Weekend wrap up

 

LAZY

You should see all the drafts I’ve written for blog posts and have abandoned.  Namely because I get distracted easily by shiny objects or people that go, “Moooooooommmm?????”  Did everyone have a nice long weekend?  Did you get Monday off?  I did!  I think my Saturday and Sunday were a little too jam packed and that’s what caused me to get absolutely nothing done on Monday.  Well, I did watch 6 episodes of “I Married a Mobster.”  Please don’t ask me why, because I don’t know.  I’m sure my hubs appreciated the random, out of the blue text of, “Does the mafia still exist.?”  He was a bit curious as to what shennanigans I had going on.

KITCHEN ANTICS

Saturday I was busy in the kitchen and was really wanting to tackle a few new-to-me recipes. I made a batch of Curry Creamy Butternut Soup and OOOOh my goodness it was amazing!  Was…I mean, IS…the kids won’t touch it so I’m eating it for the rest of the week, I think. (I lied…I put a quart of it in the freezer.) My hubs grilled up some chicken, Indian style, and we added that to the soup…took it to a whole new amazing level.  He said it tastes very similar to lentil dahl.  I think we are going to serve it over some steamed rice tonight.  Can’t wait! UPDATE – Served over rice, even MORE amazing!

I made some edamame hummus and while it was tasty, I don’t think I’d make it again.  I like chickpeas way too much.

VOLLEYBALL

My youngest is quite the volleyball player and it’s so much fun to watch her skills develop.  For the next 6 weeks or so, our life is on extreme volleyball alert with a tournament almost every weekend.  I kind of don’t like it and love it all so much at the same time.  That makes sense right?  I whined about having my alarm set so early on a Saturday morning (practice) and a Sunday morning (Had to drive 1 1/2 hours to the tournament) and then I reminded myself, “Hey nitwit, you make yourself get up earlier in the summer for your long runs.  Whoops!  The things we do for a good sweat!  Oh and in this household, we think this is a pretty funny shirt.  And no, we don’t really hate anyone, but it’s funny.  There’s at least one person on the opponent’s team that usually drives you up the wall for one reason or another.  We have some funny stories!

 

RANDOM

I have some exciting news to share with you in a couple of days so don’t ditch me now!

Also, I’m still waiting to hear from Tracy, the winner of “The Happiness Project.” Please email me by Friday, the 25th or I will need to draw another winner.

And lastly….