Cooking some yummy-ness!!!

Out of all the days for me to decide to cook as in "turning the oven on" I picked the hottest day of the summer!!LOL but the end result was soooooooo worth it. I made my friends recipe "Dawn's Eggplant Rollatini". DH loves any kind of food, he's pretty easy to cook for and eats leftovers which is a bonus, I do have friends who's dh's don't like leftover's. I mean how could that be, meatloaf so taste better the next day just like cold pizza in the morning taste better. Ok ok so back to my post..lol I did take some pictures of me preparing this dish and it turned out AWESOME (said in that Tommy Boy voice). I made a tomato/spinich/balsamic vinegar/olive oil/ pepper and salt salad to go with it.

Let me just show you the pic's ;) Here's my set up, yes I'm a bit messy when I cook.

There's the eggplant after I fried it, dip in flour, egg then flour again then into the pan.

Here's the set-up for the filling, garlic, ricotta, pecorino romano cheese, tomatoes with basil, mozzarella (i cheated it was packaged and shredded)lol

while i was mixing the above I had the spinach in boiling water,

the final result and one Happy Hungry Husband!!!

yes he's got a total goober look on his face, Dawn my Italian friend he said THANK YOU!!

It rained today.....

It was just one of those lazy kinda days. To bad I had to go get some food, yes the kidlets want to eat!!lol Well it's that time of year for Rick it's back to school for him. Going into his 35 year of teaching "yikers". He is excited, truly teaching is what he was called to do. Love that man he just gives his students 110%.

Ok I must go my family is yelling at me to go watch Big Brother8, I'll be back tho with some pic's from our summer.

I'll leave you with the picture below...not bad for 42!!!! Mama needs to stretch some more to get alllllll the way down!!!LOL

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Counting the days.........

Ok first I truly deeply love my husband and kids. But I need back my routine!! I can only handle about three days with dh at home all the time!! seriously he messes up my plans and housecleaning routine.

So today DH just went back to school he goes back a week before the students go to school lucky teachers. At least he went and watched his favorite baseball team New York Yankees yesterday and had one last hoo-rah before getting back in the trenches with his students (ooo he's a high school english teacher).

My kids start Sept 4 so I have two weeks. I notice as we get closer they tend to get lazier and I'm constantly reminding them, ok ok slightly raising my voice to "pick your clothes up, make your bed, stop picking on your sister, don't slam the door" when in the heck did I become my mother!!!LOL

Another thing my first day back to work started today to and I totally forgot I was getting up with DH..LOL so 5:30 this morning I started a somewhat routine ironing, making breakfast and dh's lunch.

When does mama get a vacation?

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Ok, so back to where I've been. Well pretty much just busy with the kidlets. J is in summer basketball finished summer tournaments last weekend his next one will be the second week of September. His other league has two more games and were done for the summer. C my other son finished his tournament with the USSSA World Series which was held here. There were 93 teams as far as Hawaii that came, he had a blast and now loves trading pins. My daughter CH she was in two cheer camps and has been swimming most of the summer and has a very nice tan to prove it!!lol

Me, well I'm just toting the kids and enjoying watching them enjoy life.

I am also having to help with trying to get my mom diagnosed, to long to post right now maybe in a few weeks I can without crying. Just keep her in prayer.

That's all I have for now, will post some pics of the summer later ;)