My How Time Flies!

I cannot believe how the months have flown by! Between cooking, cleaning, working around the house and having fun doing crafty projects, time has flown by and it has been a very pleasant summer so far. It is getting quite hot here, but I am happy to hole up in the house with the a/c and do some summer reading and experiment with some new recipes for the hot weather! Here is a salad I invented that like to call: Hope's El Centro Summer Salad 1 red pepper, diced 1 can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed 1 bunch of cilantro, chopped 2 handfuls grape tomatoes cut up 1 avocado, diced the juice of 6 key limes splash or two of olive oil salt to taste 2 dashes of Tabasco (or more depending on your liking) Just mix and chill. I love to eat this for lunch when its too hot to cook outside! :) Mark loved it and thought diced shrimp would be a nice addition... I picked up a copy of Peter Pan at our little bookstore when Mark took me out on a date, and have been loving it! I grew up watching the Disney version of Peter Pan as a girl, and I am loving the book even more! I can't wait until I have a little boy or girl of my own that I can read this book to, it is truly a gem! Here are some fun quotes from as far as I have read: "You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the very first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." "Even Michael already half asleep, knew that she was perturbed, and he asked "Can anything harm us, mother after the night-lights are lit?" "Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children." "Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling at a time." Happy 4th of July! I hope you have a great day celebrating the freedom that we are so blessed to enjoy!