May 13 2012

College Troubles

Last September I graduated with my AS degree. So this year I finally got everything together to start on my Bachelors degree. I registered with UCF and went through a heck f a time going through the application process. Finally everything got straightened out, and I got a Rejected. Come to find out, I have to have 2 semesters of English and 2 semesters of Algebra, which I ddi not get at the college I graduated from. The college I graduated from does not require 2 semesters of those courses because they are a “career” college and want people to continue their Bachelor degrees with them, so you don’t get everything. They also do not offer these courses I need. So the only way i can get into UCF is to get my second year of these classes. I also have to get 2 years or 2 semesters of foreign language since I only completed one year in high school.

So now I am trying to find a college to get these 4 classes done so I can go back to UCF. They said once I have all of this completed they will accept me. My GPA is competitive for their school so that wasn’t the problem at all. PHEW. But needless to say finding a community college to get these courses is easier said than done. It is just making crazy trying to get a better education. Plus, whatever school I go with has to offer online classes, since working full time and being a mom, I really don’t have the time or energy to sit in a classroom. So add that to the complication of things. But it will work out.

This is one think which I wish was a bit easier. But I guess it is a good way to weed out those who aren’t serious about school. Fingers crossed I can get this done so I can be in UCF next year! Because that would be amazing! :)

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May 12 2012

Toothless Tiger

Today Tristan had his dental “surgery”. His appointment was at 12:30 and I think we were out of there at 12:45. When they called me back to get him I thought it was for something else, I didn’t realize he was already done. So I am expecting him to come out looking doped out but he comes out smiling with a mouth full of gauze. This whole time I’m trying to prepare him for his little dental procedure and he comes out like a champ!

After loads of ice cream, applesauce, 2 cans of soup and some yogurt, he misdoing great. Im a bit worried because he thought it would be fun to blow up a balloon, but other than that he did really well. Im thinking he might be a bit sore because he has been pushing on the spots and can’t keep his tongue away from it. But I’m proud and relieved that it went off without a hitch!

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May 10 2012

Fight Like A Rockstar

One year ago today a brave little boy lost his fight to cancer. His name was Ronan Thompson and he was 4 years old. He fought hard, like a rock star. He had a cancer called Neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. I started reading his story over a year ago. I stumbled across it because of a celebrity tweeter. And the minute I read his story and saw those blue eyes, I was captured. His beauty and his strength could be seen in one picture. Im not going to write a long blog about this, I’m just going to say, Fight. No matter what kind of pain you are feeling, no matter what it is, Fight!

A little boy fought for his life, so we can fight for ours too. No matter what it is. Help keep Ronan’s memory alive. Remember him in the little moments and remember his strength. Remember his mama as she goes trough this terrible time. She has to be strong for her two other boys and her husband. So that is all for tonight.

Also, Don’t forgot about Ronan’s Day of Love. A day to remember Ronan and spread the love. RoLove baby!

 

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May 7 2012

Part 2- Birthday Celebration

Well Birthday celebrations is almost over. Phew! I made a delicious cake for him too. He is not a big cake eater so I had to come up with something else. Easy peasy. Cookie Cake! Easy and delicious. And who doesn’t like a giant cookie? Here is the delicious recipe below.

M&M Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt*
8 oz unsalted butter*
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 bag semi sweet chocolate chips (2 cups)
1 bags of m&m’s (about 1.5 oz)

Preheat over to 300 f. Line a 12 inch round pizza pan with parchment or non stick foil.
Mix flour, baking soda and salt together-set aside
Mix butter and both sugars together by hand or with an electric mixer.
Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
//211..When well mixed add the flour mixture and stir until blended.
Fold in chocolate chips.

Put all the batter in the pan and press into a circle. Stop the circle about 1 1/2 -2 inches from the rim. Press the m&m’s decoratively into the top.
Bake on center rack for 32-35 minutes or until cookie is golden around edges and appears set.

* if you are using regular margarine, decrease salt to 1/2 tsp

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May 6 2012

Messy Bread and Birthday Celebrations

Today is Babe’s birthday. Since we are a little low on cash getting ready to move, I decided I would just cook him some killer breakfast. A cake is on the list for later but I can’t say anything about that because I’m trying to keep it as a surprise :)

I found this recipe for Cinnamon Sugar messy bread on Pinterest. Let me just say right now how much I LOVE that site! There are some great ideas, recipes and looks on there. Anyways, the messy bread is pretty similar to Monkey bread, or so everyone says so.

So, here is the recipe for messy bread.

Cinnamon Sugar Messy Bread:

Basic pizza dough (I used jiffy pizza crust) *
1 tbs sugar
1 tsp honey

Messy Bread mix:
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 tbs cinnamon
1/2 cup (1 stick) sweet cream butter, melted.

Vanilla icing:
1 cup powder sugar
1 1/2 tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 f.
Pull dough apart into 1 inch pieces.
Mix sugar and cinnamon in small bowl
Grease loaf pans.
Dip dough pieces into melted butter and shake excess off.
Pull dough through cinnamon sugar mix.
Fill pans with dough pieces until they are full.
Bake for about 20-25 mins or until they are sticky and brown.
Remove loaf from pan and let cool.

For icing: stir milk, powdered sugar and vanilla together using a fork. Do not use a wisk or it will cause air bubbles.
Drizzle icing over messy bread loaves and serve.

*you can make home made pizza dough– (make half of this recipe for the messy bread)
1 cup warm water
1 envelope (1/4 oz) active dry yeast
1 tbs honey
1 1/2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
3 cups bread flour, plus more for dusting
1 1/2 tsp salt

Place water, yeast, sugar, honey and olive oil in a mixing bowl and stir together. Allow mixture to sit for 5 mins.
While the yeast mixture sits, sift together flour and salt.
Add flour mixture to yeast mixture 1/2 cup at a time. Turn dough onto floured surface and knead mixture until smooth, about 8-10 mins. Form into a ball and place in a lightly greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap or a damp towel. Place in a warm area and allow to proof until doubled in size about 1 1/2-2 hours. Punch the dough down and turn onto a clean floured surface.

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May 5 2012

Late night Tweaks

Oddly enough I have spent all night tweaking my blog/paid for domain. I find myself doing this more than I actually write on here. Again, trying to think of witty or inspirational things to say comes a little hard for me. Trying to be natural here…

It is late and I don’t have a whole lot of brain activity going for me, that usually shuts off when  walk out the doors of work. So instead here is a little diddy for ya!

 

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Apr 27 2012

Bring your child to work day…

So today was bring your child to work day at my job. My son decided that he absolutely HAD to go with mommy. He was excited all week long, asking me every day if today was the day. So I finally told him yes today is THE day! He was so excited.

We searched all over the house for his DS, to no avail. So we packed the Mac and the iPad and went on our way. He spent all day, a full 8 hours, playing on the computer and playing uni zoom on the iPad. He yawned very loudly during our all staff meeting this morning… Oh yeah, that happened. Everyone turned and looked back at him and laughed and smiled and I was slowly dying inside. I kept wishing that would be the moment that we all found out aliens were real and they were going to suck me up into their green orb of light. “beam me up, Scotty”. But no, I still had to suffer through the meeting of shame. Good times.

The rest of the day was spent with computer, iPad, run around like a crazy fool and then some more computer, iPad. But we made it through it and he says he never wants to go back again so, mission accomplished. Im glad I got to bring him to come with me and show him off, and he has always begged to go to my job, but I’m also glad its over. Truth be told.

It was long, but rewarding and full of memories. Memory means movin on.

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Apr 27 2012

Been A While…

Haven’t really been on here much… Haven’t known what to write. Not sure how I want to treat this website. I find I am not as passionate about things as I should be, as I need to be. Im not funny or witty so it is hard for me to get on here because I feel this immense pressure. I keep telling myself to treat it as a blog but then I think, nah thats just silly. But I give up. Thats what I need to do.I think I am going to try and take a month off Facebook. I swear that site is like a drug! Who’s addicted to Facebook? I Am! It is a sickness. So I will use this site as my Facebook… Good times ahead.

So onward and upward.

T lost his first tooth!! He is only 5-years old! So we had a dentist appointment and they said he needs to have three teeth pulled in order for this one tooth to come in right. Poor kid has my teeth. Out of everything he gets from me, it is my crooked ass teeth! Poor little guy. I spoke to a couple of dentists and they said that it is normal for them to need other teeth pulled in order to help others grow in. So looks like May is going to be an exciting month. It is amazing the emotions that can come through from a tooth. Seriously!?! And then to need a dental surgery, whelp I’m all over the place.

Since working, my emotions are less overboard. You think pregnant woman have hormonal emotions? Well, it doesn’t go away, it never goes away. In fact it just multiplies times ten Every thing makes me emotional or angry. Lately it seems more angry than anything. And well, that is driving me even more insane. T never wants to listen to me. He does the complete opposite of everything I say. I am not looking forward to him being a preteen, let alone a teenager.

So thats the story. I finally started working and love it. I was even given Administrative professionals day gifts! Made me feel very appreciated.

It truly is the little things in life :)

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Apr 2 2012

The Lies We Tell…

We’ve all done it, told lies. Whether it was to make ourselves seem cooler to our friends or get out of trouble, at some point in our lives we have told a lie.
I remember telling kids at school I was dating an older boy from another school. In truth, it was a friends boyfriend and she left his picture at my house. I didn’t even say his art name right and one of the kids from my school said “”oh you mean …”, boy was i embarrassed. Looking back I still feel the flush of embarrassment knowing they must have known I was lying.
Then we grow up and have kids and at some point we find ourselves lying to our children. We tell ourselves it is better they don’t know the truth. In some cases it may be necessary or the somewhat right thing to do. If a loved one commits suicide, we don’t want to explain this to a child. So we tell them they were in an accident or were sick. We find some way to shrew the truth. We do it to protect them. Another one is the drug talk. We don’t want to lie to our kids but we also don’t want to tell them that we had fun when we smoked some weed. This is obviously a conversation had with a teenager, although the way kids are growing up now it may be sooner. We want to protect our children but we also have to prepare them. They will probably have sex before marriage so at least make sure its safe.
We’ve done it all and get to look back at ourselves and either laugh or cringe. Maybe even cry since sometimes a lie can make a situation worse and irreparable. Other times we do it to protect someone. Don’t tell your friend she looks fat in the dress but maybe think of one to tell her you like better one her.
What is your stance on lying? It is not always right but sometimes, it may be necessary.

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