IceFest 2009

If you live in the Chambersburg, PA area...stop by and see me at IceFest. http://www.icefestpa.com/

updates to come after the weekend's festivities.

Ten on Tuesday

1. I have no milk in the house. Big wee one is begging for milk for her oreos and I don't have any to give her (no need to worry mother-in-law, Paul is getting milk on the way home). The reason why I don't have milk...I pulled a wifey moment last night, after having missed her husband all day just wanted him to get home and forgo the grocery store. Hence, we ran out of milk.


2. It snowed today! The girls got to spend the day with the "boys" at the sitter, since the "boys" school got cancelled. (Boys: sitter's oldest son and his friend)


3. We are supposed to get another 3-5 inches tonight...with ice. Lovely.


4. IceFest 2009 is this weekend...starts Thursday. Be there, and dress warm (see above).


5. Tonight, I am trying a new recipe that a friend gave me, sounds delish. Crepe Manicotti...YUM! Which reminds me, back in the fall I made a pumpkin soup and never posted the recipe. Sadly, I can't find the sticky that I wrote everything down on, but it was good.


6. I'll be making more of these this week. It's my new "thang".

7. I just called Paul to pick up 2 cans of crushed tomatos and he just happened to be standing right infront of them, or just walked by them or was thinking about them...whatever, we were semi on the same wave length :-)


8. The girls are watching *shocker* Barbie and the Diamond Castle, and now I can't stop singing "we're gonna find it....some day soon". If you have a daughter who is at all into barbies, you are probably familiar with this...if not, you have no clue and you are a very lucky person!


9. I need to post some of the LOs I did this weekend when I got to hang with my girlfriends. I believe I finished 10 LOs, which is pretty good for me. This digi thing just helps me whip 'em out :-) Thanks for a wonderful time Sherry and for making the delicious baked potato soup, and for letting me crash in Jake's room.


10. It's prego time!! NO...not for me...for everyone else. A friend just had her 3rd last night, a little boy (after 2 girls). Another friend of mine finds out on Thursday if she is having a boy or a girl, and two moms in the MOMs club are now in their 2nd trimesters and doing good. Two more are about to pop at any second! I have the bug, I'm not going to lie, but I'm not going to do anything about it either (at this moment in time).

Here's a little video clip of Big wee one singing a little Barbie & the Diamond Castle for us, she's also been watching a lot of the news lately...can you tell??

Choffy

This sounds delicious!! I think I need to try it...or win it ;-)

http://simplemom.net/choffy

She bangs, She bangs..

Get it?

No?

I got bangs, and I've been making "bang" references all day, because...I think I'm funny! I emailed Paul earlier today and asked him if he wanted to have lunch with his "banging" wife...lol, little comments like that have been making me laugh to myself. If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at??

Just keeping it real

This is what it's been like in Flohr Land lately :-)

"Eyes Fixed Upon Us, God's Grace Behind Us"

Momentous! Wonderful! Tearful! Joyous!

No matter who you are, and who you voted for, you should be proud to be an American today!

You should stand tall and stand behind our new leader and the hope that he brings with him.

I know I do, and I am extatic that I got to witness history. I get to explain to my girls when they are older how I felt, where I was, where they were and how cute they sounded when they said, "Rack Obama" or "Grock Bama". A wonderful, wonderful day.

Where was I:

I was at work, and honestly, I didn't even realize that the whole ceremony was happening so early. I heard a fellow worker listening to his computer, so I decided to jump on CNN and I was able to live stream the whole event on my computer. Since we are in a new world, in a new time, I was able to chat with friends on Facebook while I watched...watching history change with my friends, seeing their comments, feeling their joy. There hasn't been a moment when I've sat down to talk or think or type about this defining moment in history that I haven't teared up...I'm doing so now. I'm such a girl!

While I watched, I was invited to my co-worker's office to watch with him and 2 others, while I was in there, his video stream froze up and he wasn't able to reconnect...guess everyone else in the world who wasn't in DC was also online, but lucky for me, I never closed out my CNN coverage, so we all went back to my computer and the only part that we missed was the VP's swearing in.

I took pictures with my cell phone. Yup, pictures of my computer screen to document the moment. A friend of mine was in DC, she had tickets for the big day in the "purple section"...I can't wait to hear about the atmosphere and the vibe that she felt while she was there.

Hotels here in C-burg were packed with folks who have came to take witness to this special day. During a meeting last night, we watched two buses full of folks pull in to the hotel adjoining our restaurant. We only live about an hour and a half from DC, so I'm sure that every hotel between here, there and beyond was filled to capacity.

I had a stronger stride in my step, and held my head up a little higher today while I walked around downtown today, talking to store owners and handing out IceFest flyers. Today was a wonderful day! I hope that you feel that hope as well!

Sunday

I've been toying around with the header for the blog...what do you think?

I scrapped today...all day. Thankfully, I didn't have to do any major cooking because I made Mexican Stew yesterday. You should make it, too...deli!

Mexican Stew

• 1 package taco seasoning
• 1 package ranch dressing mix
• 2 cans of crushed tomatoes (I used a jar of tomatoes from my parents garden this summer, and then pulsed them)
• 2 cans of corn
• 2 cans of beans, you choose (I used red kidney beans, and only one can)
• 1 lb ground beef (I used half lb of ground beef and a half lb of mild italian sausage)

~put all of this in the crockpot, cook all day and enjoy deliciousness...helps keep you warm when it's freaking freezing outside! brrrrrrr....also yummy with cornbread and mac-n-cheese (I made some for the girls, and decided to put some in the bottom of my bowl and then topping with Mexican stew, it was good).

Little wee one ate 2 bowls of stew, Big wee one didn't even want to look in the crockpot. Little wee one then finished off my kidney beans (I don't like kidney beans, hence why I only used 1 can, well, that and I only had 1 can)...guess who will be home with Little wee one tomorrow when the bean fest goes down (one hint: not me!).

Here are the pages I did and another template if you want one :-)

This was a template I downloaded and added my own papers and embellishments.Another template I downloaded...those templates are helpful for getting ideas and getting your ideas flowing.

I created this template...
And here is the template I created, below is the link for the download.

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Enjoy and have a wonderful week!!