tell yourself, when this happens or that happens THEN I will be happy and yet when "it" happens your still not happy. Or maybe your heart gets broken by a failed marriage or a relationship that ended before you were ready to let go. Or those times when you lose something or somebody you love. Or just the every day struggle of making ends meet and wondering how will I buy groceries this  week, or what will we do without a job? Well it's those kind of emotions and disappointments  that leave you feeling like something is missing, but you don't know how to fix it and you feel hopeless & helpless and alone in the midst of a crowd or your own little family even.
Life is no different for a person who has a Relationship with Christ, we suffer all the things a sinner suffers the only difference being that, we do have Jesus to take our problems to. As a Christian if you have been going through a rough time, or it's been awhile since you  heard a preacher preach something that helped you grow spiritually, and made you want to live better and draw closer to God,  then you hear an anointed preacher, preach from the Bible, with scripture to confirm his words.....your soul has been "fed"!

I don't know how people make it without the Lord, I know for me it is impossible. I "played church" enough as a teenager & I learned, I can't live a day without Jesus in my Life. Without Him, I am hopeless, I am depressed, I am worthless, I am unhappy in more ways than I want to talk about....but with Him?

I have hope for a brighter tomorrow, I have peace in depressing times, I have joy in the midst of sorrow, as for me being worthless,  well to Christ..... I was worth dying for....as are you.

So if your Life isn't going as planned, or your at the end of your patience you should come to camp and be fed. :)

Thurs. at 10am is Bro. Bennie Sutherland, & Bro. Bill Parks
Thurs Night 6pm Bro. Kelsey Villians, 7pm Bro. Joey Hight

And we do feed your body too, after both services :)

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Catch up

So life has calmed down a little or maybe the retail therapy this week helped some....
Gary's truck has been out this week, and the pool pump died, it was all of 2 weeks old, such a short life...made a LOOOONG day though! On the bright side we had some friends who sold us their old pump, the brakes were fixed today and I have my van back in time for Camp Meeting.
Also for those that worried and prayed for us last week, the charges on our bank never cleared they for some reason disappeared! Thank you Lord, cause that is a scary feeling not knowing how or who has decided to go on a spending spree with your bank card.....esp when ur bank card is in your wallet!

We got to go to the Edinburg Outlets this week, with a friend who thankfully picked me up since I had no vehicle while Gary was on 2nds, (which made the work of that Yard sale worth the extra trip to the chiropractor) For a change I exhausted the kids! Only 6 hrs to shop and 4 kids to shop for and all those stores,  I was in serious. shopping. mode. I fed them at 12:20, we left at 12:45, and b4 we got 30min away they were already saying they were hungry again! I held them off till 5. After they ate they still wanted to spend $ on candy machines and the Chocolate Factory! In all honesty as fast as we were walking from store to store and all the bags they had to carry, it is no wonder they were hungry we burned every calorie we ate like we were swimming.....I LOVED IT! EVERY MINUTE!!!
 I love to shop and I don't care who we are shopping for, as long as I get to go and put all the outfits together, so much more fun to "hunt" for clothing & bargains than wild animals, plus you don't have to wear animal urine, camouflage..... and no need to worry about snakes in the Polo Ralph Lauren store!

Seems like our weekend is flying by, and here I sat unable to go to sleep because i took a nap today....make that yesterday, today has turned into tomorrow already.

I am really looking forward to this next week.....hoping to hear Bro Joey Hight preach EVERY NIGHT! (I know, it rhymes, and it has to do with Bro Joey, I am tempted but, I won't add more"ight" words)  And, Bro Bennie on Thurs. morning.

Happy Fathers Day ..... if your a Father!

I guess I will try to go to sleep again.

Love!
J

A Week that leaves you weak....

It's been one of those weeks that leave you weak or weary. Not all of it was "bad", it was just one thing after another.
Sat.-I left the Emergency break on the van and forgot to tell Gary so we were going 75mph with the EB on. Yes the van was smoking awful.....prob drove 20 miles or so.
Sunday I had a migraine that wouldn't go away, ended the day in bed.
Monday night, Dayton.
Tues.
-Somebody left my keys in the ignition of my van, and somebody locked the doors thinking I wanted them locked not knowing the keys were in the ignition. (Both different "somebodies" neither of them was me!)
-Van Battery went dead in a scary area of Dayton I was by myself with 4 kids & a scary Guard walking the parking lot patrolling, he was so rough looking I was afraid to ask him to jump the van.


Wed-Spent the whole day till 1am Thurs preparing for the Yard sale

Thurs- Yard sale= Exhausted!

Friday- Yard Sale, more exhausted closed early. Discovered my bank card had been hacked and used for internet purchases and have no idea what will happen with that.

Yes this is the cleaned up and short version.
To be honest I don't like to share EVERYTHING I feel or go through on my blog or Facebook. I would rather be an encouragement or make you laugh at Life, or make you realize we all go through things in life good, bad, funny, sad, but it's how we choose to handle them that really matters, and most days I blog to myself more than any body else, it's like sometimes my blogging is more of my prayer to God, or a letter to Him.

So here's a story for you, if you know me you will probably be laughing.....extremely so, at the thought of this happening to me and knowing how I am about some things.....but might as well laugh! ;)

 I will tell you, there are some things I am probably OCD about and my keys r on the top 10 of that list. Driving in unknown Construction is another one. Another one is food noises/eating, that one is very bad have always had it since I was a kid, I can't explain why but I can snap over that one, or get really sick! So let me tell you about today. Ethan had a Lemonade stand at the yard sale him & Jadyn. Today they had PB Cookies, 2 for .50 cents, a mentally challenged person comes up to the table, wants to know what they were, how much they were, he wants to buy one, then asks if he can buy it for .25 cents. I say sure, thinking he will walk away. Nope! He stands there, opens the bag and proceeds to eat them.....He has cookies falling out of his mouth, and he starts asking me who made them, I  tell him I did, he takes another bite and keeps talking telling me how GOOOOOOD they were,  all the while cookies are falling out of his mouth, and he is chewing with his mouth open, to be honest I don't remember what all he said because I was horrified at the cookies falling out of his mouth.....then as he decides to leave.....He holds out his hand to shake my hand. I went into blankness for a second then I had to shake his hand, he was a sweet little guy and I wouldn't want to hurt his feelings.So I smile and wish him a good day.  After he is gone, I rush in the house get a handful of soap only to realize Gary had shut off the water because he was trying to fix a leak in the shower! Thankfully, the leak had been dropping in a bucket so there was clean water to wash my hands! Cayden goes outside and ask Tre` what was going on with mom and Tre` tells him," It was hilarious you should have seen mom, when he shook her hand!!!" 

Anyways, I am leaving out a lot of this week and my feelings but I will leave you with my prayer this week,
it has been for, Peace. God's Peace, it's that calmness in your heart when your world is turning upside down, it's that feeling of ,Yes, I am broken or hurt, weary, discouraged, so tired of fighting this battle, disappointed, disillusioned, my dreams have turned into nightmares, and I may cry myself to sleep at night, BUT, my heart and my soul are calm, resolved and no matter how bad Life may get, I know God will work it for my good, it doesn't mean I won't question and it doesn't mean I won't be hurt, but that goes for the Sinner and the Saint, I would rather face Life knowing that there is one who can hide me under His wings, who will bottle my tears, and who will one day answer my every question, until then I have to trust and I have peace in knowing that somehow it will be all right in the end. Until then I am praying, for Peace in the waiting.
I can't say it any better than the song

I  want a Peace beyond my understanding, 

I want to feel it  fall like rain, in the middle of my hurting

I want to feel your arms as they surround me 

Let me know that it's okay, to be here in this place

Resting in the Peace that only Comes, 
In the waiting.

I've been a little busy.....

Front Left Before

Front Left After

After, Left Front

After Right Front

Back of House Before

Back of house  now ;)

Close up of the deck and two monkeys

As you can tell we have been pretty busy lately. I think we finished up today though. Here are some pictures for those that wanted to see what all we have done. I think the front is the biggest difference  getting rid of that awful monster bush in front was a huge improvement!  Once all the flowers and the vines start growing I will take some more pics, it will look even better. The Bench in the front and the stand on the right of the Brick both have flowers and vines that will spread and hang down which will be beautiful. As well as the two round pots on the back of the deck ;) I can't wait! So happy that Gary pressure washed the house for me on Sat! You have no idea how happy that makes me!!!!!!!!



All though I am tired, I am excited about having our own house to clean up and landscape, so thankful for all God's blessings in our day to day life. Somehow, I doubt I take the little things in life for granted again. A roof over our head, a warm and comfortable bed that I don't hobble out of in the morning, a house for us to  be a normal family once again, enough room for all of us AND our stuff., a good job for Gary....all those little earthly blessing and best of all Peace of mind at night, mercy that is new every morning, and let me tell you I sure need it, a husband who loves me and works hard to provide for our family even when our life has been turned upside down, and 4 beautiful children that I  just can't tell you how much I love them.....I am to tired to even begin! After all the yard work and pressure washing the truck and the deck and the porch and the driveway.....then laundry and  then sorting the kids clothes they have outgrown....I feel a little bittersweet. Happy they are healthy but  sad to see them grow so quickly just in the year and a half that we have moved here.....Today I am thankful I am not a man, my shoulders aren't big enough and my strength is just not strong enough! lol! So I hope you all love the changes we made, & when I wake up you will have left me all kinds of  nice words about how good the yard looks and I can read them while I take some IBP and drink a Coke tomorrow morning! ;)
Night!

Memories Shared

Here is a story from a friend who wanted to share a memory with me about my dad. I think I will put it on my blog so if Satan ever does try to tell him he isn't being faithful to his calling or that God can't use him, or that he never was a help or blessing to anybody, he can come back here and read this as often as he needs to. Just so you know, my dad has  never told me how he feels or if he struggles with these things I just felt like blogging or saying these things to him. I have tried so many times to find words to tell him goodbye in case I never seen him again that I would end up putting them in a card before his surgeries....enough Goodbyes, today it's Happy Birthday!!! ;)


Hi Jamie,
I just read your blog about your dad and wanted to tell you how it touched my heart. He certainly is a very caring, compassionate person who will always hold a special place in mine and my husband's heart. He preached at our church the night my husband got saved. My husband had been under conviction for a while but was just really fighting it. He and I had a big discussion one Sunday afternoon and he said he just wasn't sure about things. He told me that he needed to hear that the way he was feeling in his gut was actually God speaking to him and that God really loved him. He also said he needed to know that even though he was a good moral guy that worked hard and didn't do "sinful" things that he was still a sinner.
Your mom and dad just happen to come to our church that night just to visit and The Pastor asked him to preach. He graciously accepted the invitation and proceeded to give us what God had laid on his heart. As he began to preach that night I had no doubt that he had been sent by God to let my husband know that he was was certainly loved by God and needed to be saved. Everything that my husband said to me that afternoon, your dad allowed God to use him to say those exact, almost word for word, things that my husband himself had said. my husband never hesitated that night to go to he alter and God wonderfully saved him. That was April 12, 1992, the day my home became a Christian home! I am so very thankful that while your dad had no idea that there was a soul in the balance he accepted the invitation and preached what God had anointed him with. He couldn't have had any idea what my husband was going through but God did.
I truly appreciate the life that your parents have lived before God all these years and I just wanted to share it with you.