Student Driver Aboard!

Look who got his driver's permit today...and his dad let him drive home!  Yikes!  He's pretty happy to have the test behind him...he had been putting off taking the test...now to do a lot of practicing over the next six months!  I'm not sure who was more nervous on this initial drive home...Nathan or Graham!

Woody walked early this morning.  The rain from Nate moved out of the way after dropping quite a bit on Tullahoma...just a lot of rain...not much wind by the time Nate got to us.  This morning the temperatures were above normal for this time of the year and also it was quite humid...temps are back to feeling like summer again.  Woody went to Life Care this morning per usual for Mondays.

I had school with the little boys this morning.  Our school schedule is changed a bit this week because Kathy is with her mom and dad in Georgia after her dad's surgery last week.  She'll be gone for a couple more days. Nathan and the children seem to be holding down the fort fairly well...at least so far!  Abigail was in charge of lunch and she invited Woody and me for lunch...it was very good!  She used the cookbook that Woody and I gave her last Christmas.  She is becoming a very good cook!  Joy assisted her in the lunch preparation.

This afternoon Woody and I joined forces and made a pot of soup...Schloegel's Old-Fashioned Cabbage Soup. Woody shredded the cabbage and I chopped other ingredients and got it put together...when it was time he added the cabbage.  Many years ago (24 years to be exact), Woody's sister Tamra gave us a subscription for "Midwest Living Magazine" and in one of the issues we received there were Hearty Soups and Stews featured from the upper Michigan peninsula's restaurants.  That magazine article and recipes got us started on making soups as our mainstay during the cold months of the year.  We continue to make soup recipes from this article...still some of our favorites...this cabbage soup being one of Woody's favorites. We turn to these recipes often...I have added the entire article to our soup recipe notebook.  It has some good bread recipes in the article, too...a really good rye bread recipe.

Yesterday was a new beginning for our church...Dr. Kevin Ivy preached his first sermon as our First Baptist Church, Tullahoma pastor. He and his wife and their six children have moved to Tullahoma from Mississippi.