ok so tonight i had a very funny time with my mother in law. i Love her how i love her. infact my husband gets some of his funny/irritating traits from her.
tonight justin's family's church had a cook out for the new year party.
well i spent the night with my mother last night since my step dad was away at the duck camp. when i woke up i went straight to ruston to go take my niece to a movie.
when i got back to our hometown i went by the church to see if justin needed anything. as soon as i arrived both my fil and justin told me to go an rouse up my mil.
they explained that when they left her at her house that she was in her pjs surfing on this very computer. i kinda chuckled.
so i go to their house and she has company. she has obviously taken a shower (wet Hair) and she is wearing a pj top and jeans. and shes talking to her friend.
i then get a text from my husband asking what is mom's status word for word.
i text back half jeans have gown lol.
so then she informs me (at 3:00) that she needs to go to walmart to pick up supplies for her potatoe salad. and im thinking wow its kinda late
so me and my cat marbles hang out while she gets dressed then i take her to walmart b/c her suburban is at the church.
we go to walmart and bless her heart she ended up buying me some socks.
anyway while we are in there i ask do we need to maybe buy some already made mashed potatoes out of a box and just make the potato salad from there?
she looks at me like i just said there was life on antoher planet and says my fil only likes her potato salad cubed.
so we go on and buy our items and drop some items off at the church. so we get home p probably around five after a stop at sonic to get diet coke and a splash of vanilla, and we start cooking.
for some reason growing up my mom was always in a rush so i was in a rush. especially since we were about to cook baked beans, rolls, tater tots, and homeade potato salad.
well i start taking things out of the bags and helping and i then ask should i go ahead and peel some potatoes?? she says no just put the eggs in water and start boiling. so i do. then i ask again can i peel the potatoes an she agrees after i put the tator gots in.
i peel all the potatoes. while my mil is cleaning the sink instead of freaking out.
i then start getting texts messages from my husband asking for an eta. which is twenty minutes at this point.
then i asked if i could put the already boiled eggs in the freezer so that we can peel them faster as this is what i do at my house and she says no ill just run some cold water on them.
i then ferry food down to the church baked beans tator tots rolls.
when i get back i get a call from justin who informs me if we want to abort that we can b/c there are like three dishes of potato salad at the church and people are lining up to eat.
and my mil says no my fil only likes her potato salad.
but once back at the church i get phone calls from two or three people asking where are we? it is now around six thirty.
so finally the potato salad is ready. we get down to the church and i ask my fil about his infatuation with her potato salad. he states Thai the would have been fine if she had just made the concoction out of hungry man potato's . sigh......
Thursday, December 31, 2009
2009 recap
Just thought that since this is the last night of the year that it might be cool to recap everything that went on this year.
I bought a house, however that occured in 2008 but i didnt' pay the first mortgage payment until january 2009 and it didn't hit me what it meant to own a house.
i started a real relationship with christ.
learned to understand my mother in law.
finaly got my cat marbles
bought my first car and my first piece of furniture.
learned to cook!
forgave old friends i didn't think i could
connected with old friends
work became enjoyable!
justin and i found a church home together.
justn got a promotion!
we survived our first flood.
all in all these are all the good points i can think of that happened in 2009
randome things that happened in 2009?
i belonged to three different banks, i cut my grass only four times,
we went to no weddings, but went to see two babies being born,
we live in new orleans and did not go to mardi gras, and this football season i went to not one football game, and i went to see five movies in theatres.
hannah montana, benjamin button, the blind side, 2012, and the princess and the frog.
Happy New Year everyone!!!!!
I bought a house, however that occured in 2008 but i didnt' pay the first mortgage payment until january 2009 and it didn't hit me what it meant to own a house.
i started a real relationship with christ.
learned to understand my mother in law.
finaly got my cat marbles
bought my first car and my first piece of furniture.
learned to cook!
forgave old friends i didn't think i could
connected with old friends
work became enjoyable!
justin and i found a church home together.
justn got a promotion!
we survived our first flood.
all in all these are all the good points i can think of that happened in 2009
randome things that happened in 2009?
i belonged to three different banks, i cut my grass only four times,
we went to no weddings, but went to see two babies being born,
we live in new orleans and did not go to mardi gras, and this football season i went to not one football game, and i went to see five movies in theatres.
hannah montana, benjamin button, the blind side, 2012, and the princess and the frog.
Happy New Year everyone!!!!!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
First Christmas Party 2009
friday night we went to our first christmas party of the season and our first Christmas party with our sunday school class.
I had made potato salad for the party and we had a white elephant gift exchange also. so on friday night when i got off at 4:30 i rushed home to wrap the gift,
sprinkle paprika on the potato salad and Justin met me at the house and then we were off. On friday we were expecting snow and sleet in our area. I never really thought it would snow but I thought it would more than likely sleet. I dont know why last week i was really down about the weather. North Louisiana has spoiled me i guess. we have pretty good weather. We definately have four seasons. Here it barely gets cold. I would say maybe five days out of the winter season it gets in the thirties. It just doesn't feel christmasy when its hot. but thankfully it was very chilly on friday. I still didnt think it was that cold but it was very nice.
We got to the party at our friends house and later on everyone showed up. We had dinner and we got to talk to some of the other couples which we never get to do and it was so nice. most of the time on sunday morning we do the bible study and then we go to the church. and once a month on friday we usually have a social and play games. it was nice to get to talk with everyone.
later on we had a gift exchange and it was pretty entertaining. we purchased a pink snuggy. there was a gift entitled for a romantic couple a night on the town without even leaving home and it was a kids toy called dinner and a movie?! also there was a huge box full of toliet paper, matches, a candle, and popurri. there was a tourquoise cat, a moose that had jelly beans dispensed out the rear, a santa suit that only included a hat and boxers but i would have the to say the best gift of the night was a book called "walter the farting dog goes on a cruise". then we proceeded to read the book outloud by the fireplace and someone even took out their i phone with an app for farting sounds. it was good fun everyone laughed including my husband and I but i sat and pondered what would my mother do if she was there. she would be appalled!! it was all fun though.
yesterday I spent the morning cleaning the house. I had tried to get outside and put some lights on the edge of the roof. I have never done it in my life and im only 5'2 and it was like 30 degrees outside so i bailed pretty quick. in fact i just went and woke justin up! so justin spent the morning putting lights up and he did pretty good. last night justin and I went to his company christmas party. I have to say it was pretty lame and he thought so too. we had a friend that is in our sunday school class that came to the party and he was kinda clingy. he didnt go to the party on friday night though for what reason i dont know but he came to the company christmas party which is fine. but he was clingy.
justin hadn't really seen him in a while b/c he just got a new job about two months ago.
so he was alone basically b/c they can't afford a babysitter ( financial problems) and it was kinda weird. we had noticed that they have been going to our sunday school all of a sudden which we had been trying to get them to for months. and it just happens to be the two sundays we didn't go.
we actually ahve been having a tough time getting to sunday school. It starts at 8:30 am!! to me thats way early but whatever. i have no room to talk if these parents can get there with kids. so anyway we have been pretty sporatic lately esp with thanksgiving, a friends baby's baptism, us going home for various things, and also the cat throwing up on a sunday morning, my husband's hibernation. ( he was a bear in a formal life i swear) and my inability to get ready before 8 on sunday morning.
don't get me wrong. im usually up before 7:30 but waking up and getting up are two diffrent things. i think if it started at 9:30 id be fine. i like to wake up watch some tv then go get ready. but anyway to make a long story short we look like lazy bums with no excuses!!!!!! i feel like people that i go to sunday school with don't know about the class we take on sunday night, or the bible study that i finally had to stop attending b/c my plate was too full, or the wednesday night childrens choir both justin and i help with every week. no thye just see the sunday school attendance.
so we are at the christmas party and our friend is like i never see you at sunday school or church. keep in mind about three months ago they never went either to sunday school or even church but whatever. also his wife likes to post things on facebook ike i missed you at sunday school. they have been two times!!!
anyway i just hate when people call you out like that. it may be just their way of checking up on us or maybe they are being passive agressive but calling me out makes me just want to not go period. i always try to treat people the way i want to be treated. just ask how i am and maybe ill tell you.
anyway so then they start talking about the star trek movie, then ailen vs predator, then avatar the new movie coming out. i bascially told my husband that i wanted to go to the car at that point! i had to leave it was boring me so i went and hung out with his boss- but then when justin asked this friend to go to avatar with him b/c its not my type of movie hes says he can't b/c he can't afford a ticket b/c they have it really hard right now. i know i know its christmas they ahve two kids under five and one on the way, but there is a lot more to the story than that.
basically his wife stopped working with justin's company went to work for ruby tuesdays and now isn't working at all and they had financial issues before she even stopped working for justin's company. i dont think she wants to work, but if you can't afford a movie ticket get a job!
i just looked down at that point. i was embarrassed for him. and believe me don't get me wrong. justin and i have our own problems we just dont voice them. we try to hold it in and keep that to ourselves.
I just think its unwise. anyway im just venting. i have been feeling this way for awhile. but i made pack with myself at the party last night. we are going to sunday school as much as possible. and then when our friend texted justin at 7:30 to give us a wake up call i knew it was him. i jumped out of bed threw back the covers and said justin get up we are going to church!!!!!
and we did! i was planning on going home next sunday but i think while i was at church watching all the little kids hang the greens and when the our friends the couple sought us out in the sanctuary and sat next to us i realized i wasn't leading by the example i should. if i went to church everytime i could the times i go home then i wouldn't feel like i should "cover " for myself or feel guilty or like i have to explain where iw as the sunday before. so i am going to make a pack.
my poor husband hes never been a morning person, but i am. i just need to get up and finish the cycle. i need to get up get dressed and go. even if justin decides to not sleep in. he is supposed to be the spiritual leader, he is but i apparantly am the initator when it come to matters of the heart and the spirit in our family!
so im going to lead like example like i should and hopefully something will come of this. maybe my relationship with god will grow also.
so tonight we are going back to our sunday night class and then the live nativity scene and church and our friends on facebook have already confirmed if we will be at the nativity scene LOL!
I had made potato salad for the party and we had a white elephant gift exchange also. so on friday night when i got off at 4:30 i rushed home to wrap the gift,
sprinkle paprika on the potato salad and Justin met me at the house and then we were off. On friday we were expecting snow and sleet in our area. I never really thought it would snow but I thought it would more than likely sleet. I dont know why last week i was really down about the weather. North Louisiana has spoiled me i guess. we have pretty good weather. We definately have four seasons. Here it barely gets cold. I would say maybe five days out of the winter season it gets in the thirties. It just doesn't feel christmasy when its hot. but thankfully it was very chilly on friday. I still didnt think it was that cold but it was very nice.
We got to the party at our friends house and later on everyone showed up. We had dinner and we got to talk to some of the other couples which we never get to do and it was so nice. most of the time on sunday morning we do the bible study and then we go to the church. and once a month on friday we usually have a social and play games. it was nice to get to talk with everyone.
later on we had a gift exchange and it was pretty entertaining. we purchased a pink snuggy. there was a gift entitled for a romantic couple a night on the town without even leaving home and it was a kids toy called dinner and a movie?! also there was a huge box full of toliet paper, matches, a candle, and popurri. there was a tourquoise cat, a moose that had jelly beans dispensed out the rear, a santa suit that only included a hat and boxers but i would have the to say the best gift of the night was a book called "walter the farting dog goes on a cruise". then we proceeded to read the book outloud by the fireplace and someone even took out their i phone with an app for farting sounds. it was good fun everyone laughed including my husband and I but i sat and pondered what would my mother do if she was there. she would be appalled!! it was all fun though.
yesterday I spent the morning cleaning the house. I had tried to get outside and put some lights on the edge of the roof. I have never done it in my life and im only 5'2 and it was like 30 degrees outside so i bailed pretty quick. in fact i just went and woke justin up! so justin spent the morning putting lights up and he did pretty good. last night justin and I went to his company christmas party. I have to say it was pretty lame and he thought so too. we had a friend that is in our sunday school class that came to the party and he was kinda clingy. he didnt go to the party on friday night though for what reason i dont know but he came to the company christmas party which is fine. but he was clingy.
justin hadn't really seen him in a while b/c he just got a new job about two months ago.
so he was alone basically b/c they can't afford a babysitter ( financial problems) and it was kinda weird. we had noticed that they have been going to our sunday school all of a sudden which we had been trying to get them to for months. and it just happens to be the two sundays we didn't go.
we actually ahve been having a tough time getting to sunday school. It starts at 8:30 am!! to me thats way early but whatever. i have no room to talk if these parents can get there with kids. so anyway we have been pretty sporatic lately esp with thanksgiving, a friends baby's baptism, us going home for various things, and also the cat throwing up on a sunday morning, my husband's hibernation. ( he was a bear in a formal life i swear) and my inability to get ready before 8 on sunday morning.
don't get me wrong. im usually up before 7:30 but waking up and getting up are two diffrent things. i think if it started at 9:30 id be fine. i like to wake up watch some tv then go get ready. but anyway to make a long story short we look like lazy bums with no excuses!!!!!! i feel like people that i go to sunday school with don't know about the class we take on sunday night, or the bible study that i finally had to stop attending b/c my plate was too full, or the wednesday night childrens choir both justin and i help with every week. no thye just see the sunday school attendance.
so we are at the christmas party and our friend is like i never see you at sunday school or church. keep in mind about three months ago they never went either to sunday school or even church but whatever. also his wife likes to post things on facebook ike i missed you at sunday school. they have been two times!!!
anyway i just hate when people call you out like that. it may be just their way of checking up on us or maybe they are being passive agressive but calling me out makes me just want to not go period. i always try to treat people the way i want to be treated. just ask how i am and maybe ill tell you.
anyway so then they start talking about the star trek movie, then ailen vs predator, then avatar the new movie coming out. i bascially told my husband that i wanted to go to the car at that point! i had to leave it was boring me so i went and hung out with his boss- but then when justin asked this friend to go to avatar with him b/c its not my type of movie hes says he can't b/c he can't afford a ticket b/c they have it really hard right now. i know i know its christmas they ahve two kids under five and one on the way, but there is a lot more to the story than that.
basically his wife stopped working with justin's company went to work for ruby tuesdays and now isn't working at all and they had financial issues before she even stopped working for justin's company. i dont think she wants to work, but if you can't afford a movie ticket get a job!
i just looked down at that point. i was embarrassed for him. and believe me don't get me wrong. justin and i have our own problems we just dont voice them. we try to hold it in and keep that to ourselves.
I just think its unwise. anyway im just venting. i have been feeling this way for awhile. but i made pack with myself at the party last night. we are going to sunday school as much as possible. and then when our friend texted justin at 7:30 to give us a wake up call i knew it was him. i jumped out of bed threw back the covers and said justin get up we are going to church!!!!!
and we did! i was planning on going home next sunday but i think while i was at church watching all the little kids hang the greens and when the our friends the couple sought us out in the sanctuary and sat next to us i realized i wasn't leading by the example i should. if i went to church everytime i could the times i go home then i wouldn't feel like i should "cover " for myself or feel guilty or like i have to explain where iw as the sunday before. so i am going to make a pack.
my poor husband hes never been a morning person, but i am. i just need to get up and finish the cycle. i need to get up get dressed and go. even if justin decides to not sleep in. he is supposed to be the spiritual leader, he is but i apparantly am the initator when it come to matters of the heart and the spirit in our family!
so im going to lead like example like i should and hopefully something will come of this. maybe my relationship with god will grow also.
so tonight we are going back to our sunday night class and then the live nativity scene and church and our friends on facebook have already confirmed if we will be at the nativity scene LOL!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Success with New recipe
I am so happy I think i am finally getting a kick out of this whole cooking thing!!
About six months ago I would cook something and we would sit down to eat at our kitchen table and when I would eat whatever my creation was, I would end up thinking man this doesn't taste as good as my mother's. I dont know what happened, but at some point around July I realized I was starting to finally get the hang of this cooking thing. I have been finally where Sarah Beth has never been before! I can tell when Justin doesn't care for my dish or choice of dinner.
And I am really sad to admit there have been times he doesn't go near the dinner.
Like the time I tried to make banana pudding his favorite. That was before we were even engaged like back in 2006 so that doesn't really count. Or the time that I made pork chops that my mom always made that are delicious. the only reason why he didn't like them is because they had onions on them. Thats one thing that we differ with. I love onions!
But I have made chicken tetrazini (sp?) , stringy pot roast, coca cola chicken, gumbo, chicken enchalidas, taco soup, general tso's chicken, and red beans and rice. Now tonight I have tried something new and very impromptude Potato Soup.
I called my mom before getting home on my daily commute and asked her for the ingredients of her potato soup. This is usually how my menus for dinners go. I usually decide on the way home from work what I would like to cook.
I came home, looked up the recipe that my mom had in a cookbook that she gave me and started working on my creation.
It actually turned out pretty good!
Heres the recipe especially because its going to be really cold this weekend :)
3 cups of potatos cut up
1 can of chicken stock
salt and pepper to taste
1 medium onion
1 tsp of parsley
1 lb of velvetta cheese
1 1/2 cup of milk
2 tbsp of flour
First you boil the potatos, chicken stock, and parsley salt, and pepper, in water
the recipe called for 1 cup of water but i submerged the potatoes
then you add the milk and flour after the potatos are tender, then finally once
thick you add the cheese and serve once melted.
my husband isn't a soup person, apparently its not very manly to eat soup but even he liked it!
tomorrow we are supposed to get snow. i am so not looking forward to the scheduling of this weather disaster. I wish this could have occured on say Wednesday!
last year it snowed ( December 11, 2008) and i didn't even miss work, i just got to go home early and it didnt even snow hardly at my house! but where I work it snowed a lot!
apparently it is supposed to start tomorrow at noon. we have a christmas party or social for our sunday school class tomorow. i am not happy about this. don't get me wrong. I love weather you cuddle up in at home and don't leave the house, but unfortunately this is the weekend our sunday school class has its christmas party, then on saturday night justin's company has their annual christmas party. I just hope that the roads aren't bad. my guess is that it will not snow, it will sleet. ehhhhh. thats so much worse.
today i realized that I have got to get into a fitness routine. I actually got mad at myself! I am so tired of feeling like this and I have so many excuses not to work out or not to eat better.
I seriously have got to do something and after the holidays is too late. I need to now.
another thing, i need to spend more time with God. In the last two months I feel like I have been so distant from him. I need to spend time in prayer and in the word and I just can't make the time. I know I have the time. I have no kids, I come home from work, what is my problem.
I really need to make a few changes in my daily routine. I miss spending time with him and learning about him.
so after cooking my creamy potato soup, cleaning up the kitchen, then throwing a load of laundry in the wash i am now ready to call it a night.
About six months ago I would cook something and we would sit down to eat at our kitchen table and when I would eat whatever my creation was, I would end up thinking man this doesn't taste as good as my mother's. I dont know what happened, but at some point around July I realized I was starting to finally get the hang of this cooking thing. I have been finally where Sarah Beth has never been before! I can tell when Justin doesn't care for my dish or choice of dinner.
And I am really sad to admit there have been times he doesn't go near the dinner.
Like the time I tried to make banana pudding his favorite. That was before we were even engaged like back in 2006 so that doesn't really count. Or the time that I made pork chops that my mom always made that are delicious. the only reason why he didn't like them is because they had onions on them. Thats one thing that we differ with. I love onions!
But I have made chicken tetrazini (sp?) , stringy pot roast, coca cola chicken, gumbo, chicken enchalidas, taco soup, general tso's chicken, and red beans and rice. Now tonight I have tried something new and very impromptude Potato Soup.
I called my mom before getting home on my daily commute and asked her for the ingredients of her potato soup. This is usually how my menus for dinners go. I usually decide on the way home from work what I would like to cook.
I came home, looked up the recipe that my mom had in a cookbook that she gave me and started working on my creation.
It actually turned out pretty good!
Heres the recipe especially because its going to be really cold this weekend :)
3 cups of potatos cut up
1 can of chicken stock
salt and pepper to taste
1 medium onion
1 tsp of parsley
1 lb of velvetta cheese
1 1/2 cup of milk
2 tbsp of flour
First you boil the potatos, chicken stock, and parsley salt, and pepper, in water
the recipe called for 1 cup of water but i submerged the potatoes
then you add the milk and flour after the potatos are tender, then finally once
thick you add the cheese and serve once melted.
my husband isn't a soup person, apparently its not very manly to eat soup but even he liked it!
tomorrow we are supposed to get snow. i am so not looking forward to the scheduling of this weather disaster. I wish this could have occured on say Wednesday!
last year it snowed ( December 11, 2008) and i didn't even miss work, i just got to go home early and it didnt even snow hardly at my house! but where I work it snowed a lot!
apparently it is supposed to start tomorrow at noon. we have a christmas party or social for our sunday school class tomorow. i am not happy about this. don't get me wrong. I love weather you cuddle up in at home and don't leave the house, but unfortunately this is the weekend our sunday school class has its christmas party, then on saturday night justin's company has their annual christmas party. I just hope that the roads aren't bad. my guess is that it will not snow, it will sleet. ehhhhh. thats so much worse.
today i realized that I have got to get into a fitness routine. I actually got mad at myself! I am so tired of feeling like this and I have so many excuses not to work out or not to eat better.
I seriously have got to do something and after the holidays is too late. I need to now.
another thing, i need to spend more time with God. In the last two months I feel like I have been so distant from him. I need to spend time in prayer and in the word and I just can't make the time. I know I have the time. I have no kids, I come home from work, what is my problem.
I really need to make a few changes in my daily routine. I miss spending time with him and learning about him.
so after cooking my creamy potato soup, cleaning up the kitchen, then throwing a load of laundry in the wash i am now ready to call it a night.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
New Blog
Not sure what got into me and why I decided to do a new blog. I haven't really ever been good at keeping up with the things. I guess with the year ending really soon I am kinda of stir crazy.
I feel like I want to try something new.
Just a few things about me. I just got married about a year and a half ago to my highschool sweetheart. We purchased our first home just a year ago and we both work.
When we aren't home we like spending time with our church family here in south lousiana or with our friends. and then when we are home w like spending time with family. see we are both from north louisiana.
we have a cat marbles who is our child right now. i love him so much and he adds a lot to our home. I can't wait to have kids though and we both look forward to it!
Right now we don't know why we are here in south la, we are just trying to enjoy it while we are here and trying to make the best out of it. obviously God has us here to do some of his work!
my favorite day of the week is saturday. I love saturday mornings when i have the house to myself ( hubby still asleep) and i can just relax.
I hope to document more of our lives on this blog and to open up more and actually spend time on here. happy blogging!
I feel like I want to try something new.
Just a few things about me. I just got married about a year and a half ago to my highschool sweetheart. We purchased our first home just a year ago and we both work.
When we aren't home we like spending time with our church family here in south lousiana or with our friends. and then when we are home w like spending time with family. see we are both from north louisiana.
we have a cat marbles who is our child right now. i love him so much and he adds a lot to our home. I can't wait to have kids though and we both look forward to it!
Right now we don't know why we are here in south la, we are just trying to enjoy it while we are here and trying to make the best out of it. obviously God has us here to do some of his work!
my favorite day of the week is saturday. I love saturday mornings when i have the house to myself ( hubby still asleep) and i can just relax.
I hope to document more of our lives on this blog and to open up more and actually spend time on here. happy blogging!
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