Top Secret Recipes...

Today I decided to dust off the old blog, and share my favorite recipe.  My mom made these when I was little girl, and through the years I have tweaked them a little here and there until I decided they were just right.  Put down that chinese take out menu my friends.  I'm about to post my eggroll recipe for the world to see.  *Gasp*  Let's get down to business.

Ingredients

• 2 cans of all white meat chicken
• 1 large package of shredded cabbage and carrots for coleslaw (you can shred the cabbage yourself... but I prefer to skip the mess and just buy this stuff instead.)
• 1 Tbs.. minced garlic
• 1 tsp. minced ginger
• 1 Tbs. olive oil
• 2 Tbs. oyster sauce
• 2 Tbs.  soy sauce
• 1 pkg. egg roll wrappers
• corn starch and water in a small cup for sealing eggroll
• oil for frying

Directions

Warm olive oil in a large skillet.  Sautee minced garlic and ginger for a minute or so before adding chicken and coleslaw mix.  Mix well and add oyster and soy sauce.  Stir fry for about 2 minutes before removing from heat.  You don't want to overcook the cabbage.. Otherwise you will end up with a soggy eggroll.   Place about 3 Tablespoons of mixture on top of eggroll wrapper.  Wrap according to directions on package.  (I lack the patience required to explain this step to you.)  Make sure there are no holes!  Fry in deep fryer until eggroll is a nice crispy brown.  You can enjoy these babies with sweet and sour sauce, spicy mustard, or whatever you like!

These are actually super easy to make.. You can even double the recipe and freeze the leftovers.  All though leftovers don't last long in this house. :)

Teething Hell 101

My little angel is getting her first tooth... at least I hope she is. The last 72 hours at the Wilson house have been full of shrieking, screaming, and slobbering. She won't eat, she won't sleep, and I'm pretty sure that if she actually had any chompers in there, she would have taken a chunk out of my hand by now. (Please refer to exhibits A & B.)



Exhibit A "Happy baby before teething process."


Exhibit B "One pissed off little princess during teething process."

My two older children never went through this, so this is a new experience for me. I have conjured up all the equipment you need to deal with a teething child... and nothing has worked yet. One set of tools is used on the baby, the other set is for mommy. (Please refer to exhibits C & D)





Exhibit C "baby tools"


Exhibit D "Mommy tools"


Don't get your panties in a bunch.. i haven't turned to Sailor Jerry for any help yet. However I'm pretty sure my grandparents would say that a little rum on her gums would help... but I'm sure with today's parenting standards, DCFS would be knocking on my door in no time. So please keep my little angel in your prayers until this process is finally over.. and please keep my sanity in your prayers as well. :)

Creepy Crawlies & The Hibbity Jibbity's

Josh and I are living the true "American Dream." We (mostly he) work our behinds off to be a happy middle class family. (Who gets the shaft at tax time, might I add.) We do what most happy American families do on a lazy Saturday.... yard work! Yippee! I decided to give the hubby a much deserved break today though. I got up at 6:30 and headed to work to get my chores done. This was all so I could get yard work done before we got hit hard by the thunderstorms that our "genius" weatherman predicted. The first half of mowing is always a breeze. I prefer to mow the front yard first. That way if I get too tired, I can pull the ghetto white trash move, and leave the back yard for a later date. :) The second half always reminds me that a big back yard is not always a desirable thing. I swear on all that is holy, my next house will have a yard made of freaking astro turf. Anyways, as I was mowing away, thinking about all the problems we've had with our home as new (and quite frankly, ignorant) homeowners, i came across a fallen tree limb. I picked it up to throw it out of my way and found these creepy crawlies.




Those, my friends, are frigging termites. As if we don't have enough wrong with our house, lets add a termite infestation in our back yard. My first thought was "I wonder how much insurance money we could get if I torch our house." And then my second thought was "Crap, how much is this going to cost me!?" (disclaimer; I, in no way shape or form, claim responsibility if our house burns to the ground in the near future.) I LOVE being a homeowner! <--- insert sarcastic tone here.

Now let me introduce you to the most disgusting bug ever.



The Earwig. I believe this bugs sole purpose on earth is to make me scream and jump up and down like a 3 year old girl. I had never actually seen one until i moved to El Paso. And they have decided to build a nest in our tree. Thankfully I've only ever seen one in my house. Otherwise this place would have been torched a long time ago. (once again, I, in no way shape or form, claim responsibility if our house burns to the ground in the near future.) They love moist areas. And they scatter like roaches as soon as the see a light. Which is why you can only see the top half of this little guy.

Now for the grand finale. Parker dubbed this bug "The coolest bug that ever lived" today.



This is apparently a Spotted Leopard Slug. He/She is a hermaphrodite, and measures in at a whopping 4 inches. Normally when I see a slug, I go running for a salt shaker, but I decided to spare the little guy/girl and set it free. Parker wanted to keep it as a pet, but I'm positive he would have killed in within 15 minutes. I'm still trying to figure out how our cats have survived this long. Another interesting fact, Slugs don't poop from the normal "routine" area of the body. (Please refer to picture)



This was discovered after he took a nice big poo on Josh's hand. We immediately returned him to his home after that. (NOTE; Slug goo does not wash off hands easily. So pick up a slug at your own risk.)

So that's my day in a nutshell. I will be having nightmares about bugs for weeks to come. Or dreams of the Terminex man showing up and blasting the crap out of my backyard. :)

What's in a name?

Conjuring up a blog title is pretty darned hard. I sat here for a good 30 minutes, staring at my computer screen, and listening to the sound of my computer, (which sounds like a jet plane taking off, due to the amount of pet hair that I am sure has made it's way inside) wondering what the heck I'm going to name this darn blog. And then it hit me. If I'm going to spend my time blogging about my kids, the title better have something to do with them. And since Parker was running around my house yesterday morning, screaming; "Icing on my bacon!!! Icing on my bacon!!!!" I found this title to be the most fitting title I could come up with. This blog is mostly for me to vent, and share. I think my husband gets tired of my "stimulating" conversations about what got shoved down the toilet, and who dared who to eat a someone else's booger. Having an adult conversation becomes challenging when the only people you have to converse with, can't even make it a whole week without wearing their underwear backwards (at least twice) and only want to talk about bakugan, star wars, and ben 10. Happy reading people.