To my future daughter

I wrote this while I was working at Goodfield State Bank. I still don't have a daughter but this is a letter to the daughter that I may have.

10/12/2012

To my future daughter

I was thinking about you today. I know it seems weird but one day you might understand that in my mind you are real and planned you are just not made yet.  I cannot wait to meet you.

I was thinking about all of the good advice you will not want to hear when you are older. Hopefully you will be able to read this and know how much I already loved you and still do.

I hope that you have learned that time is the most precious thing we have. Use it wisely to glorify God and to build lifelong relationships with your family and a few close friends.  If you are anything like me people will flock to you anyways. They will see your wonderful since of self and how much you care. It is important to help people but remember you cannot save everyone. 

I want you to always remember God made you. You are the perfect combination of your father and I you were given the best of both of us and therefor you do not need to worry about what other people think of you.  You are wonderful. If you have to change who you are to impress or be someone’s friend they are not worthy of you. Be yourself and people will flock to you.

If you want people to say “I went to grade school, high school with her.” You have to work for it by being kind and inclusive and showing the love of Jesus so vividly that it confuses people. It is not about impressing the girls in high school or having a boyfriend. Boys are over rated and they smell bad.

My advice to you is always be nice to people but don’t be a jelly fish pushed around by the currents of high school girl drama. Do not allow who you are to be determined by anyone who did not make you and who does not love you unconditionally.

I want you to know that I am strict because I love you. Rules although you may break them are to protect you. Physics tells us that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  I will continue to be fair but strict. I will continue to hold you to a higher standard because that is what you should do. There is no substitute for hard work. All I expect from you is your best.

You are smart, you are beautiful, you are important.

Love you more than air

Your Mom from the past.

Gluten Free Fried Chicken.

GLUTEN FREE FRIED CHICKEN

MAKES 4 LARGE PIECES

4 BONLESS SKINLESS CHICKEN BRESTS

1 EGG

¼ C MILK

1/3  ALL PURPOSE GLUTEN FREE FLOUR

2 TBSP CORN STARCH

 2 TBSP ROMANO/ PARMESEAN CHEESE

¼ TSP SALT

¼ TSP PEPPER

1 TSP SEASON SALT

1/3 C OIL * (ENOUGH TO COVER THE BOTTOM OF THE PAN AND ABOUT HALF THE CHICKEN)

Heat oil over a medium heat.

In one bowl whisk the egg, milk and pepper.

In the second bowl add Romano cheese, salt, season salt, flour and corn starch.

Dredge the chicken in the flour bowl then the egg mix then back in the flour.

Cook until golden brown on each side and white in the middle.

This was our yummy dinner!!

Ready... Set... Go...

Time to wave the green flag and strap on my back pack. School starts this week!
Guess who will be "loafing it" (GGG's words) THIS GIRL! As I type I am trying out my study playlist. I already nixed one song. The tempo and beats were so vastly different from what I need. I need upbeat but not distracting. I find the Beatles a good start.
This is my list so far:
Hey Jude- The Beatles
Here Comes the sun- The Beatles
Come Fly with me- Frank Sinatra
All my Loving- The Beatles
If I had eyes- Jack Johnson
Bubbly Toes- Jack Johnson
Banana Pancakes-Jack Johnson

We will see how those go and then onward and upward from here!!!

Count down to school

In less than two weeks I will be "back in the saddle" so to speak. I am really looking forward to the next three semesters.
I hope that:
1. I get good grades.
     Good grades are not optional in the CSD world. A 4.0 is common in my major. Hopefully over the next three semesters I can raise my current GPA which is SAD to make it happy and also have a killer resume with tons of outstanding tasks.  Fingers crossed readers.
2. I stay sane.
      Staying sane is completely optional and probably wont happen. I have been stressing about these next semesters since I started this major. It is very common for students to stress sometimes, my mantra for the next three semesters will be keep it together and trust God.
3. I graduate with my bachelors degree.
I think that they let you graduate even if you don't have stellar grades you just have no chance of getting in to graduate school EVER. Good luck to me.
4. I get in to grad school.
There is no point in getting a CSD degree with out a Masters degree because you can't practice with out certification. So good luck to me again.

I will be trying to keep this updated it gives me a sense of accomplishment to write from time to time. I also have a delicious recipe to post!

Summer update and hopefully a new beginning.

Well.
It has been an eventful six months since I have written... Looking back I should have written more about GG and her antics. I think that would have been amusing. However she kept me on my toes and I always forget that I like to blog and that it is a good way to get some things safely off my chest.

So in a very small nutshell we moved in with GG and she wasn't feeling well for about three months. Mid March however things took a good turn for her health and she was feeling fit as a fiddle, and in turn started stirring up trouble/lies/mischief in an attempt to get my husband and I out of her house. Her antics worked and we have since moved out. Once we were out of her house however the cycle started again. She didn't take good care of her self and ended up going to the ER multiple times. I am glad to say that she has a new home now. The transition from place to place was very hard on her but she has bloomed and I can gladly say she doing really really well.

I have had a very hard time dealing with the emotion and psychology behind someone who is supposed to love you treating you the way she treated me. I guess everything happens for a reason. Praise be to God because GG and I are in a much better place. I still try to visit her about once a week and on my birthday I got to take her cupcakes.

Its the small things in life that make the biggest differences. I am happier now than I have been in months and am hoping to get the chance to share some of the best news with anyone who reads this.

God bless

Whats for dinner tonight?

So a funny thing happened the other day.

 We are in the training stages of Sam (pictured to the left) and if he is really being out of control or bad we spray him with a squirt bottle. 

I was introducing this concept to GG and Sam who was jumping around until he saw the squirt bottle and so he sat on the floor next to GG's feet and walker much like the picture here.  He was doing his signature move moving his head left and right like he is trying to figure out what you are doing and my grandma said "No Sam" and sprayed him in the head. 

He then jumped up and took a few steps towards me in confusion and she sprayed him again. 

So what is for dinner tonight constant question from my hubby, and GG. So we have come up with a menu that we work on a week at a time. 

Tonight is Pot roast and it is to die for. so here is the secret for those of you who might want to cook but have little or no time.

Easy breezy pot roast

Ingredients:

Round Roast (I get 2 lbs because we like leftovers)

2 Brown gravy packets

1/2 c water

1 Ranch packet

1 bottle of Italian dressing 

1 c. Carrots cut up

1 c. Celery cut up

4 or 5 potato's cut up

Mix the gravy water ranch and Italian dressing together in a bowl and set aside. It makes a HUGE difference than just pouring it dry over the meat. 

Cut up the carrots, celery and potatoes I try to make them roughly the same size that way everything has the same texture

Also a trick I like is to is pour about 1/4th the sauce in first to cover the bottom of the crock pot. Then add the meat and veggies turn it on low and go about your day.  

I will add a picture later to show you how it turned out :)

Good day to you.

Pilot

Good 'morrow reader.
I hope you are having a good day.

I will just go ahead and put it out there I am poor at spelling and grammar ect, hopefully you can forgive me The purpose of this blog is only for my sanity hopefully you find it encouraging if you have any questions or comments feel free to email me.

I guess I should start by explaining the name of my blog. The three things in my life right now besides my husband and dog are school, pinterest, and GGG (my grandma). 


So we will start with GGG, she is actually just GG or Grandma to me but GGG is cute and it suits her.
This whole shindig started 12/19/12. My brother had some last minute Christmas shopping to do and I agreed to out looking for gifts with him with the stipulation that we stop by GG's house because I wanted to give her the expensive looking birthday card I made her at work and the poinsettia I was taking credit for from my mom.  When we arrived at GG's house we immediately noticed that something was wrong. That day's paper was still out on the porch and her lights were off. Walking in to the house that night was scary because she usually gets the paper, the mail and the lights are on. I started walking through the house flipping on lights and when I turned on the hall light she called out for my uncle assuming it was him at her house. She was stuck on the floor and was very confused. She has a life alert that she wears all the time but she didn't press it. So we get her up around clean and in bed for the night and call my mom to give her an update about what happened. The next day my mom goes over there and decides that GG is going to the hospital where they think she has a chip in her elbow.  

At the hospital we were talking about everything that had happened and how she might have to make a change in her living arrangements, so naturally I offered to move in with her with my husband and 5 month old puppy. 

This should be interesting. 

As far as where pinterest and speech come in to play. I am starting school on Monday and in order to keep me sane I need an outlet in which to vent also I have a pinterest problem. I love to cook so all of the recipes are addicting so occasionally I will be posting ones that have worked for me. 


I hope you enjoy all that is to come. 

God bless