It was Thursday and work was over. Stacy was driving and we were headed home for the weekend! Yeah! Our work week on our assembly line job lasted only three days this time, usually it's four days, each day ten hours. I felt that great feeling that the weekend always brings. I'll have lots of time to do what I consider best.

After Stacy dropped me off at my home the fun began. Just entering my home is a quick but exciting event within itself. As soon as I turn the knob to the front door I began playing a guessing game. Okay, here's the big question, what's for supper? So as I enter I'll breathe in the great smell of food that has filled the air all around me. Then as I'm saying hello to all my children sitting in the living room and hanging my coat and purse on the hook, I'll start trying to figure out what it's gonna be. Soon enough we'll all be at the table ready to dive in. Everybody knows to not take a bite until Danny says his memorized 30 second prayer thanking God for our food. Danny usually has our food setting on the stove to keep it warm. Sometimes it's already on the table.

There is a choice of about ten different foods Danny chooses for our evening meal. We could have chili, hot dogs with chili, beans and rice, fried chicken, meatloaf, pot pies, salad with fried beef strips, tacos, chicken noodle soup, or tuna salad. Ever so often He will fix something different. If he wants to fix supper quick it will be chili from a can, hot dogs with chili, or chicken noodle soup. Also, if Jonathan fixes supper it will be one of these since he's just started cooking. Usually we start out the week with salad or tacos. On Tuesdays we fix beans and rice because Deena is coming to visit.(Danny has taught my children this is also called he-man food because it is hearty.) She likes grape juice so we try to have it as the drink. Danny will bake pot pies on Wednesday nights because he has to get our children to the AWANAs Bible memorization program at church. A favorite I enjoy would be considered boring by most. It's meatloaf. I'll drench it in ketchup and then salt and pepper it. Danny's favorite is fried chicken. He was trying to figure out Colonel Sander's eleven secret ingredients and developed his own special recipe. My big little three word question still needed to be answered. I could tell by smell it would be chicken but how would it be prepared. Then I looked on the stove and there it was.

Campbell's chicken noodle soup. Our family loves to watch the show Made in America with John Ratzenburger. In one of the shows they went to the Campbell's factory. It was interesting to see the fast paced assembly line production and learn of its history. Did you know that the chicken noodle soup isn't cooked until after its been sealed in the can.

Well, supper's main course wasn't as exciting as meatloaf or beans and rice. But I did enjoy it. Danny added a nice little touch to the soup by adding extra pieces of broiled chicken. And I did something with it that I hadn't done in a long time. I took a bunch of saltines and crumbled them up in mostly broth and then I tried to finish it off before they got soggy. It was fun and I went back for thirds!