Gardening

This year I once again moved my garden this time to a corner of the yard that I don't use for anything and it will be easier to keep the dogs out of.

I planted, green and yellow beans, sweet peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, butternut squash, cucumbers, romaine lettuce, yellow onions, green onions, and celery. On the other side of the yard I planted strawberries, blueberries and raspberries.

My garden didn't do what it was supposed to this year because I had a garden critter who moved in under the shed and ate everything before it could grow, downside of keeping the dogs out of the garden. I did however get 1 yellow bean, 1 cucumber and 2 zucchinis.

Raspberries of course I didn't get any this year but it grew like crazy! The strawberries produced fruit twice this year and I got none because the birds got them. My blueberries of course didn't produce fruit this year but like the raspberries grew like crazy.

The plan for next year is raised garden boxes and I going to plant more fruit bushes along the back fence.

Although I was disappointed with this years production what I did get out of it was awesome!

Do you plant a garden? What do you plant?

Grateful

Its Friday, it is a beautiful day, my son is in an awesome mood, I hurt everywhere but I am enjoying today and life.

I stayed in bed this morning and snuggled with my son, I got out of bed before he wanted to, I love snuggles, one day he wont want to do it anymore so I am taking as many as he is willing to give right now!

I ate my oatmeal like I do every morning and today it warmed me a little bit more than normal!

I made my to do list and it wasn't two pages long today, only 1 page!

My son "helped" me work out and as I was about to get frustrated with him and the dogs for being in the way I took a breath and just enjoyed them being close to me. One day they wont be in my way, one day I will workout without interruptions and I will miss it all.

We did yoga together and as he attempted to copy my moves I realized just how big he was getting, I remember baby-wearing him when he was 6 weeks old and working out.

As I am trying to bribe him to come walk the dogs with me, I let him "win" and we are at home he is playing with my phone and I am working away on client orders.

Today I am grateful to be alive, to be able to hold my son, feel the sun on my skin, to breath. Yes I hurt everywhere but today I am not going to let it get to me, today I am grateful to just be!

Happy Friday Day All. Stop and take a breath, a real breath one that touches you!

Budgeting

If there is anything in this world I suck at, it is budgeting. Not creating it, I am good at writing it all down and planning it all and everything else but then I end up forgetting where I put my book, forget to keep receipts or just forget to track it in general. Plus like most women I am great at spending money on my son.

My budget is pretty simple, I motivate myself by getting a new account book (found at Walmart or staples) or I just rip all the pages out the old one and pretend it is new! Our bills don't really change much month to month but other expenses do and as much as I tell myself months ahead of time I am going to set aside money for you know car stickers and such, I forget and then BAM all of sudden time flies by and here we are needing stickers and tests and everything else for the truck and the SUV.

This is the type of book I like to use. It keeps everything neat and in proper lines.

My set up I get my fancy fine point pens out, pencils and erasers.

At the beginning of each month I set up a page in my book about that months debt owning as well as savings and money that is in the accounts.
This has greatly changed over the years for me as of right we have no behind bills thank goodness!

On the back of that page I set up what bills and other expenses that need to go out that month. This month is HUGE for me this time because of the time of year it is.

We get paid weekly so each week I go in and put down what I paid to who and what is left owning at the end of that week. Plus what I moved to saving IF there is anything left to move to savings.

I don't have a photo yet of my month end but at the end of Sept I will add it and you can see what that looks like.
Its pretty much the same as the beginning of the month page but it shows what is left owing and to who and how much was put away that month for savings.

I have to make it fun for me and new pens, bright lit areas and sharp pencils make it at least a little bit more tolerable. I don't keep receipts anymore I used to and keep daily book records for the home but with having to do that for the business it had just become too much.

Now if I could only remember to actually sit down and do this each week!

Lemon, Garlic, Herb Cod

I have been cooking healthy and I decided to try a new fish recipe instead of my normal go to.

There is a few things I changed because I forgot to buy them at the store and well I just wasn't going all the way back with a cranky 3 year old.

In the future there are a few things I would do differently.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup whole wheat panko breadcrumbs (regular panko or plain breadcrumbs will work in a pinch)
• 1/3 cup full-fat Greek yogurt
• 3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, grated
• 1⁄4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
• 2 -3 garlic cloves, grated or finely minced
• 1 large lemon, juice and zest, divided
• 3⁄4 teaspoon fine sea salt, more if needed (adjust according to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 4 (8 ounce) Alaskan Cod fillets

Pre heat your oven to 350/400 depending on your oven I do mine at 350 because my oven runs hot.
Line your baking pans with tin foil. Saves huge on clean up and scrubbing.
So you put the first 2 ingredients in a small bowl mix them up well.
In a second bigger bowl add the next 9 ingredients mix them well
Spoon the yogurt mixture onto the fish then pat the crumbs on top.
Stick it in the oven for 15-20mins.
Then eat!

Full recipe and instructions http://bakerbynature.com/20-minute-lemon-garlic-and-herb-baked-cod/

Here is what I actually did.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup whole wheat panko breadcrumbs (regular panko or plain breadcrumbs will work in a pinch)
• 1/3 cup full-fat Greek yogurt
• 3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, grated
• 3teaspoons of Italian seasoning
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 large lemon, juice and zest, divided
• 3⁄4 teaspoon normal salt
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 4 (8 ounce) white fish

Pre heat your oven to 350/400 depending on your oven I do mine at 350 because my oven runs hot.
Line your baking pans with tin foil. Saves huge on clean up and scrubbing.
So you put the first 2 ingredients in a small bowl mix them up well.
In a second bigger bowl add the next 9 ingredients mix them well
Spoon the yogurt mixture onto the fish then pat the crumbs on top.
Stick it in the oven for 15-20mins.
Then eat!

What I would change in the future it turns out no matter how many different ways I try Greek yogurt I just don't like it at all I will replace that with normal yogurt.

Cars 3rd birthday

It started out me finding Cars party supplies in London at Fresh Co LAST SEPTEMBER!!!!. I decided right then even if Blaine doesn't like the Cars movies his party will be Cars. You can't say no to supplies for 0.49 each!!! As time went on I kept my eyes open for more Cars themed supplies and well the new Cars hadn't been released yet so there wasn't much. Turns out Toys R Us was ending their sales of party supplies, yeah me! I got pretty much everything for his party under $15.00 of course not including food or pinata.

This years party wasn't like the years before, people who normally show up and should have shown up, but he had an awesome time and loved every minute of it.

I had to make the cupcakes for the Sarnia Humane Society's Snow White Party so Blaine got the short end of the stick and his cupcakes had cars toys on them instead of fondant figures, he loved them anyway.

Just like every year after his party we went to East Side Marios and had the pants scared off him by the wait staff singing Happy Birthday to him.

My likes

Well to go hand in hand with my dislikes I should write about my likes. There are 10 likes I can list to every dislike I have, there are not many things in this world that I don't like.

1) Music, its how I clear my head, get through a 20 km walk

2) Reading!! This here is my space/time sitting and reading gets me out of my own head, I try to read daily or when I start to over think EVERYTHING.

3) Walking/Hiking again my get out of my own head time! This mixed with music and reading is heaven for me.

4) Animals, these are my life. I would do anything to protect an animal.

5) Playing! having the ability to get down and play games with my son, chase him and just being a kid.

6) My business. There are days when I want to throw in the towel, when I want to call it quits and just give up. Then I get a super cute order come in and it makes it all worth it, the smile on the child's face when they get their outfit or cape!

7) Water. I couldn't imagine living away from it, in summer I spend everyday walking it, sitting at it, just being with it. In the winter its sitting by and watching it.

8) Cheesecake. This here is a treat for me and the ONLY place in town who has it that its almost as good as mine is Coffee Culture. SOOOO GOOD

9) Learning, I think there is always something new to learn and I love it. I try to learn something new as much as possible.

10) Spring/Summer/Early Fall. The sun, the air, the space, the just being with nature.

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Random Urban Dictory Word! #1

Urban Dictionary has a button you can click where it will give you a random word and what it means.

The word I got this time was "Pimp's Prayer". This word is not in the English Dictionary.

This word has 2 definitions

A prayer said before striking a trifling bitch or hoe who has stepped out of line.

Let us Pray the Pimp's Prayer. Lord, please pray for the soul of this bitch and guide my pimp hand and make it strong Lord, so that she might learn a hoe's place.

Amen

#pimp#prayer#hoe#bitch#skeezer

by Fuzzybat23 January 16, 2006

The prayer you say when your ho is acting out.

 

Pimps Prayer: Lord, please pray for the soul of this bitch and guide my pimp hand and make it strong Oh Lord, so that she may learn a hoes place. 

 

Amen.

 

#pimps#prayer#pimps prayer#hoes#pimp hand

by luvharrypotter15 August 11, 2011

 

 

 

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