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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Teaching my son to cook

Recently one of my sons informed me that he would like to learn how to cook some of his favorite meals.  You could have knocked me over with a feather!  I am thrilled to finally share some of my skills, talents, knowledge with my kids!

The first “dish” he wanted to learn how to make is my version of lasagna.  So, the next time I went grocery shopping I bought all of the ingredients.  The next time we had a few hours together we cooked a pan of lasagna together.  Hopefully he’ll remember how to do that and I hope that he will be the “official lasagna cook” from this point forward.  It would be really nice to have more help around the house in the way of people sharing the cooking duties!

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Nephew is visiting for the weekend

I’m so excited that my newphew is coming for a visit!  I’m looking forward to showing him around town!

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

What to eat, what to eat

I have been trying so hard to be a good calorie, health conscious person who eats only the “good for you” foods.  You know, fresh fruit, veggies, yogurt. that sort of thing.  Well, today I went grocery shopping and for some reason the store was out of yogurt.  I don’t have any idea why.  Perhaps their cooler unit broke down and they all spoiled and had to be thrown out.  It was weird.  Well, I need SOMETHING to snack on during the day, so I decided that this “all out of yogurt” incident was a “sign” of some kind to give myself a break and buy something sinful for snacks this week.  So I bought Little Debbie Nutty Bars instead.  You know, the chocolate covered peanut butter wafer bars.  I was surprised to see that they have the exact same number of calories as a container of yogurt!  So I won’t feel quite as wicked when I eat them!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Ants

For the past month we’ve had an invasion of little black ants in the kitchen.  I blame it primarily on the fact that there are certain people who share this space with me who are total slobs.  The make a mess with food and leave it there for me to clean up.  Sometimes that mess stays there for many hours before I even see it because I’m either in bed sleeping or gone to work.  So the ants have a huge picnic party at my kitchen counter due to the extreme laziness of certain other people.

I have always asked the other people to make sure they clean up their messes, and they all swear that they do clean up their own messes, so obviously someone is breaking into the house while I’m sleeping or working and making food messes in the kitchen to benefit the ants.  Thankfully, no valuables like jewelry or computers or televisions have been stolen yet; only food items.  I do think it’s very gutsy of the culprits to fix their food to eat and then eat it here and leave their dirty dishes in the sink instead of putting them in the diswasher.  Maybe I should put a big sign on all of the doors and windows asking the perpetrator(s) nicely to clean up after themselves.

I bought some ant traps about two weeks ago.  At first I didn’t think that they were helping because it looked to me as if the ants were avoiding them.  Maybe ant season has simply stopped (though I doubt it.)  But the past two days I haven’t seen any ants, so that’s a good thing.

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