Bring On The Cuteness...

I didn't really have much to blog about, but wanted to put something up so I thought that I would post some cute pictures of my Lulu and the kids...:)




















And by the command of Lulu...it's time for a nappy poo...:)



~M

It Was So Funny...

that I nearly cried! I think these are hillarious...

Bla Bla Bla...

I guess you could say that it is the same old thing. Boring, boring, boring. Well at least to me it is. This repetition is killing me...dinner, clean, laundry, bitch at the kids, dinner, activities, laundry...you get the gist of what I am getting at. I guess I just need to do something fun. Like join a pottery class, getting some friends might lift my spirits. One of them is married and lives on the other side of town, so we don't get together as often as we would like. And the other one is in a semi-new relationship and has recently decided that hanging out with friends is not a priority at this time. I think over time she will grow bored with him and then beg to go out with a friend every once and a while.

I guess it reminds me of when I got out of high school, granted I had Anthony not too long after that, but I wanted to call my girlfriends and have a sleep over or something fun that we used to do like that. I LOVED having sleep overs. But of course, I knew if I called these girls and inquired of the chances of a sleep over happening they would have laughed and hung up the phone on me. Even now...I would love to have one. But not with little kids, with my friends. I think that it would be so much fun. But no one has the time for that stuff. In my very small circle of friends I am currently the only one with kids, so I don't know why someone's schedule would conflict, but I know that everyone would be busy or something to that affect. I guess it just sucks to know that I don't have any friends, I have tried to make friends with some of the kids' friends parents, but that is hard too. I just don't feel like we are on the same level. I am a bit more carefree and fun, some of them seem so uptight and have so much drama going on in their lives, which is good fun when listening to it over coffee, but when it is my turn to share what the hell would I say to them?

It's rough that is for sure.

Anthony and Olivia made a tent in the living room the other night to sleep in, and when they first made it all they did was line up chairs in a circle and put pillows around it. I looked at them with great concern, HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO MAKE A TENT AND YOU ARE 9??? This baffled me only because at their age I was a pro at making those things. So, I pushed up my sleeves and showed them how it was to be done. It was great to hear their joy at the construction of this project and the out come. Cisco was also impressed and suggested that we leave it up so that the next night we could sleep in it. I thought that was funny, all I could think of was, "there is no way I can sleep on the floor in that thing, my back will be killing me the next day!". What the hell happened to me, when did I become so concerned about sleeping on the floor and what it would do to my body the next day. Scary people, very scary.

I hope that when I write next time there is more interesting things going on but until then.

~M

To Be Or Not To Be...

A bit vegetarian. So my darling son decided a few months ago that it was mean to eat Piggies. So I stopped fixing bacon, pork chops, pork loin, sausage, etc. And only cooked Chicken, Fish, lots of Turkey and occasionally Beef. There were several choices when cooking dinner so I didn't mind the slight change in menu. Then a couple of weeks after that Anthony was talking to his grandpa and eating a hamburger and his grandpa decided to ask him, "so you don't eat piggies because they are cute? Well don't you know where hamburgers come from, you eat cows and chickens and turkeys too you know...do you think that they are cute?" Anthony stopped eating and said that he would not be eating chicken, pork, turkey or beef. So it has been nothing short of a challenge to think of what to make for dinners.

To keep it short...I gave up. I found this fake soy or tofu chicken and make it for Anthony in conjunction with what we are eating for dinner. He didn't like the tofu concoction that I made one night and neither did I. It was pretty gross. I do have to think of better ways to include protein and soy into his diet without it tasting horrible.

He has not really come to the realization that becoming a true vegatarian would include not eating eggs, cheese, fish or drinking dairy products. I think that it is good that he does want to do something good for himself and his fellow furry friends, but he is a bit young and still growing to cut out those things and I can't cook him fish every night. So I have to come up with some recipes and ideas for food that don't include the meats that he refuses to eat. I put chicken on his tostada one night when we had them and he scraped off the chicken and just ate the beans and veggies. That was the last time that I tried to talk him into eating the things that he refuses, because it won't do any good.

So if anyone has any recipes or can give me some pointers PLEASE let me know. I would even be willing to leave my e-mail address so that you can send them. I am desprate. I don't know what to do, my tofu recepies suck! LOL...:)

~M