Spring has Sprung

Well, as I'm sure you can see from my lack of blogging.. Spring is here, and with that comes schedules. Tons and tons of calendar squares that are filled! We have soccer games, pta programs, field days at my school, Jack's school, and Josie's school, field trips to the AA center for Jack, field trips to see farm animals for Josie, field trips to the zoo for me.. then OOOPS No field trips.. swine flu! Then oops.. BACK ON... cdc decided it was ok now. It's all hard to keep up with. Last week, I think I was home for maybe an hour each day before 9 oclock each night. Crazy. We're in the middle this week of bday parties, a field trip, progress report grades, and amoxicillin for an ear infection (Lucy this time- right ear)

Last week Jack had 3 soccer games in a week. One Saturday, Tuesday night and Thursday night. We won all of them, Jack claims, due to the fact that he did NOT wash his socks in between games. Lucky socks that smell. Josie has grown about 2 feet since last summer.. and has nothing that fits to wear because as soon as I buy it.. she's already out of that size. Can we say growth spurt! And to top it all off... I think that we have about one more, maybe 2, weeks before Lucy is mobile. SCARY! to have all 3 kids running amuck... what will this house become? She's up on all 4s now and mad as can be that getting up on her knees alone didn't get her to that something that she wanted. It's only a matter of time before she realizes that she can actually move those chubby legs of hers with those roly poly arms and actually achieve the prize! Now, next goal: to eat that food that mom has on her plate instead of these green beans. Jack and Scott right now as I type are working on a push cart for Scouts. Next week is the push cart derby which is a big race of these hand built g0-carts pretty much. It should make for some great photos! I'll check back in with news of the derby! In the meantime.. enjoy your family because these calendar squares fill up fast, but also pass quickly. Enjoy each square as it comes! Love, Jen

It has been a busy week this week. We had soccer on Monday night in hurricane force wind, I swear... I thought little Lucy was going to blow away. They played their little selves to into a tizzy for the 1st half, but on the 2nd half when we changed goals and were headed the opposite direction, we realized that the wind worked to our advantage ! We scored 6 goals to their 2! go TNT. And on an added note.. one of their 2 goals was scored by one of our kiddos when he kicked it up into the air and the wind actually BLEW it BACKWARDS into their goal. Great job guys. Then Tuesday night was a Cub Scouts pack meeting that Scott so wonderfully dragged 3 children to becasuse I had parent conferences all night. We're both ready for a Friday and it's only 1/2 way over. Tonight, Scott and Jack have gone to the shoe store to get much needed shoes for Jack.. he has a blister from his other shoes and we couldn't make him suffer any longer. Hope everyone else is well and good on this rainy, windy night!

Some pics to enjoy

My Spring BREAK

Yea for Spring Break. Speaking of break... I really did get one yesterday. This week has been mostly filled with trips to various doctors for Josie. We have several annual visits we have to make each year... cardiologist, pacemaker, etc... which all went remarkably! I love having visits when they don't remember you were there at the end of the day. We were in and out all good reports! Yea! Josie!!! Yesterday, I got a Spring BREAK though! I told the kids that I was going to feed Lucy a bottle and then I would get lunch ready.. but instead while I was feeding her.. Jack decided to make lunch for us all on his own. What a kid!

There were sandwiches of all different flavors! There wasn't any mayo or mustard on any of them, so they were a tad dry, but they were the best sandwiches I had ever had. Not to mention, he threw in some chips, and grapes to top it off.

As if that weren't enough.. Josie decided to sweep the kitchen for me. She swept everything that she could muster up right on to my carpet, but hey! It will vacuum from there! What awesome kiddos I have!

Now that's what I call a spring BREAK !

Today we spent the day making cookies for spring break.. we will decorate tonight. YUm!

How I do CVS

Today was another use and abuse day at CVS. If you haven't discovered the deals at CVS yet, you really should check it out. Today I spent $20.69 and got all of the things in the picuture.... which includes, by the way, a Large pack of diapers and a 12 pack of diet coke, 3 bags of Easter candy for baskets, Pantene shampoo, conditioner and hairspray (which was free), a pack of gum (free also) and deodorant (which I actually made money on). Total costs amount $47.61 and my cost $20.69. Use your coupons and extra bucks folks! They're just giving stuff away.

Green Day

Well, Yesterday was St. Patty's Day, so we spent it in green. We had green foods all day.. green eggs, green milk and shamrock toast with green sprinkles for breakfast. For dinner, we had broccoli of course, and ranch chicken with rice and parsley for some green. The best green for the day was definitely the green smoothie we had for dessert. See the recipe below and note what makes it green! I believe that his exact words were, " Mom! that smoothie was GOOOD!" who knew!

Shamrock Shake/Shrek ShakeIngredients: (wash hands first!)
*handful of ice cubes
*handful or two of fresh spinach (don’t see why you couldn’t use frozen, but fresh sure is pretty)*handful of frozen peach slices or other yellow or green frozen fruit
*1-2 frozen bananas
*1-2 cups of pineapple juice
*1 apple, cubed (golden delicious is great, or granny smith)

Directions:Throw all ingredients in a blender and blend. Enjoy.


I have to say.. I tried it and couldn't taste the spinach at all. I loved it. It tasted like a peach smoothie to me. We didn't add apples because we didn't have any, and we had apple juice, so we did that instead. Next year, I think I may try this:

Green Spaghetti
This is a great idea!
lb. spaghetti, cooked,
drained10 oz. frozen spinach, chopped
1/2 C. chicken broth
1/2 C. Parmesan cheese, grated
1/2 C. milk4 Tbs. butter (optional)
Prepare spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, heat spinach in microwave until hot. Heat broth over low heat. Place spinach and it’s liquid into blender. Add warmed broth and liquefy. Stir cheese and milk into spinach mixture. When spaghetti is done, drain and place in large bowl. Toss with butter, then spinach mixture.