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You know all Mommies need help in the kitchen. Whether it is cooking or cleaning up afterwards.
Last night I made Scallops for Hubby. One of his favorite meals, and one I have not cooked for a while due to the high cost of Scallops. But tis’ the season to be jolly, hohoho…so, we got some yesterday and I fixed them up. They came out pretty well and we ate them up without leaving even a smidge of Scallop on the plates. But that did not stop Fritz and Greta. They knew we’d had something wonderful, and they also knew if they just stuck their cute little snouts in the dishwasher while I was loading it, they might just get lucky and get a lick of something good.

After finishing my work, we settled down to enjoy a nice warm fire in the hearth. Shubi and Fritz are not too fond of fires, but Greta loves them.

Found this over at my cousins, who found it somewhere else 🙂

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don’t speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want – good or bad – BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you’re finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON’T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Consider it a short writing exercise, just something to waste a few minutes of time, if you like.

Today is the last day before I jump right back into the South Beach Diet. My stomach is finally completely well and I feel I can handle the vegetables and proteins without the carbs.
So, today I am celebrating this by having a carb blowout! I made blueberry pancakes for breakfast with real maple syrup made just up the road in Littleton, New Hampshire. It was wonderful! I’ve been craving blueberry pancakes for weeks and since today was the last day I could do it, legally, I broke out the flour and frozen blueberries from last summer and whipped up a batch! Mmmmmmmmmmmmm! They were just great!!!
Later today I will polish off the last of the apple pie from Thanksgiving. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it! And after all, the first two weeks of South Beach are the toughest and so I’m just rewarding myself in advance.
My goals on South Beach are easy. To get control over my eating once again. When I started having problems with my stomach about all I could eat were carbs. Toast, noodles, cream of wheat, crackers. All those comfort food things that sit easily in the stomach.
But for someone like me, a carboholic, eating carbs makes me want to eat more carbs and I feel hungry all the time, and my weight starts to climb. I feel so much better when I really limit them in my diet and eat a diet that is high in protein.
So good-bye blueberry pancakes and apple pies and hello low fat cheese and salads!!!

Okay, at this point I think almost everyone who cooked their own turkey at home is getting to the point of turkey burnout! I know we are. We had turkey on Thanksgiving. Great, wonderful, ooooh, it tasted so good! Then on Friday we had turkey left overs for lunch. Hubby had a full meal and I made my famous turkey/stuffing and cranberry sandwich! Last night was my homemade turkey soup. Yummy! Noon today I made my sandwiches again for Hubby and me. And tonight…yes, you guessed it, Turkey Soup!
The good news here, is that I froze the other half of the turkey soup, so this will be it for the soup for a while. I can still throw together a sandwich tomorrow, but then the turkey is done. Tomorrow night I think I’ll plan a nice juicy steak!

It’s a winter wonderland here in New Hampshire, this cold Thanksgiving day. Somehow having the turkey cooking in the oven, slowly with the smell wafting through the house goes well with the falling snow outside. Needless to say I have not ventured out, but I have enjoyed my views of the white winter world from my windows.
Greta went out and dug in the snow until she found her ball and then proceeded to push it with her nose through the snow. Fritz jumps like a deer through it, and Hubby, is currently using the snow blower to clear the drive.
Yes, it’s winter in the mountains.
Our menu today consists of turkey, (naturally) chestnut dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, peas and pearl onions. Dessert is plum pudding with hard sauce, and apple pie! Yum!!!! Over the next few days there will be turkey sandwiches, and I’ll make my turkey soup as well.
I just love Thanksgiving!!!

I was thinking of all the things I have to be thankful for this year. The health and love of my family and friends is, of course at the top of my list. For without these special people I would be lost.
Next I am grateful for my pets. Their unconditional love and light heartedness makes my days complete. I continue to be grateful for Shubi’s good health. and Fritz’s presence and for the special little love that our Greta is becoming, each and every day.
And last, but not least, I am grateful for you, my blogging friends. You all have added a new dimension to my life. Reading your blogs and having you comment on mine. It makes life so very interesting.
So to all of you I wish, A Very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

The laptop is back. Up and running, and I was actually able to set it back into the network myself! But now the real work begins as I track down e-mail addresses that I lost, and also attempt to put back some of the information I was able to salvage from the other system.
The laptop is working so well now and it’s a joy. But I could spend the next two or three days doing nothing but sitting here with this thing and still not get it all done. And of course with Thanksgiving tomorrow I have a lot of cooking and baking to do, even if it is just Hubby and me.
I am a little better today, myself. I think things are finally starting to move around so I can get rid of the congestion. I actually went out to the store yesterday to get our turkey. Wow! It was so great to be out in the world after being a shut in for over a week!

Just got back from the doctor’s. They did a quick strep test, just to be sure it wasn’t strep, and I passed. No Strep. Apparently this virus is all around New England and I am just unlucky enough to have gotten it. They said that my throat actually looks better, even though I sound terrible, and that I will keep improving.
So their prescription was, go home drink plenty of fluids and make turkey soup!
HaHa.

***update*** Laptop is now at the computer doctor’s. We are not sure yet what is wrong. I sure hope it isn’t “terminal“!

I have an appointment witht the people doctor tomorrow morning. I hope both the computer and me will be okay!

My laptop computer crashed this morning. I don’t know when or why. Sometime in the night. I had been planning to take everything off the system and reinstall it all anyway, because the stupid thing has been sooooo slow recently. Now, I have to work with a half usable machine, get the last few bits of information off and then wipe the drive clean and start all over again. Ugh! I guess I know what I will be doing all day.
To help you all start your work weeks right, here are a few pictures of Greta that show you that this little dackel leads a very good life!!!

It’s Sunday and I now have no voice. Hubby will be happy about that. He won’t have to listen to me complain! lol But it looks like I am headed back to the doctor tomorrow. Actually Hubby is sick and tired of me being sick and tired! So am I. I just want to feel better. I need some “Super-Antibiotics” to kick the heck out of this stupid germ!