OK folks, sorry it has been a while. I have been crazy busy, which has made me SO tired that I have not been waking up at my normal 5:30AM blog time. Please forgive me. Hubby's promotion to LTC is today and I have been preparing all week for it. I am decorating the room, not really much to do in decorating, I mean - this is the army. We will have a few flowers much to hubby's protesting. I have also planned the menu with a little help from a friend, and I am preparing it all myself. Now this might stress some of you out....if so get a caterer, there is nothing wrong with that, but for me, I enjoy the planning and the cooking! Today I am putting the room together and plating the food. I have someone taking pictures of the ceremony, so I should be able to share some great photos with you soon.
Well, I'm off.... I must run Boy 3 to preschool, hit the commissary for those last few items, set up the room, iron the kids clothes, figure out what I am going to wear...................
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Or in the English language....HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (Lunar) I swear, Boy 2 thinks he is a rock star! Women are constantly fawning all over him. Boy 1 having a great time....again. The MajGen passing out shots to the B-Boy, breakdancing group after their performance. Hubby passing out shots to his friends.... Boy 3 thinks he is a SUPERSTAR! Me and my Girl! And this is my favorite picture of the night..... OK, so I drank a little of it before I took the picture & I didn't garnish it. It doesn't matter though because it is FABULOUS!!! I got the original recipe here, I adapted just a tad. Remember when I took S to Osan for a little purse and blanket shopping? Well, here is the cashmere coat I had made! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!! Many moons ago I worked at Dave & Busters in Dallas, while there this was my favorite thing on the menu. I begged the cook for the recipe. Over the years I have modified it and it has become one of the favorite dishes in our house. Now, I am going to try my best to give you accurate measurments, however, I just toss stuff in, so play with it a bit if you would like. Ingredients: Hubby and I took the kids to Namsan Seoul Tower that past Monday. The little ones have never been. They were not too impressed with the observation deck, in fact Girl took her camera, but when we got to the observation deck she put it away. The picture below is of Boy 2 and I looking at the view before we went into the tower. OH....did I mention I am a brunette again? Boy 1 was so happy to be with us.... Things they did like about our adventure: They also liked lunch. We ate in the tower, at Sobahn Korean Restaurant. It is a Korean buffet, you order your main dish, then go to the buffet for all your soups, salads and side dishes. The buffet was wonderful; I could have not ordered a main dish and been completely happy. If you go for lunch, the prices are pretty reasonable for what you get. The price for adults is 22,000 won & kids are 7,500 won. And the other thing they really enjoyed was the bus ride...well, Boy 1 didn't really like much of anything (except the ribs). Oh baby, this is good! This recipe comes from my friend Lara at Feed Your Kids. I have changed it just a little to accommodate our family & so we can have a little left over for lunch the next day! The original recipe is here. This company, Mooich, always has fun photo shoots, and the photographer is so patient with the kids. At the beginning of this next set, they gave both boys bats, which instantly made me fearful for the other boys head. I was right to be afraid...I stood close to the set because I saw the look in Boy 3's eyes....I mean come on he is the youngest of 4 & is a very rough boy. Thank goodness when he swung he missed the boys head, and I was there to take the bat away! It could have ended ugly... And this was his favorite set of the day...... When I was a kid, pot pies were a treat. No, not the homemade pot pie like I make, but those small frozen pot pies, the ones that were on sale. They could have been Swanson, Banquet or the generic Kroger brand. Kroger is where my mom shopped all the time, and I NEVER got to go with her, although I always wanted to. It didn't matter to me the brand of pot pie, a pot pie was a pot pie, I love them all equally, well except for the beef. I have one memory that included a pot pie...I had been playing out side with my sister, l am pretty sure she had just made me eat a mud pieJ. Mom had just come home from Kroger, my sister and I rushed into the house to help her unload (I loved to help unload the groceries so I could see what she bought), I found the bag of pot pies. My memory tells me that I ask my mom very politely if I could have one (I must have been 8 or 9), but I am pretty sure it was not that easy, now that I have kids and I understand a bit more how they work. It probably went something like this: I got this recipe from my mother-in-law who has been making it for years. She got the recipe from Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa. I adapted it from her original recipe. |
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