Are we living our dream?

[Mini Horses]

My kids were fed from my garden, plus store bought growing up. They ate a variety. When they started school, things changed -- both were influenced by the comments of others. Some foods they ate well before became "ugh" from others. As adults, they're on their own. DS eats a larger variety. DD makes me wonder with more limited tastes.

I agree, if hungry, they'll eat. Neither of mine like onions. If cooking for them, I am careful there. Garlic is fine go figure.

 

[flowerbug]

i don't understand about not liking onions, we eat a lot of onions here, people we cook for have often commented that we use too many and some people have requested that we don't use any.

i picked some green onions the other day and Mom used some of them in the chow mein she was making but there were some parts still left that i put in ham and cream cheese roll-ups with hot sauce. could eat that a lot more. onions gone. mission accomplished and a happy tummy.

 

[Mini Horses]

I like onions.

 

[Medicine Woman]

The last few children I had were homeschooled so they weren’t influenced by their peers for a long time and when the neighborhood kids came over and I discovered that I needed to get creative to make 2 pieces of chicken stretch out to feed 1 adult and 4 kids, it was a team effort…..okay, you too clear the table and wipe it down, then come back for all the things to set the table, you take this pitcher and put 2 cups of sugar and two packs of kool aid and start mixing, you find two healthy green vegetables that most of us will accept. While I start a cake that will be baking immediately that I don’t need to cool off to frost or some cookies. And the bones are removed from the chicken and a side dish is started like mac and cheese or cream potatoes. Actually what ended up happening is my kids convinced the neighbors that mustard greens and mushrooms are delicious and suddenly they are asking their mom’s to buy it. I usually tried to teach English, math and maybe science while the other kids were away in school cuz after 3:30PM the invasion started and I might teach religion because I knew school couldn’t teach that. Man!!! I did some work!! Makes me tired just remembering it!!
It’s 91F and feels like 96F. I might as well take advantage of it and do a couple of batches of laundry. Apparently my family thinks I’m Wonder Woman. Maybe I am but I sure get tired after a few hours and I make weird noises at night when I lay down and the spasms start.
HG left to visit baby daddy for the first time since she got pregnant so suddenly he is holding a baby that’s going on 9 months old who doesn’t even know him. She sends me this video of him holding her while he is driving and her smiling and all with a caption of MY LITTLE FAMILY. I tell her I hope you didn’t post that anywhere cuz that’s not your little family. She best bring me my baby back soon. Now I gotta wonder if she is being lazy in Baton Rouge in front of the one who kicked her out 18 months ago. Kids!!! And she just vanished without telling me anything about her plans!! Grrr.
I need to play in my house a few hours doing this and that cuz DH already passed the animals and took a shower. Mass at 5:00PM. I still didn’t move into the herb cabinet DH brought home but I can do that at night if necessary. I’m just so glad the back of the truck doesn’t look like a junkyard anymore. I wonder what I can get accomplished.

 

[Mini Horses]

Been a long time since a post. All ok ???

 

[Medicine Woman]

Been a long time since a post. All ok ???

I’m sorry. I’m okay but I feel like I haven’t been able to be worth $0.02. I think the Lord works in mysterious ways though. So my tests continue to show no new growth but I’m getting so tired all the time and I know I am weaker. Well as faith would have it, I received my new Medicare supplement booklet and I read it (I don’t ordinarily) so I noticed that some of my tests are going up next year. Some only by $5 but some by $100 extra!! So I call the Medicare insurance man in town and I started questioning if my insurance company is still my best option so he gets me in and DH comes along and he decides to tell both of us what is coming along and he does give me a new idea. He tells me that both of us can join a gym free of charge because our insurance will pay for it. I wait a few days while I consider how useless I feel and I know I can use some strength, flexibility and balance so a few days ago I tell DH I am going to Anytime Fitness (the closest in proximity). So he asks me if I want him to come. I say most definitely!! If anyone starts videoing me I need you to kill them!! So we both go. Wouldn’t you know it; they were waiting for all new equipment and were planning on opening in two days. But the manager was connected to me on Facebook and she messaged me telling me to call our insurance companies and ask for a code to enroll in the gym so by Wednesday we were all set up and got a fob (new term for me). So we got our tour and did our first workout. DS was so happy to hear about it.
I’m hoping to get mighty soon so I can push my weight around and be useful. Farming would be great, as well as walking the property, looking for wild edibles, like I used to and playing catch up on the property before I get in trouble with the parish.
I’m just doing really light weight workouts, wearing stretchy pants and t-shirts. I can even take a shower if I want, which I might cuz the shower here has a crack now. Might as well make myself at home. .
I have a huge stockpile of peanut butter so I made pralines yesterday while babysitting for HG and DS in the city. I was late arriving because of a horrible accident on the shortcut road through the woods between our parishes. I still don’t know what happened but I was waiting so long, I was able to say a rosary for whoever it was, so 25 minutes for that alone plus the time before that and afterwards so probably an hour. When daylight came a helicopter came so I texted DH, DS and HG that it’s probably really bad but I don’t think it could land. I don’t know if it might have dropped a basket or something but it hovered over a while before it disappeared. I gave up and went the long way there. What a day!! So I brought McDonald’s sausage biscuits for the kids and got started with the candy. Went home dead tired.

 

[flowerbug]

wow! quite a challenge you've put for yourself. i hope it does help you get some strength back.

i'm definitely in the "If you rest you rust." category of people. yes, some days you do need to take a break, but too much of a break will not help.

glad to hear from you again.

 

[Medicine Woman]

I’m here, alive and mostly well. I picked up HG at work and cuz the baby was asleep we snuck over to the Dollar General and the grocery store. Today is DH’s 60th birthday so I wanted to get a carrot cake mix and some ribeyes. So Dollar General didn’t have carrot cake so we got other options and we went to the grocery store for eggs (the hens are brooding) and steak. Would you believe the steaks were $24 a pound?!?! And they were so skinny…. Well I guess so. At that price the only way you gonna eat a ribeye is if it’s just a half inch thick!! Made me want to steal a cow. So I settled for a chuck roast. I wanted to come home quiet like and start the roast after I got rid of him and after browning it up and slicing the mushrooms, transfer to the crockpot and flavor with onion soup mix and a beer for a few hours and start the cake. I think he didn’t notice the cake, so I’m good. Hopefully I make an A+. The table is a disaster so maybe I’ll delegate that to HG. She twisted her ankle at work today so she is hurting.
Now, while I’m waiting for the cake to finish I will go spy on some of you guys . Again…. Sorry.

 

[Mini Horses]

Good to hear from you. Yes, the activity will help you!! Different from what you do at home. Happy birthday to DH. Remember us more often