Ugh! I have two girls who wear shoes that fast! I can see why in the olden days people let their children go shoeless until the weather turned in the fall. Shoes are so expensive!

Happy Birthday!:D

Wow! That's an event! Go play!

Ah, yes. I had two of those. It is a struggle. You will survive.

:bigear: Would love soluions to this as well. My kids have their own alarms but %99.999999 of the time sleep through them and it takes me mutiple times and frustration to get them up. I would like my day to be over at a reasonable time too!

Yeah my dh still has a pile of coveralls for work that have been sitting there for a year after I tried putting them in the garage. They just need to be hemmed. They are for work. Couldn't we just cut them?

Sounds like our husbands are alike. Could you box up the stuff that you would like to declutter and give him a specific time frame to deal with it. If not done in that time then you are free to do it?

1. cut the pumpkin in half, place upside down on a lightly olive oiled, tin foiled covered pan. 2. Roast at 400 degrees for 40 to 50 minutes. 3. Peal the skin and place in a big bowl. 4. Smash the heck out of it with a potato masher. 5. Measure two cups and place in a zip lock freezer bag, squeeze out the air and smooth it flat so it stack easy in the freezer. When you go to make your pie place all the ingredients in the blender and whip it up. That will take care of all the lumps. You might have to bake it a little longer due to the water content of the fresh pumpkin but the flavor is amazing due to the fact that baking it concentrates the sugars and doesn't soak up water like boiling it does. Enjoy! I am just now getting flowers on my plants!

I like this recipe for Chicken Taquitos. We cook and shred a whole chicken and double the filling recipe. We end up with about 75 taquitos and they heat up really well. Chicken Taquitos 3 oz. cream cheese, softened ¼ cup salsa 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice 1 tsp. chili powder ½ tsp. cumin ½ tsp. onion powder 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 tbsp. chopped cilantro 1-2 green onions, chopped 2 cups shredded cooked chicken 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese 10-12 6-inch tortillas Olive oil Sea salt Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a large mixing bowl (I use my kitchenAide), combine the cream cheese, salsa, lime juice, spices, cilantro, and green onions; mix thoroughly then add chicken and cheese and mix well. Heat the tortillas to make them pliable. Spoon 2-3 tablespoons of the filling down the middle of the tortilla. Roll the tortilla up tightly around the filling. Place seam side down on baking sheet. Repeat until all the filling is used up. Brush tops of tortillas with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Bake 15-20 minutes until crisp and golden brown. To freeze before baking, transfer the baking sheet to the freezer and chill 30-60 minutes. Transfer to a ziplock. To bake from the freezer, simply add a few additional minutes to the original baking until warmed through.

My cell phone doesn't ring when she is calling me, and I didn't set it up to do that! :D

Try rubbing used coffee grounds on your hands then rinse.

You can find my recipe in post 40 of this thread!:001_smile:

My easy go to pizza sauce recipe. 1 can tomatoe sauce, 1 Tb. Italion seasoning, 1 tsp. onion powder, 1 tsp. garlic powder and a dash of evoo. Let simmer for a couple minutes. It makes two cookie sheet pizzas.

Here is the recipe. I double it. I also buy a whole chicken and then boil it, debone and shred it. We don't sprinkle them with the sea salt as my dh is supposed to avoid added salt. You can use either flour or corn tortillas. Don't forget the cilantro. It makes or breaks it. Chicken Taquitos 3 oz. cream cheese, softened ¼ cup salsa 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice 1 tsp. chili powder ½ tsp. cumin ½ tsp. onion powder 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 tbsp. chopped cilantro 1-2 green onions, chopped 2 cups shredded cooked chicken 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese 10-12 6-inch tortillas Olive oil Sea salt Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a large mixing bowl (I use my kitchenAide), combine the cream cheese, salsa, lime juice, spices, cilantro, and green onions; mix thoroughly then add chicken and cheese and mix well. Heat the tortillas to make them pliable. Spoon 2-3 tablespoons of the filling down the middle of the tortilla. Roll the tortilla up tightly around the filling. Place seam side down on baking sheet. Repeat until all the filling is used up. Brush tops of tortillas with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Bake 15-20 minutes until crisp and golden brown. To freeze before baking, transfer the baking sheet to the freezer and chill 30-60 minutes. Transfer to a ziplock. To bake from the freezer, simply add a few additional minutes to the original baking until warmed through.

I make chicken taquitos that way. I can make about 75 with one whole chicken. They freeze really well and are easy to heat up.

Ok saw Batman this morning and it was good, but I still want to see Spiderman!

Yes, real birthday and my ds got one last year at 15.

How about Fred Meyer or a store that sells spices in bulk?

I set one up for my dd just after she turned 13.

Now you've gone and confused me! DH and I are planning to go to the movies in the am and I can't decide between to two.

BLT's and watermelon.

Prayed for you!

1. I like them on smores but can only eat about two before the sweetness factor becomes too much for me. 2. My day was great. Today is my birthday so I pretty much lounged around and let my family serve me. Plus the sun came out for a change.:001_smile: 3. Lots. My birthday is today! Our anniversary is the 17th (19 years). My dh birthday is later this month. My ds16 is going on a short term missions trip. Whew!

Refined flour. At least to start.

I have been thinking this would be a good thing for me to do, but I really have no idea where to start. I was talking with a young lady and she mentioned that she does this during the week. Unfortunately we couldn't get into a conversation about it. So how do you do it? What does one eat when they love bread/toast for breakfast? Help!