I'm seeing a pattern here

I seem to recall posting last Sunday and saying something like I was going to start posting menus and such starting today. Well, before we read any further, let me assure us all that it isn't happening. Again. This week. Oh well. :)

It truly was a busy week for us here in CO. The good news of course was my awesome post op check up on Thursday. :) I have no excuse/excuses for not having a menu planned out. I had good intentions, I just never got around to it. Next Sunday? ;)

Instead of a weekly menu though, I will share a recipe that I absolutely love. Thank you Paula Deen!!

blueberry cobbler

Preheat oven to 350. Melt 1 stick of butter(yes, this is one of those splurge things where you really do want to not skimp on the butter). Pour into a 13x9 inch baking dish. In a med to large bowl, combine 2 cups of flour, 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp cardamom. Mix well. Pour in 1 1/3 cups whole milk(again, this isn't something to skimp with)and whisk until smooth. Pour over melted butter and top/sprinkle/even out 6 cups of fresh blueberries. Sprinkle evenly with 2 tsp orange zest. Bake for 50 minutes. Cool for 10. Serve however you like.

I've tried doing this various ways in order to get it a little bit healthier. It doesn't work. I don't make it often, usually once, maybe twice a summer and that's it for the year, so I don't worry "too" much about all the butter and sugar and whole milk. Just don't eat the whole cobbler yourself! It's equally as good with fresh, homemade whipped cream, or Cool Whip or ice cream. Heck, it's even good all by itself. :)

Happy eating. :)

Yawn, stretch, yawn again

Alright, now that I've had coffee, I'll post a tiny little blog that I had hoped would be bigger, and posted yesterday, but well, whatever! So I didn't get to it yesterday, but I DO want to get in the habit of doing so each week. I really do want to begin using this for homeschool, and thus the weekly menus, assignments, outings etc. Some for the sole purpose of keeping me sane. Not that I'm sane. But as sane as one can be.

If you've read this far, you know, hopefully at least, that no, I do not have a weekly menu or anything else for this week to post. Shame on me.....I have promised myself that I will have something next week. :)

I'll leave with this recipe for "MY" version of French's crispy onion fried chicken.

Take a 13x9 dish and put a stick of butter in it(doesn't hurt to spray it down with Pam either)and put in the oven at 350. While the butter is melting:

take a large can of French's crispy onion "stuff", 3 T flour, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1 tsp garlic powder, 3/4 tsp paprika and 1/2 tsp cumin and 2-3 T dry breadcrumbs, put it all in a big plastic Ziploc type bag. Crush/mix it all together.

Take one egg and beat it then mix with about 1/3 maybe 1/2 cup of Greek style yogurt and a little bit of water.

Once the butter has melted, take the dish out, coat the chicken first in the wet then the dry mixture and place in the dish. Bake for 30 minutes then take it out and turn the chicken over and bake for another 20 to 30 minutes.

This isn't the exact recipe on the French's container. I experimented and the family LOVED it!

Going to turn this into a combo of our life in CO and also homeschooling

I regularly visit homeschool blogs and various sites. For months now I've been thinking to myself, "I could do that". If you know me, at all, you know I am not the most, how shall we say, "computer gifted" person. :) I am however, married to the world's greatest computer gifted person! =)

It is of course summer time now and school, is out, for the most part. Or is it? When you homeschool, it doesn't take long for the days and or weeks and months to all blur together. The regular M-F doesn't really apply. Weekends could really be any day or days you choose. And school doesn't really "stop" just because it's summer. Summer posts of school probably wouldn't be the same as other times of the year, but that doesn't mean we aren't learning.

I'm thinking of posting a weekly menu every Sunday evening for the week. I used to do home daycare through the Air Force and know from years of experience how important that planned out in advance menu truly is. Of course it was also required. Not that I EVER minded Ms. Dee! :)

During the actual school year I'll post various crafts we do or fun and educational sites I've found. I'll try to figure out, or have Kevin get pictures posted on here as well.

My life is definitely a crazy, busy, funny, adventuresome and loved one! I truly am wife, mother, teacher, cook, nurse, counselor, field trip guide, gardener, and lady. I LOVE it!!

Time to run now. Not that I can run(will June 24th EVER get here so my doctor will hopefully lift all my post surgery restrictions)!! Plus it's Father's Day weekend. Lots to get done.