Did you just get home from work and you are so tired like me that I can sleep in my work clothes, yeah I feel ya sister, but wait I hear a bunch of whinners in the kitchen screaming, "I`m hungry"
An easy, Inexpensive way to feed a BIG family
You need:
2 big jars/cans of Traditional (or your favorite) tomato sauce
1 big tub of plain fat free Sour Cream
1/2 box of chicken broth
1 teaspoon or to your liking of basil (tube, dry or from your household garden)
nothing hard just add all into a pot
let it simmer add salt to taste
Some Parmessan Cheese if you like and Waalaa!!
Garlic Bread Butter Spread
1 small clove of Garlic
A bit of Basil (whatever type is handy)
1 loaf of french bread
2 big spoons of your kitchen butter
if you have a food procesor add butter,garlic and basil and process
if not use a cheese grater and grate the garlic into a small bowl add basil and butter and mix.
Spread on French bread and Toast
Your family will think you slaved over the stove all day.
and for your easy listening while you cook, listen to this chick she is amazing ...love her stuff
Do you remember in High School how you, well I didn't hate Cheerleaders they just were not your (my) favorite people. If you were a cheerleader than you were not a favorite people)
I remember I was liked by people, I didn't have clicks and girl dramas were always there but I never paid attention because for some fortunate reason I was never the topic of a juicy gossip. I wasn't popular but I wasn't unknown either. (Thank my Stars)
But if you were a Cheerleader something was always said about you.
I remember at try outs they would make them try out in front of the whole school, I never understood that. I always thought it was a way to let us the students have a reason to have our sweet moment of glory of embarrasing them, having the power to choose who would be so lucky to make it (by popular vote of course) and nevertheless we still voted for them and than made fun of them but cheered for them at pep rallies because let's face it their stuff was cool and than made fun of them some more. (maybe girl jelousy had somehting to do with it, who knows?)
I thought pheww!! I'm so glad I am not them.
I say this because years later or now the present I was blessed with a beautiful daughter who hah! to me Wanted to be yes, can you guess?? A Cheerleader. Sigh!
I can't say that I love it, I don't, I don't even watch the football games. I do get a kick out the parents who's kids are in the game. I hear a lot of "that's my baby"
As I embark on this journey of pom poms it amazes me how fate can be so fickle with me, I only hope that there are not a group of kids out there like me in my past and give her the fate of a cheerleader. (who am I kidding, I'm praying to all the Gods known to man, Yikes!)
But I must say She looks darn cute in that Uniform.
This Week , We Started our first week of school. I am sure everyone had that craziness happen to you this week. Am I right? My kiddos were so ready for school that at 6am they were ready. Yeah, I was excited too but not that excited.
This year I have a 4th Grader in my hands which let me tell you it's the pre-tween stage, meaning she hasn't hit Tween stage but it's getting there. If you didn't know there's three stages for Girls to hit. At least my theory of it.
Stage 1 - Between 7-10 - It's the Pre-Tween Stage - this is the stage where they want to be teens but still like little girl things a.k.a. barbies, Disney princess and shhh don't tell maybe even baby dolls or in my daughter's case an American Girl Doll.
Stage 2- Between 10-12 - It's the Tween Stage - well this stage they defet act like Teen's you know back talk, your shutting doors stage, maybe an occasional I hate you Mom here in there, you get to talk about all the fun stuff of where babies come from and the actual technicalities of it all ( if you haven't already in the previous stage) Yikes!!
Stage 3 -Between 12-18 - Defet TEENAGERS - If you still have beautiful hair that you haven't pulled out than Well you might as well call your doctor and have a prescription medicine for anxiety.
Back to my story, I am at Stage 1 - Apparently Feather's are the thing in Fashion. She told me! We roam the malls of Dallas to find Feathers that I didn't buy because they were expensive. (of course it's fashion, it's meant to see my check go Pufff!) So I went to the local Craft Store made them myself. (Cheaper haha!) That took care of that.
Next, she told me she had to be styling.. OK? I went to local thrift Stores, hit the clearance rak and waaala got her tons of clothes. Ohh the joys of Back to School right.
Now to find that perfect outfit. I remember just being able to pick something out and it was fine. Not anymore... I have to sit there and actually go through millions of combinations for her to tell me that it looks dumb. Sigh! I can't complain I do love our mother-daughter bond and hey at least I'm included in the choosing process.
Now, here is where having a boy (in my opinion) it's just so darn easy. "Z" could care less. He just wanted his hair to look cool. Rocker Style :) So, am I glad this First week of school is done Yes I am , but looking forward to our future endeavors. LOL!
Project 365 - is when you take a photo for each day of the week for the entire year.
This year one of my year's resolution is to post one picture for each day of the week. Of course I'm behind already by 11 days, so I will just start today and forgive these days.
Today's photo is a picture I captured of Snow in Texas, that's right people it snowed in Yeehah State.
But oh how it only lasted for a short time. Gotta Love the South!!
