aKathy's What's for Dinner 5/5

I'm off to AquaFit this morning ~ it's going to be in the 90s by Friday! UGH!

This afternoon I have Creative Crafters. We're going to be painting and decorating birdhouses.

Congratulations to hutchfan  and her family!

Feel better scrapmaven !

Dinner will be Tomatillo Pork.

scrapmaven I'm actually getting a picture of just how sick you are which is difficult usually to read between the lines but this time I can guess you feel pretty darn miserable. ❤️ I'm sending my big hugs. Rest.

I'm kind of at a loss. Jeremy daughter came here on Thursday to spend the summer with us. She specifically came here because she was looking for somewhere quiet. Well she told Jeremy yesterday she's bored. Umm...we are boring people. I thought that is why she came. 🤣 I had an errand to run this morning and I had said to Jeremy that she has a sewing machine and she told me she uses it to alter her clothing. I told Jeremy that since I'm off today I would take her on a trip to Grand rapids so she could pick out some apparel fabric and pattern/notions and give sewing a garment from scratch. He asked her and she wasn't receptive. I don't know what to do with her.

Dinner tonight will be some beef stir fry and "beef" stir fry. With snap peas over rice.

Congratulations hutchfan - baby granddaughters are wonderful!
scrapmaven - I hope you are soon feeling much better.
The situation with your stepdaughter sounds stressful jeremysgirl. Hopefully she settles a bit in the coming days and finds something to fill her time.

Today I had to go into the city to apply for a police check. Our church now requires it for everyone who works with children (I know - we are so behind. I needed this in Australia 20 years ago!) It was crazy - 40 minutes each way to the Citizen’s Bureau for a ten minute appointment, basically handing in forms and showing my ID. It actually took longer than it should have, as he tried to charge me for it, even though I had a letter from my priest saying I was a volunteer, which makes it free. It was sorted quickly though, so all is good. Usually if I am going into the city for anything like this I stay in and make the most of the trip, shopping and having lunch but it was cold and rainy so I just came home.

Dinner tonight is marinated chicken sticks - bought ready prepared from the butcher - which I will have with rice and maybe some salad.

Hi friends! Sorry for my absence. The world has felt heavy and I've just been pushing through. My semester is finished and except for my grades and graduation. I am almost done. I am SO ready for a break. I try to read to stay caught up and send prayers/good energy for those goubg through it, which it seems like a lot of us!

Today I am mostly hanging at home. I'd like to get to the library this afternoon to pick up some requested items. The gas company is here tearing up jack near the street, so I need to be available in case they turn off the gas and need to relight our stuff before they leave. I hope this is a one and done because they left everything torn up in the fall and it looks terrible.

Special thanks to jeremysgirl for the cautionary tale....while I HATE hearing you have shingles, it (along with the horrifying discussion about shingles in the nether regions) did spur us to finally go and get the 1st shingles vaccine yesterday. We have sore arms but that's a small price to pay. We go back in a couple months. Hope you are done with it soon!

We had a very full but good weekend. We have several home improvement projects in the works and we're making progress, including a new additional run of cabinets in the kitchen, new sink, countertops, backsplash, hardware, etc. So fun!!! We found a new front door that I will paint for only 20 bucks (and an hour drive) that will let in lots of light. And we found a beautiful kitchen gadget store that I spent way too much money in. I can't resist nordicware bundt pans and I found a new one I've never seen before... one pan to make 4 small bundts in the 4 most popular designs. I have found a little niche making bundts that are decorated with flowers like layer cakes. These will be the perfect size for a little gift.

Dinner? No idea. Maybe tacos somewhere. We have a baseball game scheduled if it doesn't rain. Our last few weeks of sports for the last of the grandsons before he graduates next month. Even though we freeze and fry we will miss it all so much. Baseball, wrestling, football (and basketball for the first one) for 2 boys. Just showing up for them. It turns out that's all it takes to build a loving relationship with teenage boys. Who knew??
I have stuff for several dinners I could throw together too. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, chicken and rice. Toasted sub sandwiches. Grilled cheese on cheddar jalapeño sourdough with potato soup. We will figure out something.

Hope everyone has a great day!

I agree with Jeremy and Scrapmaven, but it's not very nice to have a houseguest complain. It seems like you can't do anything right there...my heart hurts for you hearing how kind you were to prepare a room and look forward to her coming, make sacrifices to accommodate her and suggestions that would take you out of your way, only to be met with I'm bored but no thanks. It may be a long summer (is it summer til she goes back to school?).

scrapmaven I'm glad you like your toppers. I'm actually upgrading my lenses in my original pair (I cheated out til I knew i liked them) and ordering another pair of readers in my original frames (Ella) bc I will likely wear the toppers with readers more often than my distance pairs.

I'm okay. I'm not looking to bring politics to the dinner table so I will just say it is very hard to be both a social worker and a university professor (with a Mexican family) right now.

We are having tempura shrimp street tacos. Im just winging it. I have cole slaw mix and pico de gallo for them and some kind of sauce- dh has one that I think will be you much for me and I bought remoulade as well- because once you decide to use Japanese shrimp in a taco with pico, may as well throw remoulade at it!

I can’t remember if I posted that I made tuna noodle casserole last week. (Don’t laugh at me, it’s comfort food.) There was so much of it that I made a second smaller dish which I will bake tonight. Maybe. There are other choices in there, too, but if I don’t make this soon, I will need to freeze it and there is still NO space in my freezers. DS just added a large frozen pizza yesterday.

(I just took another roast off my grocery order, because no matter how good a deal it is, I really need to use what’s in the freezer first.)

Sorry you’re feeling so crappy, scrapmaven .

CONGRATS on the new baby girl, hutchfan .

Congrats on the new high school grad, Linda .

jeremysgirl , how about she finds a job? Even part-time would help. Or volunteer work? If she doesn’t want to sew her own clothes, maybe she’d like craft sewing better … bags, things like that. Or learn how to crochet? Can she cook dinner for the family? I know, you already have lots of suggestions.

Welcome back, tmarschall . I feel your pain.

littlemama  

Does she have a summer job where you live? 
scrapmaven . I hope you feel better.

I have a funny story like out of the mouth of babes. my two great nieces were at the daycare today so their mom and dad could go to I believe the anatomy scan ultrasound. I was there filling in so that my brother and his wife could go meet his son and his wife halfway and grab the two girls. Anyhow, one of the little kids at the daycare started to cry and I think she’s about eight months old. My four year-old, great niece, and said “ Oh no, Aunt Chris, we’re gonna have a crying baby at our house too pretty soon”. I just said yes you will. 

Good afternoon everyone. I have had a full day and it is only 1:30. I woke up at 5:45 and tried to go back to sleep. Nope, not today. So I was up and had done laundry, fed the dogs, started my oatmeal and watched some news before 7am. Work and then home at lunch to cut the yard. I got half of it done before I decided to mulch some pine straw from my pool dump out yesterday. Well, the top and sides I could see were dry, but the middle was not. I ended up stalling out the lawn mower. After just getting it running last night. After a very good friend and his wife came over to help me with it. So I sent her a text with a good laugh that only half of my yard it cut and it the part I can't see. Figures. I am hoping to get the rest of it done tonight. It is time to get my fancy little blow up pool area summer ready.  I just hope I don't smell like gas. I got dressed and then sprayed some Ozium and walked through it. I was hoping it would neutralize any gas fumes that might be on me. 

I was supposed to go to a baseball game tonight for dear friends' son. It was originally senior night. A lot of scheduling changes due to rain-outs and such and now it is an away game. Only 25 minutes away but I am greedy and don't want to give up almost an hour of travel to see the last game and he might not play. And it's Cinco de Mayo and I want my tacos and margaritas tonight. I also have the aforementioned yard, getting trash out, putting some stuff away from the weekend. I was told by the mom to not worry about it and do what I needed to do. They understood. I just hate it...

So if I don't go, I will use the soyrizo from TJs and make tacos. I think my avocados are too far gone for guac. That may be a trip by the store. Our restaurants around here don't make guac as good my own so I want the good stuff. Most likely a pot of spiced out black beans on the side. Then they can be used for Taco Tuesday with some sweet potatoes.

I had a great weekend with the kids. Nice to get away but the pups and I were ready to be back home and in our routine.

I hope you get to feeling better soon.

Awwww, bless her. And you and your sister. I am glad to hear your dad felt like going out.

double UGH!! We are holding in the mid 70s this week. I am just waiting for hell's gates to open up here. I dread it.

jeremysgirl I am sorry. I have no advice. I do agree with everyone else, there just may be a time of adjustment.

Congratulations!! I love this so much.

That sounds so good. I would do a bang bang sauce for them.

I love a good tuna sandwich. I just can't make myself even think that a tuna noodle casserole is good. I know my mother made some sort of noodle casserole and I ate it. Because I was a kid and sort of had to but I really don't think it was tuna. I think she used chicken. I just hear people talk about it and say comfort food and realize not for me. Now, having said that my comfort food is a bowl of egg noodles, highly buttered with a scrambled egg mixed in. Lots of pepper. I will always want that when I don't feel good.

Well, my sisters and BILs want to go to TexMex tonight for Cinco. Monday me doesn't want to fight the crowds for $3 margaritas so I'm going to stay home and have steak. I'll order something in for my dad.

hutchfan.. ok what in the heck are cheesy metts..?