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.

It is what it is, and other life stuff

I have decided that I am not a blogger by nature. I forget I ever started it, and therefore forget to EVER create and post new entries. This isn't on purpose, really, or maybe it is, who knows? What I have also decided and or realized is, well, life is what it is. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes boring, sometimes sad. Life is full of so many different things. Some things we can change but some we can't. It is the latter that I have always had difficulity with. I'm trying to be more patient and relax more and understand that the things I cannot change, I simply cannot change.

My daughter in love(yes, I said in love, not in law)is joining the Air Force. She is in fact, swearing in today, possibly having done so already. I am very proud of her. I know she is doing to do well in her military career. I knew this day was going to come and there was nothing I could do to change it. I am going to miss her like crazy, but I knew and I know that she can't graduate BMT until she starts BMT. I don't usually like time to go by so fast, and trust me it goes by super fast, I do want these next 8 weeks to fly by! And I suspect they will and we will find ourselves in TX at Lackland AFB seeing her for the first time in 8 weeks before we know it!

I also have been dreading May 24th. I mean, is there anyone that REALLY wants surgery? I know the benefits of what I'm having and I know the issues I've been having leading up to the decision of my OB/GYN to do surgery. Still, I don't enjoy the thought of it. Trust me when I say I have "been there, done that" when it comes to surgery. 5 times to be exact. So, although I still don't want it, I do know I will hit my 6 week recovery time before I know it, all ready to pack and head down to see Michelle graduate BMT. It does help knowing I have the world's BEST husband to help out and take care of me. I am so lucky to have him.

And speaking of him, the time is nearing for our wedding anniversary. On June 7th we will have been married for 25 years! There won't be any fancy celebrating due to my recovering from the surgery, but you know what? It doesn't matter. I will still have the love of my life near me, caring for me and taking care of me, and loving me and when you stop to think about it, isn't that all that really matters? Knowing that there is another person out there that loves you more than you love yourself, and is waiting to spend the next 25 years with you is so much more important than any party or celebration.

I'm..........blogging!!!!

HA! I can't believe I started blogging! Come on now, how many of "you" can seriously say you believe it, either? :)

Just a place for me to share, experiment and yes, even rant from time to time. Maybe I'll share recipes every now and then as well, and definitely will be posting on the joys and stress of being a full time housewife, homemaker, mom and now for the past year and a half, homeschool teacher to our youngest son! Yes, I am ONE busy woman but I love my life and my family and wouldn't change a thing!

That's it for this "beginning" blog as it is now time to consume yummy Chinese for dinner.