Tag: teenagers

Eleanor Roosevelt and another Eleanor

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

Today, I think I cannot fix the Facebook links on this blog. The problem isn’t the problem. It’s the environment.

Mrs. Roosevelt did not know my Eleanor. Sometimes nothing from my To Do list gets checked off when she is around. It’s not that I don’t want her around, quite the contrary… just that it is hard to do what I had intended. Entertaining is her forte.

It’s really hard to fix a blog when The Girl sits down next to you and challenges you to sing along to the Avett Brothers’ “In the Curve” while she plucks out the chords on her ukulele.

Enjoy the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qfAEfBSwJI

photo by Andy Garringue and lifted from bluegrasstoday.com
Seth Avett performing at MerleFest 2013

Alternative Blog Titles… (Facepalm Guaranteed Humor)

The Husband helped me come up with the name of this blog. He liked the idea of branching out and trying something new every day. The Girl had her own suggestions including, but not limited to, the following:

  • My Life with the Three Other Farts (I really like how this implies that I, too, am a fart)
  • Attention Deficit Family/Effing Disorder
  • Don’t Become a Mom- your motivation for safe sex
  • This is Why You Should Marry Rich 
  • Just Shut Up and Eat Your Damn Dinner

I can’t decide which is my favorite.

P.S.
Thanks to knowyourmeme.com for the Picard Facepalm Meme photo…

Baking is like Fishing…

…in that a bad day fishing is still better than a good day at work. Wouldn’t that depend on how avid a fishing enthusiast you are? I really like baking, so I’m still glad that I tried this recipe. I thought it was nearly full-on blech but my daughter gave it the thumbs up and is already finished with pinwheel #2.

I fully blame the cook, not the recipe. Note the original recipe’s photo on top, mine on the bottom:

Top photo from BunsInMyOven.com; bottom, my kitchen.
Top photo from BunsInMyOven.com; bottom, my kitchen.

The only thing I changed in the recipe was to use cheddar cheese instead of Swiss. I just think they needed to bake longer than 9 minutes, perhaps. These Ham and Cheese Pinwheels are short on effort and have an even shorter list of ingredients:

1 can of flaky crescent rolls

Grated cheddar cheese

Sliced ham (I used the Black Forrest ham from Trader Joe’s)

cream cheese and dijon mustard

Here’s the original recipe:  http://www.bunsinmyoven.com/2013/12/27/ham-and-cheese-pinwheels/

Here’s what I’d like to try soon, using home made bread dough:

http://amazingcollection66.blogspot.com/2014/11/hot-ham-and-cheese-pinwheels.html

Thinking Fast May Get You McNuggets!

Wednesday evenings are low-key; we often make dinner out of some junky, heat ‘n eat thing that passes for food (I never met a corn dog I didn’t like). As I sat taking some notes for this 2015 project, I asked my daughter if there are any different, new-to-us fast food joints that she’d like to try in our very multi-cultural city.

IMMIDIATELY she comes back with, “Oh, how about that Golden Arches” place… I’ve never tried those McNugget things, yeah… I hear they are pretty good,” completely straight faced as she hands me this load of bull pucky (as great-grandpa would have pegged it).

This, coming from my child who has at least one social media account under the name “ItsRainingMcNuggets.“