Hi!!
I am Rachel and so excited you stopped by my little Blog. This Blog is about all things I love - cooking, baking, crafts, traveling, my family, inspiration found from others and within myself, throwing parties, reading, and my latest adventure Tot School for our 2 yr. old son.
I invite you to sit down, relax, and check out "Come What May". I hope to inspire, encourage, make you laugh, find your inner craftiness, wow your loved ones with new recipes, and enjoy this little Blog of mine.
To Contact Me...leave comments or email me at - the-come-what-may@hotmail.com
Monday - Things on my mind, current events/news, book review, and our everyday/travel adventures.
Tuesday - Art and craft projects. As well Blogs I stumble across.
Wednesday - Wordless {wordful} day of pictures that are current or flashbacks.
Thursday - Menu planning and recipes.
Friday - Wrapping up our week in Tot school.
Book Review - My reviews on various books I read
HH6 Cooking Club - Cooking Club I am part of with fellow Cooking Bloggers
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Blog Changes are happening!!
Monday we had about 3-4 inches of snow. We come to realize that when this area gets even so much as an inch the entire Base and City shuts down!!! Yesterday resulted in everything being closed or a Ghost Town as hubs called it. So since we couldn't go or do anything/where I pulled a chair up to the glass door, watched the beautiful snow fall, and worked on the Blog.
Man it truly was an all day process and I am still not done. I can see how people pay to have a Blog designed for them. Shoot, many times I found myself wanting to throw the computer out the glass door. But I hung in there and truly proud of the progress I have made so far. Especially since I am 100% hands-on learner. I have never been able to read something and just be able to implement the work. Another explanation of my test taking abilities.....hope I haven't passed that on to Gabriel!
Before I give you some AMAZING links to set up your own Blog, I also want to thank my facebook friends and fellow bloggers with their help. You ladies know who you are and this Blog thanks you too!
Okay here we go!!!
1 - Create Your Own Button - Oikology 101
http://oikology101.blogspot.com/2008/09/make-your-own-button-for-your-blogger.html This honestly was the best step by step instructions of the day! I had my button made in about 10 minutes. Hubs thinks the button is awesome...Why?? The airplane is the main airplane he will be flying on for the next 3-4 years. It is a C-130 aka Work Horse. I am truly proud of my Flight Nurse and thought the airplane fits with Come What May and our Air Force life. Okay back on track....jump on over to Oikology 101 and create your own button. Let her know how fabulous she is for breaking it down for us fellow Bloggers!
2 - Navigation Bar - Blogger Sentral
http://www.bloggersentral.com/2009/07/creating-navigation-tab-in-blogger.html Now this step is what took me forever!!! I don't believe it was due to the instructions but more for the fact, like I said before, I need to be shown or actually have my hands on what ever it is I am about to learn. These instructions are step by step and they do work! This is where fellow Blogger Friends helped me out so much. So if you want to create a Navigation Bar (the red blocks under my title picture on my Blog) I highly suggest you have a few hours of zero distractions, a very cold Pepsi, and don't give up!! Well, unless you are one of those annoying people that can just read something and do it....man you guys irk me ;) J/K...partly!
3 - Colors for Navigation Bar - W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp This is where I got the red and block squares on my Nav. Bar. I will be 100% honestly that I have no idea how I made this work. Except for the fact a friend gave me her code from using step 2 and 3. Then I just compared the codes and created my Red/Black squares. Sorry if that isn't much help.
I hope these three links will help any of you out there wanting to make your Blog a little bit more of your own! I have a few more things to do with my page and then I will leave it alone. I am still on a high for figuring these items out. I was at my wits end at times and was thinking of a way to convince the hubs to let me pay some one to set up my Blog.
More importantly, if you find yourself stuck or have a question, contact me and I will gladly help you out (to the best of my ability!!!). I can give you the cheat sheets/codes a couple of friends gave to me to set my Blog. Happy Blogging!!
Man it truly was an all day process and I am still not done. I can see how people pay to have a Blog designed for them. Shoot, many times I found myself wanting to throw the computer out the glass door. But I hung in there and truly proud of the progress I have made so far. Especially since I am 100% hands-on learner. I have never been able to read something and just be able to implement the work. Another explanation of my test taking abilities.....hope I haven't passed that on to Gabriel!
Before I give you some AMAZING links to set up your own Blog, I also want to thank my facebook friends and fellow bloggers with their help. You ladies know who you are and this Blog thanks you too!
Okay here we go!!!
1 - Create Your Own Button - Oikology 101
http://oikology101.blogspot.com/2008/09/make-your-own-button-for-your-blogger.html This honestly was the best step by step instructions of the day! I had my button made in about 10 minutes. Hubs thinks the button is awesome...Why?? The airplane is the main airplane he will be flying on for the next 3-4 years. It is a C-130 aka Work Horse. I am truly proud of my Flight Nurse and thought the airplane fits with Come What May and our Air Force life. Okay back on track....jump on over to Oikology 101 and create your own button. Let her know how fabulous she is for breaking it down for us fellow Bloggers!
2 - Navigation Bar - Blogger Sentral
http://www.bloggersentral.com/2009/07/creating-navigation-tab-in-blogger.html Now this step is what took me forever!!! I don't believe it was due to the instructions but more for the fact, like I said before, I need to be shown or actually have my hands on what ever it is I am about to learn. These instructions are step by step and they do work! This is where fellow Blogger Friends helped me out so much. So if you want to create a Navigation Bar (the red blocks under my title picture on my Blog) I highly suggest you have a few hours of zero distractions, a very cold Pepsi, and don't give up!! Well, unless you are one of those annoying people that can just read something and do it....man you guys irk me ;) J/K...partly!
3 - Colors for Navigation Bar - W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp This is where I got the red and block squares on my Nav. Bar. I will be 100% honestly that I have no idea how I made this work. Except for the fact a friend gave me her code from using step 2 and 3. Then I just compared the codes and created my Red/Black squares. Sorry if that isn't much help.
I hope these three links will help any of you out there wanting to make your Blog a little bit more of your own! I have a few more things to do with my page and then I will leave it alone. I am still on a high for figuring these items out. I was at my wits end at times and was thinking of a way to convince the hubs to let me pay some one to set up my Blog.
More importantly, if you find yourself stuck or have a question, contact me and I will gladly help you out (to the best of my ability!!!). I can give you the cheat sheets/codes a couple of friends gave to me to set my Blog. Happy Blogging!!
Blog Giveaway - Jan. 18th 2011
About a week ago I came across a fabulous Blog - Decor Chick. I really enjoy her ideas for decorating and have already found some inspiration for our Master Bedroom (which we get to move into in 2 days!!!). Decor Chick is having a Blog Giveaway via Olive Bungalow that I think every one of my readers should check out!!! Girls it is all about jewerly....trust me, when you see these pieces you will thank me. Even though this may lessen my chance of winning I just couldn't keep this to myself. So stop on over to Decor Chick - Olive Bungalow - Giveaway. Good luck ladies! I have my eye set on the Rustic Topaz Dream Ring.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Ohio, you have been FABULOUS!!!!
This week has been packed with "see you soons", packing and cleaning house, inspection of the house (which we passed but not with out a dang fight...why can't people just use common sense), dinners with friends, and now today is the day we leave. Nathan and I have truly made Ohio feel like home and we will honestly miss this place. We were talking last night in bed and I find it sad for people who don't give this area a chance. Is it the #1 place to live I doubt it but who really knows what the #1 place is!
But with all the area parks, museums, small towns, and big cities, Ohio really has it all. Besides all of that I have truly made some of the best friends! Lost some along the way, learned that some I didn't need in my life, and disagreements with some, but worked our way through it. I will truly miss my Girl's Group but I will rely on FB, Skype, and the fact that this is the AF. You just never know when you might run into each other again!!!
Well hubs is telling me to move so I must go help pack the car. We head to North Carolina today with a over night stop in West Virgina. I might be out of touch for about a week or so. Happy Blogging Friends!!!
But with all the area parks, museums, small towns, and big cities, Ohio really has it all. Besides all of that I have truly made some of the best friends! Lost some along the way, learned that some I didn't need in my life, and disagreements with some, but worked our way through it. I will truly miss my Girl's Group but I will rely on FB, Skype, and the fact that this is the AF. You just never know when you might run into each other again!!!
Well hubs is telling me to move so I must go help pack the car. We head to North Carolina today with a over night stop in West Virgina. I might be out of touch for about a week or so. Happy Blogging Friends!!!
Monday, January 3, 2011
Some great finds today
I follow some great Blogs that follow great Blogs so on and so on!! Here are a few of my favorite finds today. What is it about having a new house that makes you want to be ubber organized and decorate? I mean we have been living in a Town House which is a house but this time we get a free standing house and it really feels like a house...well I hope it does when we move in!
1 - Hot Glue Gun Helpers....technically it is on Etsy but I found it through a Blog. What I want to know is why in the world didn't I invent this? Especially with all my blisters over the years. - http://www.etsy.com/listing/64273780/hot-glue-gun-helpers-7-piece-set-no-more
2 - Mailbox Job Card System......how AWESOME are Bloggers??? Went to Target today and in the Dollar Section are all of these mailboxes. Super cute, only a buck, and I couldn't figure out how I would use them to justify buying them. Then comes this....another trip to Target tomorrow! http://mycomputerismycanvas.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-to-get-organized.html
3 - All Because He Ate His Cabbage.....I truly LOVE unique and beautfil ways to display photos. This is something that I have never seen before. In the new home we have a very long hallway from the front door and I am considering doing this -
http://somewhereincraftland.blogspot.com/2011/01/all-because-he-ate-his-cabbage.html
4 - Weekly Menu......I plan our menus out two weeks at a time. I truly hate grocery shopping and would to plan a month at a time and cut by grocery shopping time even more. This idea is super cute. Not sure if it would work for me but I still love it!
http://sassysites.blogspot.com/2010/06/dinner-menu.html
5 - Wall Art.....I know I will be copying this idea. I already have several of the items! http://greendoordesigns.blogspot.com/2011/01/wall-is-done.html
There are my Tuesday Finds! If you have a Blog about food, photography, or crafts that you just love, leave me a comment and share. If you go to any of these site please let them know I sent you and leave my Blog for them to see. Happy Tuesday my fellow Bloggers!
1 - Hot Glue Gun Helpers....technically it is on Etsy but I found it through a Blog. What I want to know is why in the world didn't I invent this? Especially with all my blisters over the years. - http://www.etsy.com/listing/64273780/hot-glue-gun-helpers-7-piece-set-no-more
2 - Mailbox Job Card System......how AWESOME are Bloggers??? Went to Target today and in the Dollar Section are all of these mailboxes. Super cute, only a buck, and I couldn't figure out how I would use them to justify buying them. Then comes this....another trip to Target tomorrow! http://mycomputerismycanvas.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-to-get-organized.html
3 - All Because He Ate His Cabbage.....I truly LOVE unique and beautfil ways to display photos. This is something that I have never seen before. In the new home we have a very long hallway from the front door and I am considering doing this -
http://somewhereincraftland.blogspot.com/2011/01/all-because-he-ate-his-cabbage.html
4 - Weekly Menu......I plan our menus out two weeks at a time. I truly hate grocery shopping and would to plan a month at a time and cut by grocery shopping time even more. This idea is super cute. Not sure if it would work for me but I still love it!
http://sassysites.blogspot.com/2010/06/dinner-menu.html
5 - Wall Art.....I know I will be copying this idea. I already have several of the items! http://greendoordesigns.blogspot.com/2011/01/wall-is-done.html
There are my Tuesday Finds! If you have a Blog about food, photography, or crafts that you just love, leave me a comment and share. If you go to any of these site please let them know I sent you and leave my Blog for them to see. Happy Tuesday my fellow Bloggers!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Layout needs and our Fabulous Sunday!
I am wanting two things right now with my Blog. I want at the end of each Blog posting to have the section of You May Also Like.....AND.....I would like different sections at the top of my Blog for my Crafts, Recipes, Organization, and regular everyday Blog postings. Yep those are my two goals to figure out how to do.......suggestions????
We had another great day here today. Went to breakfast at our favorite place - First Watch. Went with the Walkers and we truly love this family. Wish we could take them with us, I will settle for their ADORABLE daughter even.
Then I went to The Container Store (thanks to Mrs. Walker for telling me about this store awhile back) and IKEA. The Container Store I truly could have gone bananas in that place. The only thing that held me back was, well two things - A-we are moving and everything we own are in boxes waiting on the moving truck (tomorrow am!) B-I don't know what I will need for the new house. Thankfully I asked one of the workers and there is a Container Store in Raleigh (hour away). So I put many things back on the shelves and settled on a few things (will post under Organization...once I figure out how to have the different section).
When I finally made myself leave TCS, I headed to IKEA. I have talked about IKEA many time before so will spare you another boring post about IKEA. I will just say that IKEA made me proud again. As well as, will post what I bought once we move. For now the items I have bought are staying in their boxes until we move.
We had another great day here today. Went to breakfast at our favorite place - First Watch. Went with the Walkers and we truly love this family. Wish we could take them with us, I will settle for their ADORABLE daughter even.
Then I went to The Container Store (thanks to Mrs. Walker for telling me about this store awhile back) and IKEA. The Container Store I truly could have gone bananas in that place. The only thing that held me back was, well two things - A-we are moving and everything we own are in boxes waiting on the moving truck (tomorrow am!) B-I don't know what I will need for the new house. Thankfully I asked one of the workers and there is a Container Store in Raleigh (hour away). So I put many things back on the shelves and settled on a few things (will post under Organization...once I figure out how to have the different section).
When I finally made myself leave TCS, I headed to IKEA. I have talked about IKEA many time before so will spare you another boring post about IKEA. I will just say that IKEA made me proud again. As well as, will post what I bought once we move. For now the items I have bought are staying in their boxes until we move.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
New Year!!!! Welcome 2011
I am thankful. Oh so very thankful! We are living in TLF till Friday and I have wireless Internet to keep up with my Blog, emails, and FB. We are loving our friends who have offered to invite us over to their homes for play time for Gabriel and lunch/dinner. Yes 2011 is off to a wonderful start.
I sat down to catch up with Blogs that I follow and just about every blog was about New Year's Resolutions. Feel like I am about to beat a dead horse with a stick but today's post is about my New Year's Resolutions. However I decided this year my NYR will be more like 2011 Goals. Here are my goals for this year and for many more years to come..........
#1 Goal - Get OUT of debt. As in pay off two of our credit cards that helped us during college, paid for our wedding, and purchases since being married. Nathan and I have wants of traveling, paying for things using cash, adding more into our 401K than the average, building Gabriel's and future children savings/college accounts, and have the feeling of living life comfortably.
#2 Goal - Eating out only twice a month. We did this last year and wow we saw a huge difference from Jan-March-ish....then we fell off the wagon. As much as I love to cook and try new recipes, both of us really enjoy going out to eat and letting someone else take care of the food and clean up. Plus with this goal it will go a long way of achieving #1 above.
#3 Goal - Instead of working on my Master's Degree, I have decided to focus on things that I have a love or want in this life. Such as photography classes, cooking classes, learning to restore furniture, taking a bow making class, and many more. I have always wanted my Master's Degree and even toyed with the idea of getting my Doctorate, but I have changed and those are just not important to me right now. Maybe one day.
#4 Goal - Continue my growth with my Faith in God. Find a church home and Sunday school classes. I miss church. I miss the sense of peace, love, and support from attending church regularly. Nathan has made comments on how he misses it too.
#5 Goal - Continue to appreciate life and live in the moment. I will still make plans for I am just a planner. But I want to continue to find the positives in life. Truly be thankful for what God has given to me so far. To continue to be a supportive wife, mother, and friend, but realize that I can't control other people nor I am I responsible for their happiness and truth.
#6 Goal - Add to our family. I honestly can't express the need and want I feel for more children in our home. Even Nathan has expressed his need/want for more children in our family. So whether we try one more time for our own child, adopt, or become Foster Parents, both my husband and I pray that 2011 will bring a child(ren) into our home.
#7 Goal - Travel the East Coast. We will be in NC for at least 3 - 4 years and just like what we have done here in Ohio, I plan to see everything I can while living in NC. I have a goal to visit all 50 states before I die. NC will bring me closer to the states I haven't visited yet.
#8 Goal - 2011 my Blog will become a fabulous blog...by my standards. I am still not 100% on the direction I would like my Blog to take. For now I will say that I want this Blog to be more "me". I have 12 months to get it there. Who knows, maybe one of the classes I take will be about Blogging and how to design one. I don't think I want to pay someone to "design" my blog for me because then it wouldn't be 100% me. That may be selfish or weird, who knows, but I truly want this year to be all about learning. Me setting out and achieving my goals.
I pray for my readers that you have set achievable goals for 2011 and the years to come. If you fall of the path of your goals, find your way, and get back on the path. For every day is a new day. No such thing as failing unless you truly just stop and give up!
Happy New Year!!!!
I sat down to catch up with Blogs that I follow and just about every blog was about New Year's Resolutions. Feel like I am about to beat a dead horse with a stick but today's post is about my New Year's Resolutions. However I decided this year my NYR will be more like 2011 Goals. Here are my goals for this year and for many more years to come..........
#1 Goal - Get OUT of debt. As in pay off two of our credit cards that helped us during college, paid for our wedding, and purchases since being married. Nathan and I have wants of traveling, paying for things using cash, adding more into our 401K than the average, building Gabriel's and future children savings/college accounts, and have the feeling of living life comfortably.
#2 Goal - Eating out only twice a month. We did this last year and wow we saw a huge difference from Jan-March-ish....then we fell off the wagon. As much as I love to cook and try new recipes, both of us really enjoy going out to eat and letting someone else take care of the food and clean up. Plus with this goal it will go a long way of achieving #1 above.
#3 Goal - Instead of working on my Master's Degree, I have decided to focus on things that I have a love or want in this life. Such as photography classes, cooking classes, learning to restore furniture, taking a bow making class, and many more. I have always wanted my Master's Degree and even toyed with the idea of getting my Doctorate, but I have changed and those are just not important to me right now. Maybe one day.
#4 Goal - Continue my growth with my Faith in God. Find a church home and Sunday school classes. I miss church. I miss the sense of peace, love, and support from attending church regularly. Nathan has made comments on how he misses it too.
#5 Goal - Continue to appreciate life and live in the moment. I will still make plans for I am just a planner. But I want to continue to find the positives in life. Truly be thankful for what God has given to me so far. To continue to be a supportive wife, mother, and friend, but realize that I can't control other people nor I am I responsible for their happiness and truth.
#6 Goal - Add to our family. I honestly can't express the need and want I feel for more children in our home. Even Nathan has expressed his need/want for more children in our family. So whether we try one more time for our own child, adopt, or become Foster Parents, both my husband and I pray that 2011 will bring a child(ren) into our home.
#7 Goal - Travel the East Coast. We will be in NC for at least 3 - 4 years and just like what we have done here in Ohio, I plan to see everything I can while living in NC. I have a goal to visit all 50 states before I die. NC will bring me closer to the states I haven't visited yet.
#8 Goal - 2011 my Blog will become a fabulous blog...by my standards. I am still not 100% on the direction I would like my Blog to take. For now I will say that I want this Blog to be more "me". I have 12 months to get it there. Who knows, maybe one of the classes I take will be about Blogging and how to design one. I don't think I want to pay someone to "design" my blog for me because then it wouldn't be 100% me. That may be selfish or weird, who knows, but I truly want this year to be all about learning. Me setting out and achieving my goals.
I pray for my readers that you have set achievable goals for 2011 and the years to come. If you fall of the path of your goals, find your way, and get back on the path. For every day is a new day. No such thing as failing unless you truly just stop and give up!
Happy New Year!!!!
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