No I’m not trying to be a pirate.
I’m mad. Really mad.
It seems as it my miles/running widget on my sidebar just disappeared!
Are you kidding me? I was at more than 100 miles! Actually more than 115, I think.
*&^%$#@!D And I just mashed down REALLY HARD on my keys to prove my point.
This is what I get for not keeping a hard copy.
First of all, this is a fun website for the kids in your life…BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF. Check it out.
Secondly, it twitter doesn’t get it’s act together, I’m dropping it like a hot potato.
Summer is only 3 school days away!! I’ll be back on my blog, your blog, and all blogs in between. Yay!
Ok, this is a Paula Deen recipe. I originally downloaded it from her website, so I’m guessing posting it here won’t be breaking any laws.
Ingredients:
Line the bottome of a 13×9x2 dish with one bag of the cookies, and layer bananas on top.
In a bowl, combine milk and pudding mix and blend well using a hand-held electric mixer. In another bowl combine the condensed milk and cream cheese until smooth. Fold in cool whip and blend until smooth. Combine cream cheese mixture to pudding mixture until well blended. Pour mixture over the cookies/bananas and the cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
And that my friends, is the best banana pudding I know of. It is not traditional though. So, if your stuck on the way your mom makes it, this probably won’t float your boat.
Reia was the perfect toddler and preschooler. You could change her path of action with “the look”. She ill-prepared me for child #2 who stares down “the look” while contemplating if a spanking is worth what ever it is she wants to do.
The answer is almost always and emphatically…yes, yes it is.
So, when I came home last night from a party across the street, Terry informed me I needed to go look at my daughter. But, oh yeah, before that, look on the counter.
On the counter was a ziploc baggie about half full of hair. Reese’s long, naturally highlighted light brown tresses. My face turned white as I walked into view the damage.
There she sat in the bathtub. Most of the hair on the left side of her head was gone.
“I was in trouble, Mommy.”
I just sat there and thought, you have no idea. I tried to be so mad. The she smiled at me. And dang it all, I couldn’t help but laugh. I turned around of course, but she had already seen me cave. Too late.
The pictures I post on here don’t quite turn out big enough, so here are the pics Terry posted on his flickr. Enjoy! or Share my pain. Whatever.
Happy Monday, y’all!
PS Reia did the same thing when she was 3. I should have been waiting for it, right?
Well, we have three weeks of school left. I just can’t believe it. In the process of winding down the year, I finally got the nerve to go to the asst. superintendent of schools and ask if I could go back to working only four days a week. I have been a nervous wreck thinking about this meeting. After all, I already have a mommy friendly job and I did just last year beg for my full time job.
We have adjusted as a family and I have learned to let go of a perfectly clean house most of the time, but I still just wasn’t feeling like I couldn’t get done what I needed/wanted to without pulling my hair out. I am pretty social and like to have friends over a bunch, but at this point I could crawl in my bed and not come out for a few weeks. Ok, I’m digressing here. Back to the point….
The boss lady? Very supportive and complimentary of me (yay!) and she still has to take it to the board, but thinks it’s a go. So, whew. Next year, I’ll have a little less money, but a little more time for Terry and the girls. I’m perfectly happy with that.
On another note, I have hit the 100 miles walked/ran!!! Still training for a 10K on Sept. 14th. I’m looking forward to reaching that goal. The only problem I have with running is the cold. I cannot run in the cold. Hot weather I can handle all day long, but this 30 and 40 degree stuff in May is ridiculous. Of course, I’ll be complaining about the heat and ready for fall in a few months. What can I say, I’m an enigma. Or crazy. Whatever.
I’ll be back to regular blogging status in a few weeks. Until then, don’t delete me from your reader just yet!!
Happy Saturday.
My motivation to run is officially “there”. When I’m willing to get up at 5:30 a.m. to run three times a week and after the run kind of wish I got up to do it all five days, I’ve reached a milestone.
What I don’t seem to have the motivation for is changing my eating habits. I will get there though! For now I thought I’d share the info that came in an email yesterday that totally fascinated me. The comment by a friend was, “This looks like something only God could think up.”
I believe she’s onto something.
Here is just a short list of examples of Whole Food Signatures.
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye…and YES science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the bod
Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? …. It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
Grapefruits, Oranges , and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like body cells. Today’s research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes
*the original email came with pictures, but they wouldn’t copy onto my post.
I’m on twitter.
I’m trying to wrap up the last few weeks of school.
I’m running 4 times a week now.
Did I mention I’m on twitter?
You should be too! Then you would know what I was doing just about every minute of the day.
Apparently, General Mills is now accepting people for their advisory panel. If you go and sign up, they will send you coupons to try their new products for money off or sometimes for FREE!!! And with the ever increasing price of groceries, who doesn’t want discounted and free items.
I heard about this from the Consumer Queen who always has great deals on her website. (This is listed under Deal of the Week.)
So, if you want some free and discounted stuff go here. You do have to fill out a quick survey, but it doesn’t take too long.
Enjoy and Happy Wednesday!!
As I have mentioned before Family Reads is a wonderful website devoted to the reviews of great children’s books. So, I naturally went there to check out their review of the Skippyjon Jones series.
After I emailed Lorito find out if they had planned on reivewing it ( I didn’t see any mention of one of my favorite characters there), she asked if I’d be interested in reviewing the book for them.
Of course I replied with a resounding, “Are you nuts?! Writing for the likes of the Baileys? You guys actually care about grammar and mechanics and spelling.” =)
Lori was so kind and encouraging. And now you can find my first ever book review here!!