Zucchini....

We have sooooo much zucchini growing in our garden. We have been eating it for weeks and its still comming in. The kids love it! We love it! Its sooo fresh right from our garden! Tastes nothing like you would buy at the store. If you garden then you know how much zucchini you can end up with right?

Here are a few tasty ways we have been eating zucchini:

-Shred Zucchini into tossed salad; or make coleslaw with 1/2 shredded zucchini and 1/2 shredded cabbage

-slice zucchini into strips and serve with ranch dressing or dip

-Add a culinary dip to plain rice. Saute some chopped zuchinni, chopped onion and chopped garlic and add to your plain white rice! VERY GOOD!

-Sneak some extra nutrition into your childs food. Add shredded zucchini into a muffin or sweet bread recipe or replace some of the potato with shredded zucchini in a potato panacake recipe.

-Zucchini boats for your dinner table; Cut zucchini in half lengthwise and scoop out the centers to make a boat. Fill the boats with one of the following mixtures: Chopped onions, mushrooms, peppers, , Parmasean cheese and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil or butter. Bake covered in a casserole dish at 350 for about 45 to 60 minutes.

ENJOY!

We had the boats last night, I mixed in some breadcrumbs a well. It was soooo good!

I dont like where Ilive

Well I kinda do but I really wish we would have moved into the country. I know that our house would never sell becuase it was on the market almost 5 years before we bought it. This really upsets me. I REALLY want to live out of town. I guess I learned my lesson about jumping into the first thing ya see type of deal.
Trenton went to preschool screening yesterday. He didnt pass anything but his Large Motor skills. :( Makes me sad. He goes to the Dr's on Friday......dont know what he will say. Trenton is getting evaluated by a few people from the county....this is through the school. Now I am getting awful frusterated about homeschooling. I REALLY want to do it but dont know if I can. I seem kinda scared that Im not going to teach him the right way or that he wil learn? IDK...is it always scary at first?
If I didnt already share.......Carter has said a few words in the last week. He has said Frog, Boo-Boo, and spongbob and last night when I was reading to him he said Boat. Im soooo proud of him and happy he is finally starting to talk! Maby Trenton will come along not to far behind him! I have hope in him!

Highschool

I stole this from Staci. She didn't tag me, but that's okay. She likes me, anyway. :-)

1. Who was your best friend? Oh God....Jenn, Sara, Amber, Alicia, Desiree, Amanda, Ashley, Melody and Kristen. I had LOTS

2. Did you play any sports? Softball, Soccer, and Basketball

3. What kind of car did you drive?None

4. It’s Friday night. Where were you? Partying or at skating

5. Were you a party animal? OH YEAH

6. Were you considered a flirt? Arent most girls???

7. Were you in the band, orchestra or choir? No.

8. Were you a nerd? Definitely NOT

9. Were you ever suspended or expelled? Many times I was suspended, I had a bad time

10. Can you sing the fight song? NO

11. Who was your favorite teacher?Mr Bale....Science Teacher...He rocks!

12. What was your school mascot? Purple Panther

13. Did you go to the Prom? Yeah and brought some alcohol, LOL

14. If you could go back, would you? YeahI had TONS of fun and Lots of friends

15. What do you remember most about graduation? It was HOT and I was really embarrassed

16. Where were you on Senior Skip Day? Partying at Amandas

17. Did you have a job your senior year? Subway

18. Where did you go most often for lunch? Market Basket Deli...Mini Ham subs...LOL....with Amanda and Des

19. Have you gained weight since then? TONS

20. What did you do after graduation? PARTIED

21. What year did you graduate? 2002

22. Who was your Senior Prom Date?I didn't Go

23. Are you going/did you go to your 10 year reunion? Prolly Not

Adoption....

I would love to adopt. I would love to be a foster parent. Don and I thought of looking into foster caring. We thought Hey we can help out children, whynot....they need a loving, caring home and we could give them just that. So I have been reading up on it and lettig it all sink into my head. I start looking at pictures of children that need to be adopted. Then I get a lightbulb above my head....LETS ADOPT!!! So I started looking into it. I couldnt and still cannot believe the prices of adoption.....they are selling theese poor children who need homes. I cant afford this...NO WAY can I afford this! Why do the sell children for sooo much? Then people like me......who could give them all the love in the world...cany afford to adopt. Its crazy! I started looking at blogs of women who have adopted and fostered TONS of kids. One women was single and has 32 adopted children. HOW DOES SHE AFFORD IT?
Im still looking into fostering/adoption...if anyone has any advice, PLEASE LET ME KNOW

Moving on......My kids are gone for the week. They went camping with gramma. I miss them terribly. I cant even barley sleep. I miss the loud screeching, the sound of footsteps running across the floor below me hile I am trying to sleep. I really miss them. They come home tuesday morning. Thank goodness. Today I made some zuchini and Banana Bread for them to have when they coe home. I applied to a couple of other jobs. I am going to try to take on a 2nd job. Parttime of coursr. Im hopng someone will call me. If not then I will babysitto make some extra money...My plans are to take money out of each paycheck for groceries and then put the rest on my house. The sooner I get my house paidoff the sooner I can stay home with my kids! I am also going to a meeting at the end of augest for college. I am going to be attending...Empire State College. Its a college basically for parents who work and want to go back to college but cant quit their jobs to go. Im not really sure what want to go for, Im confused on that. Although I do have a few things in mind. I do KNOW that I DONT want to work at walmart the rest of my life! God, I dont even wanna work there now! This college you work from at home and you meet with a professor one or twe month, one on one. I think I can handle it.This way I can work at my own pace on my own time. Wish me LUCK!
Trenton gets some testing done this month. YAY! I cant wait. Its through the county....some specialists will be comming in and testing him for all sorts of things. Maby I can finally find out what the problem is. Im sooo happy! I reall want to find out what's wrong so I can learn more about how to help him and how to work with him. Ive tried what I can and nothing seems to work so maby if I learn more about how he is struggling....I can work with him better. Im really looking forward to it. He also goes to the docters on the 17th. Im not really looking forward to seeing him. Im surehe will tell me nothing is wrong with Trenton. I was thinking of getting a 2nd opinion from another DR> But the Doctor I want to see is on a 6 month waiting list to see him, YIKES! So for now, we will see what the county says. Trenton is all signed up for preschool and he will be starting in SEPT. :( He will also get speech there!
I do plan on homeschooling him after prechool, so I will be busy preparing this school year. Im kinda psyched and kinda scared about that!
Carter is growing like a weed. He is starting to talk. He is saying little words like mama, dada, frog, no, baby...IM SOOO HAPPY> Here I thought I was going to have 2 children that didnt talk!
Well Im off to bed for work!

Life goes by...

To Damn Fast!!!! It seems like I am old already. Too old to do anything. I dont know if maby I have just hit a spurt in my life or what but I feel like I have no time left. No time for anything. I want to do sooo much! Can you actually believe that I have a notebook with soooo many things in it. And I add to it weekly too. Lists of things I want to do with my life, who I want to be, what I want to be, stuff that I want to learn and it seems that there is none or very little time to do theese things. I look at my book everyday and I wonder....will I ever get to do any of this stuff? WIll I ever be any of theese things? What will my life be like 20 years from now? Will I still be working at shitty little walmart making no money at all? Will I still be working overnights and be exhausted every single day of my life?????