Hold on to your arteries....While I don't recommend this for the faint of heart, (or the high in cholesterol either for that matter) I have to share with you a new recipe that we developed last week while camping.
The girls and I spent the past week camping with Jo and Marty and the girls at Mt. Nebo. I have to recommend this beautiful location if you like to camp, hike, geocache or just plain love high winds! Apparently it is a great location for hang gliding but I think I will stay on solid ground or at least have a vehicle with me when I leave it! No jumping off of cliffs for this gal!
Anyway, I digress...
When you camp with the Bowies and the Hicks, I guarantee you will eat well, VERY well. Jo and I spent a few hours planning meals and then went to wallyworld to buy everything we needed. We had each meal planned out exceptionally well and were managing to stick to it until the unexpected happened! Grands biscuits apparently struggle with pressure and temperature changes and don't like to stay together as well as we would like! At breakfast on Thursday morning we found out that after frying the potatoes and the eggs and the bacon that one of the packages of biscuits had opened up and was sitting in the cooler full of ice and water. They were going to have to be discarded or eaten, one or the other. As we put breakfast on plates I looked into the skillet and realized that I had a whole lot of Bacon grease sitting there and it looked a lot like making donuts. What happened next was pure heaven on a plate, calorie consuming, artery clogging, cholesterol raising, but amazing tasting...Bacon Fried Grands!
They were such a hit that we even saved the rest of the bacon grease and used it the next morning in our quickly appended menu! Try it, you will love it!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The PLAN
Jo and Tammie posted a weight loss plan yesterday. We have done this before. Last time I lost almost twenty pounds and I have only gained back a couple of those, not too bad if you consider I did that over the holidays. The motivation was just not there!
I decided this year to not diet. I decided that I needed to be happy with myself and not tie it to a weight goal for a change. I know that those of you that are skinny will think that I am just giving up and deciding to go with what is easier and since diets didn't work I should just stay fat! Not entirely true. I was inspired by a post here. This woman I have never met did the same thing last year. I have been reading her blog for a few years and she is so real about things.
In honor of her idea and the fact that Jo kicked me in the pants yesterday and told me that we were doing this health thing and there was MONEY involved, I decided to look into making some changes, not a diet so to speak but a CHANGE.
I found a book that I began reading that made me realize that what I really needed was to make changes in a lot of places in my life. I don't expect for that to happen overnight but here are some of the things I have come up with...
1. I need to spend more time with God to keep my priorities straight.
2. I need to eat healthier so that I do not become diabetic with high blood pressure.
3. I need to keep my home organized so that I can find things when I need them.
(sidebar to this, if I was to die tomorrow I would be mortified for someone to have to go
through all of that!) Jo and Stacey and Tammie, sorry but Stacey is on call to clean out the
closet if I die, she will understand that part of me best!
4. I need to be a better example for my kids, I can't expect them to keep their rooms clean if I don't!
What this all boils down to is that I have some changes to make and boy, are they going to HURT! What I do know is that I have girlfriends that will be there to cheer me on and keep me on task, I will join the group of dieters and will make the change but I am not going on a DIET. I am going to start with making changes in my thinking process and see where that gets me!
Here we go.......
I decided this year to not diet. I decided that I needed to be happy with myself and not tie it to a weight goal for a change. I know that those of you that are skinny will think that I am just giving up and deciding to go with what is easier and since diets didn't work I should just stay fat! Not entirely true. I was inspired by a post here. This woman I have never met did the same thing last year. I have been reading her blog for a few years and she is so real about things.
In honor of her idea and the fact that Jo kicked me in the pants yesterday and told me that we were doing this health thing and there was MONEY involved, I decided to look into making some changes, not a diet so to speak but a CHANGE.
I found a book that I began reading that made me realize that what I really needed was to make changes in a lot of places in my life. I don't expect for that to happen overnight but here are some of the things I have come up with...
1. I need to spend more time with God to keep my priorities straight.
2. I need to eat healthier so that I do not become diabetic with high blood pressure.
3. I need to keep my home organized so that I can find things when I need them.
(sidebar to this, if I was to die tomorrow I would be mortified for someone to have to go
through all of that!) Jo and Stacey and Tammie, sorry but Stacey is on call to clean out the
closet if I die, she will understand that part of me best!
4. I need to be a better example for my kids, I can't expect them to keep their rooms clean if I don't!
What this all boils down to is that I have some changes to make and boy, are they going to HURT! What I do know is that I have girlfriends that will be there to cheer me on and keep me on task, I will join the group of dieters and will make the change but I am not going on a DIET. I am going to start with making changes in my thinking process and see where that gets me!
Here we go.......
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Spring Cleaning....
It is 7pm and is still 70 degrees here! Five days ago it snowed and we missed school! Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the mid to high 70's again. I am thinking I could get used to this Arkansas weather! I say that now but will probably still hate it in June-August! After 4 years though it isn't so bad! I may just turn into an Arkansan after all. I won't give in on the Razorback thing, you have to have your standards!
What does the warm weather mean...
SPRING CLEANING!
Those of you who know me well and have been inside the inner sanctum will agree that this is desperately needed. As far as I come off as being organized it is mostly in my head. I am the worlds worst housekeeper, when something needs to be cleaned I tend to shovel it in my office and deal with it later. That allows unsuspecting visitors to think that I know how to clean my house but really I am the worst Clutter-a-holic I have ever known (with the possible exception of my best friends from high school, their family actually had to move to clean and it didn't take long to get back that way!)
Since I am not willing at this time to move...Do you hear that KEVIN! NOT WILLING TO MOVE!...I guess it meant I needed to clean.
My children are just like their mother, SLOBS! I would take pics of their rooms and post them here but I hate to do that to you. We decided that the twins were just too cramped in their small space and needed to be separated since they seem to despise each other and I am tired of all of the fighting. This meant an undertaking of the grandest of undertakings.
We live in a 4 bedroom house that has a cool sitting area off of the master bedroom that has always been my home office. The upstairs was more of a scrapbooking/Home business/guest/kevin's computer room. For the separating to happen, all of this was going to have to be combined in a sitting room and Katie was going to have to move upstairs. I guess four years of looking at what had become a total disaster in our bedroom, Kevin was willing to do anything for me to shovel it out and he said ok to the master plan!
What he didn't realize was how expensive this was going to actually be! To move Katie upstairs we decided to give her our bed, this meant we got a new one! In one of his weaker moments Kevin agreed to a king size bed and bought one in one short day! Agreed to look at church one Sunday morning and bought a bed by 5 that afternoon! And not just any bed, a king size sleep number bed! A bed change like that costs money when you have to replace an entire bedroom suite! Not to mention pillows and sheets and mattress pads and such!
It has taken me days to get the crap out of the office and get the place cleaned out so we can measure for the custom built office we decided to put in. It will be a horseshoe shaped desk with room for all of our computers and the network stuff. There will also be room for all of my scrapbook stuff too. I might be more excited if I didn't know how much work I have ahead of me!
What does the warm weather mean...
SPRING CLEANING!
Those of you who know me well and have been inside the inner sanctum will agree that this is desperately needed. As far as I come off as being organized it is mostly in my head. I am the worlds worst housekeeper, when something needs to be cleaned I tend to shovel it in my office and deal with it later. That allows unsuspecting visitors to think that I know how to clean my house but really I am the worst Clutter-a-holic I have ever known (with the possible exception of my best friends from high school, their family actually had to move to clean and it didn't take long to get back that way!)
Since I am not willing at this time to move...Do you hear that KEVIN! NOT WILLING TO MOVE!...I guess it meant I needed to clean.
My children are just like their mother, SLOBS! I would take pics of their rooms and post them here but I hate to do that to you. We decided that the twins were just too cramped in their small space and needed to be separated since they seem to despise each other and I am tired of all of the fighting. This meant an undertaking of the grandest of undertakings.
We live in a 4 bedroom house that has a cool sitting area off of the master bedroom that has always been my home office. The upstairs was more of a scrapbooking/Home business/guest/kevin's computer room. For the separating to happen, all of this was going to have to be combined in a sitting room and Katie was going to have to move upstairs. I guess four years of looking at what had become a total disaster in our bedroom, Kevin was willing to do anything for me to shovel it out and he said ok to the master plan!
What he didn't realize was how expensive this was going to actually be! To move Katie upstairs we decided to give her our bed, this meant we got a new one! In one of his weaker moments Kevin agreed to a king size bed and bought one in one short day! Agreed to look at church one Sunday morning and bought a bed by 5 that afternoon! And not just any bed, a king size sleep number bed! A bed change like that costs money when you have to replace an entire bedroom suite! Not to mention pillows and sheets and mattress pads and such!
It has taken me days to get the crap out of the office and get the place cleaned out so we can measure for the custom built office we decided to put in. It will be a horseshoe shaped desk with room for all of our computers and the network stuff. There will also be room for all of my scrapbook stuff too. I might be more excited if I didn't know how much work I have ahead of me!
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