4 posts from February 2008

The recipe, for my dear friend Sharon:

 I am editing this.....

Lasagna Rolls

1. Mix ricotta cheese, 2 cups mozzarella and parmesan cheese with eggs and parsley.
2. Place one lasagna noodle on work surface.
3. Spread about 2 tbsps of  cheese mixture on noodle evenly.( can't be done evenly) 
4. Roll up tightly like a pinwheel.
5. Place seamside down in 13x9" baking pan, that has 2 cup of spaghetti sauce in bottom.
6. Continue until all lasagna noodels and cheese mixture are used.
7. Cover rolls with remaining sauce and sprinkle with additional mozzarella cheese.
8. Cover with foil and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes
9. NOTE:  I had 19 lasagna rolls, about 4 noodles broke apart, so I fit 16 in a 13x9 inch pan and then the other 3 in an 8x8. 

Today was yet another busy day, with all that shopping I did yesterday I forgot to get Laundry soap.  So after PT this morning, I ran over to Bj's to get Tide and some Downy.  The coupon book came in the mail yesterday and they had $2 off on each.  The laundry is going right now.

After all that I had to have the car inspected.  Having it inspected always worries me, but it passed with flying colors, except for the fact that we will need to do the front brakes very soon.  He said they are about 95% gone and he would not recommend any long trips until they were done.

Since I have been cooking each night this week, I have decided that I need a break for tonight.  We have chicken and rice soup leftover and cheeseburgers from last night.  The kids will most likely go for the cheeseburgers and I will throw in some tater tots.  Tomorrow I will make some lasagna rolls for dinner and some garlic bread.  This weekend will be yet another big weekend, running here there and everywhere with the kids.

hat a beautiful winter wonderland out there.  I wish I could have stayed in the house all day and watched from in here, but alas I had to head out to drop of Whits equipment and to get some well needed groceries.  The roads are quite slick too.  People with 4 wheel drive seem to think they own the road and even though the sign says 55, doesn't mean on a snow covered road you go 55. 

I see that I have been tagged for a meme by my very dear friend Shaye....so I will get on those answers.

What were you doing 10 years ago?

10 years ago I was pregnant with Morgan and we were living in our house in Leominster MA.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

I don't really remember what was going on a year ago.  My memory seems to be getting away from me lately and I need to do something about that.  I know that I was subbing at the kids school so I will say I was working.

Five snacks you enjoy:

1. Popcorn

2. oranges

3. kettle cooked chips(although I can't have them anymore)

4. Diet Coke

5. apples with caramel dip

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1. Sell this house and get a nice piece of land and build the house of our dreams.

2. Pay off the minivan and give it to Charlie for work and then get me my SUBURBAN!

3. Invest in the kids college educations.

4. Pay off our 401k loans.

5. Hire a planner to help with distributing some around to charities and setting up some sort of foundation in my Grandmothers Name.

Five bad habits:

1. Procrastination.(i will have to say this too)

2. Lack self discipline.

3. Being forgetful.

4. Being cranky and impatient with my family.(YES)

5. Not taking care of myself like I should.(AND YES AGAIN!) high cholesterol, gall bladder...i could go on.

Five things you like doing:

1. Walking.

2. Reading

3. Baking/Cooking.

4. Entertaining.

5. Cleaning(some of the time).

Five things you would never wear again:

1. Shoulder pads (totally stealing everyone else’s answer).

2. Scrunchies.

3. Stretch pants/stirrup pants(parachute type)ACK!

4. Bikinis(HELL NO) never again, too many scars and too many babies.

5.Red high top Reebok sneakers with slouch socks  

Five favorite toys:

1. My laptop.

2. My iPod.

3. My stand mixer.

4. My Dvr, best thing ever invented

5. My hair straightener, not a cheap one either.  I love it!

SO there are my answers, I just have no one too tag...so they will sit here. 

So here it is nearly a year later since I first posted, unlike a few of my friends I just can't keep up with this thing.

So much has occurred in this year since my first post.  Summer came and went, our Field Band kids came in First place in the State of New York.  It was an amazing season for them all!  We went to NYC to see the kids perform and my fear of the City of New York bubbled to the top.  I just don't do well in the city.  The drivers there are crazy!  On more than one occasion I thought for sure that I was going to have my car smashed in.  Thank goodness I was not driving!

We went home to MA for Thanksgiving...what a nice adventure that is.  Made easier by the consumption of my favorite wine, Casa Larga's Lilac Hill.  It makes everyone more tolerable.

Christmas also came and went and we celebrated here and then went to MA later in the day.  The kids had a good time.  I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!  The drive home was the scariest moments of my life.  I will never again travel I-90 in the winter.

January brought some health issues.  I fell and broke my tailbone and thought that the pain I was feeling in my back would go away on their own. Not the case.  I pulled every muscle in my lower back and have now been receiving Physical therapy since the beginning of February.  I haven't been able to go back to work since this incident.  PT is 2 times a week which is quite painful.  Then I  opened my mouth and told my doctor about this pain I had in my stomach.  It happened 2 times, excruciating pain, I couldn't sleep and nothing helped.  She sent me for an ultrasound only to find that I have gallstones and that the gallbladder has got to come out.  WHAT!  I petrified to death of going under general anesthia, it scares me.  This will be a routine, according to the surgeon, surgery where they cut 4 tiny incisions into my abdomen and remove the gallbladder laporoscpy. This will be happening in April, why so long, well I have to schedule it around my daughters Winterguard schedule and it seems like the best time. 

I hope that once everything is healed I will be able to go back to work and enjoy the summer with the kids!