Wordless Wednesday

Scalloped potatoes

Lately I have been trying to get the perfect scalloped potatoe recipe figured out. Last night I think I got it... even the 2 pickiest eaters in the family thought it was very good!! This never happens, those 2 would live on bread, cheese, apples and crackers If I`d let them. so without anymore blathering here is what I came up with:


Creamy Scalloped Potatoes

5-6 med potatoes thinly sliced
half an onion thinly sliced
2 Tbsp butter or margarine
2 Tbsp flour
half a cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
1 can cream of celery soup
milk to fill the emptied soup can
salt and pepper to taste

Toss the potatoes and onion together in a casserole dish. In a medium sauce pan melt the butter, add the flour, salt and pepper,stir and cook 1 or 2 minutes. add the soup and milk, whisk smooth, and heat until it begins to simmer. Add the cheese and remove from heat, stir until cheese is JUST melted. pour over the potatoes, toss to coat. bake covered at 350 for about 1 hour.

serves about 6.
1 Cup is about 40 carbs

Enjoy, there won`t be much, if any for leftovers!

featured!!

Holy cow Andrea Baker blogged about me this week. she shares a B-day with my son so i sent her a gift, and this is how she returned the favour. See it DOES pay to be kind. Check it out:
http://www.andreabakerdesigns.com/?p=702

Gerans B-day was great, I took an extra 6 5yr olds tobogganing. only 1 crash. I had the smarts to bring along my 11 yr old and her friend to help haul the sleds back up the hill while I organized the top of the hill. Hubby couldn't go due to a back injury so he baked off the pizzas I had make earlier. Tiring, but a blast!

The purse

Several weeks (months?) ago I saw a purse made from pop can tabs, naturally I needed to try it. So first I gathered up all the pop tabs I could find and got my ever patient and amused husband to collect them from his office too. This took a good while, as we aren't huge pop drinkers. Finally I thought I should have enough to start. Being me I used purple cotton DMC thread, and also being me I crocheted them all together, designing it as I made it. After about week of work I got it done.



But it needed a liner with all those holes. Luckily my parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas, so it's maiden use was to make the liner. I had some mystery fabric in lavendar and decided to use it. I think it turned out pretty cool if I do say so myself! Now I don't think I'll be selling any on my etsy shop, partially because they are a lot of work. and partially because I don't want to copy anyone and start up another round of bashing in the forums. Can't wait to go somewhere and use ( show off) it!

The new year

So, today we were planning to go out tobogganing, and the temperature plummeted and it began to get windier and windier, sigh. And the weekend is supposed to be -42 with the wind chill, so tobogganing this Christmas break is not gonna happen.

Here are current photos out the back (sheds) and front doors.

Licorice the half-grown kitten decided to nap behind the couch on the window sill and watch the snow fall.

I am crocheting and chatting with friends. I SHOULD be cleaning all the packaging off the back deck, but.... well I am not, so be it.

As for resolutions, I resolve not to make any and thereby avoid the guilt of not achieving them.

having said this, I need to lose some serious weight, and brave a visit to the Dr to see if I need depression meds.

My kids are so silly

So, I have noticed lately that my kids all have different, but very silly humour. In the top we see my son who asked me if we could play kangaroo and baby, so being an intriging idea I found my stretchiest pants (I used to use them as maternity) and tucked my joey in my pouch.
Here we see my 3 biological kids stacked up with the middle child (age 7) on the bottom, eldest in the middle (11) and the youngest on top (5) Now this is especially amusing as the 7 yr olds teacher last year tols us she had very little upper body strength... she really looks weak here doesn't she?
Now this is what happens when you put a cap of bubblebath in the jet tub, so my 11 yr old discovered. Looks like a lotta fun actually. Yeah my kids keep me busy and highly amused. You just never know what will come out of their mouths or what you'll see them doing next. I love my job. Well except for the laundry.

Shopping

I am officially done Christmas shopping!! Yay, woo-hoo!! and before the stores get insane too :)
This year I'm not giving near as many hand made items as I wanted to, I just didn't see anything at shows that I thought family would like, and anything good on etsy was big and too heavy to ship otr for me to afford to ship, which is even sadder. And the relates that I have given my jewelry to don't really wear it, so I dunno if it just isn't to their taste or if i missed what their style is somehow. Either way not this year, maybe next year I'll crochet up something for them, or birthday gifts.
So now i can concentrate on making a baby blanket for my new neice or nephew to come. I really hope my brother decided to give me a niece, I have 4 nephews, (1 from him and 3 on hubbies side.) but no nieces as yet.
Maybe I should catch up on laundry too..... sigh, it never ends with 5 kids.