a good macaroni and cheese

had little kids today and it was a little hectic but, I still managed to make Tim a really good dinner...

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/marys-macaroni-cheese-62578.aspx?cm_mmc=eml-_-rbe-_-20110208-_-1034

this is a fantastic macaroni and cheese...and it just might be my all time new favorite...I want to tweek a few things first...
but, it was so good with little smokies & bbq sauce, green beans and homemade biscuits...Tim was happy to have a home cooked dinner after he had a horrible day interviewing someone who was a big pain...

had a really good moment with Si today and it made my heart happy...

firemen and bowling...

it has taken me this long to really get better enough to leave the house...decided to go bowling only cause I didn't feel like I could leave my friend Tina to bowl by herself...

we did pretty well with bowling (I was over 100 each game) was kidding everyone that maybe I should be sick more often when I bowl...

so, our team was done bowling for the night except for Chris, but we had put our street shoes on, getting ready to leave and the front desk called over the loudspeaker that if anyone knew CPR to come to the desk right away...

2 people from our team and one person from the opposing team all ran up to give aid...it was a young kid (maybe 20-30) and when they got to him, he had no pulse at all and still did not once the paramedics got there about 6 minutes later...we all thought he was gone...but the paramedics shocked him and he came back...we all were amazed...

just had to share a good story...

the salted pig

am feeling just a tad better from the flu, seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, finally...Tim just got this but, since he really takes care of himself, he always does better than the rest of us...
this is a really nasty, nasty bug...makes me want to sanitize every single thing in sight and to live in a bubble...really!!! i have not been this sick in a really really long time....the wheezing and the bone pain, OH MY...at night your bones ache so bad all you do is take pain meds and walk the floor (there is no lying in bed with this...)

so the littles are in vegas this week and scheduled to come this saturday...will have to see how we are first...do not want them to get this at all...right after Christmas, they had something that sure resembles this and I am sure the other grandma does not want them to be sick again...the baby was so sick he had to have xrays and blood work...was dehydrated...

so Tim took us out to eat tonight at a new place here in Riverside called the Salted Pig...
here is the link to the eatery:

http://www.saltedpigriverside.com/food-drink/

read what I said on my food blog:

http://www.momsdutchoven.blogspot.com/

here;s hoping for a much better tomorrow...

coughing...

all the way to Disneyland (ya we went on Sunday) I kept coughing and it was not my usual COPDish type (but I thought it was that) cough...
then, it hit me Sunday night...the flu...and it has hit me hard...the wheezing, fever, chills, bone pain and the coughing... and I could take most of it, but the bone pain is hard to take...every time I cough the pain is terrible...thank goodness Zoe has enough asthma meds to share with me...

did not go bowling on Monday...don't know how they did...

pin trading

pin trading is a huge deal at the big D...and I read that the anniversary of pin trading actually started this day in 2000...

I have pins, but I buy the ones that I like and do not like to trade those ones that I like...usually every time we go, Tim will buy me a pin and Greg sometimes will also...

Tim brought some really nice ones from Tokyo and I will bet the traders here in Ca. would love to get their hands on those ones...(they won't tho...I will not let them out of my sight...)

this is the new one Tim bought me today....

I am slightly afraid of taking them to Disney...the backs do not stay on real well and Zoe has lost some of hers that way...

Tim is writing his Tokyo story for all to read on: www.micechat.com.............

look under forums and he has gotten fantastic reviews for his writings there...after all he is a reporter, right???

duffy

Duffy is a Disney character in Tokyo and they have been trying to get him here in the states also...Tim says that people go insane in Japan over Duffy...he is a cute brownish bear, usually wearing a sailor suit...so, over in Japan (and not here yet) he has a girlfriend named Shellie May...while they were in Japan, Zoe got the girlfriend and it when figured out cost about 65.00...there is a Duffy store in Calif. Adventure and Tim went today and got Zoe the Duffy that is dressed like Cupid, and it was 20.00...the girl behind the counter, when Tim told her he just got back from Tokyo was telling him that the Japanese tourists buy their fix of Duffy here, as it is much cheaper even with shipping back home...

so I guess you can tell which is which...Shellie May is the one with the skirt on and Duffy is the one dressed like Cupid...the outfits for Shellie May in Tokyo sell for like 38.00 and even the pretty princess decided that was too much to pay for an outfit...Tim said the Duffy store in Tokyo was absolutely packed and things were flying off the shelves...guess money is no object when it comes to Duffy and Shellie May....

check out the close ups of their feet...there iis also the same thing on their bottom...too cute...

red sky

red sky in the morning

sailor take warning

red sky at night

sailor's delight

this was the view from my front porch tonight...

the big D

we decided this morning to go to Disneyland...Tim is having withdrawals from the Tokyo disney...it should have been fair warning just from the line out of the park onto the street ramp to get to the parking attendant...but, we decided to try it anyways...

big mistake...

everything was overly crowded...1 hour wait to get on splash mountain (not that we were going on anyway, we just saw a sign...) we kept trying and it just kept getting worse not better...that is the beauty of having season passes...you don't kick yourself cause you picked the wrong day to go to Disney...so we had lunch and came home...
pretty princess has been well, pretty sick and so she did not go with us but, Tim got her a new Duffy bear to make her feel better...

now, I think I might have gotten what she has, been coughing all day...hopefully I do not get as sick as she is...I can take a little bit of being sick, just not the big one...LOL...

made: http://www.pauladeen.com/recipes/recipe_view/bobbys_goulash/ for dinner: and it was ok not really spectacular...

last night made: http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/easy-layered-chicken-bake-75568.aspx
now this was a big deal and very very good...

night before was this: http://stephaniecooks.blogspot.com/2009/12/crockpot-asian-beef-and-noodles.html and this one, everyone in the family liked, I would change a few things next time tho...

busy busy busy

I have been very busy lately...don't know how exactly I get it all done...and even when I am done, I look around and see more and more to do...

since Zoe is back, home school has resumed and for the most part, she is being sort of cooperative with me...I am a little frustrated that she has so much to do and with a science project due also...well............

I need a vacation......but, don't see that happening any time too soon....

check out my cooking blog...www.momsdutchoven.blogspot.com...for the month of February I am trying something new...all month I am not making our usual recipes that I make every month...each day I have researched new blogs and recipes and I figures out 28 new recipes...since someone (wink wink) is still not feeling all that well...I just now got to go to the commissary yesterday...and btw...I saved 21.00 in coupons...(which if you do not cut coupons, it is a lot of hard work, but worth every penny...) so far, this year I have saved approx. 50.00 and I am pretty proud of myself...if I can keep it up, there could be a possibility of savings of 300.00 give or take...

so today was day 2 of new recipes and let me tell you, it is a keeper...baked potato soup and french bread...recipe courtesy of pillsbury.com...so so so yummy...cannot wait to see how it tastes as a leftover...I love potato soup...and that is a memory of my mom, she also loved it but always bought the canned stuff...I have been searching for a long time for the perfect recipe and I am sure that I have found it...I like Marie Callendar's just OK but the big pieces of potato kinda bug me and Killarney's has a really good one also but, I really like this one so much better...because of the mashed baked potatoes, there are no really chunks but, you cannot miss the potato taste...OMGoodness...tim also liked it, am waiting to see if sam does also...

so, day one was this recipe from the food blog of http://www.valsocal.blogspot.com/ and it is for chicken carbona...this was another OMGoodness recipe that I will surely be trying again...in researching recipes for years I would see a recipe for carbona and would pass on it, thinking of the egg yolks...but since this is the month of new recipes and also since I now love pasta and white sauces, decided to give it a try...very very good...

2 for 2...I now have added 2 new recipes to my collection...

got a good one for tomorrow also...

on Saturday, before Zozo got home from Japan, I had the littles for the day and had to post a picture of how big they are getting...

fire department at my house...

so, you kind of get a funny feeling that your day will not be going all that well, when first thing in the morning, before you can even get dressed, you have to call the paramedics to your house...

and Greg and I had even discussed his insulin issues and not eating correctly just the previous night...

we still had a problem...guess he did not take into consideration how he has not been eating all that well since he got sick and he did not adjust his insulin...

he spent the day in emergency, but now is home and all right...

maybe now he will listen to me...yeah right...

my day still had to go on...I made a german chocolate cake and 24 cupcakes for the birthday dinners at Elks...guess my baking is appreciated as there was none to bring home...then Greg, feeling slightly better & I went out to eat at Coco's for a late dinner...I was starved and inhaled my club sandwich...

been skyping with Zoe and Tim in Japan and I will write a whole post dedicated to them soon...very interesting...Zoe is in love with Japan as much as Tim is and Tokyo Disney will never be the same...guess all the characters and even a lot of the Japanese people love little American girls with freckles...she has never seen so many characters at our Disney as she is seeing there...

little Japanese kids want their picture taken with the little American...too cute.while they have been gone, have been super cleaning my house...changed a lot of things around...got 2 new bookcases and Chris put them together for me and I already have them full of stuff...