Yesteryear Acres - Doodle Days : December 2016

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Happy New Year's Eve

Today brings the chance to reflect on the year 2016 and remember all the little moments that went into making this passing year. Here at Yesteryear Acres we had another wonderful year filled with Doodle Doggies, Doodle Puppies, Family and lots of unconditional love. Here is to thanking 2016 for all it brought to Yesteryear Acres and here's to looking forward to another year spent doing what we love best.

Happy New Year's Eve

Friday, December 30, 2016

Doodle Snowball Fetch

Today Olive wanted to teach Maverick her favorite winter game.

SNOWBALL FETCH!

First you line up right underneath the snowball

Then patiently wait for the drop

Then right as the snowball comes into view

POUNCE!!!!

Gotcha snowball!

I am so good at this game! Your turn Maverick!

Like this?????

Time for Snowball Fetch for two!!!!

Ready?!

I got it! I got it!

Best game ever!!!!!

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Christmas from the Heart

This Christmas my very heart melted when I opened the present given to me by my son and Bri. The moment I saw my gift, the waterworks started. I couldn't even hold back the tears and I didn't even do the silent, tears slowly falling down my face cry. I did the big, blow your nose, I need a tissue cry. For the past 30+ years, I have collected various recipes from the newspaper, friends, family as well as my own recipe creations. The ones I have written are almost indecipherable. Often when I perfect one of my recipes, I have tons of scratch marks, deletions and new additions so it is almost to the point where I am the only one who can read it. All these scraps of paper, index cards and notes have been shoved into a ziplock bag. I have instructed all of the children that this bag is one of my very prized possessions. It is to be revered and honored and saved at all costs.

Any time I want to find a specific recipe, I have to sort through this entire bag. The recipe I want is never the one on top either!!!! For years I have dreamed of organizing these recipes. This Christmas, I opened this:

At first I thought it was a photo album

But then I saw this

and my tears started flowing immediately.

My own recipe book!

I opened the first page

My heart couldn't even contain all the happiness and love it felt at that moment.

This was truly a gift of love.

Now when I need to find that Banana Bread Recipe, I don't have to empty the entire ziplock bag and go through every recipe until I find this

Instead, I just open my new recipe book, turn to the letter 'B' and voila!

Every single recipe has been typed and printed and bound. I even have a digital file copy. And if that weren't beautiful enough......they made books for both my daughters as well.

Now we all have my recipes ... forever.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

What's Wrong with this Picture?

Here at Yesteryear Acres even though we love our Doodle Doggies with all our hearts, they are not allowed on the furniture. We have a very strict no furniture rule for the living room and the doggies are really good about it. There may be a few unnamed children here that love to have doodle doggies to snuggle with in bed. The Doodle Doggies all know they must be invited up on the beds when it is snuggle time. No doggies freely jump on the beds - they sit and politely wait for their invitation. If there is no invitation, a nice spot is found on the floor and there the Doodle Doggie happily sleeps all night long. The no furniture rule has been enforced since the beginning and it hasn't been broken............until today. I walked into the living room and WHAT did I see?

OLIVE DOODLE DOG!!!!! On my couch! Olive! NOOOOOOOO!

I immediately texted my son and asked him,

"What Is Wrong With This Picture?!"

His reply:

"I am sorry mom that I left my sock on the floor. I will pick it up when I get home."

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Blossom Who?

I wonder who could have gone to visit the horses today? I wonder who could have gone and rolled in the horse pasture? I wonder who is covered in wonderful smelling horse poop? Any ideas? Blossom.....Blossom....Blossom where are you?