collaboration (#2) and the give-away winner!

Are you wondering?

Are you at the edge of your seat?

Who, who, you ask, who won those fabulous dryer balls?

A beautiful basket of three gorgeous wool dryer balls that makes laundry fun?

Who is the winner?

Drum roll, please.

And the winner?

The lucky winner is:

thank you to the Willow Store for providing your wool dryer balls for me to review 

and for giving away a set to one of my lovely readers. I know, I'll be back. :)

And, if you haven't visited Barbie's blog

My Freshly Brewed Life

you simply must -- you'll be blessed!

{Barbie--please contact me with your info 

so those wool dryer balls can be on your doorstep soon!}

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Now, on to Collaboration #2 with my Hannah.

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This week we both thought of the idea at the same exact time.

I had made dinner (along with my Chef Chloe). 

It is one of our family's favorites -

sauteed thinly pounded chicken with garlic in a lemon/butter sauce tossed with artichokes 

served over angel hair pasta with a side of fresh asparagus.

Stop right there.

Angel hair pasta = gluten

And since Samuel and I are gluten free due to his Celiac I knew I had to modify this recipe.

I made the sauce gluten free and boiled up some beautiful whole grain rice noodles.

And it was divine.

Take a look!

{top Hannah's photo & bottom my photo}

Blessings on the rest of your Sunday.  

And, one more thing, would you pray for Samuel?  He's been having a very hard last couple of days.  I'm thinking he got gluten somewhere and it has really set him back.  

Thank you so much!

the first collaboration (and a Samuel update)

When I came home from the hospital yesterday Hannah had this brilliant idea for a collaboration project between us.  She has been inspired by other projects in the blogworld and wondered if in my spare time {hee hee hee} if I'd be interested in joining her in collaborating in a photography/word project where we chose a word and then take pictures describing that word.

{Any chance where I get blessed to use her camera is an automatic yes from me.}

So this week we each took pictures relating to the word color. {I like hers better.}She chose mine for me from pictures that I took last week while Gracie was coloring. If you haven't visited her blog please hop on over to Aspire and leave a comment about her better picture. ;)

{Hannah -- top & mine -- bottom}

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A Samuel update as well. 

{same pic as yesterday -- I just love love love it & had to share again}

His infectious disease/immunology doctor called me this morning letting me know that a set of his labs have returned and that they all look good. We're still waiting for some more to come in, but hopefully they too come back normal.  I am grateful. It would be hard if his labs were off when he felt well.

We also established that he needs to be seen within 24 hours of a fever onset for another large set of labs that would give an indication of why he gets fevers and the triggers.

And finally, the doctor informed me that Celiac Disease could be the trigger for the sickness, fatigue, and fevers. Basically, the gut is damaged and thus leaks infections into the body. Healing the gut = less infections and fevers. It feels excellent to be finally discovering answers. If you're interested in reading about yesterday's adventure in the clinic scroll down to the previous post or click here. 

Thank you again for all of your prayers.