Food and Fabric, ah, Joy!

Pardon me, I am eating spaghetti while I type... and I LOVE spaghetti...

the kids and Jerry do also-- so when I make spaghetti I feel the love from EVERYONE!

I make it with Foster Farms Turkey Meatballs, home style version~

(look for them in the freezer section)

both of the kids are kinda picky eaters

So, I take these meatballs which come fully cooked,

I bake them in the oven, then I cool them

while the noodles are cooking

and then I add the sauce.

(I just use whatever jar of spaghetti sauce I have,

if I add extra cans of tomatoes or any extra spices, Shane will not eat as much)

Then I get out the meatballs and cut them up

-- Jerry and I love just eating the meatballs whole--

but I found that the spaghetti goes a bit further if I cut them up~

Because the meatballs are soft and pre-formed

they seem to be easier for the kids to eat, then ground beef.

Ah, Joy.... simple, almost priceless joy!

At lunch the other day Shane choose a Garden burger, he took one bite and then raised his hand... "May I , have something else?, This isn't what I expected!" The staff was nice enough to let Shane have another lunch, this time he choose a cheeseburger. (Shane tries to tell me that he is a vegetarian, but --- I disagree with him!)

Recently I turned 39 ... and my Mother-in-law was so SWEET, she just sent me a bleated birthday card with a gift card for $20.00 at Joann's Fabrics...!
Jerry was able to let me go to the fabric store all by myself!

I couldn't make a choice-- I kept seeing things that I wanted to make for Jessica,Shane, my sister-in-law Sara...my nephew Miles... my grandson Irie. When I realized it was almost 5pm I decided that I needed to just sit at the pattern table and choose!

It sure helped that Simplicity patterns were on sale for $1.99 -- then when the pattern called for knit fabric I found some that was 30% off! Score!

I got the fabric,the pattern some thread and I still have almost $3.00 left on the card! yahooooo...
Simplicity pattern #2554 view B, the fabric I choose is at the top of this post.

Now, if I could just "farm my kids out" for about 4 hours-- I bet I could get the top cut out and sewn. Too bad Jerry works for the next 4 days... (I also need to finish some Pj's for my cousin's son...)

Just before dinner Shane comes up to me... looks me in the eyes and says, "Mom, can I go back to school?" I almost had tears well up in my eyes-- He wanted to go back to school--

what JOY -- this conversation would of never of happened last year... there were too many mixed messages about school. I answered him that yes on Monday he could go back to school.

Next weekend, my sister-in-law Danni-- who is a very qualified backpacker, is taking Jessica and I for an overnight backpacking trip.-- We are going to Matthew's Lake-- apparently it isn't a tough hike but it is a lot more than I am used to. Danni is so eager to go, that she offered to let me sit and take a break while she hikes with Jessica to our camp, and then comes back to help me ...

I so hope.... and pray that I am able to just keep moving...I am so sure I will be tired and sore in the morning-- but I am also hoping that this will motivate me to start exercising !