Oh my

So I'm sick again, the worst is over, I'm just stuffy now. It started Friday evening and Saturday I felt blah, Sunday I felt worse. I had to work all day and it was a long horrible day. Yesterday I still felt bad but not as bad. Today I'm better but not 100%.

So I'm cooking dinner today since I'm off work and were going to have chicken noodle soup. I hope, I hope it works out, I've never made home made chicken noodle soup. So I started with thawing a whole chicken and it was horrible. After the amount of time that the chicken should have been thawed, it wasn't. So I placed it in a bowl and filled with cold water. I let it sit for about 30 minutes and still I couldn't get anywhere with it. It was suppose to have giblets and such in the cavity but the darn thing was still so frozen I couldn't get it opened to find out. So I gave up and ended up at the grocery store buying some fresh chicken breasts. I think the soup isn't going to taste so well because it won't include dark meat but I guess we will deal. I need to think about what I'm going to make to go with it. What goes with chicken noodle soup? Nothing comes to mind. Although I did get some biscuits.... but I think we need a side dish.

A Good Week

Well it's Friday and its been a pretty good week. The kids started their new school and I think they have pretty much adjusted. Lexi has a field trip today, the same one she took a few weeks back with her other school. I told her well now you know everything y'all will be doing and you can show off by being the smartest one!

Mikey found out he has a field trip in may to casa manana to see the wizard of oz, I really want to go with him but I think it would involve finding a sitter and I just don't know if I could do that. It would make for a very busy day.

Last night I cooked dinner, well I should say yesterday morning I started dinner in the crock pot. I made the yummiest BBQ Chicken I ever had. I had a large pkg of chicken thighs so I put then in with a whole bottle of bbq sauce and they slow cooked all day. When it was time for dinner they were fall off the bone chicken thighs. So tender and moist and delicious. Mike enjoyed them too and he's not a big fan of chicken. But he did ask me for next week to make chicken and noodle soup in the crockpot. He wants me to find some recipes so he can cook too. I told him anything really he would be able to cook because you just throw it in and let it cook all day. Maybe he will start cooking some of the meals. It would be nice on the weekends.

This morning coming back from taking the kids to the bus, I came in and it was so quiet. Kaylee is still asleep so I left her while I walked the kids down. I just thought gosh if I wasn't pregnant then next year I would be all alone for 8 hours while all the kids were at school. It would be so quiet and lonesome. I don't think I'm ready for that. Although it would let me get many things done during the day while they are away like cleaning and grocery shopping. But it makes me sad. I am glad I won't be alone come October/November with the new baby. But I will be alone from late August to Oct/November. It will be strange. When Kaylee started her speech school this year it took some getting use to. It was strange to not have her for 2 hours and be all by myself. I think I'm just rambling about.

Wednesday!!

Well its finally the middle of the week, its about time. This week has been dragging by so slowly. I will be glad when Friday is here even though I have to work. The kids first day at the new school went ok. Mikey had a blast, he said he already met new friends. Oh and he has 4 teachers! They have rotations for math, reading and other subjects.. not to mention fine arts. Lexi said her day was ok, she was almost in tears! She said some girl that is in her math class yelled in her face at recess. And she doesn't even know what it was about. I asked her how new kids at her old school were treated and she said some kids would be mean to the new kids but eventually they would be nice to each other. I told her you just be you, be nice and polite and people who are timid of you will come around when they see what a nice person you are. I did tell her for the time being just avoid the mean girl. She says she already has made a few new friends. One which lives in our apartments and they ride the bus together. I think they will be fine, it just takes some time adjusting. I'm now glad we moved them to the new school now that way next year they will already have some friends and it won't be so scary going to a new school on the first day.

They also had a great second day of school. Lexi told me she didn't shake one bit on tuesday. She said Monday she was shaking like a leaf for several hours because she was so nervous. Mikey told me he has made some more friends and possibly a girlfriend. Just what he needs, ha.

I was off yesterday and got some much needed cleaning done and cooked dinner. We had beef tips and noodles and I fixed it in the crock pot. Here is my recipe.

1 lb. stew meat
1 can beef broth
1 lg sliced onion
1 pkg. sliced mushrooms
1 pkg egg noodles
2-3 pkg of brown gravy mix

Start by adding your stew meat and can of beef broth in the crockpot. Also use the beef broth can and had half water. Next place your mushrooms and onions on top. Put the lid on and let cook on high. After it had cooked for about 4 hours I did remove the lid and stir so the veggies could sink into the broth. I continued cooking on high for 4 more hours. About 30 mins before it was done cooking I added in the brown gravy mix, to do this I took a small bowl and added about 1.5cup of water and added the mix and whisked it to get a good mix, no lumps. I then poured it into the crockpot and gave it a stir. It cooked for 30 more minutes so the gravy could thicken up.
The noodles I fixed on the stovetop with the package directions. It was such a delicious meal. I will be making this one again and again. My family loved it. Everyone ate it and liked it although Lexi did pick out onions. Note on the onions since I added them at the beginning some did dissolve into the mixture, so there wasn't really much pieces of onion. You can always start out with your meat, broth and mushrooms and then at around the 4-5 hour mark add in the onion. I will probably do this next time. But either way it was delicious.

I am really loving my crockpot. I don't know why I have never cooked with one. I really regret getting rid of my old one that my mother in law had bought me, it was a very large one and I never used it because I thought it was too big to cook in. I think when I find the larger one I will be buying it. The one I have now is inbetween size. It's a good size but if I was really wanting to do a large meal the bigger one would be better.

Wasted Day

Today just feels like a wasted day! Or I guess just a blah kind of day. Maybe because its Monday!!! I got up and got the kids ready for their first day of school at the new school. They were excited and nervous. We got to the school and enrolled them. I'm glad that didn't take long. After enrolled we walked them to class, they seemed happy. I just hope it was a good day for them. As we were leaving the school Kaylee was crying because she wanted her sissy! I told her sissy will be home soon enough. The kids even get to ride the bus, fun!! So I'll be at the bus stop around 3:15 waiting for them.

After we got home from taking the kids to school, I fixed Kaylee waffles, which took two tries. I burned the first set in the toaster. Try two was good and she ate every bite and then went back to bed. She must be worn out from playing so much yesterday and staying up late from the past week with Lexi and Mikey. I'm tired but I'm avoiding taking a nap, not that I don't want one, I just want to be able to go to bed on time this evening.

I need to run by half price books today. I was really hoping to already have that errand out of the way but I guess I just have to wait until Kaylee is up and then I can run and do that. I also need to run by the bank. Hopefully Kaylee will decide to get up soon. I may just have to wake her up. I have work this evening and I'm not really looking forward to it, but I guess it will be ok. At least it wont be such a long evening like last night. We had to train on our new registers and it seemed to take forever.

I have my insurance interview on wed and I can't wait. I hope I'm approved and I can go ahead and set up my first appointment. I'm so so ready to get in and see the ob and make sure everything is alright.

Long time!!!

I'm finally back on the internet. Our move went well, we were able to get everything moved in one day. I figured it would have took two days. We are finally set up, everything has a place except for the four boxes of junk for a yard sale which I hope to have soon. For the past two weeks I have been driving back and forth the kids to school. 10 trips a week and with gas prices going up I have decided to take the kids out. There last day was friday and they will start their new school on the 21st. I think they are excited. I know I am because I wont be spending as much in gas and they will be riding the bus to and from school which will be nice.

Last week I was able to go and get my pregnancy confirmed, now I'm just waiting to hear back from the insurance people and then I will schedule my first prenatal appointment. All the kids know now and they are happy I think, for the most part anyway. Kaylee wants a girl and Mikey and Lexi want a boy. I just want a healthy baby, gender doesn't matter but if it did I would be leaning towards a boy.

Today was the start of the kids spring break, so far weve cleaned house and went and did laundry. I don't think we will do much this week. I really want to save it and take Mikey out to dinner for his birthday since its friday. Maybe we will do lunch on Saturday before I have to go to work. That would be nice, a birthday dinner for me and Mikey. Friday we are going to make cupcakes to celebrate. Mikey really wanted a skating party but I just don't think we would be able afford it. Maybe sunday if I'm off we can try to take the kids skating.