1/2 Orowheat whole grain and flax seed english muffin

Morning Snack

nectarine

Lunch

scrounged around eating left overs

hamburger patty (about 3 oz)

1/3 cup broccoli with cheese sauce (if you’re going to buy frozen broccoli with cheese sauce don’t try to save a few cents with Great Value, it was disgusting)

Afternoon Snack

coffee

8 carrots, triscuits, and 2 tbsp Kraft ranch

Dinner

lemon pepper fettuccine with grilled chicken

calorie total 1117

Exercise – 40 minutes on treadmill

**Before pictures to come soon**

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But, what is really getting to me is Monkey. I can’t believe how big he is getting. Like his sister, he too wants his independence. He, after two weeks of thinking about it, has decided that he wants to play t ball. I pulled up some videos for him on You Tube to watch and ended up crying thinking about how big he had gotten. Add on to that, he is reading, and in 6 months he will start kindergarten I’m a boo hoo mess. Seriously, wasn’t this kid just born yesterday? It doesn’t seem like that long ago that Big Daddy was a freaked out first time dad convinced every weird newborn thing meant something was wrong.  Now we are all bopping around singing Hannah Montana lyrics and the theme song to Wizards of Waverly place.

I need some magic that will speed up the next two years with Princess P and slow the next two with Monkey down.

Sorry for the blurry picture, I forgot that my focus was on manual.

British Meat Pies

What you need

• 1/2 pound Sausage, I used the link dinner sausage
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1 piece of celery, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1/2 cup mashed potatoes
• salt, pepper
• can of biscuit dough
• egg

1. Cook sausage, onion, celery, and carrot in skillet then mix in mashed potatoes
2. roll out dough and cut into 3 inch circles
3. spoon mixture into dough and pinch the edges together
4. brush with a beaten egg
5. cook at 350 for about 15 minutes

If I make this again, I’ll use 2 cans of biscuit dough or a bigger can (or a puff pastry which you can find in the freezer section). I used a smaller 10 oz can and it wasn’t enough.  I also think you could substitute eggs and it would make a really good breakfast, especially if you are needing to eat on the run.

Chocolate Pudding

What you need

• 2 large egg yolks
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 3 cups whole milk
• 5 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chopped
• pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1. whisk the yolks, sugar and cornstarch
2. in saucepan over medium heat melt chocolate with milk and salt
3. when chocolate is completely melted pour over egg mixture, whisk constantly then pour back into saucepan and stir until thick, about 12-15 minutes
4. remove from the hear and stir in vanilla then divide into dessert cups, cover in plastic wrap, and put in fridge for about 2 hours

If I make this again I will use a much sweeter chocolate and less vanilla. The vanilla seemed really strong and sort of overpowered the chocolate.

Here’s what you need

• 5 potatoes, peeled and cubed (I think my mistake here was that I cut them too small and they sort of disintegrated)
• 2 onions, chopped (didn’t have onions either, I was so not prepared for todays meal at all)
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 (14-ounce) cans ready to serve chicken or vegetable broth
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 (13-ounce) can evaporated milk
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves

You’re a song
Written by the hands of god
Don’t get me wrong cause
This might sound to you a bit odd
But you own the place
Where all my thoughts go hiding
And right under your clothes
Is where I find them

Underneath Your Clothes
There’s an endless story
There’s the man I chose
There’s my territory
And all the things I deserve
For being such a good girl honey

Because of you
I forgot the smart ways to lie
Because of you
I’m running out of reasons to cry
When the friends are gone
When the party’s over
We will still belong to each other

Underneath Your Clothes
There’s an endless story
There’s the man I chose
There’s my territory
And all the things I deserve
For being such a good girl honey

I love you more than all that’s on the planet
Movin’ talkin’ walkin’ breathing
You know it’s true
Oh baby it’s so funny
You almost don’t believe it
As every voice is hanging from the silence
Lamps are hanging from the ceiling
Like a lady tied to her manners
I’m tied up to this feeling

Underneath Your Clothes
There’s an endless story
There’s the man I chose
There’s my territory
And all the things I deserve
For being such a good girl honey

I really thought I hated Texas summers and fantasized that some day I would live up north. I would enjoy the snow and the nice mild summers. Perhaps, if I was still a child I would enjoy it- playing out there making snowmen, forts, and snow angels and having snowball fights. I’m sure then it would have been awesome but now as an adult I’m pretty sure I would just think it sucked. I can now say that I would not enjoy the snow. As sucky as summer gets here I have never lost power for 17 hours and I’ve never been stuck in my own driveway. I’m also no longer under the illusion that a fireplace can warm a house or even a room or a 5 foot area around it.

On Thursday I learned the following things.

• Big Daddy and I are not boy scouts, we were completely unprepared. We didn’t know where any working flash lights were and when we found a nonworking one we couldn’t find the d batteries we needed.  We even went to our old go too and started raiding toys.
• If you’re parked on an incline you should move your car before there is 6 inches or more of snow behind your car. Snow might look light and fluffy but it’s a total bitch to shovel.
• When it’s really cold outside the temperatures drop fast in your house, 10 degrees in 5 hours, and a quilt is not going to keep you warm.
• Paperless billing sounds like a great idea until it’s 4 am and your cold and cranky and can’t call Oncor because you don’t have the ESID number.  Apparently they don’t have our phone number because they didn’t like any of the numbers I entered.
• Keep food in your house that doesn’t need to be cooked.
• After your power has been out for a certain amount of time the snow outside is colder then your fridge. So we buried our food. I wish I would have taken a picture because I’m pretty sure there is a “You might be a redneck” joke in there somewhere.
• And, okay, something positive. 10 – 13 inches of snow is breathtakingly beautiful and I was really happy that I got to experience this, hopefully, once and a lifetime moment with my kids.

If you would like to see all of the pictures I took you can click here.

I think there are close to 200.

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I really thought I hated Texas summers and fantasized that some day I would live up north. I would enjoy the snow and the nice mild summers. Perhaps, if I was still a child I would enjoy it- playing out there making snowmen, forts, and snow angels and having snowball fights. I’m sure then it would have been awesome but now as an adult I’m pretty sure I would just think it sucked. I can now say that I would not enjoy the snow. As sucky as summer gets here I have never lost power for 17 hours and I’ve never been stuck in my own driveway. I’m also no longer under the illusion that a fireplace can warm a house or even a room or a 5 foot area around it.

On Thursday I learned the following things.

• Big Daddy and I are not boy scouts, we were completely unprepared. We didn’t know where any working flash lights were and when we found a nonworking one we couldn’t find the d batteries we needed.  We even went to our old go too and started raiding toys.
• If you’re parked on an incline you should move your car before there is 6 inches or more of snow behind your car. Snow might look light and fluffy but it’s a total bitch to shovel.
• When it’s really cold outside the temperatures drop fast in your house, 10 degrees in 5 hours, and a quilt is not going to keep you warm.
• Paperless billing sounds like a great idea until it’s 4 am and your cold and cranky and can’t call Oncor because you don’t have the ESID number.  Apparently they don’t have our phone number because they didn’t like any of the numbers I entered.
• Keep food in your house that doesn’t need to be cooked.
• After your power has been out for a certain amount of time the snow outside is colder then your fridge. So we buried our food. I wish I would have taken a picture because I’m pretty sure there is a “You might be a redneck” joke in there somewhere.
• And, okay, something positive. 10 – 13 inches of snow is breathtakingly beautiful and I was really happy that I got to experience this, hopefully, once and a lifetime moment with my kids.

If you would like to see all of the pictures I took you can click here.

I think there are close to 200.

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• February 11, 2010 -- Snow, real snow