How do you know if your food is good?

Well let me tell you ! If you have a hit the family all goes back for seconds and then starts to whine that there is not enought for more or lunch tomarrow! I HAD this happen last night LOL for me that was great i was on cloud 9 all evening i made a pork tenderloin with creamy black beans and roasted red taters. the beans were davids fav, he insiste this is how i make them from now on LOL… that was my most worried dish, i forgot to soak them so i threw them in the crock pot in the moring , one cup of black beans. with 3cups of water on high. after a few hours i dropped it to low  and added lots of garlic and onion power and a bit of red pepper powder for some heat.. next time ill add more salt and red pepper. and an hr before we ate i took about 3/4 cup out and mushed them really well and put them back. this is supose to help with the creamy part but it didnt thicken like i would have wanted to not have to strain it so i put in about 1 tbs of corn starch and BAM it was perfect!! and they gobbled it up ..EVEN DANIEL my boy who hates anything not meat or peanut butter LOL.

so this will be going on the family favorit list that is for sure. david said that and rice would be great LOL.

well i hope your days are giogn as well as that!

god bless.

what a man i have!

ohhh my husband is so good! I was suppose to  go shopping yesterday but it was like 104 or something totaly crazy and we were out of milk and he was out of tobacco and i would have just been lazy to not go, but he INSISTED i stay and go in the morning when it was cooler and he went up to the little store and got milk.. NOW omg lol how sweet is that! one of us was going to have to go out and he went for me

this has been a very nice trend lately… its like when we were dating and he would go out of his way  to do stuff for me just because. Its so sweet!

oh man it was so hot yesterday.. after David went to the store for me i pulled the mattress down stairs so everyone could sleep out down here were it was nice and cool and stayed up 3 hrs later to keep it running for them and pulled the ac in. Man it was already warm when we woke up!

He got a bike from a friend of his from work. a big 21 in brand new bike. (davids 6′5) and hes starting to ride to work and back.. about mmm 30 blocks so not to bad.. boy is he filling it tho! i better get on and ride that bike too lol to keep up with him. cant have him get all in shape and still be a pile of BLAH. Hes super excited to have a bike again its been ages. I cant say i know what brought it up for him but it worked out great. the bike was free and its a 400 dollar bike and we get to save  like 65 dollar’s a month on buss!

well im getting side tracked all over the place lol so ill leave it at that for now!

god bless

just a post

Well wanted to come and let everyone know I’m still alive I’m still having this stupid flare up. stiff in the morning, exhausted in the evening and the brain is a fog! lol good think i don’t do anything technical

david and i started back playing world of warcraft a few weeks ago. Gosh what is the pull to this game! we have been playing it just before Emily was born lol and she will be 4 in dec. We have taken a few brakes from it for a month here a couple there but in the end we always come back to it. I know why i go back, its for the social network. A year and half ago we changed servers and we started are guild kiss my murlock! We David ended up leaving shortly after for a larger guild that was established and doing endgame stuff /grin that’s what he likes in the game lol I’m well away of it! I prefer running around by my self and having a chatting guild to turn to for socializing.

So the last few times KMM is what has pulled me back. i worked so hard to get this guild up and going and to make it what it is. some of the Nice’s on line people are there ( or I’m just biast! ) and have made my play time extremely enjoyable. Its different coming back to the game still being burned out ON THE game but needing to still reach out to the people that i have had contact with over the last year.. some  from the beginning of the guild! Each time i had to leave someone alse took KMM over and took care of it.. as hard as it was to watch someone alse running it i see that its made the guild as solid as it is. Now hairy is running it and doing a great job and this time i have no thought of tring to regain leadership hehe the guild has started running endgame stuff which is fun but..wow when you have to be at the head of all that its to much for me. I dont have the stamina for running that part of the guild.

..blah got distracted and my brain wont pick the track back up agian. oh well :)  My brother and sister in law are moving to texas so he can get his managment training lol its suppos to be 2 years then he will move to a new shop. hes been with the company working on the trucks for 5 years and has been talking about this for some time. they are in the prosess of getting the house ready to sell.. its a mixed time for M.. my brother is alreay in texas starting his training and she’s here alone with the kids lol poor girl! he will be comeing home in a week to help get the house ready for the market.. sigh shes over welmed tring to get it all done.

ok that is enough for now lol im sure this has been scattered enough for you! later!

god bless

NaBloPoMo August Hot ~ coffee !!

Ok I LOVE coffee! hot coffee, cold coffee, frozen coffee, mocha, Lotte.. flavor no flavor! I LOVE MY COFFEE! homemade Folgers all the way to my hazelnut mocha frapp at Starbucks! when its hot its iced when its cold its steaming… but never give me fat free or decaff… THE HORROR I TELL YOU THE HORROR!!

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for the few readers i have pardon the laps in post wial i have this fibramalgiama flare up my brain is on the Fritz and all the post i want to do i cant … make coherent atm.. we went to the zoo Saturday ill tall you more i hope later on that .. and it has just wipes me out physically and mentally. Ill try to be back up to the “normal” standers soon until them ill leave you weird random short post! have fun !

god bless!

NaBloPoMo August Hot ~ My hottie

so august National blog a post a day for a month is HOT and the best thing to start with is my hottie!

My hubby

i still think he is one sexy man .. even if hes afraid of those geese

LOL

We made the cut

Well yesterday they laied off 10 ppl from my husbands work. they new that it would be coming because they shipped a lot of there work to another branch and what they had left was not enough to support the 17 employees. so some corporate big wig came in yesterday and called 10 of them in and sent them out. I am more relived then i know how to say that my husband was not one of them but .. also very bad for the other family’s that just found them self’s with out this job. My husband is having a very hard time with that, he has been at this job for 9 years. and a few of those that were laied off were there before him and almost all were his friends. You don’t work in such a small work envirment and not ‘know” all your co workers. Hes not one to talk about it like us girls but i encourage him to talk about it by asking questions about it but i don’t want to push it..sigh.. all i can do is give him the pampering that makes him relaxed and happy to help him make it threw this.

I thank the lord that we were spared the cut and spared the hardships that would have come are way and i pray that he is watching over the family’s that didn’t make it.

Fibramyalgia flare up

Wow it has been a wile since i have had any problems with my Fibra. But two weeks ago i started up on a new exercise thing.. well my husband talked me into trying to get back onto my old schedule so i dug up some videos on netflix and have been doing it twice a week… lol yes I’m that out of shape and want to start up very slow as to not totally shock my system or… well have this happen but it did anyways. The flare up is really small compared to others so I’m glad i am only doing the videos twice a week. I have the stiffness in the morning and the total exhaustion in the afternoon.. and damn it i am forgetting words again. this is the worst and most frustrating part. I was talking to my sister in law trying to tell her about this new cloth dryer i have. its a tension rack that goes from the floor to the ceiling and had hooks coming off of it were cloth hangers can hang. about 6 per hook and three hooks on it. I LOVE IT i can put up 3 loads of laundry ..well anyways i was trying to tell her you could hang “hangers” on it but the word was just GONE from my mind.. we then had to play a guessing game to find it lol..

you know m.. the thing you put in the closet… that you put close on! /SCREAM….errrr you mean a hanger k?…SHIT lol yes a hanger!…

this is happening more and more again. i thing this is my most hatted part of the flare ups there is just no controlling that! sigh. well i will continue with the video’s tho because i fear my husband may be right and my weight is partly behind my breathing issue.. NOW my dr. says its stress and would like to send me to a counselor because i refuse to take medication. they want to give depressants for everything ! I also don’t want to see a counselor for it.. if it is stress ( and i am all for ppl talking to counselors ! ) but if my system has become so sensitive to my moods ill need more then a counselor to keep a even keel with 3 kids and a husband LOL. life is stressful and i am Farly well at dealing with the stress in my life but i may have to come up with some new ideas /shrug…. i degrees.. lol threw the whole visit she never once said it could be my weight.. which seems odd from a dr since i am HUGELY overweight and i know it.

well either way lets see if i can stick with it again and drop some more weight. the 20 from last summer stayed off so the small changed i made then has stuck with me enough that i could still maintain the new weight. it may not seem like a lot off hand but the fact that i lost it slowly and then was able to continue for a year with the change and not gain it back or more.. is good its encouraging for the next 20.. and the next.. it means that as long as i do it this way, slowly and with real true changes that  I PERSONALLY can live with i will be able to maintain any new weight i get to. .. just time to buckle down again :)  LOL but i am a lazy lazy person so i start my focus on more passive stuff like the portion sizes I’m eating and what i put on my plate and how much fluids I’m getting.

well here’s to hoping i don’t forget one of the kids names! lol have a good one and i will too god bless

When a deer comes to visit

Ok so I’m stumbling around and find this very cute cat site just full of pic’s. Well my little girl monster

makes me stop and look threw them she loves meow meows. and i came to this one and i have to ask…

were do they live!!!! omgosh! a mommy and baby deer coming right up to your door to visit LOL how totally great is that. I hope it wasnt because they were looking for food dont like that thought.  What a moment that must have been. glad they had there camera handy!

Fasting .. what is it and what does it mean to us?

Here is a subject that i have always secretly wondered about. you hear about it here and there in the bible but i have never had a church i attended go deep into it

.. why do people fast..what do you when you fast.. what was the reason behind it.. when in the right time..the wrong time.. why does god ask us to fast…

i assumed that it was mainly tragedy’s that sent people scrambling to god giving up food to ask for help.. or religious higher ups showing ..us? dedication to god.. but i never digged to far into it partly.. selfish reasons. what if the bible demands we fast! what if I’m not ready? i don’t know how.. i don’t know what to do.. …… it was some of the same questions i had about how to pry to god. That may sound odd to allot of people but i was never really taught “how” to pry and why  and a lot of the time it sounded fake or hypocritical to me when i “tried” .. but i searched for that answer because i needed desperately to know how to talk to god, how to be close to him.. and prayer is you way in. its your daily talks with god. to give thanks and praise and share your strugles with him and ask for help. i found there is no “right” way or wrong way, you just talk to him. we have a relationship with god.. he use to walk in the garden with adem and talk to him.. i believe he wants that kind of closeness with each of his children. so daily we talk to him..

… i got side tracked .. fasting.. i found a great site that did all the work for me and researched it. they explain very nicely all the questions i had and i understand more then before even tho i have no personal experience to go with it yet. Fasting has always been a nagging idea in the back of my mind. i am sure that means that god fully intends me to understand it and use it when its appropriate.  The question always was when IS it appropriate?  i think i understand now, it times of struggle, major changes..times when you strive to know the way god would have you walk but you are unclear of it. when you are morning and need god wholly to make it. It is a way to more clearly connect with the lord and to show him.. look lord i need nothing but you! You are my first and my last and everything in between and i am willing to give up even my most primal needs of survival to seek out your ways, because i have faith that you will come to me and keep my safe even for my physical discomfort..

deep… scary… after reading this site and seeing the real personal reasons .. and it is personal, there are no commandments to fast but it is talked about in the bible with a tone that you “will” fast. but when and why is between you and god. I sure wish that this had been more discussed and understood. I know there are many times in my life that i needed this kind of solitude and personal show of faith to god..

you should also remember that this is something between “you and god” and not the world. you are not suppose to go around declaring to the world I AM FASTING! because that is not what god wants of us. just like he asks us to go into are rooms and close the door to pry to him we should also quietly fast so that it does not become a show of “righteousness” instead of personal searching time for you with the lord.

here is the site and a much better explination and answers to my questions.

seek and you shall find.. every time i have a questions about the lord and what he wants of me i am led to the answers. never be discuraged the lord will show you the way.

god bless

Starbucks GIVEAWAY !!!

(shhh i stole her pic!)
OK SO WEE ALLLLL LOVE A GIVEAWAY right?? well what can make it better? someone giveing away $20 to starbucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! omgosh.  Over at Momma Findings she tells us about a new found fav drink, sweet tea! and to share her love she is giveing us all a chance at free starbucks.. ohhh how i love her for this right now! go check her out and her contest. its opent tell aug 2nd.