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...