Dish #6 & #7

Dish #6 Bacon and Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwhich

I love making "grown up" grilled cheese sandwiches. These had bacon and cheddar cheese in it.


Dish #7 Spare Food Casserole

I made this casserole with a bunch of food I had in the fridge and in the cupboard. I didnt want to go out and buy groceries to be able to make dinner so I came up with this casserole. To my surprise it tasted really good, even as a leftover.

Here are the ingredients I used:
3 eggs (they didnt really seem to show up in the casserole so I may use more next time)
1 can of broccoli cheese soup (do not add water...I almost ruined it by doing this)
3 slices of bacon (its all I had left)
1 can of green beans
1/4 of an onion
tator tots
cheddar cheese (i mixed cheese in and put it on top of the casserole towards the end of cooking)

Because of the water I added to the mix I ended up stiring the tator tots into the casserole to help soak up the water.

Dish #5

Dish #5 Loaded Chicken and Bacon Tator Tot Casserole
Sooo good! Tator tots on the bottom, then chicken, bacon, onions, green onions, and cheddar cheese. It wasnt great as a leftover because the tator tots where too mushy but it is delicious the first time around.

Dish #3 & #4

Here are two more dishes Ive made in the last week.

Dish #3 Garden Stuffed Crust Pizza

I had to use some canned tomatoes because I didnt have enough fresh ones, so that made the pizza too salty, but without the canned tomatoes this wouldve been a really good pizza. I dont have my cheese grater right now so I had to just cut slices of cheese.

Dish #4 Chicken Bacon Ranch Tortilla Pockets

The tortilla has chicken, bacon, corn, onions, green onions, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, and ranch flavoring in it.

Mom's group frustration!

Ive been wanting to contact our new church to find out if they had a mom's group but I kept putting it off. Finally a couple days ago I emailed the church. I told them we were new to the parish and I was wondering if they had a moms group? This is the email I received back "There isn’t a mom’s group at this time.Thank you." I was a little bumbed that they didnt have a mom's group, but not surprised. What really annoyed me was how unwelcoming the response was. No - welcome to the parish, no- here is some great mom's to get in touch with, etc. 

Tonight I decided to see if there were any church's in the area that had mom's groups. So far I have not found any, just women's groups. I did find a MOPS in Rogers, but it is mainly for SAHMs, so they meet during the day while all the working mom's are at work. There seems to be so much focusing on supporting the SAHM but what about the working mom? What about the parents who only get to see their children 2-3 hours a day.

My old youth minister thinks I should start up a mom's group at our church. Ive been thinking about it today but I dont know if I have the energy for it. There could be so many obstacles I may run into trying to start a group at the church. Some parishes you just need the ok from the pastor to start a new group, others it needs to be in the pastoral council vision, or you may need to fill out paperwork and the pastoral council has to approve of it, etc. I was hoping that I could at least find another mom's group in the area that I could go to to see how they do things. 

The realization that there isnt really a lot or anything for working mom's make me think there is a great need for a moms group for all moms but especially for working moms. Now to think about what the purpose for the moms group should be and how to avoid talking to the lady at the church who responded to my email. I feel like having a little talk with her about how to make people feel welcomed in the church and so forth. 

Halloween deals

Love this shirt! It was $5 though so I didnt get it :(

I got tons of stuff at Target today! All 90% off. Lots of projects for the DC, some pj's for future babies, and some stuff we will actually use for halloween. Total before discount $173 .... total after 90% off.....

$19.94

100 dishes- #1 & #2

The other week there was a story on a daytime show about a lady who was making 300 sandwiches for her boyfriend and then she would get a proposal. The past couple of weeks I have made potato soup (from scratch!) and a yummy pasta. I told Andrew tonight that Im doing 100 dishes til the next baby.
Here is dish #1 Potato Soup with bacon, cheddar, and green onions

Dish #2 Pasta with garlic olive oil, tomatos, green onions, mozzarella, and spinach

First week with a new job

It was the first week of my new job. Things went pretty well until the end of the week when I got in trouble for a bunch of stuff. I hadnt been taking a lunch, I had just been eating within a 15 min break. I was told Monday that was ok, but then on Thursday I was told it wasnt ok, and that it was illegal. I havnt taken a lunch at my past 3 jobs, it is not illegal.  Friday I got in trouble for not turning in my time sheet by 10 am even though I was originally told they were due on Monday. Then I got in trouble for not answer the page on my pager.... which I never received and it seemed to be implied that I would get it when I started going to patients on my own. Just lots of announces and people not communicating and everybody saying different things. Hopefully next week goes really smooth.
I got a bag for work. Its a diaper bag, but its cute and hopefully it will work out well.

The top guys at Andrews work have been watching the video surveillance at the tech shop. They dont like seeing any of the guys having down time, and they are going to send them to work in a department in the store if they dont have enough to do. Corporate guys where here the other week and they said that store managers should not be doing that to the techs, but what are you going to do when the store does it anyways. Its really ridiculous that the managers dont trust the techs. They are making the store more money then any other tech shop. They take on outside work which other shops dont. They have solved on the problems on the tractors themselves without having to call the manufacturer. oh so frustrating!