31 Days of Food - 2012 Challenge

Hey y'all. Welcome to 31 Days of Food. (I know, my title is catchy, clever and unique. At least you know for sure what these posts will be about.)

Here's a list of posts I have done for this series. I'll (try) to update this daily so anyone reading this (Hi Momma! Hi Seester!) will have a table of contents of sorts for the posts I've done for this challenge.

Also, I needed a page to use as a permalink for the challenge.

Day 1 - Tortilla Soup in under 30 minutes

Day 2 - Japanese Curry and Rice

Day 3 - Breakfast Tacos

Day 4 - Slow Cooker Chili

Day 5 - Handmade Pizza Dough

Day 6 - White Pizza with Garlic-Olive-Basil Pesto

Day 7 - Capellini Pomodoro and Garlic Bread

Day 8 - Fried Pork Chops

Be sure to head over to the homepage for the 31 Day Challenge to see what everyone else is writing about. As of 1 AM on October 1, there are already nearly 500 blogs linked to the challenge. Last year there were over 700 bloggers who linked up.

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Here I go again.....

Hey. So. Some blog news.  In spite of my failed attempt at a blog challenge in April, I've decided to do another one. I'll be participating in the 31 Day Challenge hosted by The Nester over at her home, The Nesting Place. I've been prepping the whole month of September, and already have some posts scheduled, so maybe I'll make it through this one.

My topic will be (of course) 31 Days of Food. (Original, I know. I pat myself on the back every day for thinking up that topic.) I even made a cute little button to use when I'm linking up to the challenge.

Come on back through October 31 to see if I made it through this challenge.

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I suck.......

at blogging regularly. {sigh}

Maybe one day I will actually be at a point where I can blog at least a few times a week. And have all my crochet projects completed. And have all my scrapbooking caught up. And have a clean house. And...........

Every one of you knows what I mean.

24 hours in a day just isn't enough to get all 40 hours of stuff I need to do each day done.

At least I fed my kid a few times today. And kept him safe. That's always a win.

I promise, an actual blog post is coming soon. One day. The good news is I have been keeping up with my list of apps/books/stuff to review and blog about. Whenever I can find the time to do it. Right now I'm concentrating on organizing my home (including office/hobby room, cell phone, computer, things in storage, etc.) so that maybe, just maybe, when I start blogging again I can actually schedule in time to blog on a regular basis, like I began doing about this time last year. You know, before the whirlwind that was my last year.

Now, off to make my to-do list for the rest of the week.

(How in the world do those "super moms" do it all??? For the life of me, I can't figure out where they get all the time to do everything they do. I'm lucky if we're fed and the house is decent looking....)

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A to Z Blog Challenge Day 8 - Happy Feet

My son just ran up to me in the kitchen and proclaimed, "Mommy, I got happy feet!" while dancing up a storm that would put Michael Flatley to shame.

Now, this isn't new for him. He has said that ever since we got him to sit down and watch the entire Happy Feet DVD several months ago. And he "tap dances" as he says it, just to add that extra emphasis, just in case his two-year-old-toddler-exclamation didn't quite get his point across. 

It's just that today, I was in the middle of rolling out and cutting the homemade buns I'm making for tonight's dinner of homemade BBQ sandwiches. I started thinking, and I realized that my child is always happy, barring the inevitable hissy fit he throws upon being told he can't do or have something he really, really wants to have/do. Or when he falls down for the fifty-ninth time today and bangs his knee/head/elbow/bootie (again). Seriously, that child wakes up happy. Rainbows are shooting from his eyes and sparkles and glitter are coming out of his bootie the moment he opens his eyes in the morning.

How often are adults that happy, just to be alive? Or just because someone made them a glass of chocolate or strawberry (or chocolate and strawberry) milk? Or because you made a pee-pee in your Lightening McQueen potty and now you get one Lifesaver candy as your reward?

My child finds the simplest things to be happy about, and becomes overjoyed because he lets those simple things make him so happy.

I think I could learn something from him about happiness. Even on the good days when I'm happy to have my home and family and all those other wonderful things I enjoy in my life.

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A to Z Blog Challenge Day 7 - Grown-up Time

Having a toddler can be a challenge most days. They are beginning to figure out that they are individuals with their own thoughts and opinions and wants. They throw tantrums and say "No" when you ask them to pick up their collection of 578 million Lightening McQueen-related Matchbox cars. They ask to watch the same Cars DVD 67 times after nap time.

After the bedtime routine is complete, I usually need a little while to just relax. Maybe drink a glass of wine. So just what do I like to do during my grown-up time? I'm glad you asked.

Depending on our mood each night, grown-up time may or may not involve my boyfriend.

Some nights we curl up on the couch together and watch anime episodes or a movie. We might also play a board game or card game together. We might just sit and talk.

Some nights we each want a little solo me time. On those nights, while he plays video games or watches some anime series I haven't started watching yet, I blog, read, spend way too much time on Pinterest, or just surf the web. I hope to have the "hobby room" set up soon so I could also crochet or work on my scrapbook projects during my solo me time, also.

What do you like to do with your "grown-up time"?

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