My Thanksgiving was nice. I was scared though that things weren't going to turn out right. I had to make a nearly 25 pound turkey by myself for the first time in my life. To me it was very disgusting. Having to dig inside that turkey's holes and drag out pieces of the turkey that once use to be a vital part of its life. You can't help by to feel a little sorry for the doomed bird. It's born and raised with all human intentions of destroying its life one day. To be stripped of its feathers and ripped of its organs only to have them shoved back in side their lifeless bodies in the wrong place. I kept saying out loud, "you poor, dumb creature." So after I was done with what I can only describe as violating the turkey, I covered it with vegetable oil and stuck it in an oven bag. It roasted on top of onions and celery for about 4 hours. Once I was done shoving my hands inside this bird, I didn't feel so sorry for it. If we didn't eat turkey, this stupid bird would have no purpose.
Once the turkey was removed from my oven (I couldn't fit another thing in there with it), I put my green bean casserole and corn casserole in and started boiling the potatoes for mashed potatoes. I started boiling water for stuffing and screwed up the first box and had to make a second box. Oh well. I either didn't put in the mix fast enough or I didn't stir the mix fast enough either way some of the bread didn't touch the water and was as hard in the pan as it was in the box. Thow that one outside and make another box. It was hot in my kitchen and I was racing against the clock because Mike had to leave for work at 7 and here it is 5:30. I put the sweet potatoes in the pot and got them boiling and turned off the heat and popped out the casseroles and in the cornbread. We were eating by 6pm. the turkey turned out perfect, very juicy. The pumpkin pies I made the day before from scratch turned out perfect too! I was so proud of myself for making such a tasty dinner.
With gree bean casserole being a very easy dish to make, never mind being scrumptious, I think I will be making it more often. I love to make cornbread and Mike loves green beans so bake some chicken with that and it's dinner! I think my New Years resolution is to start making a variety of stuff for dinner. I can even make stuff ahead of time and freeze it and then just re-heat in the oven or the microwave. i have known that all along but I think making dinner for Thanksgiving and it turning out so good, has really boosted my confidence in myself onmy cooking ability. I ain't no Rachel Ray but I am better that I ever thought!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
2 weeks
You can call it vacation from Mike, (haha I did), or 2 weeks by myself to take care of everything! I was so exhausted. I am so glad he's home now because for 2 weeks, which felt like 2 years, I was working and taking care of Brandon and the dogs and keeping the house clean. Some days I would wake up at 7 and if Brandon wasn't up, I would take the first 1/2 of the hour and get myself ready for work. Then I would get Brandon out of bed, feed him, dress him and get him ready for school and somewhere in there, find time to let the dogs out, feed them and let them back in all before 8am! Then, I would work from 9am-8pm come home put my purse down, go across the street get Brandon all while he is screaming MOMMA MOMMA!! and whining for juice and saying "HOME", trying to talk to my father in law to see how Brandon was and to let him know when the next time he'll have to pick up him up from school for me. Then go home carrying Brandon mostly because he doesn't want to walk. Get home bring Brandon up stairs cause he doesn't feel like walking up the stairs, turn on the tv, go down stairs, let the dogs out again only to find that they peed and pooped in their room. Stand on the porch watch them to make sure they don't try to get out of the fence, let them back in and then clean up dog poop, get Brandon dressed for bed and try to do all this before 9pm and while on the phone with my husband. I am yelling at him cause the dogs have once again pooped and peed in their room and I have had it!! He tells me "you need to calm down!!" Well yes I do need to calm down but he is the LAST person I needed to tell me to calm down. He's concentrating on his school that he's at for 2 weeks. I am doing everything else!! -1 thing.......-1000 things!!!! A single mom has my up most respect!! I could do it, I've done it before, but it's hard as heck and I wouldn't want to do everything all the time.
He had the nerve to ask me "I want to know what's going on!" I can't remember what day and I said "what are you talking about?" he said "you are constantly yelling at me." Then I told him "I am sick of you leaving me all the time and I know it's only 2 weeks but as you sit in your class and do your work, I am doing everything else. Life doesn't stop it's still going on here!" I was pretty hurt that he asked me what was going on like I was cheating on him or something. He was wanting to be a recruiter and started getting his stuff together to be one and I talked him out of it because I don't want anything to happen to our marriage and recruiting is a very hard job and it's stressful on marriages. I don't know too many people that have done recruiting married and stayed married. I don't know how much it's changed but I asked him to not do it. He got mad at me. I just don't want anything happening to our marriage. He means too much to me. So when he asked me "What's going on?" I was really hurt.
He came home Thursday night, and I have let him have the brunt of taking care of a lot of stuff. He's been taking the dogs out and helping me with Brandon. It's been easier and I am glad he's home!
He had the nerve to ask me "I want to know what's going on!" I can't remember what day and I said "what are you talking about?" he said "you are constantly yelling at me." Then I told him "I am sick of you leaving me all the time and I know it's only 2 weeks but as you sit in your class and do your work, I am doing everything else. Life doesn't stop it's still going on here!" I was pretty hurt that he asked me what was going on like I was cheating on him or something. He was wanting to be a recruiter and started getting his stuff together to be one and I talked him out of it because I don't want anything to happen to our marriage and recruiting is a very hard job and it's stressful on marriages. I don't know too many people that have done recruiting married and stayed married. I don't know how much it's changed but I asked him to not do it. He got mad at me. I just don't want anything happening to our marriage. He means too much to me. So when he asked me "What's going on?" I was really hurt.
He came home Thursday night, and I have let him have the brunt of taking care of a lot of stuff. He's been taking the dogs out and helping me with Brandon. It's been easier and I am glad he's home!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Halloween
So as we all know Halloween has come and went. Brandon was scared to death of his costume, which I bought too big for him last year (see pic)
So I wanted to see if it would fit this year, but I had the hardest time trying to get him to even look at it let alone try it on. Luckily, in his daycare (which I refer to as school) he learned about dinosaurs like 2 weeks before Halloween. So I made another attempt at trying on his costume like a week before Halloween and was surprised by his overwhelming excitement to try it on. It fit, snug, but it fit (not to be used again by him) and I almost had a hard time taking it off him. He was obsessed with the tail but refused to put on the hat which as you can see or maybe not see in the above pic that was the head of the dinosaur (even if you can't see it's common sense). Mike managed to force the head on for a couple of pics..notice that in the pics, he's not exactly excited to have it on..
and in one of the pics, I just about didn't get his head in it...but you can tell, next year we have to costume shop.
Trick or treating was fun with our headless dinosaur. We were both trying to get him to say trick or treat but that didn't work but Thank you was said every time he got candy, with the occasional greedy "more" There is certain candy I won't let him eat (chewy stuff, small stuff, gum, hard candy anything with peanut butter) but I separated his basket and he can have about half of it. He's managed to eat a couple of kit kats but took one bite of the last one and handed it to me "here e go momma"
Pumpkin picking was fun. We went to this place called Burger Farms on the other side of Cincinnati. Brandon loved all the "punkins" and it was cute hearing him say "punkins punkins" They had a straw maze there and we went in it. If you went the wrong way there was little scary things blocking the path. Well around the first corner daddy said "hey Brandon, go this way" and Brandon went around the corner and saw a skeleton and daddy screamed "ahhh" and Brandon about crapped himself and was afraid the whole rest of the time we were in there!
So we carved one "punkin" and I had these stick in things like Mr. Potato Head pieces that I got last year during the after Halloween sale and stuck them in the other one. Mike said it looked like me..I don't think so but you be the judge.
The other "punkin" Mike carved. He did a great job. We bought one of those carving kits and he traced the pattern onto the pumpkin and cut it out great. He tricked me while carving it by putting fake blood on the knife and sticking it in the pumpkin and letting it drip down the side! I freaked for a second. He was in the bathroom and he was laughing his butt off when he opened the door!! TURD!
We had a great Halloween. The first for Mike with Brandon so he took the night off work to go Trick-or-Treating with him. Brandon walked most of the way.
He also tried to go in 2 people's houses...It was cute..
So I wanted to see if it would fit this year, but I had the hardest time trying to get him to even look at it let alone try it on. Luckily, in his daycare (which I refer to as school) he learned about dinosaurs like 2 weeks before Halloween. So I made another attempt at trying on his costume like a week before Halloween and was surprised by his overwhelming excitement to try it on. It fit, snug, but it fit (not to be used again by him) and I almost had a hard time taking it off him. He was obsessed with the tail but refused to put on the hat which as you can see or maybe not see in the above pic that was the head of the dinosaur (even if you can't see it's common sense). Mike managed to force the head on for a couple of pics..notice that in the pics, he's not exactly excited to have it on..
and in one of the pics, I just about didn't get his head in it...but you can tell, next year we have to costume shop.
Trick or treating was fun with our headless dinosaur. We were both trying to get him to say trick or treat but that didn't work but Thank you was said every time he got candy, with the occasional greedy "more" There is certain candy I won't let him eat (chewy stuff, small stuff, gum, hard candy anything with peanut butter) but I separated his basket and he can have about half of it. He's managed to eat a couple of kit kats but took one bite of the last one and handed it to me "here e go momma"
Pumpkin picking was fun. We went to this place called Burger Farms on the other side of Cincinnati. Brandon loved all the "punkins" and it was cute hearing him say "punkins punkins" They had a straw maze there and we went in it. If you went the wrong way there was little scary things blocking the path. Well around the first corner daddy said "hey Brandon, go this way" and Brandon went around the corner and saw a skeleton and daddy screamed "ahhh" and Brandon about crapped himself and was afraid the whole rest of the time we were in there!
So we carved one "punkin" and I had these stick in things like Mr. Potato Head pieces that I got last year during the after Halloween sale and stuck them in the other one. Mike said it looked like me..I don't think so but you be the judge.
The other "punkin" Mike carved. He did a great job. We bought one of those carving kits and he traced the pattern onto the pumpkin and cut it out great. He tricked me while carving it by putting fake blood on the knife and sticking it in the pumpkin and letting it drip down the side! I freaked for a second. He was in the bathroom and he was laughing his butt off when he opened the door!! TURD!
We had a great Halloween. The first for Mike with Brandon so he took the night off work to go Trick-or-Treating with him. Brandon walked most of the way.
He also tried to go in 2 people's houses...It was cute..
highschool reunion
Ok so lately I haven't been blogging..what was the date on the last one? Anyways there hasn't been too much to blog about. I try to save it until I have enough to talk about.
on October 9-12, we went down to Alabama for my high school reunion. I was excited to go because I wanted to see how many people actually show up and how much they have changed. I wasn't shocked that only about 15 people showed up and no one I really hung around.
Friday during the day, we went to the Army Aviation Museum on Fort Rucker. Brandon is on a plane and helicopter kick now and just had a great time. He was scared to go into the Chinook, but once he went in, he wouldn't come out and loved the cockpit display they have upstairs where you can get in with all the controls and stuff. He also loved looking at the Predator display..I think that's what it's called. It looks like a toy but has radar on it and they throw it up instead of going into enemy territory blinded, they "spy" with it. Mike says they use them in Iraq. I've seen videos of his unit using it and it was pretty cool.
We went to a football game that night and per usual the team lost. They were playing Eufala, who is a hard team anyways but that's besides the point. They won I think a total of 5 games the whole 4 years I went to that school and they were all homecoming games and we all know the other schools were begged and paid to have mercy on us so we could win.
One thing they did, that I don't recall ever happening when I went to school, was after the game the team came up to the band, the band played the alma matter and they sang it...I thought it was wonderful school spirit even though they lost!
The next day we all met at Stegall Park right by the high school and had a family day. Brandon was at nap time so he wasn't exactly happy but he did have a good time. I think this was the first time he swung on the swings by himself. not a baby swing, a big swing...I was sooo proud.
I threw in a slide pic too! He's just adorable!
Saturday night, we went to dinner at Applebee's in Ozark. I had a blast drinking and laughing with everyone at the table. More people showed up there about 25-30 or so but again, people I could have cared less to see. Some people didn't change at all while others I didn't recognize! Someone had brought their yearbook and said that I was the one that changed the most. I took it as a compliment. I was such a geek in high school. All in all, I had a good time! I would do it again in 10 more years.
on October 9-12, we went down to Alabama for my high school reunion. I was excited to go because I wanted to see how many people actually show up and how much they have changed. I wasn't shocked that only about 15 people showed up and no one I really hung around.
Friday during the day, we went to the Army Aviation Museum on Fort Rucker. Brandon is on a plane and helicopter kick now and just had a great time. He was scared to go into the Chinook, but once he went in, he wouldn't come out and loved the cockpit display they have upstairs where you can get in with all the controls and stuff. He also loved looking at the Predator display..I think that's what it's called. It looks like a toy but has radar on it and they throw it up instead of going into enemy territory blinded, they "spy" with it. Mike says they use them in Iraq. I've seen videos of his unit using it and it was pretty cool.
We went to a football game that night and per usual the team lost. They were playing Eufala, who is a hard team anyways but that's besides the point. They won I think a total of 5 games the whole 4 years I went to that school and they were all homecoming games and we all know the other schools were begged and paid to have mercy on us so we could win.
One thing they did, that I don't recall ever happening when I went to school, was after the game the team came up to the band, the band played the alma matter and they sang it...I thought it was wonderful school spirit even though they lost!
The next day we all met at Stegall Park right by the high school and had a family day. Brandon was at nap time so he wasn't exactly happy but he did have a good time. I think this was the first time he swung on the swings by himself. not a baby swing, a big swing...I was sooo proud.
I threw in a slide pic too! He's just adorable!
Saturday night, we went to dinner at Applebee's in Ozark. I had a blast drinking and laughing with everyone at the table. More people showed up there about 25-30 or so but again, people I could have cared less to see. Some people didn't change at all while others I didn't recognize! Someone had brought their yearbook and said that I was the one that changed the most. I took it as a compliment. I was such a geek in high school. All in all, I had a good time! I would do it again in 10 more years.
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