Can someone make the pounding stop?

I'm so torn right now and need a good helping of PATIENCE. I want the new apartment to be done really bad AND I want Adam to nap. Those two things may not seem at all connected, but I work at my parent's house in the afternoons while Adam is napping. So on days when they are working on (insert project here - today it is the new front porch) and the pounding doesn't stop for hours, I just want to pull my hair out.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

About a month ago my new doctor took me off of dairy - milk, yogurt, ICE CREAM, etc. It wasn't too bad until the last week or so. On Saturday we went to Friendly's for lunch with my Grandparents. Friendly's is big on the east coast and has been a staple in our family for years. Grandad only buys Friendly's brand ice cream. When we were little, they would bring us take home sundaes that were FABULOUS. Now we LOVE the Wattamelon Rolls in the summer (lime and raspberry sherbet layered to look like a watermelon with chocolate chip "seeds"). The food is great too. I was good on Saturday and didn't order dessert. But now I'm dying for a nice big bowl of ice cream or a big slice of Wattamelon Roll.

the 18 hour bra

it's still playtex, but the other division...sippy cups. We have been trying to slowly build up our supply of sippy cups, but haven't been able to find 2-packs that don't have a pink cup in them. So when we hit the jackpot at Target a couple weeks ago, I stocked up. When we got home, I treated our newly acquired sippy cups as I would a bottle and promptly boiled the lids to sterilize them. (We don't have a dishwasher right now.) Apparently you can't do that with playtex sippy cups - the lids warp. Which is precisely what happened. SIX brand new cups and NO lids. So after scouring the packaging to see where it said "do not boil" I called the company, explained my dilemma and asked what my options were. It turns out that if I want the colors to be exact, I could buy new lids (which they sell at the 1-800 number) OR they would be happy to send new ones, but they can't guarantee color choice. We now have 3 new ones with a prepaid return label. Once they have the 6 warped ones back, we will get 3 more in the mail. We heart Playtex! I'm so happy to have more than two sippy cups in the house again. We lucked out this time with mint green, lime green and yellow, but you may just see my son running around with a pink lid on his blue sippy cup.

The Queen's Burger

I promised last week that I would fill you in on my attempt at RR's Chicken Saltimbocca Burgers. But who knew that sage was a very important ingredient in Saltimbocca... not me. So with all the ingredients I had handy, we had the following burgers for dinner:

1 lb. ground turkey
1 big handful of grated parmesan cheese
1 palmful of italian seasoning
pinch or so of sweet basil
1/2 palmful of montreal steak seasoning
1/4 of an sweet yellow onion - grated

Fry in skillet with olive oil about 6 minutes on each side. Top with one slice of deli ham and one slice of provolone cheese. Serve on top of cheesy garlic toast with a side salad (we used a bag of ceasar). (Makes 4 good sized burgers)

Huge success!

My Birthday Wishlist

My birthday is coming up soon and since my grandmother has ingrained in us for years the necessity of a list, here it is:

1. Kohl's giftcards so I can get these pots & pans. I'm ready to be done using my mom's old pans.

2. A haircut at Michaelangelo's (a real salon!).

3. A pedicure

4. An olive green shirt and leggings to wear under my new babydoll dress. Maybe some cute ballet flats to go with it.

Blog News!!!

My friend Amy has a blog!

AWOL

You may wonder where I have been hiding this weekend. Unfortunately, it's been at home with a yucky summer cold and a cough that just won't go away. There are a few things of note that happened while I was wanting so badly to rest....

PEANUT THE DESTROYER
The bugs are back. While trying to get at least one healthy meal in my family this weekend I discovered that our food cupboard was infested with little tiny ants. I found them when I opened not just one corn bread mix that was FULL of the little suckers, but 3 of them. That was when I got to clean out all of our food cupboards, hit them with ant spray and then with lysol wipes. Once that was done and I was sitting in the big chair ready to pass out, I realized that little man's car rug was moving on it's own. There were more ants! Bigger than the tiny ones in the cupboard and black. So much for resting... out came the vacuum, mop and bug spray. TWO HOURS from when I started making dinner, I was done. It makes me tired again just thinking about it.

I CAN FLY, I CAN FLY, I CAN FLY
Little man tried twice this weekend to prove that he could fly, both in less than 24 hours. Thursday night while I was folding clothes in the bedroom, he put a blanket over his head and walked off of the end of the bed, bounced off the trunk and landed on the floor. All of this before my brain even registered what he was doing.

Friday Wil had the day off and we were getting ready to take our little man to Grandma's house. Wil and I were on either side of the bed. Little man was with Wil on the far side of the bed when he decided that he wanted me instead. So he ran to the edge of the bed, stopped, and leaned forward for me to catch him. Unfortunately, I was fixing my hair and had my back to the bed. This time he landed head first on the industrial flooring (think hospital, public school, etc.). Grandma then ended up being on concussion watch that evening. And we were really lucky there wasn't anything more than a bump.

I thought flying didn't start until they were older...

Yum-O?

One thing I have learned from Rachael Ray is that just about any recipe can be turned into a burger. So when I saw her chicken saltimbocca burgers, I was very excited. Now I have all the stuff to make them, with my own cost-saving twists. I'll let you know next week how they turn out.

Whistle while you work

or maybe play some computer games. Little man woke up early again this morning and then we ran errands in Prince Frederick. Now my brain doesn't want to work anymore. It's pleading for a nap.

the Birds

I remember seeing this movie when I was young. Add to that the theory in the Jurassic Park movies that the creepy nasty dinosaurs that ate people were more like birds than reptiles, and too many run-ins with other winged creatures (also known as bats). What do you have? Well, that would be me FREAKING OUT yesterday when my dad decided to show off the new garage doors and a bird flew out from the unfinished frame work. Thank goodness Susie had the little man, because I think my reaction scared him more than the bird. And where was my mom during all of this? She was the one trying to use ME as a shield from the dive bombing bird. When will the winged ones learn to LEAVE ME ALONE!