Happy Super Bowl

Jeremy’s Awesome Cheese Dip

1 block velveeta
2 cans rotel
1 can golden mushroom soup
1 ½ lbs sausage (turkey for us)

Heat in crockpot until cheese is melted.
Enjoy.

Because some things like the super bowl, call for plastic.

That is a lot of Animal crackers.

I was getting ready to go out for a friend’s birthday party, and the big kids were watching the babies, and Judah comes running in to tell me that the babies had got out the animal crackers and were getting them all over the kitchen. I thought well that should keep them busy for a little bit, thinking that maybe they each had a handful or so.

I was wrong. They were ALL over the kitchen.

The animal crackers were from my sister’s wedding, four years ago. They were in the bottom of the pantry and pretty much forgotten about until, this morning when I took everything out of the pantry because our dishwasher was leaking water into the pantry and the floor was all wet. Which leads me to my next point; we got a new dishwasher today.

We just got our tax return back, and it really wasn’t what we had planned on spending it on. I got kind of bummed that we were going to have to spend it on something practical instead of something fun, but Jeremy pointed out to me how good God is because every time something big breaks or needs to be replaced it always happens right when we have the money to fix it. It really couldn’t have come at a better time. We decided to go ahead and get the new washer and dryer we had been wanting while we were at it. We didn’t really need a new dryer as we just replaced ours last year, but our washer is over 10 years old and it is on its way out.

Now the animal crackers have all been thrown away

and the kids have a new toy to play with.

History test, shmistory test.

I’ve been a little down lately, and so instead of droning on about what I did and didn’t get done today, we’ll do something different.

What are some of the blogs I like to read? Oh well I’m so glad you asked here they are.

http://annasjoyblog.blogspot.com/ My lovely sister who has some awesome things going on in her life right now, she always does actually.
http://organichomeschooling.blogspot.com/ My awesome cousin who is way crunchier than I will ever be, and I don’t know how she does it! Who also doesn't blog often enough.
http://smashedpeasandcarrots.blogspot.com/ love love love this one, I am so stealing a bunch of her ideas.
http://thelettereleven.blogspot.com/  See boys can blog too- this is the husband of one of my message board twin mom friend’s
http://thetoddlerwhisperer.blogspot.com/

I also follow a lot of my twin mom friends in their journey of mothering twins too.

So that dear reader is what I read. Besides this one of course, what are your favorites?

Dinner tonight was Cowboy stew, I thought it could use more flavor, it only got a 2 kid rating, not surprising.

What’s that? You want to know how I did on my first test in over 12 years. I got a 96% on it, I only missed 2 questions. I guess that is ok. People say that online classes are harder, I am finding this to not be the case, but my next one starts on Monday so I will be taking two classes, we’ll see how I feel about it in another couple weeks.

Highs and Lows

Highs

Got to sleep in

Got to be lazy this morning

Got to eat lunch with my Babe and my Besty and her Dude

Got to study for my History test with my Besty

Got to make a great dinner* and eat it

Got great news from sister

Got to go to the Y and do Zumba

Got to read to the kids before they went to bed

Got the kitchen cleaned up

Lows

Didn’t get to do Shred

My Babe is sick

Did not make wise choices at lunch

Still not ready for my History test

Did not get to see my beautiful nephews today

Lost my temper with my children

Was rude to the nice nursery workers at the Y







*Dinner was Cinnamon and brown sugar pancakes with turkey bacon and we were supposed to have pears, but we ran out of time. 4 out of 5 kid rating. Strange because the one that threw them on the floor usually likes pancakes.

And now to bed!

Today I took Avrah to school, went to the post office, went over to a sad friend's house and hopefully helped cheer her up a little bit. Came home, fed babies, played with babies, went and got Avrah from school, put babies down for nap, cleaned up house from babies, made dinner, took big boys to Jiu Jitsu, fed the babies and Avrah said dinner, Jeremy brought big boys home from Jiu Jitsu, and the big boys ate and changed, went to a life group meeting, fellowshipped, ate cheese cake and awesome guacamole, came home put the babies in bed, put the big kids in bed, and now blogging.

Thank you Babe, for cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. One of the many many reasons I am thankful for you!

Also found time in all that to do Shred and get caught up on Lost, but did not find time to study for my history test which I am taking on Friday. Tonight for dinner we had Chicken and broccoli bake with wild rice and cantaloupe. 2 kids ate it all, 1 kid ate the rice, and two kids ate the cantaloupe.

Not taking it for granted.

I found out some sad news from a friend today. It made me realize how blessed I am, how precious life is. Today I mostly just hung out with my babies, watched them play silly games like dump out the shoe bins and stand on them and then jump off of them.
Hosea has a new word it is "up", but he uses it for all of the prepositions, if he means in, on, out, up, off, he just says up and when you say "oh you want this on here" he looks at you like yeah that's what I just said. Also he has started saying "yea" and shaking his head, this is usually in response to a question. "Hosea do you want some raisons?" "Yea". Of course I am trying to get him to say yes, but again he just looks at me like I'm crazy.
I did get my kitchen and my floors cleaned, I love it when my floors are clean, but that lasts all of like 5 minutes when the big kids get home.

Tonight we had Greek Tilapia and parsley potatoes with lemon pepper green beans. 4 out of 5 kid rating. I LOVED it; I was really surprised, because as I was making it I was thinking this is not going to be good. I'm a little iffy about fish anyway and when I pulled the fish out to marinate it, it did not smell good, well it smelled like fish. But it was sooooo good. What's that? Oh you want the recipe. Well I just happen to have it right here.

1 1/2 lbs Tilapia fillets
1/4 c fresh squeezed lemon juice (I think I used more though I used 2 whole lemons)
1/4c oil
1T Worcestershire,
3t Greek seasoning (I only had about 1 1/2 so I just added a little salt and pepper too)

Combine all ingredients; marinate for 1-2 hours. Place in shallow baking dish (I marinated mine in the baking dish) and bake covered at 350 for 20 minutes or until flaky

Modify?

Anybody out there have or had recently an 8 year old? Anybody have any idea if this is “normal”? My son Judah uses words like “modify”, I don’t think I even use that word. Here is how it went down. On our way home from Jui Jitsu and Judah and Josiah were playing some kind of game that Judah made up, not real sure about what it was all about because I wasn’t really paying attention until he started saying this.

“MOM! Josiah keeps modifying my game that I made up. And it won’t be my game any more if he keeps modifying it. Josiah, don’t modify my game anymore!”

And he went on and on and on about it. I’m not sure they got it figured out, but I told Josiah to make up his own game to which he said that all the games had already been made up and he didn’t know what to make one up about.

Dinner was spaghetti and salad with apples and walnuts it was delicious and got surprisingly 5 out of 5 kids!

Now if you excuse me I have to study for a test I have to take sometime between now and Saturday. Anybody want to watch some kids for me so I can go take a test? Didn’t think so.