5 Question Friday

I'll give this another try. I'll take part in Mama M.'s 5 question Friday, why not? :) The object is to take the 5 questions from her blog, answer them here, and link back to her...and leave the link of my blog on hers. It might bring more traffic here...or like last week, it might not! LOL Here we go...

1. What is better, growing old with out money or dying young and wealthy?

2. Who takes out the garbage at your house?

3. Have you ever had the same dream many times?

4. Can you play a musical instrument?

5. If you owned your own store, what would you sell?
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1. What is better, growing old with out money or dying young and wealthy?
Well, being poor sucks...but I would rather be around for many years to see my kids grow up and have kids of their own etc...

2. Who takes out the garbage at your house?
If I'm lucky, my husband does. But often he forgets, or just doesn't feel like it, and he goes off to his night job...leaving the dreaded garbage & recycling take out to me. I hate those nights. Its usually the nights when we have a ton of trash & recycling. I have to wait for Aubrey to go to bed before I can take it out, by then I'm so tired, taking trash out is the last thing I want to do.

3. Have you ever had the same dream many times?
Yes I have. When I was younger. I dreamt (is that a word?) that I would die before I got to be 26 yrs old. Thankfully that is a dream that didn't come true...I'm still alive and kickin' at 41.

4. Can you play a musical instrument?
I could at one time...not sure I still can. I started band playing the cornet, then switched to the flute. I played a few years.

5. If you owned your own store, what would you sell?
I don't know if it would be considered a store...but its selling stuff. I've always thought it would be super cool to have a wedding mega super center. Everything wedding under one roof. You could buy your dress, flowers, tuxes, have the wedding there, as well as the reception, which would be catered there as well and the cake would be made there too. Only thing you'd have to go out for is the honeymoon :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Toodles

Coooooookies

Ever watch 'Wow Wow Wubbzy' with your child? There is a character on there that pops up every now and then and says, "Thats koooooky" which made me think of my post title for today, but also because I'm posting about cookies :)

Sorry I didn't post last night. It was crazy house here. The girls were wild, and Zach was here too. I thought about posting once Bree went to bed, but at 11:30 when she did, I was to darn tired! I sure hope her nap is earlier today so bedtime won't be so late.

Anyways, earlier in the week I was hungry for cookies. I had the ingredients to make some from a recipe I found on a great food blog. I quickly baked them up before having to take Jilly to the doctors that day, with the intentions of icing/decorating them when we got back. But, we all know what kind of crappy day I ended up having (well you know if you read my blog that day I should say), and I never got around to finishing them. I put them in a container for another day. That day finally came yesterday...better late then never. These cookies were not for any special occassion, just to eat, and to try new things on. Unfortunately, I made my icing to thin for decorating, and I was to lazy to fix it so I just did the best I could with what I had made. That said, these are not the prettiest cookies I've made haha, it was still fun to play around with the icing a bit. Here are some pics of my cookie playtime :)










Not my best work, but not horrible either...

I've come to the conclusion that I like MY cookie recipe best so far. Second I think is one from Amanda over at i am baker . I will still probably try some others, just to see what they are like. Mine is a bit of a softer cookie, somewhat like the 'Lofthouse" brand you can buy iced at the grocery store.

I think I will be nice, and post my recipe for you :)

Renee's ravishing cookies:
1 Cup Butter
2 Cups Sugar
1 Cup Evaporated Milk, soured with 1 T. Vinegar
1 tsp. Baking Soda
2 Eggs
5 Cups Flour

Cream the butter & sugar. Add eggs and mix well. Add the baking soda to the soured evaporated milk (use a container for this that has some room in it, because when you add these together and stir it grows a bit). Alternatly add the milk mixture, and the flour to the butter, sugar, egg mixture. Mix until combined. This is a sticky dough. You will probably need to chill it a while, I do it in the bowl.
Roll out on a WELL FLOURED surface. Not to thin. Cut out into desired shapes. Bake at 350 degrees until done. I don't have an actual time with this recipe, I'd start looking at about 6 or 8 minutes. You don't want them browned, check for a hint of golden color on the bottoms.
Ice/frost however you'd like. I used to only use buttercream icing on them, but recently I gave royal icing a try.
Enjoy :)

Toodles!

P.S. If you try my recipe, please let me know how they turned out and if you liked them. I used to have family & friends request these from me. I used to only make them at Christmas time, and I'd always have to at least triple the recipe!

Ice Ice Baby

Mother Nature: I said I wanted a little bit of new SNOW, I said nothing about ICE.

Today we are getting freezing rain, sleet, and that type of crap. It started a little before lunchtime. School got out early since it was supposed to get bad. About an hour after school got out, the sun actually came out! I was thinking what the heck, thats it, no more ice storm? The kids got out early for sunshine?! Things were quiet for a bit, but then the freezing rain/sleet came back. Now the temp is dropping some, so we could be in for a yucky slipperier (is that a word?) then shit mess tomorrow.

I hope like heck that our power doesn't go out. It totally sucked when it did at Christmas time. I need to hunt down the flashlights again just in case...Wish us luck!

Thats all for tonight...Toodles

The Girls

Today has been rather boring. I've had a headache today and took 2 Aleve this morning and it made me super tired. So, I have nothing fun, exciting, or interesting to blog about tonight. So, I'll just fill it up with another picture overload. These are from tonight. You may notice Jilly had something different on in some of the pics, that is because after I snapped a few pics of her while she was relaxing, she decided she had to change out of her PJ's and pose...

Bree found some make up (right after her bath)



Yes, its a pad...its clean...


Jilly & Bree



Jilly, she looks sad

Happier

CRAZY! (not her Mt. Dew, it was mine)


I hope you enjoyed those. Till tomorrow...Toodles.

WOW, its been one of those days!

Ever have one of those days where everything goes wrong? Where you can't wait till bedtime, so the day can be done? That is the kind of day I have had here.

It started out with me waking up to shoulder pain, again. I'm getting rather tired of it, it can leave any time now. Sad thing is, later in the day, my other shoulder started hurting too...I hope its just a one time fluke, and not an every day thing like the left one.

When I woke Jilly up, she was complaining of symptoms that mean one thing pretty much...UTI. So she stayed home from school, and we made a doctor appointment, which was at 11:30. We got there, and sat...and sat....and sat...and sat some more. Then we got called into the room, where we sat some more! We were so bored. They don't have magazines or anything in there anymore, because they carry more germs, so there was nothing to do. I had Jilly count the dogs on the wall paper, and divide it by 2. Then she counted the ceiling tiles, and more things on the wallpaper, and I had her divide those too. I figured we might as well get some math work in while waiting LOL. We finally got out of there at 1:15! That place is so slow all the damn time.

So, we went to CVS, I had Jilly run the prescription in, and to see how long of a wait it was going to be. I waited out in the van with Bree who was sleeping. They said it was going to be 20 minutes or more, so I said screw it, we'll come back later for it, I needed to get home to pee. So off we went...

There is an intersection here in town near a viaduct. There is a little bridge right before it, then a yield sign. As we got near the bridge, the pick up truck in front of me stopped. I'm like umm what the heck? He had several feet to go yet before the yield sign. Just then, he reverses it, and gives it gas! Ummm HELLO! I'm behind you! Before I could even honk the horn, he crashed into me. Just what I needed, ugh. It shook me up, I've never been in an accident before, especially one with 2 of my kids in the car. We got out and talked for a second, then moved over to the other side of the road where we wouldn't be blocking traffic. We called the police, and got each others information. The dude was an old guy. He was looking for an address/street, thought he missed it and reversed, he said he didn't see me. He will be getting a citation. Tomorrow I have to go pick up the police report. None of us are hurt, thankfully. I'm a little achy from being jarred, but nothing serious. Here is a picture of my van. I blocked out part of the plates, for safety reasons...



So, we finally get home, and try to make a quick lunch. Bree wanted grilled cheese, Jilly wanted tomato soup. I made Bree's first, since Jilly had snacked all morning it wouldn't kill her to wait a few minutes. Then I started Jilly's soup. Then, she went to watch TV, and I went out to take pics of the van...and we forgot her soup! Next thing I know, I'm smelling something...Crap! It's the soup burning. It boiled out over the pan too, spilling all over the burner and the burner thing underneath. Oh goody. I let it cool, and I said I'd clean it later...yet I have yet to do so...

Then, Jilly went into the kitchen for something, and she knocked over the toothpick holder thing, so there are toothpicks all over the stove now too, and down in the burners...I'll clean that up when I clean up the soup mess.

Later, Kelsey is in her room cleaning (she's been working on it for 2 days now...she must be ill) she had a framed picture thing on the floor, and she stepped on it, and broke the glass. Thankfully she didn't get cut.

Just a few minutes ago, again while Kels is cleaning her room...she was cleaning her closet, and she got off the chair she was on to toss a stuffed animal out the door to Bree, when she went to get back on the chair she slipped and fell, smashing her leg between the chair things and I think her desk or something...couldn't quite make it out, she was crying at the time. Now her leg is bruised up.

I think for the remainder of the evening, we are going to wrap up in bubble wrap, and sit in the center of the room, where no danger can get us. LOL.

*Edited to add...I made cookies before Jilly's doctor appt. today. I was going to decorate them and give them to Bria when I picked up the child support check. But after being at the docs for so long, then the accident, the picking up Kels & Jackie (Jilly's friend) from school, and everything else, I never got around to finishing them. So, even though my intentions were good, I wasn't able to deliver the cookies to brighten her day.

How was YOUR day?

Toodles!

Mommy?

Thursday & Friday I did a lot of extra cuddling with Jilly, because she was sad. Aubrey was not a fan of this, she does not like to share her mommy. I explained to her that I'm her mom, but I'm also Jilly's mom, and Kelsey & Zach's mom too, so its ok for me to hug and cuddle them too. She let me cuddle with Jilly but she still wasn't pleased...

Then came the questioning...I swear, this weekend, I've heard this question at least a hundred times.
Bree: MOM!
Me: Yes?
Bree: Are you my mommy?
Me: Yes, of course I'm your mommy!
Here is my picture to prove it!


That photo is from Aubrey's birth, Dec. 19, 2007

Thats it for now..Toodles

Crazy Concoctions?

Do you have any crazy concoction that you eat? Something really weird like a sandwich with peanut butter, mayo, mustard, lettuce and radishes? My mom used to make those btw, they are actually good.

I personally, like to mix mayo and ketchup together and eat it with a lot of things. I use it on burgers, on egg sandwiches, on hash browns, french fries, chicken...to name a few.

People think I'm weird for doing that. I don't think its that odd...do you?

Hmmm now I'm hungry...Toodles