Until recently, I have never had guacamole. It's green and smooshy and veggies and green. (Yes, I'm a big baby about eating veggies. My children ask for spinach and cauliflower. I dread putting peas in soup!) I just never wanted to eat guacamole. Then, we had those loaded nacho things that Taco Bell had for awhile. My god, those were awesome! Dan made me try the guacamole, and I was hooked. (He always makes me try things, damn him. I have always hated pickles and Swiss cheese. Guess what I have to have on my hamburgers now and what my fav kind of grilled cheese is?) Anyway, I bought some at the store the other day for the taco salad we had last night. Yummy. That was lunch today. Chips and guacamole. (Hey, I already said I'm a bad example for eating! That was a chaser for my breakfast of the last slice of that chocolate cake!)
Green things, yicky. Broccoli, peas, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, spinach...yuck! I can eat spinach in quiche. I can eat broccoli and peas in stuff like pasta primavera or chicken pot pie, or broccoli and cheese soup. Mmmmm...broccoli and cheese soup. Must put that on the menu for next week! BTW, if you want to get your grocery bill down, start making a weekly menu before you go shopping! Better yet, use your sales circulars and / or coupons to base your menu from. I can usually get a week's worth of groceries for us for $70-80.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Four down, one to go!
Well, we made it just on time again today...one more day...Friday, our tardy nemesis. It is pajama day for kindergarten tomorrow. (They just learned about Mr. P., you know.) I should just give Ari a bath tonight and let her just wear the pajamas she's going to wear to school to bed...is that weird?
My 10 year class reunion is Saturday, but I'm not going. I had planned on it, but it is at a really crappy little place, and they want $50 a couple, and I'm sorry....the only people I want to see that are actually going to go, I still talk to! Why do I want to pay $50 to go eat at a crappy place and see people that hated me? So, I'm having my friends over because they think it's ridiculous too, and we're going to "reunite" at our place. Dan's going to make bourbon brats for the guys and lemon pepper chicken for the girls. I also double booked that day and have a Tastefully Simple party to go to at my cousin's. Who can miss a chance to get Tastefully Simple food, though!?! I've been waiting for someone to have one of those parties for like 3 years since my neighbor's sister had one. Hers was on my anniversary. Tastefully Simple parties just always have to fall on days I have other stuff going on.
So, when I talked to my mom this morning, she asks me if I want to hear the bad news. Apparently, last night one of my uncles (my mom is one of 12 kids....only 3 uncles though) was up on his roof (we're not sure why...he just built the house himself and finished it like a year ago, so it shouldn't need a new roof) and he fell off. His wife called from the ER last night and it got passed through the phone list. We haven't heard anything yet, but as of last night he had at least broken his leg again (he had to have a rod placed in it about 8 years ago because he was trying to do tricks on my cousin's bike when they were up visiting and fell and broke it then), plus his hand, something about maybe his pelvis. He was also in a really, really bad car accident about 20 years ago, and I can't remember what all injuries he had from that. I remember his ex-wife had a head injury and my other uncle broke his neck, so I don't know if he had any old injuries from that that might have been exacerbated by the fall. We'll probably hear more later today. I'm usually last on "the list" if I get called at all, so he'll probably be out of the hospital before I hear. I'll have to call my cousin who's having the Tastefully Simple party later. She's usually second to last, so we try to call each other when we hear stuff since no one else does.
Charlie has enough hair to have hat hair! I was so excited. I kept putting his pumpkin hat on and taking it off just to see his hat hair. I finally had one baby with hair when they were born, and it all fell out. He's growing it back now, though! Yay! He is sitting in his little walker next to me, just squealing away. (And before people think I'm a bad mom....yes, it's a regular walker. No, we don't have any stairs, not even a basement, so he can't fall!)
I didn't get much knitting done last night. The new season of South Park started last night! Yay! They played the World of Warcraft one right before the debut, too. Good stuff. I did get the cuff and 2 rows of knitting done on my slipper socks, though. Well, 1 slipper sock. I'm hoping to get alot done tonight since it's worsted weight. I'm hoping it will knit up pretty quickly.
My 10 year class reunion is Saturday, but I'm not going. I had planned on it, but it is at a really crappy little place, and they want $50 a couple, and I'm sorry....the only people I want to see that are actually going to go, I still talk to! Why do I want to pay $50 to go eat at a crappy place and see people that hated me? So, I'm having my friends over because they think it's ridiculous too, and we're going to "reunite" at our place. Dan's going to make bourbon brats for the guys and lemon pepper chicken for the girls. I also double booked that day and have a Tastefully Simple party to go to at my cousin's. Who can miss a chance to get Tastefully Simple food, though!?! I've been waiting for someone to have one of those parties for like 3 years since my neighbor's sister had one. Hers was on my anniversary. Tastefully Simple parties just always have to fall on days I have other stuff going on.
So, when I talked to my mom this morning, she asks me if I want to hear the bad news. Apparently, last night one of my uncles (my mom is one of 12 kids....only 3 uncles though) was up on his roof (we're not sure why...he just built the house himself and finished it like a year ago, so it shouldn't need a new roof) and he fell off. His wife called from the ER last night and it got passed through the phone list. We haven't heard anything yet, but as of last night he had at least broken his leg again (he had to have a rod placed in it about 8 years ago because he was trying to do tricks on my cousin's bike when they were up visiting and fell and broke it then), plus his hand, something about maybe his pelvis. He was also in a really, really bad car accident about 20 years ago, and I can't remember what all injuries he had from that. I remember his ex-wife had a head injury and my other uncle broke his neck, so I don't know if he had any old injuries from that that might have been exacerbated by the fall. We'll probably hear more later today. I'm usually last on "the list" if I get called at all, so he'll probably be out of the hospital before I hear. I'll have to call my cousin who's having the Tastefully Simple party later. She's usually second to last, so we try to call each other when we hear stuff since no one else does.
Charlie has enough hair to have hat hair! I was so excited. I kept putting his pumpkin hat on and taking it off just to see his hat hair. I finally had one baby with hair when they were born, and it all fell out. He's growing it back now, though! Yay! He is sitting in his little walker next to me, just squealing away. (And before people think I'm a bad mom....yes, it's a regular walker. No, we don't have any stairs, not even a basement, so he can't fall!)
I didn't get much knitting done last night. The new season of South Park started last night! Yay! They played the World of Warcraft one right before the debut, too. Good stuff. I did get the cuff and 2 rows of knitting done on my slipper socks, though. Well, 1 slipper sock. I'm hoping to get alot done tonight since it's worsted weight. I'm hoping it will knit up pretty quickly.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Back to the old grind
Well, the last of our out of town family left last night. It was sad to see them go, but apparently they're looking for a house and hoping to move back up here! (Most of my mom's brothers and sisters had moved to Florida a long time ago, but they're all starting to trickle back now.) We went to Amish Door for dinner.....mmmm mashed potatoes and dressing! Charlie had his first taste of mashed potatoes there. He liked them. Yay! For the longest time, Ari would not eat potato products other than french fries. She might be a clone of me, but her attitude is definitely her daddy through and through. Charlie has also sampled sweet potato baby food the last couple of days, and it has met his approval. It's a good thing I'm working on all these bibs now that he's starting to eat solids!
The girls did pretty good this morning. I'm waiting for the Twilight Zone music to start playing. We were right on time today, but there was no yelling or screaming. I'm scared. Who are these children and where did my real ones go!?! Atley even stayed dry last night, and he had a huge glass of chocolate milk at the restaurant right before bed. I took him to the donut store for breakfast (he woke up about 5 minutes before we went out the door.)
We stopped by my grandparents' Monday because we hadn't seen them in a few weeks. (They feel bad about doing things when the girls are in school because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.) They gave us 3 big bags of stuff from the fair. I swear, they must have cleaned people out! There were at least 2 dozen each of pens and pencils. Stacks of coloring books and notepads. A quart sized ziploc bag of candy. It was crazy! It took me 15 minutes to go through everything last night and put it away. (I was doing Flylady to try to fix up the house before Dan's friend and his fiancee stopped by.) Yeah, my poor house has taken a beating the past couple of weeks. With everyone who was up visiting, then the wedding, school, me working on patterns, Dan being on vacation, things went to pot. It feels so nice to be able to walk across the floor and not twist my ankle!
The girls did pretty good this morning. I'm waiting for the Twilight Zone music to start playing. We were right on time today, but there was no yelling or screaming. I'm scared. Who are these children and where did my real ones go!?! Atley even stayed dry last night, and he had a huge glass of chocolate milk at the restaurant right before bed. I took him to the donut store for breakfast (he woke up about 5 minutes before we went out the door.)
We stopped by my grandparents' Monday because we hadn't seen them in a few weeks. (They feel bad about doing things when the girls are in school because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.) They gave us 3 big bags of stuff from the fair. I swear, they must have cleaned people out! There were at least 2 dozen each of pens and pencils. Stacks of coloring books and notepads. A quart sized ziploc bag of candy. It was crazy! It took me 15 minutes to go through everything last night and put it away. (I was doing Flylady to try to fix up the house before Dan's friend and his fiancee stopped by.) Yeah, my poor house has taken a beating the past couple of weeks. With everyone who was up visiting, then the wedding, school, me working on patterns, Dan being on vacation, things went to pot. It feels so nice to be able to walk across the floor and not twist my ankle!
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