This Week

 

So I made my own salsa this week and canned it and GOOD LORD it is AMAZING! If you stop by I will let you in to try some,just state the purpose of your visit and I would be delighted to serve you.

I would love to share the recipe but right now I am too lazy to get it and type it out.

It is liberating to state how you feel about things.

Try it. No apologies, No excuses. Be real.

Of course there is something like having tactfulness and wise discretion on who and what you are free to speak about. But you just can’t go wrong when being real and true to yourself. You may get judged, look out! You may offend some, it is not your responsibility to make others feel good!  BE REAL! IT IS GOOD FOR THE WORLD!

Football happened here this week.

He was not mad. I do not know were this look came from. Every picture I took he posed like this. Do you think he must have been feeling all tough and cool?

 

 

A beautiful and wonderful friend of mine threw me a baby shower. It was delightful!!

    

A few other friends helped out and made the yummy food. It was DELICIOUS!!

I had a BLAST!! 

     

This is me and my growing baby with my Aunt.

 

And all of this is happening while the Man of the house is hard at work renovating and adding some space to our wonderful little home.

    

GOD BLESS AMERICA. ok wait…I meant to say…GOD BLESS THIS MAN!!

And can someone tell me why the Nicky pooch is on my couch?

     

She already knows this is off limits.

So Nicky dear, don’t even think of it. Can I dream of it Momma? No do not even dream of it.

NO is NO, unless I change my mind.

It is a pitiful shame to the one standing on the other side of my “No”. Who is to know when and why she changes her NO to YES. It baffles me too.

Good-night for now.

Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite and if they do get a shoe and wack ‘em till they are black and blue

Chicken Love

 

 

These pictures explain all. She has a love for these birds. Tonight while her and I were once again cleaning out chicken pen she says…”I just love to do this work”

We were cleaning poop!!

So besides cleaning up chicken poop I have been sitting a lot and growing my baby.We have a short 21/2 months to go yet before we meet our addition to family. Getting excited since the wiggling and kicking inside of me seems to increase by the day!

Salmon is what I cooked tonight. It was DELICIOUS and such a simple and easy meal to cook.

Throw an onion and a little garlic in some oil to sauté.Pour in a splash of white wine,let cook about a minute.Add some chicken stock,sprinkle some parsley,dill,salt,pepper and lay in your salmon fillets skin side down. Cover and cook about 10 minutes. (your broth should cover salmon about half way)

Remove salmon. Add a little cream cheese,milk and flour for thickening.Pour over your salmon and cooked fettuccine. I add some BIG pieces of broccoli to the plate as well…mmm-mmm-mmm.

Cheesecake, Stability & Joy

 

He is my cheesecake, she is my stability and the smallest is my joy.

Now you can’t go wrong with cheesecake, stability and joy in your life can ya?

In reality I can say that I do have stability and joy in my life…ok maybe not every day. Don’t judge me if I don’t cause at least I know what I want. One thing I do know that I do not have is cheesecake. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE BRING ME SOME CHEESECAKE!!

creamy soft…maybe raspberry…maybe cherry… maybe just plain. It don’t care…just get me some NOW!!

I really was not planning on speaking of cheesecake. It just came up and now I am afraid I will not sleep until I find me some. I have many other things to talk to you about,really I do. It’s just I am deeply distracted at the moment over the thought…ok to stay true to what I was going to share, I will try my best. I cannot promise much since cheesecake is the ONLY picture in front of me.

Monday and Tuesday I took my kids to the beach with my sister-in-law and her kids.

I love the waves.

I love the water.

I love the sand.

Somehow this time round I had to struggle to see the beauty of it all. My pregnant state has me irritable at the smallest things. The kids were great help but I was STRESSED OUT till I arrived home.

It can’t be that I am too old for this some people have babies at 40.

It can’t be the simple fact of pregnancy cause I did it three times before and was never bothered by anything.

IT MUST BE THE LACK OF CHEESECAKE!!

I did enjoy the boardwalk.

     

 

 

At the end of the day we say…I will lift up my eyes until the sky. From whence cometh my help? My help comes from the Lord who made the heavens and the earth.

And please Lord, send Momma some real cheesecake.It WILL make her more patient with us and I am sure she will speak in a softer tone with that creaminess in her stomach.

Me and My Dad and Other Things

 

This is my Dad and I.

He wears his pants short. I don’t know why?  But I don’t mind.

My Dad he likes his walking sticks.

This is my Dad and older brother.

They both got them selves too worked up to stay standing.

My Dad he finds excitement in the simple games,the ones that take little time thinking but provide lots of time for social interaction.

This is me.

I like my frilly,cool, old navy skirt.

This is our Nicky pooch. She completes everything.

Baltimore MY

 

 

A beautiful day Sunday!

RELAX – would be the word of the day.

A phone call from my brother at 1:00 in the day asking,  “can you take me to BWI asp?”

Within 10 minutes we had kids packed for Grandmas and I threw on a dress, put make-up in a bag and out the door we went.

Two hours later the Elvin man and I are doing this…

          

I have ALWAYS been in love with any place that lets you walk on brick!

 

and I get a much more lovey-dovey feeling when seeing A man sitting by brick.

What is it that makes one like something more then another something? 

Some like lizards.

Some like feet.

Some like red.

Some like Pete.

I LIKE BRICK. I WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE OF BRICK ONE DAY.

Not straw

not sticks

but BRICKS.

What do you like?

Three

 

The man of the house is sitting on recliner with laptop in lap ( in case you did not know that is why they call them lap tops)

I am sitting at my computer corner.

kids and puppy are sitting in front of flat screen watching “Yogi Bear”

I take one glance over at my three beautiful children and sigh…and then I stare…and then I mumble, “wow what beautiful three little children they are”

The man on recliner is quick to respond to mumble.

They are so much more beautiful when they are all sitting still and quiet.

gosh, I love them tall, I love them small, I love them quite, I love them loud.

Ok, doesn’t exactly rhyme but it works for me. 

Memorial Day

 

A day for doing nothing but relaxing and eating good food!

 

Ahhhh the food!!

  

I LOVE HOLIDAYS.

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So here is the finished product of my painting adventure.

We are really liking it! You should try it. No more opening and closing the door for the hundredth time in a day.