Thursday, January 20, 2011

What a way to wake up

Homemade Bread that I made. I am trying to eat better (Tucker too) so we are making more things from scratch. It tastes so much better.

The bread while it is rising one is an olive loaf and the rest are biscuits.

This is how I woke up this morning, with this lovely note lying on the floor in my room. Needless to say we are taking the day off, what else could you do with a note like this?


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Another Day


Last night I was forced to make an emergency run to Walmart for posterboard. A science project was due today (of course). After a few choice words to my lovely son regarding his inability to do homework before the deadline, I made a run for it.

Honestly, the project turned out great. Very sparkley with glitter everywhere. Who can't use a little more glitter in their life?

I definitely have the winter blues. It is back to reasonable temperatures here (in the 50s) but it is cloudy and rainy. Not the sunny, hot place that I enjoy. On the plus side, we are in the midst of Mardi Gras season down here in the South!

Here is a list of the parades that Tuck and I are going to attend this season. People stake out spots along the parade route early in the am, and spend the day drinking and cooking out for the day and running around in the streets. In the evening you check out the parade and catch beads, it is great fun!

The Krewe of Centaur Parade is Saturday, February 26th at 430 p.m.

The Krewe of Gemini rolls through Shreveport on Saturday, March 5 at 430 p.m.

The Krewe of Aesclepius is the final parade of the Mardi Gras Season on Fat Tuesday, March 8th in Bossier City.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tuesday Night

The lovely dog is snuggled up on the floor destroying the toy he received for Christmas (the floor is covered in shreds of threads. I am unsucessfully attempting to remove by defunct antivirus from my laptop so I can install one that works (not going to happen tonight), and my lovely son Tucker. Oh Tuck, is attempting to remember what book he read weeks ago for the book report that is due tomorrow. Christmas has wiped his brain clean. He has no idea what it was.

Last but not least it's frickin COLD here, 19 degrees tonight, swell..... Why did I move here again? Someone please remind me!

Monday, January 10, 2011

ice

We have a fine coating of ice on the roads down here, barely a thin layer. It is frigid for us (in the 20s at night 30s in the day) for the next week. For today they have closed the bridges and shut down the schools. Its an ice day off! Tuck is thrilled, and I am mystified. The whole town is shut down for this? Who would have thought!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Haircuts

Dozer trying to play with our kitty Visa


The drama boy getting a trim from his big brother



Tucker would not go to a hair salon for a trim. Would not! I begged, pleaded, and pracitcally bribed him. No dice. Finally, I asked him if his brother could give him a trim, and voila! Success! Mitch came by the house and gave the little monster a trim so we could avoid detention at school for moppy hair touching his ears (via school policy).
Tucker and his buddy Robert playing computer games (as usual)! With Tucks new haircut.





Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The New Year

Tucker returned from a whirlwind trip to Montana right before the new year. He loves Montana and his CC (my sis). He cross country skied, and sledded, and ran around with his best buddy Ben. My sister and her friends spent countless hours taking him on adventures and playing with him. He has decided he is going to live up there. (I can join him if I would like to) I have conviced him to "tough" it out for the rest of the school year. Right now in Montana it gets down in the -10 to 20's, here it is in the 30-40s at night. Today it was in the 60s, no coat needed.
While he was gone I worked....and worked. And spent countless hours alone.
Yes, alone.
For the first time in years.
Mitch was around, sometimes, but he works alot and has his own busy life. For that I am glad, I never wanted to have grown men on the couch playing video games in their 20s. Mitch is self sufficient, has direction, a good job, money in the bank, and his own home with Monica. He is doing really well. I am always very proud of him.
So now it's just me and the high maintinence 11 year old.
Just like his mother.