Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter Dinner

This is our dinner..easy peasy no mess easter dinner Ribs, potato salad, macaroni salad, green beans. Ok I wont lie I cheated on the salads .. they are from walmart. I can make it and will show recipes later but I worked 12 hours yesterday and 8 hours today. No time to be a princess homemaker lol. The ribs however are awesome!  I made a dry rub with equal parts...

Old bay
Salt
Pepper
Paprika
Cumin
Then just a pinch of red pepper flakes

Rubbed the ribs last night, they marinated over night..

We were going to bbq today but it was raining this morning,  so we cooked them low and slow in the oven on 250° for 4 hours. The last 30 minutes of cook time, we added sweet baby rays sweet vidalia bbq sauce...yum oh! The smell is awesome!

These were fall off the bone tender awesome ribs!

Happy Easter!!!

Oh It has been a morning.. before daylight my 6 year old was tapping me on the shoulder... "Can we please start Easter?" ... Me..Looking at the darkness coming in my bedroom window.. "Heck No, go back to bed its not even daylight!"  ..fast forward 30 minutes..."MOM can we please have Easter now?" With a crack of my eyelid, I look up..."Wake up your brother please." In walks my 19 year old in my room all groggy and stumbling staring at me with hate ... LOL .. Me.."Tell the kids to go......." Interrupts the 19 year old...."You want ME to be the Easter Bunny.. YOU SUCK LOL" Now before anyone says anything we cannot hide eggs at night, The great dane gets hard boiled eggs as treats, so he would have had his own easter egg hunt while we were sleeping.  Who ever came up with hiding food that needs to be refrigerated and candy baskets first thing in the morning.. Seriously? I now have 5 kids who are on a sugar high, a 19 year old that went back to bed..and my 22 year old (who is autistic) pacing the house.. in search of what I dont know yet. The best comment of the morning.. "Let's do Fun Dip Shots!" That is where I had to intervene, "Baskets up until after dinner!" out cam the "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" in unison.. but I won.. so yay me!

On Another Note.. The dogs.. was so not as bad as I thought! my sons dog is a very sweet loving girl and I am very glad she adopted my son. We have a little friction with them but, she can care less that there is other dogs in the house and did not come in as a threat to them so its ok.. No fights just a little growling and barking. Totally handleable! (i dont even know if thats a word, but its a word in my vocabulary so .. yeah!)  What I am going to say about this dog though, My son rescued her..she was on craigslist. he went to a home who claimed to be a rescue, had tons of dogs in there and this one stood out to him, was jumping all over him and so that is why he picked her. I have raised Rottweilers, been around breeding and so forth A LOT. This poor dog.. has been bred to death, and she is young, Her nipples look like someone put a sucking machine on them... and her vagina area is just over stretched. Looks like she was in a puppy mill. And her behavior, she pays no attention to other dogs, and love love loves humans. It seriously breaks my heart. I hate people sometimes.. there is no reason this dog should have gone through this. But on the bright side she now owns my son, and she totally owns him too. She follows him everywhere, even the bathroom, she sleeps upside down on his lap.. she is an awesome dog, and I am very glad she adopted my son! Perfect match and she will at least live the rest of her life as a happy dog,no more puppies for her, just lots of spoiling, and loving.

Easter is usually my first BBQ of the year, SO we are having Ribs today that we marinated over night, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad and corn on the cob.  We are having easter bbq lunch because I have to work this afternoon. Thats all good, My hubby can deal with the sugar highs! Muahahahaha!

Peace Out, and Happy Easter!

Friday, March 29, 2013

Omg the dog is here! ! Lord help us all...

Good Friday

  Is it? The kids have been home all week. Enough said. I worked 2 hours this morning for some extra cash. I work full time from home, so when I work, I am held captive in my room. I came out in the living room to some serious destruction! Newspapers all over the place. ( Yes I coupon! I always have newspapers!) So I was like that's it! Time to clean... XBOX OFF! (I secretly love saying that!) I tell you, I think I would have have rather stuck needles in my eyes, then dictate how to clean, but none the less the cleaning is half ass done. The most time cleaning was the xbox shelf. every game and controller was dusted to perfection... WHATEVER I hate the xbox lol!

I also went to the store with My 11 year old daughter and 22 year old son. The 22 year old has autism, not the kind where he cant speak, but the 11 year old is more responsible. I also took the 2 year old great dane. If the Dane does not get out either for a walk or a car ride daily, he can be a serious jerk! LOL and a 150 pound jerk that is of the 4 legged kind is not what you want in your house, so this was his outing. I have to stay with him in the car because he has severe separation anxiety (he's a rescue), however.. I must have been out of my mind to send the 2 kids in to the store. The small list I gave them came out wrong, but again whatever... It's good friday right?

My 19 year old son is coming to visit for easter tonight. This is great, He lives with his GF about an hour away so I love when he comes to stay...But today is going to be interesting. Not only has he decided he was responsible enough to live on his own... (which he is) ....He now has his own dog. He also has a cat, that was one of the kittens my old cat had, but that cat is self sufficient and will be fine for 3 days.  BUT! he is bringing said dog with him. Now if you read my other post..you saw I have 4 dogs already. Yes, I am a sucker...None the less I have 4. We rescued The Great Dane last June, on fathers day as a matter of fact. We brought him into this house and for like a month it  was a total territorial night mare! Now they all get along, the pecking order has been established.. we have an alpha and the minions.. bringing in a new dog is going to mess this all up! But how can I tell my kid he cant bring his dog? And furthermore If he doesn't bring his dog he wont come home for easter and he will be alone. I cant have that. This has to work...however, this ought to be interesting lol!

All right.. Peace out.. I KNOW there will be more to this story tomorrow!

Thursday, March 28, 2013

A Day in the Life....

Yes! I am a Princess! ok.. seriously? A Princess wannabe more like it. I am a mom of 7 human kids.. 5 boys and 2 girls. I have 4 Furbabies. My old girl Nikita she is a Japanese Akita, Jack the jack russell, Saber the Pitbull (very ferocious) and Neo The Great Dane. I also have a husband of 10 years. Where the princess part fits in, I have no idea! But I am trying. Pupose of this blog is really for me to vent, but people have told me that I have a crazy life and funny stories, so yes Why not share!

This blog is going to contain my weight loss and healthy journey tips. YES I belong to Weight Watchers. I love it! Also different healthy and not so healthy recipes. Funny kid and life stories etc. Products I like and I dont and just a little bit of everything!

So please bare with me while I learn this, blog stuff.. and here we go!