He is my only baby to have this much hair before 18 months. We haven’t been ready to cut it. I’m not sure I’m ready still, Hubby isn’t sure he is ready, I think even the older rabble-rousers aren’t sure if they’re ready. When we cut it feels like he won’t be such a baby anymore. But we’re talking about *when* as in maybe this month. I’m going to be one hot mess when the first snip happens. Hold me.
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I love when you see flowers peeking out in places you don’t plan on them. These roses brightened our day.
My sons wondered how they managed to pop out of the fencing. One thought maybe they weren’t real. They touched them to make sure they were real. They were, thorns & all. Of course I told them they were real, but you know I’m only Mom. What do I know?
Stopping to smell the roses isn’t something I’ve always let myself enjoy. In fact, there was a long time that even if I wanted to I felt that I shouldn’t. I felt there was too much to do, too many things waiting, & doing anything else (particularly something as basic as fresh air) didn’t feel possible. But now I’m taking the time, carving it out, & it’s been worth it. Especially when I get to share it with such my adorable gang of characters.
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In the ongoing effort to keep my love of pasta from being overcome with the heat of summer I have another light pasta dish that we are loving. It combines my love of pasta, feta cheese (oh, I love feta cheese) and the tangy taste of black olives with the juicy sweetness of a cherry tomato all brought together in a light lemon white wine sauce. I’m in pasta heaven with a bowl of this & (of course) a glass of white wine to drink with it. Hubby of course takes 2nds & can’t wait to eat his leftovers the next day.
1 1/2 Cups Feta Cheese (cubed or large crumbs)
6 oz Black Olives (cut in half)
1 pint Cherry Tomatoes (cut in half)
2 Tablespoons of Fresh Oregano
1 Tablespoon of Fresh Thyme
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Pepper
1 Red Onion (diced)
4 Cloves of Garlic (minced)
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 Tablespoons of Butter
1/2 Cup Dry White Wine
Juice of 1/2 a Fresh Lemon
12 oz box of bow-tie pasta
Unbelievably simple to whip together. Boil your water & then add pasta, cook pasta until al dente. Remember over boiling pasta may be one of the seven deadly sins of cooking.
WHILE your water is boiling you will cook diced red onion, minced garlic, cherry tomatoes & black olives in a pan. Start by adding your olive oil & butter into the pan over low-medium heat. Then add in your red onion cook for two minutes, add in your garlic. You want the onions to become translucent (see through) but not burnt, same with your garlic. Add in your tomatoes & black olives (I prefer to half both of these for ease of eating), slat & pepper, then add in your White Wine.
After your wine add in your fresh herbs. You’ll cook just until tomatoes soften and start to wrinkle (I know I’m SO technical in my terms, huh?). This should finish as your pasta is ready to drain. Overall the dish takes no more than 15 minutes to prepare.
In a bowl toss your pasta together with the black olive, tomato & red onion white wine sauce. After doing this add in your feta & squeeze the juice of 1/2 a lemon over top. I like mine to be broken into large crumbles, others might like cubes. Either way feta is good.
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After our trip Up North a lot has been discussed about moving, more than I can even wrap my head around. Last night we sat down wrote out our big family goal moving and then under it we wrote a series of smaller goals. It’s not just a budget list but overall what is needed, room to room, month to month. Under each set of smaller goals there are the steps needed to complete them. It was nice & orderly, with a proper outline. An outline with letters & numbers & sub-letters. Boxes can be checked & dates were scheduled for mini goals.
See, again I reap the benefits of being married to a guy with a MBA.
My version of goal setting is usually on the back of an old envelope that should have been thrown out but I decided to write something important on it & now will frantically search for it EVERY.SINGLE.TIME I need something. My version of goal setting leads to total & utter anxiety.
This is why academics should not be allowed to run the world, we’d run it with meetings that had agendas written on the back of old envelopes & be unable to find them in time for our meetings. And it would be a really important meeting, like finally getting world peace, but our inability to be anything of the Absent Minded Professor would lead to world peace never being achieved. See FoxNews is right liberal academia is destroying the world, except it’s not because of some diabolical social engineering scheme it is because academics write important things on scraps of paper.
Thankfully Mike is in the business world & disaster was adverted.
I’m also SO happy because we are going forward with plan for moving! Even if it takes us two years to see this goal to point of being ready to move & even if we don’t end up on acres upon acres of land (Hey, I can dream!). It’s a wonderful feeling to have more things in place & to see it laid out. And as much as I tease my Hubby I love the neat & orderly checklist he came up with! I love that we sat down together, talked as a family, and we created a plan that has what we need to make this happen.
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