Olivia had her first Choir Concert for Veteran's Day and also had her very first solo. The song is called, "American Tears". It will give you just that. (have Kleenex ready) The song is about 6 min's long. I hope you enjoy it.

Happy Veteran's Day!

Jolie has had a reaction to something. We're thinking food, probably my green chili, that she just wolfs down. Anyway.... she is covered with hives. She stayed home today and we expect her to be home tomorrow also. If you pull the picture up you can really see how badly she is covered.

Chicken Tikka Masala with Saffron Rice. My first attempt and a rather good one if I do say so myself. Totally Yummy! are the words for this dish. Easy to make, fragrant, and delicious. Jolie had 2 servings as did David and I. Plenty left over for after school snacks and still some for tomorrow. I know what I'm eating for lunch.

Busy, busy and more busy...

I just realized that I've not posted for 10 days! Wow! I think that may be a record for me.

Life as usual around here. I'm up early again. I'm very used to seeing 3 a.m., 4 a.m., or even the occasional 5 a.m. when I wake up as of late. This morning it was 2:55 when I climbed out of bed and situated myself in the family room to contemplate the next few days events.

Getting to be that time of year again. Cooking has already started. Have biscuits made. Cornbread made. Turkey needs to be bought. Other than that I have basically all we need where food is concerned.

Decorations need to be pulled out. Christmas is going to be slim this year so I'm going to really decorate the house up for the kiddos. Last year I just had a down year where decorating was concerned and the kiddos really missed all the fuss. This year I'm going to make up for it by pulling out all the stuff and putting everything up. We're going to have lots of fun decorating for the next few weeks.
Made some Green Chili this afternoon. Good stuff. This batch really turned out very nice. We went and bought the mild chili's a couple of weeks ago after David accidentally bought HOT and though we ate it, I couldn't wait to get the milds. Just our luck we arrived on the last day of the chili selling season for here, we won't see these folks again for 9 months. So we were lucky!

Jen surprised us this evening with Baked Ziti! Wow! Wonderful meal and so welcome after a long day. She tried to make it where I didn't have to cook, but didn't realize that I was cooking a huge pot of green chili for our two families to share. It was going to be MY surprise for them. To funny. Anyway..... the Baked Ziti was just fabulous! Everyone ate their fill and we still have some left over for another meal(s).

Today we finished the eye doctor appointments with the kiddo's. Olivia is getting her first pair of glasses and everyone else is doing well or on the verge of needing a set of new eyes. ;-) Parker will probably be our next wearer of glasses but we have hopefully a year before that happens. He was disappointed, but knows that he doesn't have long to wait. I can remember wishing that I'd get to wear glasses. Now, all these millennia later, I got my wish. uggggg...