Another week....

So my babies are better- mostly! I didn't go to church yesterday because I just couldn't compromise their health. Last week sucked.....BAD! This week will be a whole other story! :)


Monday
B: Oatmeal/ life cereal
L: Sandwiches with chips and salsa and pineapple
D: pork shake-n-bake style with tater salad and peas

Tuesday
B: Oatmeal
L: leftovers
D: Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole (I LOVE this website! My dear friends Kelsey gave me the connection to this website, and I am eternally grateful to her for sharing! It is awesome!!)

Wednesday
B: Oatmeal
L: leftovers
D: Chicken and wild rice soup with breadsticks

Thursday
B: Oatmeal and cereal
L: Sandwiches and grapes with chips and salsa (BORING!!!)
D: We had tater soup and cornbread last thursday, and it was SCRUMPTIOUS! Thank you Annie!


Friday
B: Oatmeal or cereal
L: At grannnies house
D: Homemade chicken nuggets (recipe below) and home fries

Saturday
B: Pancakes
L:  sandwiches
D: Hamburgers and taters

Sunday
B: Eggs and toast
L: Crockpot roast and taters with corn and rolls and jello :) (now, doesn't that sound like what mama would make!)
D: Whatever we make- cheese sandwiches and raspberries


Homemade chicken nuggets


1-2 chicken breasts
around 1/2 cup ranch dressing
around 1 cup crushed cornflakes
around 1/2 cup parmesan cheese (fresh is better, but the canned stuff works!)
spices (I like garlic, and paprika, the ranch and parm cheese really do flavor great!)


Heat oven to 425
Cut up the chicken into chicken nugget sizes
pour the ranch into a bowl
put the crushed corn flakes, parmesan cheese, and seasonings into another bowl
roll the chicken in ranch, and then in the crushed mixture
put it on a baking sheet
bake it for around 10 mins- or until it is cooked! 

Seriously, this is soooooooooooooooooo yummy! And soooooooo easy!

Sick of Sick!!! AND SNOW!!!

So to whoever cares, my babies have been sick since Monday. I am soooooooo sick of boogers! I am so sick of being awake of 0200 (and NOT getting paid for it!) I am so sick of whining, and crying, and washing syringes, I am sick of seeing 102.3 on the thermometer. I am sick of making smoothies., and jello, and doling out popsicles.....but what am I most sick of? The fact that my little babies are hurting, and I can't make them feel better! They are both content right now, but the last three days they just sit around looking miserable. Little 1 just wants to snuggle, and watch movies. Little 2 just wants to snuggle, and then cry. I feel so bad for them! LIttle 1 doesn't understand why I have to hold Little 2, and little 2 doesn't want to share me. WOW! It is harder than I expected to be mommy of 2 sickies! :(
On top of it, there is 3 feet of snow outside, and it looks like a shaken snow-globe out there. SERIOUSLY! I AM SO SICK OF WINTER! And it's only the end of FEBRUARY!!!! Man, I love living here, but 9/12 months is winter, and i am sick of it! Plus, I think that the groundhog lied! There is NO WAY there is going to be an early spring. I just want to go running outside. I am getting sooooo sick of a treadmill! BUT-the other day my sweet hubby took the littles, and I DID get to go out and run. I can still do a 5K. But the snow really slows me down! (You know, from running a 5K in 45 mins to 55....speedy, hu? :)   Oh, and on top of having sick babies, I have to go to work tonight. I normally love work, but I HATE having sick kids at home while I am at work. And I am just tired. On top of that influenza type A and B are very prevalent here in this small valley, and I don't want that, nor do I want my family to get it.....
Okay, so this week has kinda sucked! but now I have to say that at least I have gotten LOTS of snuggles, and gotten to watch lots of awesome movies, and at lease I will get paid to be awake all night taking care of sick people tonight. I am happy. I am okay. I am. Until next time! I will be happier!

Craftiness, menu and an idea!

Am I crafty? Well, when I was younger (like before I was married, as in HS time....) I had a boyfriend whose mother told me I was the most UNCRAFTY person she knew. Well, does an uncrafty person make that??? (If I knew how to draw an arrow to the hat, I would!) NO! So, even though this is the ONLY thing that I can make, I still did it! So take that Mrs. So and so. (Yeah, so over the boy, but the really, I don't know if I'll EVER get over that comment, stupid, I know!) Anyway, I am proud of myself, I am not trying to brag, but I am doing it regardless! :)
Oh, and PS- I was 20 when I wed my stallion of a man! Still young to some, but I was not a teen! :)

Monday
B: Oatmeal
L: we were going to have leftovers, but now we are just going to have sandwiches because I didn't make a roast!  ha ha ha!
D: Salisbury steak, mashed taters, and corn

Tuesday
B: Oatmeal
L: Gorilla soup and sandwiches (grilled cheese and tomato soup, thank the 3YO for that name!)
D: Stir Fry and rice (seriously people....go to sams club and buy some yoshida's sauce! It makes EVERYTHING oriental you cook taste 9 million times better!! Oh, I buy the kind at Sams club!)

Wednesday
B: Oatmeal
L: leftovers
D: stroganoff with noodles, and green beans

Thursday
B: oatmeal
L: leftovers
D: lasagna, breadsticks, and salad

Friday
B: Oatmeal
L: sandwiches, chips, apple slices
D: Pizza

Saturday
B: Pancakes
L: Yeah, Who knows!! Hot dogs!
D: Chicken nuggets and home fries

Sunday
B: eggs and toast
L:
D: We be loving birthday celebrations! Dinner with my family! Who knows, either stir fry (my dad went to japan, we grew up eating this for our sundays, or maddox turkey steaks, or spaghetti....)


This is such a good idea!

So As you may or may not know, I have some friends that we do a dinner swap with. I honestly LOVE IT! It makes me happy. It makes my tummy full, and we eat things that I don't always make. But if you have some friends that you want to do something with, I think that freezer meals would rock! For Christmas I made my mom 10 frozen dinners, and it took me forever to get it done, but OH MY HECK! They are so worth it! The taste, and the nutrition is soooooo much better than michelinas or however you spell it! Anyway, just a thought!

Stupid computer!

Soooo. I posted my menu on Sunday. Or so I thought.  I had this post that I thought was posted, but the post didn't post. post post post post post. Say it a few more times, and it starts sounding weird. ANYWAY.

Monday
B: heart shaped french toast
L: Mexican fiesta pasta
D: Steak, hot hot hot wings, taters, corn, and breadsticks.

Tuesday (I picked up a shift and worked. It was sooooo busy!)
B: life cereal (I didn't get any :( )
L: Mac and Cheese (yeah, didn't get this either! :( )
D: Italian Meatball Subs (MMMMMMM, and yeah, I did get to eat!)

Wednesday
B: Oatmeal
L: leftover subs
D: BBQ chicken and rice with beans

Thursday
B: Oatmeal
L: pulled bbq chicken sandwiches
D: loaded baked potato soup

Friday
B: Oatmeal
L: At grandmas house (We be going shoppppppinnnnnn!!!!!)
D: Pizza.....if I'm home :)

Saturday
B: GUESS! Pancakes!
L: Sandwiches
D: leftovers

Sunday
B: eggs and toast
L: Roast with roasted taters and carrots and maybe rolls
D: Cheese sandwiches (put a slice of cheese on a piece of bread, and nuke it for 20 seconds.....healthy, I know! I started feeling bad when little MR would go to bed and say: "But mommy, we didn't eat dinner tonight!)

Corn Bread Muffins.....

Why? Why in the heck do I have this picture posted? Just so you can see how pretty it was one summer night. (and how hott I look when I am large with child!) This is how the valley looked one night. We did NOT photoshop this at all! Isn't it pretty? And of course, the rainbow ended at my house. That is because we actually have a pot of gold (we are rich, we just fooled you all!) !!! :) Anyway, this is more for me than you! It is to remind me that under the 3 feet of snow still lying on the ground, and the dead looking trees, there really is some green there.

So on Tuesdays I watch my neighbor boys (twins, 4 years old...) anyway, they are constantly asking for food. Today, I was so on top of my game! I set the timer when they walked through the door, and just told them when the timer went off, it would be snack time, and not until then. That worked. So then, I decided that I would be generous, and share the corn bread muffins I made, I gave all the gremlins a treat, then ran downstairs and threw in a load of laundry. When I came back upstairs they were pounding on the muffins yelling "BONGO, BONGO!!!!" well, no food is meant to withstand that pressure, and as you can guess, there was corn bread ALL OVER MY HOUSE! SERIOUSLY!! I was gone for like 30 seconds! YIKES! It was  a FREAKING HUGE MESS! Needless to say, what I thought was going to be a great treat really turned out to be a nightmare. I am now laughing about it, but seriously, I wanted to just....do something......when I saw the giganticly humoungus mess they had all created (my child included!!)
SOOO, on to what this blog is really about....
Yeah, it's tuesday, and things at my house the last week have been NUTS! My 3 YO got sick last weekend, then at midnight my baby decided to get sick....it was a long night. LUCKY ME! :) Anyway, here is what I have. Sorry its late.

Monday (long gone!)
B: Oatmeal, eggs, and toast
L: meatball sandwiches
D: pulled pork sandwiches and pasta salad

Tuesday
B: oatmeal and toast
L: tomato soup and leftover pepperoni pizza rolls
D: Annie surprise!

Wednesday
B: Oatmeal and toast
L: leftovers!
D: Lemon and garlic grilled chicken with noodles and corn

Thursday
B: Oatmeal and toast
L: leftovers again
D: crockpot cream cheese chicken and rice with carrots

Friday
B: Oatmeal and toast
L: at grandmas and work
D: pizza....or chicken nuggets

Saturday
B: Pancakes
L: leftovers
D: Hamburgers

Sunday
B: Eggs and Toast
Linner: Steak and baked taters with green beans and rolls.
Treat: Brownies...or cookies....or a pie.....what do you have?