Well, as a SAHM, you'd think I had plenty of time to watch any show on TV I wanted. I admit I loved the early editions of Survivor and have faithfully watched American Idol the last couple of years, but really I am so busy at night with getting everything ready for the next day, baths and just time to read myself that network series shows really have not appealed to me. I would be missing them all of the time. I did not watch any all summer. I know that Tivo, or whatever you call it, could let me watch them later, but I really do not have the money for that. So, this summer I discovered that the library has lots of series season dvd's. I watched Lost season one and two and have just about died because I wanted to watch season 3 and it did not come out until December. Then I found the ABC Full Episode Player. I love this because I can watch the shows I want, when I want and never worry if I am going to miss it when I need to be doing other things. Last week I watch all of Lost season three. I was so happy to get to see it. The player does have some limited advertisements but hey its FREE! I have also watched a couple of other shows on there included Pushing Daisies. I love this new show, I watch every new episode. If you have not watched this show. I highly recommend it. Go to the full episode player to get caught up. I also checked out Ugly Betty season 1 from the library and that show is on the player too. I also watched Samantha Who on there. This is a new show that has the guy who played Matt on 7th Heaven. The show is about a girl who loses her memory and has to learn her life again. I do not know if this will be a favorite show or not, it is a little different. Another show I have always liked is House on Fox. I missed a whole lot of this season beginning episodes and my Fox channel comes in real fuzzy, so I thought I would check and see if I could watch this online and yes Fox has a full episode player too and I watched it on there. Also many of the networks have shows on the full episode players that can only be watched online, it never comes on the TV. ABC has one on there. I have not watched it though. So, check online and see if you can watch full episodes of your favorite shows(I added some links below to help you.) Once again, I like that I can watch my shows when I want and I never have to worry about missing a show because I am reading a book to my kids(which I feel is more important!)
Today dh took Nicholas to school and brought him back. We had not watched the news last night or this morning, so we did not know that they closed the school to disinfect. Lately many surrounding school systems have been closing because of an infection that is going around. It is a drug resistance staph infection and from what I understand you get a sore on your skin that usually contains pus and is just really nasty. This used to be gotten only by certain groups but can now be caught by anyone. From what I have been told, Staph infection is like Strep throat only it is on the skin. I have had strep throat many times and hated it. This looks so bad I know it is something I really do not want. I have even read some reports of kids dying in our area because of this infection. So, as a parent, this makes it even scary for me to send my kid to school. The way you catch the infection is by direct skin to skin contact or using shared items like towels or even touching items, like door knobs. We got this big letter from the school system yesterday stating things we could do to help prevent spreading this disease. It is really quite easy. Handwashing. I used to teach handwashing to kids in my former job and I would always tell them to sing the ABC song. Most kids do not wash there hands that long. Also, they recommend only using towels once and washing them in hot water. Some area doctors have even said you should only use paper towels for handwashing in your home. To get rid of this infection, which is really hard, you need to take an antibiotic and follow doctors instructions on treating the womb. The usual antibiotics to treat a staph infection do not work on this strand so you have to use a different one. You also have to keep the sore covered to prevent spreading it. I have a friend at church whose young son has had this for about a year. Every time he gets rid of it, he is fine for a while and then another one comes back. She thinks he got it from his papaw who was in the hospital and when he came home her son wore his shoes that he wore in the hospital. All of this is kind of scary! I also have some disinfecting wipes in my purse that I use on shopping carts when we go out. We do not have this in our house and I do not want us to get it. From what I understand other states are dealing with this problem too, so everyone should start taking efforts to prevent contamination. It really makes me think now when i go some place and all of the things that I touch. So, anyways, my son is home for the day and tonight we go Trick or Treat.
Every year that we have been married, my dh always carves the pumpkin. I collected Pumpkin Masters books every year before we got married, had lots of pumpkin carving tools, but never got around to carving(and really I do not like it) so every year we get out the books and dh picks a challenging one and has a really neat creation when he is done. Well this year, he decided he wanted to do one that was considered easy because he really did not have a lot of time to spend on it. This is the one he picked. I still think it came out pretty neat though. Also Nicholas' class went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch and they all got a small pumpkin. Nicholas carved his first pumpkin. I thought he did a great job.
Well, I thought I would give everyone an update on my Fall Into Reading Challenge. I have 14 books on my list. I did add a few that I wanted to read and did not know were coming out etc. So, I do not know if I will get all of my list done or not, but I am trying and this is a challenge so it should be kind of hard. I have finished 5 and have 8 more that I want to read. I also know that I am on the reserve list at the library for Beverly Lewis' new book The Parting. So again I do not think I will get them all done, but eventually I will read all of them on this list.
1. The Survivors by Dinah McCall-FINISHED September 27th
2. A Time To Mend- Angela Hunt
3. The Only Best Place- Carolyne Aarsen
4. Morning Comes Softly- Debbie Macomber
5. Twilight-Stephenie Meyer
6. Anne's House of Dreams-L.M. Montgomery
7. Just Between Us-Deborah Bedford
8. A Carol for Christmas-Robin Lee Hatcher- FINISHED October 21st
9. Return to Me- Robin Lee Hatcher-Finished October 29th
10. Sweet Revenge-Diane Mott Davidson-FINISHED October 9th
11. Copper Crown- Lane von Herzen
12. Candy Cane Murder-Laura Levine, Leslie Meier, Joanne Fluke-finished October 13
13. Stalemate-Iris Johansen
14. When the Morning Comes-Cindy Woodsmall-FINISHED October 20th
Return to Me written by Robin Lee Hatcher was the next book I read on my Fall Reading List. I have never read any books by this author until I read A Carol for Christmas. This book is the sequel to that book. Return To Me is a story that is a lot like the Prodigal Son. This story is about Carol's kids from the first book. Carol died years before in childbirth. Her youngest daughter Roxy is a lot like her mom and wants to go to Nashville to pursue her singing career. She leaves after getting an inheritance from her grandmother. After years of wasting her money, making bad decisions and about to starve to death, she decides to go home. She does not know if she will even be accepted. I really enjoyed this story. I really liked the story between the two sisters and the hard time they have getting back to loving each other.
"Blue" on all fours
I tried the Lasagna Soup this past week. I cooked it just like the recipe said but it came out more like a hamburger helper meal but everyone liked it. I also tried this recipe last week, Scarecrow Bars. (I got the recipe from Betsy) They came out really well. Here is a picture of them:
Here is my plan for this week 1. Steaks, Baked Potatoes, broccoli
2. Spaghetti, garlic bread
3. Pork Chops, mashed potatoes, green beans
4. Trick or Treat Night(Tuesday)-eat out pizza
5. Salisbury Steaks, mashed potatoes, corn
6. Fried Chicken, mac and cheese, green beans, biscuits
7. (Halloween night) Chili, cornbread muffins
Go here to see more plans.
I am so tired. I had a BAD nightmare and woke up and I really needed the extra sleep. Oh well! In my nightmare, my car broke down in this weird neighborhood. I was by myself, but it felt like at was on a college campus. Anyways, I went into this building, that was like a dorm, to call for help and it was so weird these "people" come running down halls and if you are there they stop you and will not "hurt" you if you give them what money you have. I had some money on me but knew I needed it so lied to them and said I had no money, but gave them a vaulable bowl, which they broke. They ended up coming for me knowing I lied about not having any money and tried to beat me up, but I had a paint can and told them I would throw it on them. Somehow I got back into the building and asked someone to call the police for me which they did. After which they told me the police would not come to the building because "they" killed so many policemen. I also remember something about a laywer, which is where I was coming back from when my car quit working, who had found information for me as to why me dh was so sick and that I should sue them and would get lots of money. Strange dream! Scared me! I woke up after learning that the police would not help me. My heart was racing! I hate that. I know weird dream!
I updated our family blog today with lots of pictures.
Katie Sue decided to dress herself yesterday. I had to get a picture. Those are her 7 year old brother's dirty socks, if you can believe that. lol!
This weekend was a very interesting day in the kids department. You all know I have tried to potty train the twins, but without any luck. I decided to give up! People kept saying when they are ready they will do it, so I decided to just let that happen. Mind you now if they turned 4 and still did not do it, I would have done something, but I decided just not to worry about it until they showed more interest. All week Nathan has been going and sitting on the big potty for like 15 minutes at at time. Today he did the same thing only he went #2 in the potty. He got a sucker and Katie Sue wanted one I felt so bad, but I told her she had to go potty and she did go pee pee. Wow that was hard to believe! It was like a party in my house tonight. Tomorrow we start panties and under wear, pray for me!
A Carol for Christmas written by Robin Lee Hatcher is the next book I decided to read on my Fall Reading List. I have never read anything by this author before and I really liked this book. She is a christian author. This is a very short book, I read it in a day, probably a total of a couple hours. The story is about Carol and Johnathan Burke. They decide to marry young and Johnathan gives up college and has to start at the bottom in his dad's department store and he has to work lots of hours. Carol is left by herself and really wants to pursue her dream of going to Nashville and becoming a country music singer, but she fells like she has to give all of that up for her husband. When a country music singer comes for a benefit Carol is asked to sing with him and she really tries to decide if that is what she really wants or not. She uses a lot of scriptures to help her in that decision. A quick read, but I really enjoyed it.
When the Morning Comes written by Cindy Woodsmall was the next book on my Fall Reading List that I chose to read. This book is the sequel to When the Heart Cries(click on link to see my review of that book). I really enjoyed that book and was anxiously waiting for this sequel. Hannah Lapp leaves her Amish community after having a baby that was conceived by rape. She heads out to find an aunt she did not know existed until she found a letter in her parents room. Her aunt had been shunned. Hannah finally finds her aunt and starts a new life, but is it the life she really wants? I really did not like the ending of the book, but the author set you up to want to read the next book. This book is action packed. One thing happening after another. I think it would have to be so hard to have to have choose between your Amish family and the worldly ways. This book really shows how Hannah struggled with that issue. 
My kids love these! I have to make them every Halloween! I usually just put mini chocolate chips as the eyes. There is a wafer Nutter Butter Cookie so make sure you get the sandwich cookie. My kids call these Ghost Cookies.
Easy Ghost Cookies (From Kraft)
Spooky Eyeball Tacos(from Kraft)
I am so tired today. Well I have been the whole weekend. I can't get any sleep? My baby, who sleeps in our room, wakes up at least 5 times a night. I just do not understand. He was sleeping through the night fine and then for the last two weeks, he wants to wake up all the time? I fed him one time and he went back to sleep. I probably would let him cry it out but he cries like he is dying. I brought him in the living room and fed him this morning and all the kids, dh included. Then I put him in the playpen and he is over there just snoozing the morning away? I wish I could get the twins to want to take a morning nap because I would love to be snoozing like my little baby right now. Oh I hope he will sleep tonight.
The next book on my Fall into Reading reading list was Candy Cane Murder, which is actually a book containing three novellas by Joanne Fluke, Leslie Meier, and Laura Levine. All of these writers have series about women sleuths. I have read all of these authors so I was excited to get the book when it came out. Here is a bit about each novella. Overall the book was great or should I say the three stories. I just wished I could have waited and read it when it was snowing outside or more of a Christmas feeling in the air. It was 80-90 degrees out when I read them.
Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson was the next book I chose to read on my Fall into Reading reading list. I have been reading this series for a long time. I wait for the next adventure to come out! The series is about Goldie Schultz a caterer who is married to a policeman and she seems to find herself in the middle of murders. She also tries to solve them. Sometimes she even does this before police do. This time an ex District Attorney is found dead in the library as Goldie is setting up for an event that she is catering. Lots of clues are given as to who could be the murder and someone is even arrested. Goldie finds her self also seeing the person who killed her ex. This person was presumed dead. I really enjoy the non stop action in her books and two days seem like forever. As always, I enjoyed another Goldy book! The recipes included in the book are also always good.
Hi all I am back from my Weekend Getaway and it was great, except I am still tired. We spent the first night at my mom's and we can not sleep there. So by the time we got to the hotel all I wanted to do was go to sleep in my huge whirlpool bathtub. I think I laid in there for about 2 hours. I wanted to read in there, but that seemed to be really hard so I just gave up and relaxed! I kept thinking someone is coming in here to need me for something, but nobody came. It was just so nice. Then we got out for a bit and did a little Christmas shopping, not much because we really did not have much room to get it home. There was a new Walmart right across from our hotel that I had never been to. It was interesting because it looked like an upscale Walmart. There are now 4 Walmarts in Lexington and I went to every single one and enjoyed myself. I know some of you hate Walmarts but I enjoy them and I really am not much for malls. (now you all think I am crasy for sure) Saturday night we ate at the Crackel Barrel and we had a very interesting server. He told me that my Grilled Chicken salad was healthy only that my honey mustard dressing had xxxx grams of fat in it. Now who really wants to hear about how much fat is in something when they are eating out? But the guy was pretty interested and told us about being involved with American Idol and how far he got etc. After all the fuss with my honey mustard sauce he tried to get us to eat dessert, which we did! lol! We had a Carrot/pumpkin spice cake that was fabulous! The night before we ate at the Olive Garden and I had a new dis that was really good, but the best thing was the dessert a pumpkin cheesecake that was oh so good! There were only three complains with the weekend 1. My bed pillows at the hotel were awful! we asked for some more, but they said they had none. My neck hurt so bad! 2. Keeneland was in session a horse racing/betting place and the traffic was awful and no wonder our hotel was expensive and all the hotels I called for that matter. I can't believe that place. They had signs for drive thru betting, what are we coming to? 3. I can't remember the third thing? Maybe I wish it could have been longer because I had a great time. So, that was my weekend. i think my dh had a great birthday too. I was so glad to pick up my kids. I love them so, but I am so glad I took the break. I have never spent a night away from the twins since they were born except when I was in the hospital with Neil so it was hard to leave them, but I definately needed it. Oh yeah I remember #3. It was too stinkin HOT! Like in the 90's everyday. Yes, I want to know what is up with this weather? It is October come on I want at least some cooler weather.
(Note: I posted this a while back for works for me Wednesday, it includes all of my favorite fall holiday recipes, enjoy!) 
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