I made homemade meatballs with panko bread crumbs, egg, parmasean/romano cheese, italian herbs, fresh garlic, and onion powder. (I didn’t have any fresh onion)
Baked in a casserole dish with sauce and the meatballs and covered with low fat mozzarella cheese. Yum.
I did this semi-homemade style. In homage to the Vikings playoff game and with fond memories to the yummy Buffalo Chicked Dip I made on New Years Eve I decided to do Buffalo Chicken Strips. I sliced organic chicken breasts into strips and then used Shake and Bake on them and baked them in the oven. Half stayed like that for the kids and the other half got tossed in Franks Red Hot Buffalo Wing sauce. Yum! Add some cut up celery and carrot sticks, rice pilaf side dish, and blue cheese dressing and it was tasty and easy meal.
I chopped the beef into small cubes, browned it in a hot pan. I added onions and garlic. I cubed celery, carrots, potato – all fresh. Popped it all in the crockpot with some merlot, 2 knorr buillon cubes, salt, pepper, herbs, and Hungarian paprika.
It came out perfect.
I forgot about 43things.com and my goal to write a reason a day I love my hubby. I didn’t forget to love my hubby though. Today’s reason is that he is a great breadwinner. Hurray for hard working, steady, responsible guys. They are gems amongst the rocks out there.
I made a dumpling bag! http://www.squidoo.com/dumplingbag
Now I need to finish some embroidery on it and felt it in the washing machine and it will be all done. I am so proud of myself.
I made a Squidoo lens listing cool patterns for garments you can make using only squares and rectangles. These are great for beginners and quick projects. Totally full of modular knitting as well as simple but cool patterns.
He will drive me around to garage sales. A wonderful catch, don’t you agree?
He picked up the kids today, and made dinner. MWAH!
He says I love his “bad attitude”, so that is just going to have to be reason number 17.
He never yells at my for my hobbies, shopping, or books I buy. He has a love of “toys” and playing games too so we both just budget a bit of money for these things and as long as its within reason we leave each other alone!
A friend of mine was telling me how she heard of a lady that had to hide craft purchases from her husband and I thought that was really sad. It doesn’t allow you to be your own person and also by hiding things it does not bode well for the relationship.
He cleaned out my car. (And that was risking life limb and tetanus in this this case)
I love Jin for so many reasons. He filled out Ben’s kindergarten paperwork (no small feat!) and took it into the school so our little guy is all ready for school a week from Monday.
The “point yourself in a direction” method of success has one enemy and that is the fear of not being perfect. When you are paralyzed by the fear of it not being the perfect time or the perfect circumstances for you to take action you are less likely to take the small actions that will send you on the road to your goals.
Here are some phrases to help you beat the habit of waiting till everything is perfect to do small tasks.
Good enough is good enough
A little bit is better than nothing
It’s a start
It’s worth a try!
And here’s one from my Dad great for describing when you do a fast cleaning around the house – “A lick and a promise.”
