I don’t want to talk about it.
This painting above is my most favorite thrift store find ever. Ever. $3.88!!
$1.98 for a wide-mouthed glass jar. Will be so cute as a vase for flowers or other miscellaneous things.
Another thrift store vase! Blue glass. I love it.
A flower arrangement from our bushes. Love these winter flowers!
What mornings look like around here…..
They get up, eat breakfast, then settle in for their first morning nap. Being a dog is just so exhausting.
Our (E) meals this week -
This was Italian roast beef (made in the crock pot), green beans + almonds, and scalloped potatoes. The roast was SO GOOD. Everything was good! And so easy to make!
Meal of the week (maybe the meal of my life) – beef stroganoff in an Italian bread bowl + roasted kale. This is a meal that actually tastes like something you might get in a restaurant.
Chicken fajita nachos (with Smart Ones Santa Fe rice & beans) – wonderful!
Breakfast Casserole (not an E-Meals recipe) – we LOVE this. One of Brent’s coworkers gave him the recipe. We like to make it on the weekend or early in the week and have it for breakfast all week long. We actually made this on Friday night and I ate it for breakfast AND lunch on Saturday (at work).
Ingredients:
Directions:
Bake at 350 for about an hour (or until done).
Honey chicken made in the crockpot & served over rice. This was excellent! The picture makes it look bad, but we actually doubled the recipe and got 5 meals out of this!
And chicken/sausage gumbo. It was just okay – I’m not too crazy about soup & I wanted it to be spicier than it was. But this recipe made a TON of soup!
We (finally) joined a CSA and here is our first vegetable box from Grow Alabama!
Of course! Dessert! They’re everywhere now that Valentine’s Day is over!
The other day I went to Walgreens and bought 3 packages of 4 Cadbury eggs. The cashier said “Didn’t you see the individual ones?” I mumbled something about buying in bulk to freeze them and hurried out of the store with my head down.
We’re so excited about E-meals again! This is what we like about it:
Hopefully all the weeks are as good as this one!
Brent drinking (diet coke, obviously) out of a special German cup at a dinner party.
So lazy.
I have so many pictures just like this…what a calming scene to me!
Funny story – every other week, we have a lady that comes and cleans for a few hours on Friday morning. We started doing this after we first got the house and I was working a lot more than I am now, including every other weekend. Even though I no longer have that schedule, we have just continued it because we really like the woman and it is just really nice to come home on some Friday afternoons to a clean house!
So, we have all of these rubber snakes that we got at Academy Sports on sale and try to hide them around the house and scare each other (and especially Kourtney). Well, when I had back surgery, I was there one morning when the lady came to clean and she asked me if we had been trying to scare her because she’ll occasionally find a snake here & there (we totally have NOT been trying to scare her), they’re just laying around. But this past week, I put one in the pantry beside the trash can, knowing that she would see it when she took the trash out…..when I got home and opened the refrigerator, it was waiting for me! Good one!
“A burrito a day keeps the honeybadger away!” Second favorite quote of the week! My favorite quote of the week is “If you don’t have the beat you don’t have nothing.” ha! Said by a patient at work and faithfully documented in the computer by her nurse!
Huge news!!! Los Calientes, our FAVORITE Mexican restaurant that we thought had gone out of business, has moved to another location in Northport under a different name – Fernando’s. Yay! The management is the same, waitstaff is the same, food is the same!!! Hooray!
This is the winter of curly hair. I haven’t straightened it in weeks now. So much easier. And I think I’m looking just like my mother. Sometimes I look in the mirror or look at a picture and it (I) am familiar to me – but not because I am looking at myself, but because I think I look like Mama. It is actually very strange – it is almost like I think “Oh, that girl looks like Mama.” And it is ME! I really think I look just like her in this top picture! Please excuse the goofy expression. I love the fact that the iPhone is my new mirror.
Having a great February!!!
I woke up to some beautiful orchids this morning!!
And loads of candy.
Funny story: yesterday I stopped by CVS after work to get Brent’s V-Day card. AND CVS is the only place in town that we know of that has Cadbury eggs (our favorite). Guess who I ran into in the card aisle? Brent!! Of course! Nothing like the last minute! I think it is funny enough that we ran into eachother, but even funnier knowing WHY we ran into each other at the ONLY place in town that sells Cadbury crème eggs. Gosh, I love those things!!!!!!
Yesterday it was actually sleeting! Tomorrow the temp is supposed to be in the 70’s!
Choclate chovered cherries strawberries!
Brent’s screensaver (surprise!). Love is in the air!
Valentine’s Day supper from Tazikis! Grilled chicken basal pesto gyro + Greek potatoes + chips (weird, huh)? We ate this while watching Breaking Dawn (and promising not to tell anyone), then New Girl and Raising Hope.
And this is the BEST Chuck Norris joke I have ever seen, although according to Wikipedia it is not factual. Still funny.
