Tuesday, February 24, 2009
A "Re" invite
As all of you know, the JCJH Band-aid/PTO Basket Bingo has been rescheduled for this coming Friday night. Doors open at 5:30, games start at 6. Hope to see you there!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
This Week
Monday morning, Mom, Robert and I loaded up the van and headed for Lincoln to see my sister. As usual, I really meant to take pictures and as usual I realized on the way home that I didn't. We still had a great time, visiting, shopping and eating. The day was entirely too short (why can't work days go that fast??) but I was really glad we got to go.
The rest of the week has been pretty non-eventful. Robert is settling into Musical practice, Andrew worked on sets for the musical last night and will again tomorrow night.
We had AWANA last night but I had half the group missing, hope they get back soon! One of my girls got a new job, I am afraid that will pull her away from us some Wednesday nights, but I am excited for her and her new adventure.
I have my help back at work, which is a welcome relief! Our LIHEAP clerk, Betty, has been out for a month, it is REALLY good to have her back and feeling better!
Next week is the Lakeland College Energy Innovations Conference, which I am speaking at, this one always makes me nervous. I will be doing a workshop for the Head Start Parent fair in March and then I will probably be done with those until Fall.
Happy Thursday!!
The rest of the week has been pretty non-eventful. Robert is settling into Musical practice, Andrew worked on sets for the musical last night and will again tomorrow night.
We had AWANA last night but I had half the group missing, hope they get back soon! One of my girls got a new job, I am afraid that will pull her away from us some Wednesday nights, but I am excited for her and her new adventure.
I have my help back at work, which is a welcome relief! Our LIHEAP clerk, Betty, has been out for a month, it is REALLY good to have her back and feeling better!
Next week is the Lakeland College Energy Innovations Conference, which I am speaking at, this one always makes me nervous. I will be doing a workshop for the Head Start Parent fair in March and then I will probably be done with those until Fall.
Happy Thursday!!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Happy '"Just Because I Love You" Day
That was the words out of Andrew's mouth when he finished his latest honey do project. All my life, I had wanted a fireplace (pay no attention to the fact that the flash on the camera makes mine show how badly it needs cleaned- it doesn't look that bad in real life). Ever since we moved in, I have been in the process of making my living room perfect and someplace to spend more time in. Our major problem was there was no light in the room and it was too dark to do something like sit and read--Andrew put in a ceiling light, which I love when we have family and friends over but it still wasn't right just to sit on the couch, in front of the fire and read. Sooo, yesterday, Andrew put a Ground Fault outlet in the floor under my sofa. It had to be strategically placed so any way I wanted to rearrange the furniture, it would be hidden--yes the man has the patience of Job, because I ran through every scenario I could think of and I actually moved the furniture around until I found the perfect spot, then when that wasn't the easiest spot for him, he did it anyway.
Thank you again, Honey! I love you too!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Little Brothers and "Dirty Magazines"
Our Pastor's wife has just posted on her post about getting a magazine in the mail wrapped in brown paper, she had ordered a Journal of Christian Nursing and got a Journal on Genital Disease. It reminded me of a story.
When I was growning up, my sister was ten years older than me and then the three boys down the road, the Fulton boys, were 2, 4 and 6 years younger than me. Of course, this is Jon, Grant and Jason. They were the closest things to brothers I ever had. Grant's birthday was in February, and there have been many memories randomly popping in my head. Reading Melissa's post brought back the day when 3 or 4 of my friends were at my house and we were all laying on the bed and floor in my room looking at "Seventeen". Grant had came down for a visit--we did that a lot growing up, I lived at their house that much too. Anyway, Grant went home and told his mom he was looking at dirty magazines at my house. And as any good mom would do, Grant's mom, aka Nanny Fulton, called my mom. Okay, so to a 15 year old girl, looking at bras and underwear in a magazine ad isn't a big deal but to an 11 year old boy---- (from then on, I hid my magazines from him!) then there was the time we were skating in my garage, my mom had put up black lights and a disco ball and all that- Grant was the first one to point out that all of us girls were wearing white shirts and that you could see our bras right through them. He was definately the life of most of my parties- Man, I miss him but I am sure glad I have all those great and funny memories.
When I was growning up, my sister was ten years older than me and then the three boys down the road, the Fulton boys, were 2, 4 and 6 years younger than me. Of course, this is Jon, Grant and Jason. They were the closest things to brothers I ever had. Grant's birthday was in February, and there have been many memories randomly popping in my head. Reading Melissa's post brought back the day when 3 or 4 of my friends were at my house and we were all laying on the bed and floor in my room looking at "Seventeen". Grant had came down for a visit--we did that a lot growing up, I lived at their house that much too. Anyway, Grant went home and told his mom he was looking at dirty magazines at my house. And as any good mom would do, Grant's mom, aka Nanny Fulton, called my mom. Okay, so to a 15 year old girl, looking at bras and underwear in a magazine ad isn't a big deal but to an 11 year old boy---- (from then on, I hid my magazines from him!) then there was the time we were skating in my garage, my mom had put up black lights and a disco ball and all that- Grant was the first one to point out that all of us girls were wearing white shirts and that you could see our bras right through them. He was definately the life of most of my parties- Man, I miss him but I am sure glad I have all those great and funny memories.
"Honey"
You know how they tell you when you are young parents that you are training your children in how to have relationships. Your actions towards each other shapes your child's view of what a loving relationship is supposed to be. Well, I have seen that come to fruition in a couple little things I have notice with Robert. The main one being his "pet name" for Tika.
Andrew and I very rarely call each other by our first names, if we do, it is usually because we are in a crowd and have already said "Honey" or "Sweetheart" and the other one hasn't heard us.
A few weeks ago as Robert was hanging up the phone, he said, "Goodnight Honey". At first I was a little shocked and thought "I'm not sure I'm ready for them to be calling each other "Honey" and then it occurred to me, we taught him that... He was watching and listening and taking it all in and honestly, with so many bad relationships in the world, it made me realize how thankful I was that he got to grow up in a loving home.
Andrew and I very rarely call each other by our first names, if we do, it is usually because we are in a crowd and have already said "Honey" or "Sweetheart" and the other one hasn't heard us.
A few weeks ago as Robert was hanging up the phone, he said, "Goodnight Honey". At first I was a little shocked and thought "I'm not sure I'm ready for them to be calling each other "Honey" and then it occurred to me, we taught him that... He was watching and listening and taking it all in and honestly, with so many bad relationships in the world, it made me realize how thankful I was that he got to grow up in a loving home.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Barbecue Beef Filled Biscuits
Here is another quick recipe-- it too, came off of the Kraft website. Sunday nights are crazy at our house because Andrew has to be at work at 8, Robert and I have choir practice at 5 and church at 6, which Andrew tries to make church at 6 so we are all running different directions. I can make these Sunday afternoon, bake them in time for Andrew to get up at 4:30 and then reheat them for Robert and me when we get home from church. I actually change a couple of things, I use a couple spoonfuls more meat, which I use lean ground turkey instead of the hamburger and that way I use all 10 biscuits. This meal is EXTREMELY cheap, especially if you have time to make it to Aldi, where the biscuits are 29 cents a can. It's one of those "sneak veggies in" recipes. I have used different BBQ sauces and it was fine, of course, since it is the Kraft website, they recommend their own brands,but it is good with others too. This has been a favorite Sunday night meal around here for a long time!
1/2 lb. extra-lean ground beef (remember just a couple spoonfuls more)
1 medium green pepper, finely chopped
1 medium carrot, shredded
1/3 cup BULL'S-EYE Original Barbecue Sauce
1 can (7.5 oz.) refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
1/2 cup KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
BROWN meat in medium skillet; drain. Add green pepper; cook and stir 5 minutes or until peppers are crisp-tender. Remove from heat. Add carrots and barbecue sauce; mix well.
SEPARATE biscuits. Press 1 biscuit onto bottom and up side of each of 10 medium muffin cups sprayed with cooking spray. SPOON meat-vegetable mixture evenly into biscuit cups, pressing filling into cups with back of spoon. (Filling will be mounded.)
BAKE at 375°F for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese. Continue baking 3 to 4 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown and cheese is melted.
Enjoy! I know I should have taken my own picture, but I took the easy way out and cut and pasted. They really do look like the pic above though- they were gone before I thought about it!
1/2 lb. extra-lean ground beef (remember just a couple spoonfuls more)
1 medium green pepper, finely chopped
1 medium carrot, shredded
1/3 cup BULL'S-EYE Original Barbecue Sauce
1 can (7.5 oz.) refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
1/2 cup KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
BROWN meat in medium skillet; drain. Add green pepper; cook and stir 5 minutes or until peppers are crisp-tender. Remove from heat. Add carrots and barbecue sauce; mix well.
SEPARATE biscuits. Press 1 biscuit onto bottom and up side of each of 10 medium muffin cups sprayed with cooking spray. SPOON meat-vegetable mixture evenly into biscuit cups, pressing filling into cups with back of spoon. (Filling will be mounded.)
BAKE at 375°F for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese. Continue baking 3 to 4 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown and cheese is melted.
Enjoy! I know I should have taken my own picture, but I took the easy way out and cut and pasted. They really do look like the pic above though- they were gone before I thought about it!
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