I got in the mail this wonderful package!!! It was a cereal bar from Kashi. I knew it had to be good!! OMG was it ever!!! Yummy! Great flavor. I got the Blackberry Graham, loved it! I love the blackberry flavor and the cereal bar it's self was wonderful.
I so plan to buy more....
Also they sent me some coupons. I will share them with you! I received 5 coupons for $2 off Kashi soft baked cereal bars. They come in ripe strawberry, baked apple spice, and blackberry graham. Email me or leave a comment if you would like the coupon
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Toddlers, vinager and the speech class
Today was a tiring day. For some reason the Prince woke up today thinking that he had to get into everything!!! I couldn't keep up! As hard as I tried! Our bed side drawer was minor compared to what he got into!
The kicker!!! Oh what you think it could not be that bad? Right? WRONG!!!!
He poured 1/2 gallon on vinegar on the carpet in the hallway! The house stinks! It is so tart that it feels like the littlest hairs in my nose are burning! Horrid. I doaked a bunch up with the carpet cleaner but I was not able to get a lot of it. I put a fan to help dry it easier and faster but that was the best I could do. So for now we will smell the vinegar.
Prince goes to speech every Tuesday. This is time that we are taking to help him talk and communicate with others. Some of these days are harder than others. Today was one of them. This is his 3rd day. The first one was getting to know the teacher as well as a run down of things. The second one I didn't go in the room. Today since it was a different lady (his regular teacher was out for the holiday) I decided I had better go in. HUGE mistake. Prince backtracked. He would not communicate with her in any manor. Nothing. Signs or hand jesters were out of the question for him as well. I ended up breaking down. I know he is smart. I know he can talk. He just doesn't for whatever reason. Maybe it is him. The thoughts run through my head that perhaps it is me. I am not hard enough on him to make him talk. He has had whatever he wanted since day one. I know that eventually we will get it. He will talk. For now it is a struggle. I will fight this. He will fight this. Just as he has been a fighter since birth.
Needless to say, today was emotional, tiring, and hard. I know it gets easier. I hope for those days!
The kicker!!! Oh what you think it could not be that bad? Right? WRONG!!!!
He poured 1/2 gallon on vinegar on the carpet in the hallway! The house stinks! It is so tart that it feels like the littlest hairs in my nose are burning! Horrid. I doaked a bunch up with the carpet cleaner but I was not able to get a lot of it. I put a fan to help dry it easier and faster but that was the best I could do. So for now we will smell the vinegar.
Prince goes to speech every Tuesday. This is time that we are taking to help him talk and communicate with others. Some of these days are harder than others. Today was one of them. This is his 3rd day. The first one was getting to know the teacher as well as a run down of things. The second one I didn't go in the room. Today since it was a different lady (his regular teacher was out for the holiday) I decided I had better go in. HUGE mistake. Prince backtracked. He would not communicate with her in any manor. Nothing. Signs or hand jesters were out of the question for him as well. I ended up breaking down. I know he is smart. I know he can talk. He just doesn't for whatever reason. Maybe it is him. The thoughts run through my head that perhaps it is me. I am not hard enough on him to make him talk. He has had whatever he wanted since day one. I know that eventually we will get it. He will talk. For now it is a struggle. I will fight this. He will fight this. Just as he has been a fighter since birth.
Needless to say, today was emotional, tiring, and hard. I know it gets easier. I hope for those days!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Carpet Cleaning
Is for the birds!
I thought it would be a great idea to have a carpet cleaner. I wanted to have one since I have 2 kids and 2 furkids. I mean having such messes you need that type of thing.
Perhaps I do not have the patience. I just do not want to go over and over things. I Know they are good to have in all but wouldn't it just be better to have someone come do it.
We will see how it works out when SD does it. I feel that my luck is at its end with these sort of things.
I thought it would be a great idea to have a carpet cleaner. I wanted to have one since I have 2 kids and 2 furkids. I mean having such messes you need that type of thing.
Perhaps I do not have the patience. I just do not want to go over and over things. I Know they are good to have in all but wouldn't it just be better to have someone come do it.
We will see how it works out when SD does it. I feel that my luck is at its end with these sort of things.
Menu Planning Monday
This is my first MPM. Growing up my mom always did a menu. She shopped off that menu. It made it much easier for her. She was in the Navy and we got home at 5 at night. We knew what was for dinner ahead of time. It was nice. Even to this day I call and say "What's for dinner?"
So here is my first menu
Monday
Asian pork tenderloin
fried rice
veggies
Tuesday
I am not sure yet as it is Speech for Prince and it has to be something fast
Wednesday
Breakfast for dinner
Thursday
Turkey
mashed
Gravy
green bean casserole
broccoli and cheese corn bread n(Granny's recipe)
pickles
olives
cranberry sauce
Friday
Left overs
Saturday
Grilled cheese & ham
green beans
Sunday
Pho
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Recipe: Mom's Chili
I just love my mother's chili. She is 2500 miles away, so here chili would be rather hard to eat for a family of 4 for dinner. She emailed me the recipe and I went to work on it.
Here is how it went
1 bell pepper
1 onion
1 package of chili mix (i used McCormick)
2 cans of kidney beans
1 pound of hamburger
2 cans of tomato sauce
chili powder to your taste
cumin (she puts this, I didn't)
Salt and pepper to taste on meat
Brown the meat. When it is half way through the browning process add onion and bell pepper. Finish browning. Add tomato sauce and chili mix. Cook through. Stir.
If you chose to add water do do. Put in beans and let cook.
My mother cooks hers for a long time. Mine was ready in 45 minutes! Very good and tastes just like moms!!!
Here is how it went
1 bell pepper
1 onion
1 package of chili mix (i used McCormick)
2 cans of kidney beans
1 pound of hamburger
2 cans of tomato sauce
chili powder to your taste
cumin (she puts this, I didn't)
Salt and pepper to taste on meat
Brown the meat. When it is half way through the browning process add onion and bell pepper. Finish browning. Add tomato sauce and chili mix. Cook through. Stir.
If you chose to add water do do. Put in beans and let cook.
My mother cooks hers for a long time. Mine was ready in 45 minutes! Very good and tastes just like moms!!!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Gas, PT and overall thoughts
Well it was about time to fill up the Element. I went to the corner gas sore and I was rather suprised at what I saw. Gas for $1.95! I have a 13 gallon gas tank, so I figured it would have been about $26 to fill up. A tank of gas lasts me a long time. I just stay around town and since I do not work I don't waste a bunch of gas. I was rather excited. 
Yesterday Prince got inserts put in his shoes. He walks with his toes pointed in. I have been told that it is coming from the hips not the knees. Which makes perfect sense. His hip joints are extremely lose. I can touch his toes together rather easily. I do need to buy him a bigger pair of shoes though because these do not give him room for the toes at the end. We will get those soon. I need to find ones that he likes first.
Lately I have been shopping at the .99 cents stores. Why? Well because they have awesome deals!! We have 3 stores here that I like to go to. One is the .99 Cents only store and the other 2 are Dollar Trees. They are great. Tonight I am making chili with everything I bought from there minus the hamburger I got on base. Everything all together is less than $7. I got the recipe from my mother. I love hers so I hope that mine will be just as good.
Here is to a great dinner
Yesterday Prince got inserts put in his shoes. He walks with his toes pointed in. I have been told that it is coming from the hips not the knees. Which makes perfect sense. His hip joints are extremely lose. I can touch his toes together rather easily. I do need to buy him a bigger pair of shoes though because these do not give him room for the toes at the end. We will get those soon. I need to find ones that he likes first.
Lately I have been shopping at the .99 cents stores. Why? Well because they have awesome deals!! We have 3 stores here that I like to go to. One is the .99 Cents only store and the other 2 are Dollar Trees. They are great. Tonight I am making chili with everything I bought from there minus the hamburger I got on base. Everything all together is less than $7. I got the recipe from my mother. I love hers so I hope that mine will be just as good.
Here is to a great dinner
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Sewing: Purse from fused plastic bags
I made this purse out of fused plastic bags. I got the tutorial over at Esty labs. I thought for sure that it would be hard. It was a bit time consuming but overall fun. Nothing I can do while the Prince is awake. I did it in the dining room with the windows open. I love it!! I will decorate it with some paints and such. I will post the finished product later.
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