Me-

So with this past week going as well as it has I'm feeling up to a diet again. I know over the years I couldnt stay with it but I really need a life long eating habit change. Here I go again, this time I'm cutting out dairy (hopefully to help with my acne issues) and starch (potatoes,pastas,bread,rice). I'll mainly be on meat/veggies/fruits and I'll add in egg & beans if I feel like it. I am off soda already, but will weed out the other drinks as time goes by, I enjoy my morning coffee way to much.

Lunch yesterday~
tuna (in oil=no soy product added), msprinkled w/ seasame seeds & soy
green beans w/ salt-pepper-garlic
boiled egg w/ rice srinkles
seaweed sheets

This can be GF w/ the right soysauce, LC too since theres no rice.
So good I almost didnt miss the Jasmin Rice I normally eat this with.

Over time I know this will get easier

3 growing boys

All in one room !?!
really, can it be done?
of course it CAN but comfortably?
w/ privacy?
how about when they are all so different?
or have way to much stuff each?
what about all the gaming stuff they are to "share"



Well I did it! I fit all 3 boys in one room.

Here I'll show you :)
Take the largest room in the house
(yes its even bigger than the master w/o a closet &/or bath)

J's side


C's side


A's side (w/o his stuff- still to be unpacked)


gaming station


from the door

Me-a quick round up.....

....of whats been going on.
Over the past year or so I've been working on parenting classes, mindfullness, love & logic........
Well I came to finally realize its me, I need help, I feel the need to run-but cant. I look back and see that its been a few years that I've been slowly going downhill.
I called for an appt.
So the past 7 weeks I've been trying out some meds, 3 to be exact, this one seems to be it.

~Tasty Tuesday~ Fresh Peach Cinnamon Crisp

Super yummy!
quick & easy too
(from a nonbakers point of view)

preheat oven 375

9.5in pie dish, butter lightly

9 fresh ripe (unloved by the kids) peaches, peel-slice-deseed, place in piepan

4tsp lemon juice, sprinkle over peaches

in bowl mix together-
1c all purpose flour (gluten free works too)
1c brown sugar
1tsp cinnamon

add in 1 egg and fork blend it to make a crumbly mixture

sprinkle crumble mixture on top of peaches

melt 1 stick (1/2c) butter and drizzle ontop of mixture

bake 35min

serve & top with a scoop of vanilla icecream (to the kids who wouldn't eat the peaches, and they cleaned their bowls)

Alder Lake

4th of July '11

We celebrated a day early due to the man having to work this morning,

here I'll include a few pictures of us out at Alder Lake, WA.

It's such a great State Park, very nice, clean, complete with everything, volleyball, parks, tables and bbqs all along the lakefront, swimming zone, boat docks, tons of tent and RV spots that also had lots of room, table and a prebuilt fire pits.

We were only there for the day but want to definitely go back for a weekend trip.

To my Husband

If there is a task to be done you've always completed it-even more so than needed, you've worked your way up through your sections and platoons, trained your guys to be the best Sergeant's & Chiefs they can be, you've spent many nights in the field firing off rounds, you've worked hard to make new ranks, doing jobs that are a step above you, here you are today as Gunny doing your final reenlistment-indefinite now.

12 years in, 12 medals too

11 rotations of NTC/JRTC

10 years with me

9 schools

8 years to go

7 months RearD

6 deployments, 6 units

5 Campaign Medals

4 kids

3 major Bases

2 weeks Air Assault

1 Purple Heart & 1 Order of Saint Barbara

There are a few things missing, the losses, the injuries, the surgeries too, I've seen you in BDU's, DCU's and ACU's, Class A greens now those pretty Blues, soft caps, booney hats, beret's too, spit shinning boots, brushing desert tans, oh and those fancy dress shoes.

This was just a quick rundown I wrote for you, a reminder of sorts of what you've gone through, you're such a hard worker, I'm so proud of you.

I love you !