Okay, I have friends who post recipes on their blog and I thought I wouldn’t really be that person. BUT I have to give this one out! It is great for summer or fall and would be a great side dish even though we ate it as a main.

Pasta Mexi-Cali

8 oz. pasta of your choice
1 can diced tomatoes with chilis (without the chilis if you are anti-zip)
1 can yellow corn (drained)
1 can black beans (rinsed and drained)
1/2 cup chopped scallions
shredded cheese (Mexican or cheddar)

While pasta cooks, mix other ingredients. When pasta is done, drain it well and add it to the other stuff. Sprinkle cheese over each serving.

SERIOUSLY – that’s all!!! It is CHEAP, QUICK, and quite YUMMY!

Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote and sang this great little song – – ages ago. I learned it for the first time when we sang it in our little church in Locust, NC, but last Christmas my precious big brother and his family gave it in book form to our Little. The book is beautiful and has the cd in the back so you can read the truths and then listen as well. Little has finally gotten to where she can sit through a book of this length, etc. and so tonight we read it.

“I can go anywhere that He wants me to go, I can be anything that He wants me to be I can climb the high mountain, I can cross the wide sea, I’m a great big promise, you see”

“I am a promise,
I am a possibility,
I am a promise with a capital “P”
I am a great big bundle of potentiality
And I am learning to hear God’s voice, and I am trying to make the right choices
I’m a promise to be, anything God wants me to be.”

It was one thing to read this to our special Little but then we put the cd in and danced as we sang. . . and my dear husband taught Little to do the can-can. Wish I had a video of it because it was priceless.

I just can’t wait to see the “anything” He wants her to be!

What do my parents, hand foot and mouth disease, Harry Potter, and General Grant have to do with each other?This is a photo of my parents visiting General Grant’s homestead with us and my little girl who is in the process of breaking out with Hand, Foot, and Mouth. This all the day before we all went together to pick up our copy of the last installment to the Harry Potter series.