Bacation

We are on bacation. Bergen calls it bacation, and it's kind of stuck. Stay tuned next week for many pictures from San Antonio. Bacation Rocks!!!

Hope's Journey Garage Sale

I wanted to let you know of a very worthwhile cause on Saturday. One that you can give and get at the same time!

One of the minister's family at our church is trying to adopt a young lady from Ukraine. They feel totally led by God that this is the right thing for their family, but for some reason I'll never understand, you need like a bazillion dollars to adopt. What's up with that? Read more about their story here.

This Saturday, there's a HUGE garage sale to help raise money for adoption fees. Please see below the details. There will be something there for everyone.

Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009
Time: 8:00am - 2:00pm
Location:Covenant Christian Academy
901 Cheek-Sparger Rd.
Colleyville, TX 76034

Last Day of School Lunch

In the 1st grade, you eat lunch at 11am. Sooooo early! But in Kinder you eat at 10:30....which is usually when I'm finishing up my coffee. I never made it to school last year to eat at 10:30 and I'm going to go ahead and blame Bergen. Who wants to drag a 1 year old up there? Not me!

This year I ate with Preston....ZERO times. Yes, I know... I'm SUCH a good mother! But I work through my lunch so I can leave early and pick him up from school. So no need to call CPS...I'm really not THAT bad.

Today I suprised Preston with a Happy Meal for lunch and saved him from the dreaded "Culinary Favorites" day which is basically "whatever is leftover" day. These poor kids were eating flatbread with cheese and garlic. When Preston saw me he ran and gave me a big hug and said "thank you for saving me from Culinary Favorites"!! HA! That really made me laugh.

I enjoyed the company of several 7 year old boys fresh off the playground. Sweat + Garlicky Flatbread. Awesome. They are such sweet boys. I had a really good time! I told Preston I would eat with him more often next year when the lunch time is bumped up to 11:30. And I will check to make sure it's not "culinary favorites" day. Yikes!

But this story is not quite complete without a run-in with the mom who is *always* at school and another mom...baby in tow. It went a little something like this.

Always there mom to Mom with baby - "are you eating lunch?"

Mom with baby - "No - and I haven't all year and I feel bad about it!"

Me - "Don't feel bad! You have a baby! And this is the first time I've eaten here...ever"

Always there mom to me - "You've never eaten lunch here with your child?"

Me - "No. It's 11am! I just finished my coffee! No really, I work and well, I work. My boss is out of town so...oh look at the time...gotta run...back to work."

So thank you Always There Mom for bursting my bubble and making me feel like a slacker mom. I wonder if she drives that Mercedes?

Yes, I'm still here

It's been, um, gently pointed out that I've been MIA too long. And I have. I admit. And since the world's worst blogger called ME the world's worst blogger...I thought I'd better pop my head in to give an update. (Wendy - you are no longer the world's worst blogger...you've been rockin' it lately girl!)

In a nutshell... the list below details some things that are happening around me, to me, or to my family or friends. Some are good, some are bad, some are downright horrible. And yes, some are mentioned more than once, meaning...a real time consumer.

~father-in-law's cancer
~depression - not mine, but someone close to me...but praise the Lord - it's over! Strongest woman I know!
~baseball!
~dirty house
~skiing
~Easter
~Trip to Abilene for Joe's Distinguished Young Alumni Award ceremony!
~baseball!
~Aunt's death
~house guests
~baseball!
~injury - fell and really hurt myself
~other family health issues - not mine people...I'm fine...aside from being clumsy!
~work
~PROMOTION for TV Joe!! Yay to my little rockstar husband!
~baseball!
~kids
~cooking
~dirty house
~baseball!
~trying to burn some stress at the gym

WHEW!

I'm still blissfully happy, mainly because anger and all around pootiness just takes too much energy. Our little family of 4 is fine...the world is just spinning quickly around us. We are blessed beyond what we deserve...roof over head and food on the table, great new promotion for TV Joe (I guess we should call him Corporate Joe now?). There's just a lot going on in my little brain. I'm so ready for summer. I am having to alter my work schedule to take care of the kids, and I'm happy to have a little time to work from home.

So, here's what I plan to tell you about in the coming days as I catch up.

~Skiing
~Easter
~Bergenisms
~Trip to Abilene where Joe won Distinguished Young Alumni at our university
~Baseball
~Spring Fun
~Upcoming Vacation to San Antonio/Family Reunion to Camp Wood (you haven't lived until you've been dunked in the Nueces River)
~More Baseball - Preston made the summer league - we'll play 'til end of June

I promise not to stay away so long again. Thanks for the little nudge sweet friend. I do need to record these precious times happening around me.

I'm not smart enough to link a you tube and a picture

I wanted this picture to go together with the video below, but well...let's just be glad I remembered the simple things like my phone number today, okay?? I'm getting ready for Spring Break and have a little pre-trip anxiety as we are about to haul our kids to Crested Butte...including sweet, wild and crazy Biggie B...where we are meeting 3 other families...with 4 more kids...that's 6 kids...in one house...yeah. Yee Haw

Anyway, this picture is from Bergen's first playdate with his little girlfriend Eva. Eva's momma is my lifesaver, my sounding board, my gym buddy, my drinkin' buddy...the best friend a girl could ever want. She offered to take Bergen so I could take a conference call and not worry about him screaming in the background. They were thanking God for Chick fil A...which we really should do everyday, dontcha think? The world could be going to you know what in a hand basket, but we still have the happiness of the Chicken Mini and the beautiful taste balance of the fried chicken breast and pickles!! Wash it all down with the lemonade.

They also ran to the grocery store, where they were bribed with suckers and got to ride in the car. Are these two the most adorable children in the world??? Eva looks like she's got Bergen's number. Hilarious!!

This about sums up our love for the combo #1

Ridiculously Good Treats

So I have lots of blogs that I read every morning. Some people I know quite well, some that I've met a few times, and some that I've never met, but found here in cyberspace.

The Cruson Crew is a blog by a friend of a friend. We've met several times, she's sweet as the candy I'm about to tell you about. I read her blog because she's really, really funny and most days I need good laugh.

A few days ago, she posted the following recipe. It sounded so good...so good that I had to try it. Before we get started, let me just add that she puts a little pecan on top, but Biggie B is allergic to nuts and Preston would rather go hungry than eat a nut, so we don't put them in anything.

Rolo-Marshmallow-Pretzel Bites (I made up this name...I'm sure it's actually called something much more cleaver)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

Gather the following:

Rolos

Butter Snap Pretzels

Marshmallows

Line up the pretzels on a baking sheet.

Put a Rolo on top of each pretzel. Put a marshmallow on top of each Rolo.

Place in the oven for about 3 minutes.

Once you pull them out, you can take a pecan and smush them down, or if you are not using nuts, take a knife lightly sprayed with Pam and smush them down a bit.

If you can wait until they cool down, you are a stronger woman than me. These little jewels are the perfect mix of salty/sweet/chewy.

Try not to eat them all at once. Yeah, good luck.

Happy Thursday!