The OTHER Guy~~

Well…I once again have neglected my blog but a special gift that I am holding in my hand has changed all of that! Trust me!!! 
This other guy is the reason that I am once again in LOVE~~
Here is David Costas Biggs and I am so smitten with him.  I think he might even be a little in love with me.  I know…I know…it is hard to believe that I could be loved. lol!!

Look at those big baby blues~~yeah we both have them!!  This is such a different time in my life and this little guy is helping to feel that void!!  “DIFFERENT TIME” yeah…I know that peaked your interest and I will start writing about this soon.

Here we are again with Auntee WenDee giving him the first baby bath she has actually given in several years!!  Luckily momma wasn’t far away and she came to our rescue!! Let’s just say it was all worth it…he got to wear his Elmo robe and slippers~~PRICELESS!!!!
Yes---this post is in response to you~~pics of me on the other side of the lens and all!! YES…”BEAUTIFUL LADY” I am talking about you.

What’s Up???

Well I have been a purtee busy girl here the last few weeks or so~~I am going to update the blog with various pics from the IPhone.  We all know that the phone sees it all…weather it wants to or not!?!?

This wee one has been on my shoulder a great deal of the winter.  As you can see he is sucking/chewing his thumb~~cute but it ain’t gonna happen on my watch!! NO THUMB!! I have greatly enjoyed the bonding time I have had with David. 

Matthew started his 1st public works job—now remember he is a working man but he has been his own boss.  He is soooo dirty that I will own stock in Spray’N Wash by the end of this job.  He has been working 12 hrs. 7 days and will be doing so for the next 10 to 14 weeks.  So proud of him!!!!

Here are the boys~~chilln’ with Auntee WenDee!! I love these boys to pieces.

Here is his baby fingers and my nail polish strips~~man I am telling you they are so easy to use and they have lasted for several day!! That is one big feat since I have my hands in water all the time!! Cooking and germs keep them wet and moving fast so chipping can occur.

Had to purchase a hard-hat for the job starting on Thursday…so nice to get a call to go to work he next day.  We didn't/t have that looooong wait!!  I am sure Matthew especially appreciated it!! I know his momma sure did!

LuCee sure has been missing his boy~~he wants some attention from the hard working man.  You know it is bad when the dogs are demanding some quality time??

Zo is even getting in on the BABY fun!! She has really been great with the boys~~love the bond they have with her.

Some days Jack is climbing the walls to get outside and enjoying being a boy!

Luckily we have lots of family members to help Jack play/work.  Even Great-Grandpa Fred comes to his aid.

Jack is really growing up~~he has been going to the “BIG BOY” potty!!! He just loves to flush the evidence….and flush and flush and flush and~~well you get the picture here don’t ya’??

Matthew’s 1st pay check~~now that’s what I’m talkin’ bout!! It is all worth it at the end of the day…well the bank account says so!! So that is just a glimpse into what ALLLL the happenings and such!  Bye for now and I will try to get back on here this week! Yeah~~right!!LOL!!

GINGER~~oh yes!!

In my “KNOW”ledge box I wrapped my fingers around a lil’ bottle that looks like the picture below.

I glanced at the bottle with little attention being paid to the description of this salt.  So I thought hmmm~~gonna use that on my roasted veggies and rice.  I love different salts and sprinkle them all over the skin of a sweet potato so that it makes a salt crust.  Oh my—so…so…so good.  Give it a try and it will change your relationship with sweet potatoes.  Ok~~back to the salt.  I took the little bottle and flipped the top open and just went to town shake-shake—shaking the little granules all over the roasted brussel sprouts, steamed carrots and a little bit of baked brown rice.  Yeah—you read that correctly!! The rice was baked.  I am telling you this is a not fail way of fixing brown rice!! More on this recipe to come but I have gotta’ get back to this fusion salt.  I took the first bite of my concoction and the next thing I knew I had an explosion of ginger dancing on my taste buds?? I jumped up from the recliner and started the happy-ginger-dance and took a look-see at the little bottle of salt.  The word fusion should have been the 1st clue that this is just not any ordinary salt.  No sir-e-bob…it is infused with ginger.  What-uh you know?? Ginger is my all time favorite spice.  I just about put ginger in or on my recipes/food if I can get away with it.  So~~she did it again.  This mystery friend of mine knew me well enough to know that I would be in stinkin’ love with this fusion salt. 

The veggies you see in the picture above are very very tasty because I added the fusion salt.  As I am shaking the ginger infused salt all over my dinner I have a GREAT big smile on my face because I know that she listens to me. She knows me!!  She cares that I love ginger and found it in something that I would not expect it to be in.  She knew that I wouldn’t expect it and then “BAMB” I was surprised.  I just love this salt and I really love my dear friend of mine. Yes I do!!!!

“KNOW”ledge box~~

I received an email from my dearest friend in the whole wide world.  This lil’ email informed me that I would be receiving a package of goodies that she had collected during her travels of items that reminded her of me.  Let me tell you…I was so stinkin’ excited about this gift.  I didn’t even lie and tell her she should not have gotten me anything.  I told her the truth of the matter~~I am so glad that she had spent her time and money on me.  Really I was and I just won’t lie about it.  Well let me tell you that when the package was delivered to my porch I was like a little kid at Christmas.  I was so excited and giddy with anticipation that I stood there for a few short seconds to enjoy this feeling.  Then I ripped into the box—and I realized at that moment this person knew me and knew me well.  First off, I picked up a brown paper sack that had once held some of these precious gifts.  This sack has those nice jute handles that are so nice to carry items in.  How could she have know that I loved the sacks that hold all of my goodies until I get them home.  I have a bunch of them in my closet!! The ones with handles are my favorite and I cant bring myself to throw them away.  I think that this part of the gift was UUUHHH-mazing.  The other items that were contained in this box of “know”ledge will be discussed in separate blog entries that are written especially about them.  The first item that I decided to write about is all about food.  How did you all ever guess it would be about food—I told you all this person knew me.  Ina Garten (AKA) Barefoot Contessa is one of my favorite celebrity cooks that I watch on the Cooking Cannel and Food Network.   So when I pulled out a box that had a picture of this famous person on it and also contained white cake with coconut you can bet I had a smile on my face.  Once again this person gets me.  My favorite flavor of cake is white and I am into cup-cakes like nothing else.  It is such a nice neato way of consuming cake.

This is actually the final product with the beautiful red cupcake liners that were included in the “know”ledge box.  Many thanks are being sent your way.  Thank you so…so much!!

The lengths that papa will go~~

 

Jack was playing with play-dough under the dining room table the other day.  He felt safe and secure under there but he felt even more secure with papa David under there with him.  Papa even said his neck was hurting him at one point and Jack was lickudee-split back with a pillow for papa and one for him. Now please keep in mind that I was holding baby David while using my iPhone to take these pictures. So they are not the best quality!!

KaDee even got in on the action by plopping her butt on one of the pillows—that Jack didn’t not find one bit amusing.  He slowly nuuughed her off with his bel-bow(elbow).  He and KaDee have a love hate relationship.  See…Jack was the first thing that has been able to come between KaDee and I and she simply will have none of it.  However—she would never bite him.  Now that baby David is here she just goes over and takes a dog-nap while I rock the baby and talk to him and coo—and ooo-and goo!! She knows that I will soon finish up with this small distraction and she will once again be my number one.  

Look at this cute little guy~~he is not a nerd in the least but today you would never know it!!

However he is the cutest darn nerd you’ll find round these here parts.

SALT of ALL TIME!!!!

Thanks to my baby sis(Alison) I have found the best ding-dang-delicious salt of ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL time!!! I am not kidding you when I tell you I eat this stuff every single day of my life.  I never ever find myself reaching for the regular ol’ salt???

It is called REALSALT by REDMOND and it states that it is Ancient ALL NATURAL SEA SALT.  I first bought the little bottle that you see here in the picture at the Whole Foods in Columbus.  When I discovered that I was in love with this salt I then went back for the big 26 ouncer with the handee-dandee pour spout. 

 

See here is a nice close up shot of the pour spout which makes it very nice to fill up the bottle or your little salt shakers.  I don’t even bother with them because I would go thru it tooooo quickly…I just refill the 9oz bottle.  The info on the bag is like a little mini-geography lesson but I will spare you all the details.  I will tell you that on the front of the bag it states that the salt is from unrefined sea salt that has been left behind by an ancient sea bed.  This salt contains 50 plus trace minerals including iodine which your body has to have.  I am not sure about all that but I sure do love it and to think about it in those terms it is as if your eating a lil’ part of history in every bite.  LOL!!!  So go ahead and get you a bottle or bag or both because your will never look back to your old salt again.

MY time~~

I have been super-duper busy with this lil’ guy.

This would be David Costas Biggs~~and the center of my attention for the last several weeks now!!

Oh and this guy—which I never…ever… am not doing something for.  He is the way BIGGEST baby in my life as of the past 18 years or so!!! I love this lil’ guy…well not so little but will always be my baby!!!  Sorry I have not written much and will try to get back on track!! Thanks—my dearest friend for reminding me of my blog…you know who you ARE!!!