Traveling This Tuesday

You might be able to guess by the title of this post that I had to do a little driving today, 190 miles to be exact. My daughter has got some stomach problems and so we had to make the drive to Charlottesville to see yet another GI specialist. We came away with a plan and go back in 2 months to see how things are going!

As promised, I have some pictures for you guys.

This weekend the kids had to make snowflakes for school; of course, my kids are total originals and decided to have snowflakes with designs and not holes. My daughter is a total girly girl and decorated her's with flower nail stickers :) and my son is part Transformer and so he drew those. If you give him a piece of paper and pen or crayon he will draw Transformers, the playroom walls are testament to that ;)

This is the beginning of a beautiful blanket that I am making for my friend's daughter. I started this back in the summer, but life got in the way and it got pushed aside. I started working on it again this week and have discovered that I can get 3 rows done in the time it takes me to watch an episode of Buffy on Netflix. I will post pictures weekly so you can track how far I am getting, and then once I am finished I will post the pattern for those that are interested.

My son passed out yesterday. Escaping from the NYC Jail is hard work, especially if you have the stomach bug :(

Once he woke up, he was back to playing with his Transformers. Oh to be a child again...

Supper last night was Black Bean Zucchini Quesadillas, with a side of Organic Black Angus Ground Beef purchased at a local market that came from a farm here in my town. I found the recipe here http://www.theveggietable.com/recipes/blackbeanzucchiniquesadillas.html I made a few little tweeks to this recipe;
Instead of the 2lbs of zuc I used 4 med. sized zucchinis that I had in my fridge (no point in buying more) and it made more than enough. Although, grating zucchini can be quite messy

It was all over me and the floor... I also used the jalapeno in with my husband's ground beef instead of the veggie mixture and a packet of El Paso taco seasoning for his meat. I broke out the horrid electric griddle to cook these up, this thing is so unevenly heated :(

I loved them, my husband not so much. I figure the next time he wants tacos I can just pull my container of mixture out of the freezer and we can both be happy!

Last, but not least, I am currently trying my hardest to read Room by Emily Donoghue. I will give a review once I finish it, but that might be aways off. This is not a light easy read by no means. I started reading The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle this afternoon while waiting in the Dr's office and think I am going to really enjoy this book (I only made it to page 7). This was a gift from one of my best friends, and any book to come from her is practically a guaranteed winner :)

I will close this post out with a silly picture of my baby girl before we left on our car ride.

Welcome

Well, I bit the bullet. It took me quite awhile to finally break down and decide to have my blog. I have been wanting to do one forever, but never could figure out what exactly I would talk about, there are tons of book blogs and as much as I would love to get books to read and review, I am just not sure that I would be great at it. I am a fairly competent knitter and crocheter, but fail miserably at creating my own patterns. I love to cook, yet again, not much is my actual creation. Are you getting the picture here. Kinda like the old saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none." I have decided to make that the theme of my blog, following me as I search for that great recipe for supper, finishing the latest great YA novel to come my way (thanks to http://www.apatchworkofbooks.blogspot.com/), attempting to actually finish whatever my latest yarn masterpiece is, and just trying to keep my house in a semi-guest friendly state (this is the hardest!).

To kick everything off I will give you a little background on my family and myself. I am Jessica (Jes) and am married with 2 kids and a step-daughter (lives with her mom in the great state of AK). My husband of 5 1/2 years is originally from NY, then transplanted to Alaska, where he spent 20+ years before joining the Air Force and getting stationed in Middle Ga. There he met me and we were soon married and shortly afterwards welcomed our first childand I became a stay at home mommy; 15 months and 1 deployment later we had another baby to join the madness. We lived in Ga until Thanksgiving of '09 when my husband was stationed in the NoVa area. We recently bought our first house and are enjoying the joys of being homeowners. I will be doing many posts about the wonders and expenses of owning a house built in the 20's, I am certain.

Well, that should be enough to have you returning at least one more time to see just what madness can come forth :)