This Week's Menu (2/15-21)

Monday
Chuck's (Chet's ;-D? ) Favorite Mac n Cheese , broccoli

Tuesday (Soup)
Albondigas (Meatball) Soup


Wednesday (Crock Pot)
Beef Stroganoff


Thursday
Hoisin Honey Chicken Wings , rice, snap peas (frozen)



Friday
BBQ Chicken Pizza Use that leftover jerk chicken. Leave some w/o for MeiWei

Saturday
Bill's Choice

Sunday (AZ!!)
Tai's choice or Leftovers

This Week's Menu (2/1-2/7)

Well, I'm back to getting my menu planned and enjoying the stress relief it brings. The holidays are fun but always disrupt routines like homeschooling and this.
So getting off on the right foot with February, it'll be:

Monday (Ground Hog's Day Eve when I traditionally celebrate Bill's German heritage :-). My Bill, not Bill Murray's. )

Pork Chops "mit der noodles" (that means with egg noodles for those who don't speak Germlish), gravy, and steamed carrots. Maybe some  biscuits (not very German but who cares).

Tuesday  Soup Night (Pioneer Girls; DadR Late)
Italian Stew , WW rolls

Wednesday CrockPot Night (Skating)

Slow Cooker Orange Chicken,from A Year of Slow Cooking (yes, I'm going to give it another try. This time not so unattended.)
rice, broccoli

Thursday
Beef Fajitas with black beans, yellow rice

Friday
Lasagne, crusty bread, salad

Saturday
Bill's choice to cook

Sunday (Super Bowl and Granna's Bday)
Slow Cooker Texas Pulled Pork Barbeque, rolls, coleslaw, applesauce from Crab Shanty, cake

AND Finally, Something to Bake:
Creamy Banana Bread or if that doesn't happen, muffins from a box
;-)

Science: Slime!

This is what you get when you combine Borax, Elmer's glue, a little paint for color, and water. Yucky fun! See recipe below. (from Last-Minute Science Fair Projects (Scholastic): When Your Bunsen's Not Burning but the Clock's Really Ticking )

Combine 1/2 cup water, with 1/2 teaspoon Borax (available in laundry aisle).
Dissolve completely. In a separate bowl combine 3 tablespoons water with 6 tablespoons Elmer's glue and a tablespoon or so of tempera or acrylic paint. Mix well.

Now combine the two mixtures. Watch what happens! EEEwwww!!

I'm Dreaming of a White Super Saturday

"Out of Order"

Our "Super Saturday Blizzard" fell on Dec 19, 2009. A record 20+ inches of snow fell in the Balt./Wash. area, the most ever in a 24-hour period. I had a ball taking pictures of the progress of the snowfall's ever- higher climb up windows and atop deck furniture.

"Lunch on the deck?"

We hope everyone in the sunnier sections of the country patriotically overspent  to make up for the one third of the population who could not shop on this fiscally most-important of days.

God Bless America and Merry Christmas.

(Dont' miss the slide show below for more views.)

"Red, VERY White, and Blue"

How to Cure a Headache

It's nice to have a blog to work on when you're supposed to be giving your head a rest. In a lot of ways I did anything but. But it gave me the excuse I needed to spend two days fiddling and tweaking and finally until I finally got everything the way I imagined it to be.
I had so wanted 3 columns. At Three Column Blogger , I met the man of my dreams who easily, step-by-step, took me through the process of converting a typically boring Blogger template. He even can tell you how to adjust the width of the columns.
Now that I had my 3 columns, I needed a background to fit. But I still had to have a bird theme. And feminine, but not too cutsie. Some searching and I found my fairy godmother (after finding Prince Three-column) at The Background Fairy Today's entry was the Vintage Bird which I retinted in my Photosuite editing program. Et voila.
What do you think?