I actually like this one too!!! That does not happen very often. Usually because I am too scared to try new foods, but I had a pound of hamburger and a few mouths to feed so I thought what the heck lets try something different. I was even able to use only one pan!!
Ingredients

• 1lb ground beef
• 6 sm. cubes of beef bullion
• 8 c. water
• 4 cubed potatoes
• seasoning salt
• salt
• pepper
• 1 can corn
• 1 sm. onion
• 1 c. instant white rice

So what I did was (This is a combination of a few recipies)

1. Brown the beef with the season salt
2. Drain it
3. Add the water with bullion
4. Add cubed potatoes and chopped onion
5. Let simmer covered for about 10 min
6. Add can of corn
7. Let simmer covered another 10 min
8. Add the cup of instant rice
9. Remove from heat and cover
10. Serve when the rice is fully cooked
11. Salt and pepper to taste

Like I said it was really easy, but it is enough to feed at least 6 or more, pretty cheaply.

If you try it I hope that you enjoy!!

Tags: dinner, recipies

I was just leaving my weekly Dr. appointment at the hospital this afternoon when I saw a woman hit two vehicles while she was trying to park. So let me set the scene for you…

My dr appointments are at the Family Birth Clinic at the hospital here in Salem, Oregon. There is alot of construction work going on around there so parking is in the garage thing quite a ways away. (Far enough that they have a shuttle)

I had parked on the ground floor because it is easier to get in and out of but also because I am huge and fat and I just don’t want to walk anymore than I have to. So I was headed back to my van with my son Alex in his stroller. (Too far for him to walk) when this lady in a red land rover was going the wrong way down the isle. Needless to say in a parking garage there is barely enough room for a car going the right way down the isle to navigate between the huge monster trucks that park in there let alone go the wrong way and try to swing into a spot. Well that is what she was doing or at least attempting to do. So she finally figured out after like 6 attempts that she could not get her car in the spot, so she decided that she was going to turn around. That was proving to be difficult because of the lack of space, as I was getting Alex in the car I was watching her through the back window and watched her back into a medium sized white Dodge Dakota. She I don’t think realized that she had hit it because she was still backing up. I jumped out of my van and started waving my arms telling her to stop, she did and when she looked back she looked embarrassed. Then she pulled forward almost hitting MY van, (thankfully for her she didn’t I am not in the best of moods and she might not have liked what I would have had to say) and tried to back up again this time hitting a silver Subaru outback.

After about 5 min of maneuvering she finally was able to get in to the parking spot, (going around would have been much easier) when she emerged from her vehicle she just looked at me then went on her merry way. I could not believe it… She just hit two cars not one but two and was going to walk away? All I could think was amazing just amazing.

So knowing that if someone had hit my car I would want to know I waited for her to leave and drove around to get the plate information, make and model of all three vehicles. I just hope that someone would do that for me. Now that I had the information I wasn’t sure what to do with it, so I went to the security guard by the doors to my dr office and gave him the information. The only thing about that is I was the ONLY witness except the person that did I , so I had to give over my license and all that good information so that if the owners wanted to do something they had a way of contacting me.

It’s kind of scary when someone would do that and not even tell you. I know I have only refeered to the person as a woman in this post but when she got out of her car it was not what I would have expected. She was a distinguished looking lady in her late 40’s early 50’s if I had to guess. Not that I expect that kind of behavior from anyone but I would have more expected a teen or young driver to do something that stupid. Now I am just wondering how many other people she had hit and ran on and they are just stuck with the bill.

I guess this is just something that I will reflect on next time I get in or walk behind my car.

Tags: cars, dr appointments, hit and run

Here is a list of all the things I have been thinking about!!

1. Well I am wondering when I am going to finally have this baby. I am so sick and tired of being in pain and not being able to do anything about it.  I think that my husband is getting tired of it as well. I swear it took me all day yesterday to get some dishes done. I didn’t have alot to do but it took all day. I could stand for 10 min or so then I had to go and sit down for a while.  Oh well 13 days until my induction date!!! I according to my doctor have been in labor for over a week, but my body keeps stressing and stalling out. But since I am ok and so is she they won’t do anything to help me. Yeah it sucks.
2. My kids, What am I going to do with three? Why are we having a third? I don’t mean that I love any of them more than the others I am just stressing out about what I am going to do. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment and the kids share a room. I know that we are going to have to move soon, I just don’t know where. I don’t think that we can afford a more expensive place, which sucks because for what we pay we aren’t going to be able to get a larger place. Oh well…. Not much I can do about it at the moment.
3. Work, I start back to work on April 14th and my mom was supposed to be watching my kids. She said that she would and that we were just going to pay her. That was so easy.. Too easy. I got a call the other day from my mom saying that she was not going to watch them.  My step-dad doesn’t want the kids there when he gets home from work. He gets home at 4 ish and Shaun (my hubby) gets off work at 5pm so he would be there at about 5:15. That is just too much for my step-dad etc and he threw a fit. I am not too happy about that situation. I can find a place for my older children but Brinley is going to be just a couple of weeks old when I go back to work, and I don’t know of any daycare that takes children under 6 weeks old. Not thrilled with her at all….
4. Baby Shower, My mom waited until the last minute to send out the invites to my baby shower so none of my friends attended. Well one did, Mechele and her kids, and that was really nice to see her. But even most of my family that she invited had made other plans my then. I was very put out by that. When I am saying last minute I don’t mean a couple of weeks before I mean she MAILED the invites out on the 3rd and my shower was just this last Saturday the 8th. Most told me that they didn’t even get them till the 5th and 6th. By then it was too late. Then there are other people that were invited that just plain ignored it. I was not thrilled. Then they even had the nerve to call and ask me for a ride somewhere before my shower. I was not so happy about that but I did it any ways.
5. Friends, Have you ever had friends that just walk all over you all of the time? I swear most of my friends are that way. They do not call or seem to want to have anything to do with me unless they need something. It is frustrating and it hurts really bad. I am thinking of becoming a flake just so that I can fit in. I had not heard from several friends in weeks then they call because they need money etc. So tired of it.

Well I think that is just about enough belly aching for the moment.  It is just frustrating the way life plays out sometimes. Oh well have a good one, and I will yak at ya later.

Tags: babies, baby shower, delivery, family, friends, parentskids

I don’t know how long I can deal with this. I am stressing out because I am in pain, and I swear I am biting off everyone’s head this evening. Things that don’t normally bother me are driving me insane.

I have a three year old that is pushing ever single one of my buttons.

• He keeps getting in to my purse.
• Taking out the laces from all of our shoes.
• He hit me in the head with my own keys. (He dug in my purse took my keys and when I asked him to put them back he threw them at me and they hit me in the side of the head.)
• He grabbed my soda off the table and when I told him to put it back he threw it on my couch.

• He is allergic to chocolate so every time I turn around he has been sneaking around to get it and then vomiting everywhere.

My poor husband is so burnt out at work he wants to start his maternity leave early. I don’t think that this is a bad idea accept that what if she doesn’t come forever and he doesn’t have the time to spend with us at home when we need him. I wish that this was feasible but I am afraid that it just isn’t at this point. I almost selfishly want him home so that I don’t have to be alone while I am laboring. Is that selfish?

My husband’s best friend in the whole wide world just got into town from Tenn. for a funeral. His grandfather died so he is in town for the funeral. It will be wonderful to see him, even though I probably will not get the chance. The only free day that he is going to have is on Saturday. (The same day as my baby shower) So I am sure that I am going to miss out but what ever I am just hoping that Shaun will have the chance to get in some quality time with him. They have not seen one another in almost four years.

I just can not over come my frustrations this evening. I am in pain and everything is just pissing me off. Wow this is just getting to be too much. I don’t know what to do. Does anyone have a suggestion? or two? maybe three? I think that I am going to need all of the help that I can get.

Well thanks for listening, even though I didn’t say a whole lot I feel better.

Well the pregnancy is not that bad it is just the labor part I am having trouble with at the moment. I went to the doctor yesterday and they determined that I am in labor it is just really slow. So I am having mass amounts of contractions and they are not doing hardly anything to get her out. I feel like I am doing all this work and dealing with all of this pain for nothing at the moment.

I never really thought about getting stuck at a certain point in labor but apparently you can. That and this is the first time that I have not been induced so I don’t really know what to expect. The hospital told me that it could be a day (or less) or even a week or two. What kind of crap is that? I didn’t sign up for that. Not that I want my daughter to be born prematurely by any means considering that I am only 36 weeks, but they won’t do anything to help me get unstuck. (For fear of a malpractice suit) I understand that they are afraid that I would sue if there was something that went wrong during the delivery and it was because of the pitocin or what ever they give. Then on the other hand I am far enough along that they won’t give me anything that will stop it or slow it down either. Basically from what I have been told I am just in limbo till she decided to come out or until the 23rd when they will just get it over with.

I am not so sure that I will be able to deal with all of this until the 23rd, neither is my Dr. so he told me to walk, walk, walk , and walk some more, and hopefully that will make my body finish what it has started. Here’s hoping I have been walking so much that I can barely keep my eyes open because I am not sleeping either. (Because of the contractions) What a vicious cycle… Well I am going to try and lay down for a bit, I will keep you posted.

Tags: delivery, family, kids, labor, pregnancy