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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Shutter Love Tuesday-Eyelashes

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I always check out the pictures at The Trendy Treehouse on Shutter Love Tuesday but I've never entered a picture before. Each week there is a different theme and this week's is eyelashes. Perfect timing! I was just looking at this picture of my son. He definitely lucked out in the eye lash department!

If you'd like to vote this week, stop by Shutter Love Tuesday

we're number 46!


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Friday, February 4, 2011

Snow, some ice, the stomach bug and more snow......

Lots and lots and lots of snow!

And it has it been crazy around here!

Who would have thought when I wrote about the Storm of 2010
and the Storm of the Lost Cupcakes
that pretty much all I would have been writing about in 2011 would be snow!

So, in between shoveling and snow days and a week of the stomach bug traveling through our house and kids home every other day, I haven't gotten much accomplished at all. Let's just go with nothing accomplished.

I sure hope that ground hog was right about spring coming early!

Although, I'm kinda doubting that ground hog right now. I'm thinking he just couldn't see his shadow because of all the snow!

We're already being warned we have more snow coming next week. The storm has been dubbed the "Beast of the East".

So I guess I better keep my shovel handy................. and my patience.



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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

We kinda, sorta, don't agree......

This is how my son would prefer to go outside.

Well, I should rephrase that-if he really had his choice, he'd be outside in shorts, a t-shirt and flip flops or crocs.

He must take after his dad, cause it's certainly not after me. I'm the one who's always freezing with socks and sweatshirts and piles of blanket.

I've stopped fighting with him. He's old enough to take off what I struggle to put on him and I lose anyway guess you have to choose your battles.

It is embarassing in the grocery store though when every other person makes a comment about your son and his shorts and how he must think he lives in Florida not the freezing Northeast.

We've come to a semi-compromise and he's been humoring me wearing his fleece jacket outside.

Not my first choice but I'll choose my battles and he'll come in if he's cold.




and linking up to Weekend Bloggy Reading with Amanda at Serenity Now

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Never leave your cupcakes unattended....just saying....

We woke up last week to alot of snow. Alot, alot, alot of snow.
Like where are we going to put all this snow when we shovel and plow?

The kids had the day off. First snow day of the school year. We ventured outside for a bit, but boy, that snow was deep. The kids had a tough time just walking around.

My little guy wasn't even chancing it. He didn't go much further than the front steps and then turned around to go back in the house.


We spent the day in the house. Playing, crafting and baking. My 10 year old wanted to make cookies but I had a craving for cupcakes reminded her she had a new decorating kit to try out. So cupcakes it was!

And they were yummy. Hit the spot.

That is until my 2 year old tried to get one on his own.

Ouch. I found this when I went into the kitchen. On the floor.

Never leave your cupcakes unattended.

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Friday, December 10, 2010

My go to meal......

Chicken
Chicken Broth
Frozen Veggies
Rice

These four items are always in our house.

Permanently on my shopping list and definitely stocked up on when I find them on sale.

For those nights when the kids are cranky, or we have multiple basketball practices, or we get home late, or I'm just plain unprepared, those four items can quickly be whipped up into a chicken stir fry dinner that is easy and everyone loves. Well, ok, I can't say they all love all of the meal, but I know everyone will at least eat the chicken and rice part of it! And for my house, if everyone eats at least part of the meal, that meal's a keeper.

I don't really look at the recipe when I make this anymore so half the time I forget the ginger-still tastes the same. I've also started using 2 cans of chicken broth and doubling the soy sauce and cornstarch to make more sauce for us. I've used lots of different vegetables to make this too-I usually just use whatever frozen vegetables I have in the freezer, sometimes a bag of stir fry vegetables, sometimes I just cut up onions and peppers and throw them in.

Easy, quick and yummy!

Family Friendly Food at Serenity Now

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

"Community-Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"

It's Thursday night! The one night my husband and I definitely sit down to watch some of our favorite shows on NBC. Often, and don't ever tell my kids, with a pizza from our favorite pizza place...... pizza with carmelized onions.....my favorite!

Tonight on NBC, at 8:00 EST ( oh, wait until you see this episode, you won't ever want to say standard again!) "Community" airs their brand new Christmas special. It may not seem as if it's new though. It's an all stop-action animated episode just like all the Christmas specials when I was younger -songs and all.

When Abed (Danny Pudi) wakes up in stop-motion animation, he takes it as a sign that he and the group must re-discover the meaning of Christmas. Meanwhile, Jeff (Joel McHale) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) become growingly concerned about Abed's mental health and enlist the help of Professor Duncan (John Oliver). The group undergoes hypnosis to explore Abed's winter wonderland and soon unravel the truth behind Abed’s madness. Chevy Chase, Yvette Nicole Brown, Donald Glover, and Ken Jeong also star.

I had a chance to preview this episode yesterday. Love the ending and how Abed's friends stick by him. Laughed out loud all by myself at some funny one liners. And as I said above, I'll never say Eastern Standard Time again!

"Community-Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" air tonight on NBC at 8:00 EST/7:00 CST.




This review is my own opinion. I viewed this episode through One to One Network. No money was received. My post will be entered into a drawing to win a prize.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

I have become a human tissue....

for this little guy....

who's down and out with a nasty little cold. A cold that has invaded our whole house for a couple of weeks now. A cold that is so bad, if it were a Christmas cold, it would be the Grinch cold. A cold that has morphed into a sinus infection for one of the 7 and a respiratory infection for another.
So, between the coughs, when his nose is running, he has decided that my arm or my shoulder or my leg - really, whichever body part is the closest and available - make a wonderful tissue and swipe, there goes his nose across my arm or shoulder or leg.
The sad thing is -that in my sleep deprived state-I think gross, yuck, but then think oh well, and go on my way. Whoever would have thought that before having kids.
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