Life and Stuff

This past weekend on September 12th-13th was pretty much an indoors weekend for me. We finally got some much needed rain. My son is in cub scouts and him and my husband had to go to the local grocery store to sell popcorn. While they sold popcorn me and my youngest son stayed home, inside. He played with his toys and I got on the computer for a bit. When my son and husband got home we decided to start laying our kitchen floor down. We are remodeling our home and work on it whenever, so we worked on that for until we got to a stopping point. We ordered pizza and hung around the house the rest of the day. On Sunday, we usually go out to eat for breakfast so we did. After our breakfast we had to go to some stores to get crickets, and milk. When we finished with our errands we came home and let the kids play in the rain, my husband watched the football game and I caught up on my dvr shows. That evening we got the children ready for school by reading and picking out school cloths and than we were all off to bed.

This was the day to meet with my good friend, Jill. We met in college fifteen years back, and six years ago I was the maid of honor in her wedding. I haven’t seen her in a long time. I had been living an hour and a half away until recently. I hopped in the car and called her to ask for directions–again. Yes, I have been to her house multiple times, but given the opportunity, I will get lost and I didn’t want to waste time going the wrong way. She graciously reminded me of the way and I hopped in my ride and plowed across town to her pad. We watched her daughter play in the sandbox while drinking water in the shade of her Japanese Maple. I love that tree—it is so beautiful. She is possibly thinking of moving across town, she tells me. I am surprised. There are better schools over there. That is true. “Let’s go for a walk,” I suggest. Jill pulls out the stroller and packs up the toddler. We take to the street and meander through her neighborhood blocks. The sun is shining. The company is pleasant. The toddler finds and points out every kitty and squirrel in the vicinity. The day is bitter-sweet. Stress taps at my brain like a leaky faucet and joy warms my heart as I face the sun.

We had a pasta bake that I made. First I browned hamburger meat, mixed chunks of pepperoni in with it, and boiled noodles. I then mixed spaghetti sauce in with the meat. Once the noodles were done, I mixed the meat and sauce with the noodles. I poured half of the saucy noodles into a 13X9 baking pan, then layered sliced pepperonis and cheese over the top. I then poured the rest of the noodles on top of the noodles. I covered it with foil and baked it for thirty minutes; I then took the foil off and covered it with cheese, and baked it for another ten minutes to melt the cheese. I served it with salad, garlic bread and onions.

My dog’s name if Freddy. He is 3 years old. He is an Alsatian with black and brown shades. Alsatians are intelligent and easily trainable dogs. So it was easy while training him and also the early training and specialization is the key to make them a well behaved adult dog, so we should always be aware of the ways to train the dog. I provide him a kennel at night but during the day time he rests on his supportive orthopedic dog bed, which I have brought to provide him support and comfort to ease his aches and pains. We can also use memory foam beds to them which will produce many therapeutic benefits. He is an active one always playing and doing something always and around us.