So...whats for dinner?
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We used to have something resembling nicoise salad when we were kids. Hard boiled eggs, green beans, kalamata olives, small boiled potatoes and the can of tuna. It was an inexpensive meal for a family of six.
Susan - awesome achievement by your daughter! You are right to be proud!!!
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Susan, that is something to beam about! Good job, both of you!
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Jeni, I am so happy to see how you make separate dinner for yourself and a separate thing for the kids! Laughing, because I definitely do the same thing.
Seaside, you are so proud of your daughter! You are the sweetest! I have a Master's degree -- plus more -- and my mom is NOT proud of me. You can take that to the bank! She is super-disapproving. Your daughter is super-lucky..
Special K, people who don't have kids are so clueless about so many things! I was one of them once. Sometimes they feel badly that they don't have kids. I was one of those once too. But at the same time, sometimes I am jealous of people who don't have kids! They can do anything they want! Have you noticed they never babysit? I also envy their total ignorance. Ignorance is bliss!
I had to scan through the posts because I am unwell at the moment in a way that has me not able to read descriptions of food. Especially lobster omelettes! Yikes! I can barely type those words. Eric, I must say, you are amazing with your yeasted waffle batter. If I was not already married plus engaged (to Nancy), I would be asking you to marry me lickety-split. Sharon is lucky she already snapped you up
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lacey - thanks!
nibbana - what about salmon cakes, like crab cakes? You can bind them without grains, then saute them after adding some chopped onion and peppers, or whatever you have around.
bobo - my childless friends have functioned like aunts to my kids - and have even babysat on occasion - I have been lucky. My children were born late - I was over 30 when the first one arrived, so I know what you mean about perspective. I am back in that place of being able to do what I want because my children are adults, now I am just too tired to do anything, lol! Sorry you mom does not acknowledge your accomplishment, that is a shame. I am certainly proud of you!
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Special K, you are so sweet! And young. Your picture is amazing. I have been meaning to tell you, but I see I am not the only one
Mine are seven and almost eight... I cannot leave the house without major preparation
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Appointment with MO went ok...he finally caved about my pelvis pain and is going to order a non emergency bone scan. I'll take it.
Tonight we are taking my DD to the Kindergarten Open House and then taking her out for Sushi....no she won't eat sushi it's what we want but she will eat the noodle soup and yakatori's so yay!
An hour on the stationary bike today resulted in 8.5 miles and only 245 calories...WTF?!?! LOL.
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Ok- I don't know where to begin.
Susan- Yay for your daughter!!! How wonderful for her and for you
Bobo - You said it so well about having kids vs not having kids. We are all jealous of the other at times. I have some dear friends who are childless who adore coming and seeing my crazy gremlins
Special K- Love the new picture- you are beautiful!
Jen- You made me laugh with the calorie comment! That's why I don't bother Ha!! Have fun at the open house. My oldest starts kindergarten next year too- it is all day in my town. It will be very strange.
So for mothers day we went out and had a Mexican lunch which was yummy. DH and I were still full at dinner time so we fed the kids and skipped dinner. Tonight is the camping dinner- burger with tomato sauce with zucchini and rice. Super easy. It is time for me to go grocery shopping tomorrow and plan my meals again- yuck! We have had a blast staying up too late and watching the Bruins and last nights game did not disappoint! AWESOME!!
Lacey- I did watch the Big C last night. I LOVE this show and just read that it was cancelled which is why it is being wrapped up so quickly. I too am going to miss Cathy. She is one hot shit and I love the perspective the show brings. How we all deal with things and question ourselves. Love it.
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Thanks for the compliments - you guys are making me blush!
bobo - my kids were a year apart so I understand the major prep before leaving the house. When you have twins everyone helps you, when you have kids a year apart they just think its your own fault, lol! Now that they are 25 and almost 24 I miss those days when I always knew where they were!!!
I need to do a grocery store run. During chemo I really stocked up with lots of supplies in case I felt crummy I would have some selections and also not have to go shopping as often. Getting out of that habit now, and trying not to have archeological relics in the freezer, but I keep putting off grocery shopping. Also DH has started going to the gym after work and often does not want much in the way of dinner. I don't drink milk, neither does DH, but DD is the dairy queen! I have been out of milk for about 4 or 5 days - she is starting to take it personally, lol!
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I'm laughing so hard about reading SpecialK's 'Cali' girl as 'Call' girl as I, too did a double take!
Bobo,
Sorry that you're not feeling well! Hope it passes quickly...
I know what you mean about graduating from college and not getting an outward showing of pride from my parents... I really do believe they were but, I think their generation just didn't show it!
A huge congrats to all the graduates... May they all know our pride in them and find employment swiftly in this tough job market!
Jen,
I join you in a huge WTF on the calories burned... My 45 minutes on the treadmill results in a mere 185 calories (and a whole lot of sweating and cursing..lol)!0 -
One candy bar that takes about seconds to eat is woth about 2-1/2 miles of running...which takes much longer than 30 seconds.
This is yet another example that life isn't fair.
I'm making about 15 dozen oatmeal rasin cookies for Sharon to take to school and she's grading a huge stack of papers. If i eat just 10%, I'll have to run a marathon every day for the rest of the week.
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For those enjoying the hot or even too hot temps... I am jealous! We had snow (yes you read that right) yesterday! What the heck? It came down so hard at one point that it accumulated, temporarily, on the grass... I really don't mind the snow as long as it sticks to it's season but May isn't i!!!
Carrie,
Hope you all fared better or you covered your plants... I bought some on Saturday but they spent the last 2 nights in the garage for protection! I so hope this spring isn't giving us a preview of a cool summer....0 -
Eric,
Aso true on the candy bar! I have a real sweet tooth and have found Hershey Kisses to be my saving grace... I can have 1 or 2 after a meal and get my sweet 'fix' at just 20-40 calories... Fudgesicles at 100 calories are good too!0 -
Dinner tonight was a salad, meditating on the wondrous salmon, symbol of prosperity, rebirth. It's going to take awhile before I'll open up the can.
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Eric, love your mathematical approach to fitness! And why so many cookies? State testing snacks for the kids? In my old school ;( sounds sad) new admin rules banned such sweets. But my favorite third grade teacher always snuck such contraban in for state tests. She also just retired....such a loss...not sure the young teachers will dare to buck the tide in that way.
Seaside, with ya on this annoyingly cold weather...but we were spared any snow last night. Where is global warming when we need some spring!
My kale and arugula didn't mind the 30's temp at all last night....I did....bedtime socks back on......0 -
I always remind myself of how much it will take to run off the candy bar....often I eat it anyway. :-)
They are final exam cookies.
As far as we know, it's OK to bring in stuff for the high schoolers. If not, the "we won't do it again (this year)" will have to do. These are all Honors and AP physics students, so they are juniors and seniors that are pretty bright. I would hope they would know by know if it's OK for them to eat the cookies.
I ended up making 17 dozen cookies....some for us (DD, mostly)
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Oh Eric, don't envy your Sharon! High schoolers, Honors, AP, and Physics? That's a tough load! So wonderful she has your support. These kids, they're so advanced!
(My DD is a bio/chem wiz! High school IB, 2 years science fairs.... She makes me feel stupid). So many cookies!0 -
mmmmmmm, let them eat cookies!!
seaside my plants have not made it into the ground either...except the cucumber seeds. We did not get snow here, but mighty darn cold.
Heading back to NC for a few days. Will decide what to do with this stupid job when I get back, not sure if it is a right fit for me. The office is outta control and the staff are all very nice people but seem to have a low tolerance for how to handle a busy day. VERY stressful.
Congrats to all the smart graduates. If I had to do it all over again, more schooling would be at the top of my list. But I can now at least die with an associates degree and my nursing license.
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Seaside, thanks so much for your kind words! Jen, I totally agree about calories burned. And look, Eric has done a little cookie math for us!
I am a runner -- well, I was, now I am completely lazy. And my running magazine talked about this kind of thing all the time. Runners cannot really eat a lot! Runners actually have to watch calories -- even sport drinks -- for this very reason. Even that intense exercise simply does not burn that much off!Special K, laughing so much. That's exactly what people think. It was definitely my fault! There was this group of multiples moms in the park once, though, and they saw me and took pity on my and let me in to their group! When I went, I found the focus of the group was drinking wine.
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bobo - I have a bunch of friends with twins - wine was always very important to them, lol! Probably how they ended up with twins!
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Ooh! I had never thought of that
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Drinking and parking can lead to accidents. :-)
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Even just parking can lead to accidents!
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My golf threesome came in first in the women's golf event at our club today. We each won $6 of pro shop credits! Three or more wins should get us a glove! Afterwards I had lunch and ordered a turkey burger which was very good. It had blue cheese on the pattie along with lettuce and tomato, and the bread was a nice ciabatta bun. I ate half of it and a small dish of melon and fruit. My weight is up after a trip to GA for my niece's college graduation.
Tonight's dinner will be chicken marsala with a tossed salad and a veggie, probably cauliflower.
This afternoon I'm off to my hair stylist for the full works, trim and color. I'm toying with the idea of going gray.
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Bobo, don't forget too that accidents can cause people.. :-)
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Funny how this thread is going! Eric, your comment made me laugh!
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That's exactly what I meant by 'accidents,' Eric! I'm with you
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Trying to plan dinner, no motivation. Have ground beef, ground chicken, chicken breast, nothing looks appealing - checking Pinterest to spark ideas, nothing. Anyone else ever get this way? Wrote down some interesting recipes yesterday and shopped for ingredients and now I can't find the paper... Lol!
I know it's prompted by anniversary tomorrow, really dreading it. DH (and not Dear/Darling Husband, but D**k Head, sorry Eric, don't read anything into it, it's just him) and I have kind of gotten to the spot where we're just living under the same roof, took me to medical appts, but nothing more, hasn't expressed any concern for me since DX in Sept, did nothing to assist me since mx on Halloween... Just wishing life was different so I could be single, responsible for DD and myself, being happy and appreciated.... Now he wants go out for anniversary dinner tomorrow? WTH? Celebrate what? Anyway, I'm probably on the wrong thread......0 -
Oh 2nd, you're in the right place. Who ya gonna talk to if not us :-) I've never been as miserable as I was in the 10 year relationship before DH. Thankfully we never married so the disentanglement was a little less complicated. As one of my favorite quotes goes "it takes a mighty good husband to be better than none." I have to say, I have a mighty good one now.
In the warmer months I very often find nothing in my house appealing. Some nights I just want fresh vegetables from the garden. I wish someone would just deliver some food to my door and say "here I fixed this for you." It wouldn't matter what it was.
But tonight I fixed oven baked chimichangas. The roast braised with poblanos, onions, garlic, cumin, cilantro and some homemade taco seasoning was wonderful, but the flour tortilla got very hard in the oven. I need to remember not to bake them so long. Or at all.0 -
Nancy... You always amaze me with your culinary acumen! Even more, thanks for the kind words, others would think I'm crazy (well, maybe that's true too). I got so upset earlier, I just fell asleep, that took care of dinner (DH came home to no dinner, which I often did when I was working before DX and he was home all day doing nothing (should have looking for a job). For dinner, cereal sounded appealing as I don't usually eat it for breakfast.
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Last night, our chef rebelled and insisted on dinner out. It was Wednesday which can only mean SUPER Fish Wednesday! We went to the Courthouse and split one dinner. Love this family-run spot. Counter service, get your own drinks, and for four pieces of fish with fries, $6.95. Not sure I can go on strike two days in a row, so the "what is for dinner" question has already started in my head.
*susan*
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