Our first Potty story!

We're not trying to push potty on her right now, just trying to familiarize her with it in hopes that it might make it a little easier down the road. But the other night I sat Natalie on the "potty" just to see what she would do, it was so funny, she got really quite, started looking from side to side, then looked at me and just started laughing. I got her down and that was the end of it. Yesterday morning when we got up, I noticed that her diaper was dry so I took her straight to the bathroom and plopped her on the potty. She sat there for about a minute and then finally used it. She didn't know what to think. This evening when I got home, we were in the bathroom, I flushed, she started waving saying"bye bye" then turned around and started backing herself up to the potty as if to try and sit on it. I just thought it was too cute. So tonight before bathtime, I thought I would see if she wanted to sit, she had a little jello pudding cup in her hand and as soon as i took her diaper off, she threw the cup in the potty, so while i'm fishing around trying to get the cup, I hear something on the floor! I tried to hurry and get her on the potty, but it was too late! I guess I deserved it!

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Anniversary! - Our Wedding Picture!

Catching up

Our Monday night dinner and tonight's dinner turned out very good! Tonight we had the chicken pockets, it's kinda like chicken salad, little bit different, and it's stuffed and baked in a crescent roll that's dipped in melted butter and rolled in bread crumbs. It's definetly a keeper! If I can find some time, I'll try to post some recipes. Right now, I'm working on getting mine organized. I made myself a template for a recipe card so I could type them out and make them look all pretty, but I can't even find the time to type them out. Anyway...

Tomorrow is mine and Derrick's Third anniversay. It doesn't seem like it, and if you would have asked me about 5 years ago about getting married and so on, I would have told you no way - not me! I can have people vouch for me on that too! But, Derrick just swept me off of my feet, had me blinded by love. I couldn't ask for a better husband! Tomorrow we'll be having lunch at Olive Garden! Yummy Yum!!

Home Cooking

I wanted to share with you all this website I came across while surfing the net looking for some recipes for "one-dish" meals, www.backofthebox.com, I have fell in love with it. I'm still adding to my recipe collection as I type, they sound like some really good dishes and I can't wait to try them out! Saturday I spent the most part of the day doing the "once a month cooking" for the first time, well a condensed version for 11 days worth, I had a good time doing it and am looking forward to seeing how they turned out. Today we had the "Joe's to Go" (a tasty version of sloppy jo's), I had it thawing out it the fridge overnight, and when we got home from church all I had to do was throw it in the microwave and serve. Just a matter of minutes! We were all finished eating a homecooked meal by 1:10pm! Tomorrow night we'll be trying the cheesy corn casserole, i'll let you know how it turned out. I feel really good about having done this for the family, even though Derrick says I don't have to cook everynight and he doesn't expect it, and even though I know the kids will complain about the onions and green peppers and all those other good things incorporated into it. But I say it's better than a Hot Pocket or corndog every night. Maybe they will appreciate it when they get older and out of the house, I know that I did about my mom. I loved our home cooked meals.