Hurry up & wait!

I learned this game well when my husband was in the military.  Plans would be made & then changed & changed again.  So you'd hurry up to finalize things for the initial plans & then wait to see what they changed to.  It is one of my least favorite games.  EVER!

Alas, this is where I am today.  Hurrying up & waiting to see what changes come about.  Waiting to see where we find land at to purchase, finalizing house plans to fit the landscape so those can be ordered, waiting...waiting...waiting while we save up money to build said house.  Hoping the plans in my head go as planned.  UGH!  Have I mentioned that I dislike this game. 

And yet, "good things come to those who wait."  Patience, I admit, is a virtue that I do not have.  I am very much a "see now, buy now" type person.  I am a work in progress, so I keep telling myself.  HA!

All that said, I'm not complaining about the wait.  Certainly not the wait for the house.  Other randomness however, I do wish would speed up.  I keep waiting for a email & checking it 50 times a day to see if it has arrived.  Nothing yet.  Waiting & watching for an email is much like watching the grass grow.  It doesn't speed anything up & starts to take a toll on your mind. 

Now admittedly, I really did watch the grass grow at our first home.  We had this crazy yard that we didn't really ever smooth out, with ruts & humps, and dirt.  Just DIRT!  No grass.  We'd plant grass & wait (patiently, mind you) for little sprouts of grasslings to grow from the mud.  It was so exciting to see little tufts of grass sporadically around our yard.  So yep, I really have watched the grass grow & it was EXCITING!!  :)  Poor old yard, pretty much stayed a dirt patch with few splotches of green here & there. 

And that is today.  Hurry up & wait...& wait...& wait.  One thing that won't wait...sleep.

Goodnight!

Cheesy chicken burritos

My Favorite & super-easy burritos.  It's a combination of a couple of recipes, but man are they good.

boneless, skinless Chicken breasts
White refrigerated mexican cheese
cream cheese, cubed
cream of chicken soup
refried beans
Rotel
Tortillas
Shredded, mexican cheese

Cook chicken breasts.  Cut (or chop, I use my pampered chef hand chopper) chicken.  Combine chopped chicken, cheeses, cream of chicken soup, and rotel.  Let simmer until cheese is melted.

On tortillas, thinly layer refried beans.  Add chicken mixture**, and roll up.  Place into 9x13 bake pan.  Add shredded cheese on top and bake at 350 for approx. 15 minutes or until cheese is melted. 

**Chicken mixture is also really good as a dip with tortilla chips. 

Can you tell I like cheese?  A LOT!  Mmmm...these are so delicious!! 

Dreamin' Big.

**Updated--here's the link to the house plans.  Hopefully it works.  :)
http://www.theplancollection.com/house-plans/home-plan-23614
This will give you the layout of the inside, in case you're interested.

So on my quest to find our perfect home, within the next couple of years, I stumbled upon this house plan.


LOVE it!  It's not nearly as big as it looks in the picture either.  Think 800 sq. feet on the main & upper levels.  As is-3 bedrooms, modified a bit, it will have 5.  Perfect!  A few other modifications to the kitchen & we'll be good to go.

To try & keep our debt to a minimum, I'm thinking if I save ALL my paychecks for the next 3-5 years, we should be able to pay cash to build.  Or get pretty close anyhow.  So that is my plan for now. 

Now--must learn NOT to buy unnecessary things.  I'm working on it.

What to do on a day like today? Bake!

So while we're in the middle of blizzard hell 2011, I decided today was a good day to bake.  Homemade bread & Kolaches!  Delicious!!  The first batch just got done & look absolutely yummy.

Today was a perfect baking day, judging by the dough.  It raised beautifully (twice) and was oh so fluffy.  I have a hard time not "killing" the yeast.  Though I think it's the yeast's fault & not mine.  Only thing that would've been better-if I wasn't to lazy to make cinnamon rolls.  But really by the time I was done with the Kolaches, I had no desire to roll out dough.  That & I ran out of butter.  How did that happen??  I LOVE butter!  I will eat a cracker with a stick of butter, just because eating butter by itself may be considered gross.  Ha!

This was after our dryer quit working this morning.  2 hours of drying time & still not dry.  Thankfully hubby was able to rig it to work once he got home.  So at least tomorrow, if I take another snow day, I can be even more productive. 

Let it snow, let it snow...

I've heard as much as 13 inches is supposed to hit us by Wednesday morning.  Fun times.  Wouldn't be as bad, but that's following however much ice first.  Snow on top of ice=NOT a good driving time.  Thinking it may very well be a snow day on Wednesday.  I'm totally okay with that.  I normally try to make it to work, because really if I can make it to the highway, then I can probably make it into work.  Although with the last 10 inches we received, I decided that I just didn't want to dig myself out at 7 in the morning.  Is that wrong?

My favorite part of snow?  It just makes everything look so pretty & peaceful.  The fact that I can look at my windows at midnight & it looks like dusk is pretty cool too.  My least favorite part, minus the cold weather?  It tracks in the house.  Then when it melts, it becomes all gray & dirty & gross looking. 
So along with the predicted amount of snow, I think the birds are confused.  I've seen the geese heading north, and Robins are out.  Silly ole' birds.  Although I'm thinking this weather is for the birds.  Obviously.  haha

Full Contact Basketball?!?

So a double header tonight, both of which the boys won!  Woot woot!!  Oh my goodness some of those kids are agressive!  By the end of the 2nd game, I'm thinking football may be the safer bet.  At least they get to wear padding.  sheesh. 
3 or 4 kids on our team came out crying, luckily nothing serious, but dang.  Thinking full body armour may be needed at next week's games. 

Do you have the time?...

...to listen to me whine.  About nothing & everything all at once!  Well if that doesn't make you want to stop reading right now, I don't know what will. :)  Really it's a Greenday song that's stuck in my head.  Makes for a catchy title though, don'tcha think.

Although it does go with where my train of thought is tonight.  Scrapbooking & finding the time to do it.  Oh so many options out there--pretty papers, stickers, buttons, ribbons.  Most importantly the pictures that you transform into little storybook pages.  Some day I will have/make the time to do it.  I'm only 10 years behind thus far.  That's not bad.  Right?  Perhaps when I'm old & grayer than I am now.  :)

In other randomness...I played the Mega Millions lotto a few weeks back.  Nope didn't win.  Bummer.  Which is just as well, I'm not even sure I'd know how to act if I suddenly became a multi-millionaire.  Don't get me wrong, I'd most definitely give it a shot.  In all reality the thought alone freaks me out.  Enough to pay off all our debt & buy a house would be okay with me. 
I've decided (for today) that for our 15 year wedding anniversary, we should get bridal attire & take pics with us & the kids.  How fun & cute would that be!  I hate dresses, but I do love wedding gowns.  Anyhow, something fun to celebrate.  We'll see.  That's a couple years down the road yet. 

And that is me for today!