Monday, July 23, 2012
Stuffed squash blossoms
My friend gave me some squash blossoms from her garden so I looked around to see what I could make with it. It seemed that the most common recipe was to dreg it w/ egg and then coat it w/ flour and then fry in a pan. But when I saw this recipe, it sounded a little more unique.
Monday, July 16, 2012
practicum world
i've been living, breathing practicum the past few months but the last week has been super crazy. this past week, the number of kids in the camps BLEW UP! so i'm trying to keep up with logistics last minute. it starts tomorrow. i think once it gets started, i'll breathe. but until i'm writing my list and checking it twice.
come friday i'll be a different woman. summer will have officially started in this household. i'm thinking a few museum days are in order next week :)
come friday i'll be a different woman. summer will have officially started in this household. i'm thinking a few museum days are in order next week :)
Monday, July 9, 2012
butterflies
what's up in our household...
our typical day is supposed to be:
8am swim lesson, then devotionals, math, writing/ history, and cursive, and then off to the pool.
our jewel was complaining that she wanted a summer break like everyone else. apparently, she feels like she's getting jipped or something... so we came to a compromise - math. writing through history ( i combined these subjects) and then i let her pick the third subject - cursive. i had every intention of doing full school over the summer but alas... even i needed a break. the irony is, we've taken the last 3 weeks off for various reasons and yet she's still complaining that she's not getting a break??!
lately, our typical has been:
oh and i guess i should put in a small post about 4th of july (this past wednesday).
we went to a friend's house for BBQ - but boy oh boy was it sweltering! this friend used to have his own BBQ joint and cooked for one of the sports stadiums... don't ask me which one. when we first got there, he told us that the best bbq will be later in the day - kind of like Jesus and the wedding wine. but after 3 hours of sitting outside in 100 degree weather, we had to take the girls home. it was just miserable for the baby so we had to miss out on the good stuff. but it was so nice seeing friends.
thursday night, my man and i had our first date night in over a year! i know, so bad right?! our good friend offered to stay w/ the girls while they slept and then we got some greek food. it was pretty good. we ended up talking politics most of the night... why? got me! i don't even like politics...
friday, we met some friends at a pool of a mutual friend's house. had lunch there. then i went back home for what seemed to be 5 minutes and then we went back to the same house for thai food w/ some other friends. it was so hot that people ate quickly and then spent most of the time in the pool. it's so nice to have friends w/ pools :)
8am swim lesson, then devotionals, math, writing/ history, and cursive, and then off to the pool.
our jewel was complaining that she wanted a summer break like everyone else. apparently, she feels like she's getting jipped or something... so we came to a compromise - math. writing through history ( i combined these subjects) and then i let her pick the third subject - cursive. i had every intention of doing full school over the summer but alas... even i needed a break. the irony is, we've taken the last 3 weeks off for various reasons and yet she's still complaining that she's not getting a break??!
lately, our typical has been:
oh and i guess i should put in a small post about 4th of july (this past wednesday).
we went to a friend's house for BBQ - but boy oh boy was it sweltering! this friend used to have his own BBQ joint and cooked for one of the sports stadiums... don't ask me which one. when we first got there, he told us that the best bbq will be later in the day - kind of like Jesus and the wedding wine. but after 3 hours of sitting outside in 100 degree weather, we had to take the girls home. it was just miserable for the baby so we had to miss out on the good stuff. but it was so nice seeing friends.
thursday night, my man and i had our first date night in over a year! i know, so bad right?! our good friend offered to stay w/ the girls while they slept and then we got some greek food. it was pretty good. we ended up talking politics most of the night... why? got me! i don't even like politics...
friday, we met some friends at a pool of a mutual friend's house. had lunch there. then i went back home for what seemed to be 5 minutes and then we went back to the same house for thai food w/ some other friends. it was so hot that people ate quickly and then spent most of the time in the pool. it's so nice to have friends w/ pools :)
this weekend
Saturday morning was Crayola Factory with my sister and her family. Of course I forgot my camera. Fortunately, I think my sis took lots. We ate lunch and then headed back to our place. We went to the pool for a few hours and then finished up with Thai food for dinner. I'm grateful for my friend (who's thai) and made us dinner the night before and gave me lots of leftovers. It made dinner time w/ my sister and her family a piece of cake. Just made the rice, heated up the thai chicken curry, and then sauteed some sesame green beans.
Sundays are generally pretty full as we have church and home group two sundays out of the month. Yesterday was home group day. But in addition, our jewel had a birthday party and I also took her to the pool for an hour and that seemed to take her exhaust level over the edge. poor thing crawled out of the pool complaining of a head ache and body aches so we headed home. i'm wondering if she could have caught something at the pool - although with all that chlorine, i don't know how any bacteria could survive.
today we're taking it easy and she had chills during the night and a fever this morning.
Sundays are generally pretty full as we have church and home group two sundays out of the month. Yesterday was home group day. But in addition, our jewel had a birthday party and I also took her to the pool for an hour and that seemed to take her exhaust level over the edge. poor thing crawled out of the pool complaining of a head ache and body aches so we headed home. i'm wondering if she could have caught something at the pool - although with all that chlorine, i don't know how any bacteria could survive.
today we're taking it easy and she had chills during the night and a fever this morning.
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