This kid makes me laugh!!!

Maleah is tired of shopping for food at Walmart (since we left the chips and cracker isles). "Didn't you say we had to watch our money more?" "Don't spend money!" "Don't spend money!" "Don't spend money!" What an annoying mantra when our cupboards are empty. "Don't spend money!" "Don't spend money!"

"OOOOOOHHHHHHH.... SPEND MOM'S MONEY!!!!!" (over sausage patties!)

Baking cousins

I was ambitious this weekend... maybe a little too ambitious! If you are family and these show up on the goody table... be cautious, more flour than dough was used. Of course most ended up on their clothes, hair, the floor and curtains!

Meme

A is for your age: 39
B is for your burger of choice: Veggie Black Bean. And I have to be very careful that the Midwest's version of "veggie burger" isn't just lettuce and tomato on a real hamburger.
C is for the car that you drive: 1999 red Taurus
D is for dog's name: "My children's greatest wish, that I hope doesn't come to realization"
E is for an essential item you use each day: DR PEPPER
F is for your favorite television show: Dancing with the stars
G is for favorite games: Brickmaster
H is for hometown: 29 days until I know!
I is for instruments played: Clarinet, but never very good! (doing leftover Algebra during rests didn't help!)
J is for favorite juice: pineapple
K is for what you'd like to kick: The Dr Pepper habit
L is for last restaurant you dined at: Mc Donald's fries
M is for your favorite Muppet: Big Bird
N is for number of piercings you have: 2 - one in each ear
O is for overnight hospital stays: 2 (Tonsils and recent hysterectomy)
P is for people you were with today: My favorite student, his teachers and all of his schoolmates on a cold Iowa playground. Ed, Luke and Leah. My student took me into the playground fort and up 3 levels to help him slide down. Wow, I was TIRED tonight!
Q is for what you do in quiet times: READ, sleep
R is for regrets: Not finishing my degree before I became a mother.
S is for status: Tired! But very happy I am uterusless.
T is for time you woke up today: 6:45 am
U is for what you consider unique: Not wanting to be unique.
V is for favorite vegetables: zucchini
W is for your worst habit: not listening all the time
X is for x-rays you have had: teeth, bone scan, chest, abdomen
Y is for yummy food you ate today: Raisin Bran, Lean cuisine, applesauce, Pizza Hut, Z is for favorite zoo animal: Elephants

Desperate times call for desparate measures

I'm pureeing strawberries to use as pancake syrup on my weight watchers diet;
as the super bowl feasting is tonight. And I think..... maybe I should replace the 3 point Dr. Pepper with something else. (Just can't do the diet DP, I've tried Kate :-) This week, the radio was hyping up new caffeine pills to replace coffee. So in desperation , I look them up..... I'm thinking it's just a new name for Vivarin. The 2 times I tried Vivarin in Nursing School as a 20 year old..... I don't think the world needs to have me strung out on Vivarin with a new name! I'll be trying pureed blueberry syrup next.
Go Steelers and Cardinals! If the PACK isn't in the Super Bowl, I like the Steelers.... but I loved watching Kurt Warner play for several seasons for the Barnstormers and he has quite a Cinderella story.... so it will just be a good game for me!