Menu Plan Monday – November 30th

I’m getting back into menu planning finally. Posting it really helps me stick to it. Here’s my menu plan for this week.

Monday (tonight) - Chicken and Rice and mixed veggies.

Tuesday - Country Fried Steak (recipe below), mashed potatoes and gravy, niblet corn

Country Fried Steak

1 egg

1/4 cup milk

1 cup all purpose flour

1 sleeve saltine crackers, crushed

1 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt

1 1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1 1/2 teaspoon steak seasoning (I use McCormick’s Grill Mates because thats what is in my spice rack)

4 (4 ounce) cube steaks

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Whisk together the egg and milk in a shallow bowl and set aside. Whisk together the flour, crushed saltines, seasoned salt, onion powder and steak seasoning. Dip the steaks in the egg and milk mixture and then press each steak into the flour mixture. Pat the steaks with the flour mixture to coat them completely. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium high heat and fry the steaks until golden brown, firm and hot all the way through (about 4 minutes per side)

Wednesday - Fend for yourself night

Thursday - Easy Baked Pasta (recipe below), caesar salad and garlic bread

Easy Baked Pasta (recipe I clipped from the Atlanta Journal Constitution)

1 pound ground beef

3 cups ziti pasta cooked and drained

1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce

8 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese

3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese, divided

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large skillet brown the ground beef and then drain. *In a 9 x13 inch baking dish, stir together the ground beef, cooked pasta, spaghetti sauce, mozzarella and a 1/2 cup of the parmesan cheese. Top mixture with remaining parmesan cheese. Cover and bake for 20 minutes until heated through, gooey and delicious.

*Note-this is always messy for me to do. I wind up spilling some every time and still haven’t figured out how to mix it all together neatly.  Lets see, where were we? Oh!

Friday - Dinner out somewhere. It is  the annual Porterdale Christmas in the Village event. There will be a parade complete with Santa and live reindeer! Our families are going to come to our house, go to the parade and then go out to dinner.  It was so much fun last year and we can’t wait to take Sebastian for a picture with Santa.

Saturday - Pork chops, rice and broccoli and cheese sauce.

Sunday  - crock pot beef stew and biscuits

All these recipes are making me hungry. I think I’m finally getting my appetite back. I’m going to set up the weeble’s swing in the kitchen so he can hang out with me while I do the dishes and cook.

Gah, I hate moving

HATE. IT. I can’t believe I’ve done this but I’ve moved from spilledsweet.blogspot.com to spilledsweettea.com hosted through WordPress and GoDaddy.com.

It has already taken me 3 days to figure out why all the awesome plugins and themes I was uploading weren’t appearing. I was to the point that I was drinking at 2PM and tearing out my hair when I decided to call GoDaddy.com and ask them. Um, yeah, note to self: if I’m paying for a service, just ask them for help. They knew right away what happened and how to fix it. So much for all my crazy googling and yelling at the computer at 4AM. Although it did give me something to do while Sebastian refused to sleep.

Big thanks to Scary Mommy for answering my questions about WordPress quickly. She is also a WP gal and posted a great blog entry on all the neat things you can do with WP. Seeing things like Comment Luv made me decide to not throw in the towel.

So right now my blog is a bit messy and I apologize but I promise it’ll get prettier in the next few days (ok, maybe weeks)!

Happy Thanksgiving y’all!

Happy Thanksgiving from Sebastian!

My mama is sooooo boring. All these pictures. *yawn* Whats a baby to do?

Today I am thankful for:
~ My wonderful loving husband and sweet healthy baby (whose hair is red we’ve decided. When he was first born we thought it was a dark blonde but now it looks more like light auburn)
~ Our family, friends and critters
~ Our funky old home

This was taken the weekend that I found out I was knocked up. Snow in Georgia? Amazing! I hope we get snow again soon.

~ My husband and I both being employed
~ Tylenol Cold and Sinus medicine-I’ve been battling this yucky cold for a few days now and it is the only thing that seems to help
~ Being able to wear socks and shoes again. When I was all swollen from the pre-e, I couldn’t even wear flip flops anymore. See?

~ Being treated successfully for the pre-e. My blood pressure was normal at my OB visit day before yesterday and I don’t have to take the blood pressure pills anymore. Hooray!
~ Not getting thrown up on or peed on today

Because of my cold and Chris’s cough, we’re not going to anyone’s house for Thanksgiving. My mom is going to drop off plates of turkey and dressing to us later though and we’ll eat in the dining room and have a mini Thanksgiving.

Hope everyone has a happy and full Thanksgiving!

Wordless Wednesday November 25th 2009

Wordless Wednesday

We <3 our Wubbanub!

Got our Wubbanub and love it:

I’m bringing sexy back

I have no taste for sweets anymore. I ate 2 mini sized 3 Musketeers bars and feel so sick now. I’ve also almost lost my appetite completely-I have to remind myself to eat. It is so strange since I was eating everything in sight when I was knocked up.

Sebastian is asleep. Chris fed and changed him and watched V with him tucked in next to him on the couch. He is such a good daddy and I am so proud of him. I can’t imagine no having such an amazing partner for this whole parenthood thing.

My house is still a mess. Boo.

I got involved in a conversation on FB with one of my friends and one of his friends about women and body image:

PZS: is there a such thing as a woman who is “comfortable” or “happy” with her body? – like does she exist?

Me: I am and I just had a baby.

PZS: Thts 3 out of billions

Me: Hey you asked if they exist-not how many are there. I’m just saying I think I look damn good for having a baby 3 weeks ago. I feel better about myself now than before I got pregnant-it made me much more realistic about my body.

PZS: Haha true true sarah!! I see some do so they do. I just wonder how many..an is it mans fault if they don’t?

Me: I don’t know if it is the man’s fault but it helps that my husband tells me every day how pretty and sexy he thinks I am even with baby spit up in my hair.

PZS: That’s awesome, he should be cloned and sold in stores lol

AT: no she does not, I’m sorry to say my dear boy. that’s a beautiful story but would you be comfortable with your body without your husbands approval.

Me: Yep I would be. Pregnancy was a miserable experience for me because I gained tons of weight plus I swelled up from pre-eclampsia. I kept looking of before pics of me wondering why the hell I though I was fat before I got knocked up. Now that I’m not pregnant (and swollen) I feel amazing and appreciate my body so much more. I am grateful that I have such a loving and supportive husband though. I know he’d love me no matter what.

AT: they need to clone more women with your passion towards their beauty than. Not to many women think that way.

Me: I didn’t used to feel this way. Gaining 50+ pounds though was what made me appreciate my old body and appreciate getting it (mostly-I still have 15 pounds or so to lose but that is ok) back. It is really sad how many gorgeous amazing women don’t appreciate their bodies.

AT: i blame the entertainment industry and society.they have everyone fucked up in the head with dreams of grandeur.

Mah baybee is photogenic

After waking up 4 times last night (maybe 5, I’m a little sleep deprived) to have numerous bottles, diaper changes, soothing and songs, Sebastian is zonked out and sleeping like, well, a baby. *sigh* I’m trying to get up the energy to go finish the dishes and work on the laundry.

I’ve been having the craziest dreams since having Sebastian. Last night I dreamed that I went to a party than an ex-boyfriend was at, then went home to Chris. We were living at his parents house (eek!) and had two children. He was really mad that I’d run into my ex even though it was a coincidence. I got mad and went outside and decided to steal his car and run away. Neener neener Chris.

Speaking of Chris, he admitted today that he needs to start back on his Prozac. Yep, we’re a medicated family. I’ve thought he did because he has started having moods again. Seriously, it is like he gets guy PMS sometimes.

I’m ordering Sebastian a Wubbanub today. I think the lion maybe.

So you’re not totally bored to tears with my vanilla flavored life, have some sweet baby pics:

I can’t get over how sweet Chris is with him:

Yo homie, I wear my hat cocked to the side to represent:

Oooh yes, we <3 our swing:

Quizzy for lack of anything better

Snagged from Sarah at That’s What She Said!

1. Where is your cell phone? Right here with me.

2. Your hair? A messy pony tail.

3. Your mother? Thrilled about her grandson-she has taken to calling him Gnomie.

4. Your father? Non existent

5. Your favorite food? None now that I’m not pregnant anymore. I have to remind myself to eat.

6. Your dream last night? Crazy. I dreamed that Chris and I were in the car running errands and it had been 4 hours since we’d been home. I looked in the back seat and realized with horror that Sebastian wasn’t there and that we’d accidentally left him at home. I just knew that by the time we got home the cats were going to have crawled in the bassinet and smothered him.

7. Your favorite drink? Red wine or sweet tea.

8. Your goal? To get my whole house clean

9. What room are you in? The computer room.

10. Your hobby? Too much time on the internet, scrapbooking, haunting flea markets and thrift stores

11. Your fear? Bugs

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? A stay at home mom, maybe with another child by then. We’ll need a bigger house though.

13. Where were you last night? In bed asleep because my husband rocks and took care of the baby all night.

14. Something you aren’t? High maintenance

15. Muffins? Yum. Blueberry?

16. Wish list item? I desperately need and want a new winter coat but dread the shopping.

17. Where did you grow up? Atlanta, Georgia-downtown Atlanta too, not the fake suburby Atlanta.

18. Last thing you did? Talk to my ex boss to thank her for the baby gift she sent-a Diaper Dude diaper bag in black with skulls and crossbones.

19. What are you wearing? Maternity jeans and a black stretchy shirt. I missed my plain black shirts-maternity tops are so freaking cutesy or just fugly.

20. Your TV? New and shiny. It was a joint birthday present to ourselves because our old one was dying. No surprise since it was 15 years old.

21. Your pets? Cats and a dog.

22. Your friends? Wonderful. It made me feel so great that so many people called, emailed, visited and sent cards while we were in the hospital.

23. Your life? Beautiful

24. Your mood? Cheerful

25. Missing someone? My mom-I haven’t really seen her since we got out of the hospital last week.

26. Vehicle? Silver Scion xB

27. Something you’re not wearing? Perfume

28. Your favorite store? I really don’t have one.

29. Your favorite color? Plum purple

30. When was the last time you laughed? Earlier today

31. Last time you cried? Yesterday? Who knows over what. Stupid baby blues.

32. Your best friend? Lives too far away in New Orleans.

33. One place that I go over and over? The grocery store. We invariably forget something and have to go back the next day.

34. One person who emails me regularly? My aunt and uncle. She is super left wing and he is super right wing and both email me politcal emails like crazy (probably 10 a day). *sigh*

35. Favorite place to eat? El Charro-I love Mexican food and they know us there. They were so excited when we brought the baby by to see everyone.

This is me doing… something

I have got to get off my ass and get something accomplished today. I’m so not in the mood though. This morning I had the first headache I’ve had in months and months and it was awful. Thankfully Chris came home from work for a few hours so he took care of Sebastian while I ate and took some pain pills and then closed my eyes until it got better. It is still there lurking, but the Motrin is slowly winning.

Sebastian’s aim with the pee is getting better. Last night he peed again while I was changing him and managed to hit the basket of clean laundry 3 feet away. I wasn’t annoyed because I was so impressed and just had to laugh about it.

Chris snapped this photo before leaving for work this morning. Please pay no attention to my massive double chin that is trying to eat the baby. I have an eviction notice to serve to the chin, the only part that didn’t lose weight when I dropped all the fluid.

On the one hand, I feel weird that all I have to talk about is Sebastian but I guess that is what happens when you’re a new mom. On the other hand it is a really great feeling to know that other than Sebastian, I don’t have a whole lot to worry about since I’m not working at the moment. No crazy long commutes, no worrying about what to wear to the office or worrying about office drama and no annoying clients or bosses looking over my shoulder. When I’m not taking care of the baby or cleaning, I’m clipping and organizing coupons, planning dinner or reading. It is a pretty sweet job sometimes.

Being a mom is tough, yay Prozac

Sebastian is asleep. I *think* last night was better as far as fussiness goes. I did have a little melt down and started crying when he wouldn’t calm down after an hour. Chris rushed in asking what was wrong and I sobbed “I’m such a bad mother, I can’t get him to stop crying”. Chris immediately snagged him from me and ordered me to ask for help when I’m getting frustrated and reminded me that him being fussy or me asking for help doesn’t mean I failed or anything like that. Chris did manage to get him to calm down and go to sleep a little while later and then he snuggled me until I went to sleep too. I’m so glad I have Chris. I don’t know how single moms do it. I’m also so glad I started back on the Prozac a month ago because if I feel this weepy with it, who knows what it would be like without it.

I am spending today cleaning cleaning cleaning. Chris’s parents are coming over tonight for dinner. Chris’s mom is working at his pool today subbing for someone, so she is coming out with Chris when they get off of work and his dad is driving out separately. His dad is bringing the fixings for a roast, peas and carrots and potatoes that his mom has prepared so that I don’t have to cook anything. Very very nice of her.

Okie, enough putting the cleaning off. I think Ninja is going to stay asleep so I need to get to work.