Addict

Noodle: Hello. (eyes dart sheepishly)

Everyone: Hello, Noodle. (encouragingly)

Noodle: I'm here to talk about my uh, addiction.

Everyone: Go on, we're all here to support you. (heads nod in agreement)

Noodle: I'm um, I'm struggling with an addiction. An addiction to....(gulp...nibble...drool....chew....)

................Pedigree Small Bits for Big Dogs.........................

Sweet Jaysus, WOULD SHE STOP IT ALREADY!! Like a moth to the flame, she's drawn to the damn dog food dishes. She can crawl over there at lightning speed and get 4 kibbles in her pie hole before you can shout out, "Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

Stinker.

Fowl

Here it is! The chicken recipe I raved about. I was drooling all over myself eating this. It's so easy, it rocked, and best of all, 'twas delicious. Yes, I made two like the recipe says (the marinade recipe needs to be doubled) and I will be making her chicken pot pie recipe tomorrow with the leftovers.

My pic before it went in the oven: (i was soooo proud!)

Grosgrain contest entry

GROSGRAIN MINI STORE OPENING NOVEMBER 6!!!! AND BIG PREVIEW GIVEAWAY!!!!


I'm linking this to win a contest ;-) This woman is such a talent.

Read it and Weep

The C Spot
This is a politically-minded link - skip over it if you lean right b/c it'll just make you mad at me. GO CLARISSA!

Sunday night

no idea what's going to come out of my computer at the moment... but this is for you Shelly!

Mike is doing better. He's very private and tends to put things on the back burner so I'm not sure he's okay with everything. However, I did all I can do for him and he is dealing with things in his Mike way - which seem to keep him hanging in there.

My mama is home and enjoying being away from work for awhile. I had the whole family over for dinner tonight. Mom and Dad came over early to hang out with me, Mike and Natalie. Lily was with Nana and Papa all day. Sometimes I think little Natalie gets overlooked b/c Lily is such a BIG personality - so I had them come over just to see her. Have I mentioned...

HOW MUCH I ADORE THAT NATALIE?????? Yum. She has a cold and is horse right now. Can you imagine a little 8 month old all horse and squeaky? Adorable and pathetic at the same time. Makes me want to smoosh her all the more. Nom, nom, nom.

Back to my dinner: Y'all. I watched Oprah for the first time in like 4 million years and she had on Christina Ferrare (Claire-issa - you love her don't you?) She inspired me to cook a roasted chicken. AND IT ROCKED MY WORLD!!!!!!! I will post the recipe and picture when I'm not completely wanting to throw my camera and computer out the window. (I had all my holiday mini-sessions this weekend and I am POOPED and TIRED of of cameras.) Although I did take a picture of my chicken - it was that beautiful ;-)

I'm out.

A Little Update

Happy Wednesday my peeps. I'm here working at the computer and thought I'd give a couple of updates.

The situation from Mike's school is just awful and tragic. The student who took his own life was a favorite of Mike's whom he joked and talked with everyday. He was an honor student, so adorably handsome with the most beautiful smile, had good friends, a loving family. Mike is pretty devastated. He can think of not much else, and says he feels consumed with this event. Leaves me (as a mother), Mike and can you imagine his family - wondering why and if only he could come back. Mike met the family last night and they are kind, loving, open and were close to their son. How could this happen?

My mama is doing well, but still in the hospital. She should be coming home today. I've been her little watchdog making sure the nurses and doctors are taking the absolute best care of her. No one could ever love my mom more than I do. She is the most important person in the world in my eyes :-) Get well soon, Deedee. (that's what Lily calls her)

Sad, Glad, Nervous, Thrilled all at once

Sad: Mike called me from school this morning at about 7:20. I said hello, he said hello. Long pause - then I got all annoyed and was like, "Hellllllloooooooo?" He choked back to me that one of his students committed suicide over the weekend. It made my skin go all hot and crawly. Mike was so upset and had to go welcome a room full of kids. Teaching can be rough like that.

Glad: Sundry makes me glad. Do you read her? Her post today made me giggle when she used the word "hoopty". What a brilliant writer she is. The words just flow from her keyboard like buttah.

Nervous: My mama is having a big ol' surgery today to correct all sorts of problems that being pregnant with ME has caused her all these years later. All sorts of internal shenanigans.

Thrilled: Colin Powell - ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You said what is true so eloquently and rationally. Couldn't agree with you more!

And some pics for Monday:

See how googly she makes me? That's a proud mama right there, y'all.