Mother's Day

I know this post is a little late, but here I go...

My cousin Dustin posted this as his status today on Facebook, "In my opinion Mother's Day is like Valentine's Day, they both deserve a day of recognition. Although, I don't need a day to tell me to treat my mom or girlfriend extra special. I do that 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.".


I was quite happy that I am finding others that feel this way. Why is it that we need a reminder that once a year that we HAVE to treat our mothers to something special. If they don't get something on this day from each of their children, they feel something is wrong. I feel something is wrong if you feel obligated to buy your Mom a piece of junk or flowers just because the calendar says so. This particular day has only really been around a very short time.

Eric and I found it quite ridiculous last night, while getting a few things at Wal-Mart, that at 10pm the lines were jam packed with people who waited last minute to buy something for their mother. Flowers, cards and other misc junk were being purchased so that they could say they at least got "something for Mom".

While I didn't mind getting a few people from Facebook and my neighbors saying "Happy Mother's Day" to me today. It just made it more concrete that it is ingrained into our brains that it is just something that is supposed to be said on this day, whether heartfelt or not.

Our old fashioned house

It is truly amazing to me how far Eric and I have come just the past couple of years. When we were both working, we rarely had time to eat out, let alone eat something cooked at home. Now, we buy basic staples at BJ's, like flour, eggs, yeast, white and brown sugar, fruits and vegetables. We purchase our milk and beef (and soon our eggs) from the Simon Certified Organic Family Farm. We occasionally get chickens from them also, but they have been scarce. We also bought a tub of lard from a pig farm that was at the Canton Farmer's Market.

We make from scratch our breads, pie crust, cookies, granola (regular & chocolate), bagels, english muffins, cakes, icings, doughnuts, fudge, sauces, pancakes (regular & blueberry), waffles and pizza dough.

For the breads, we do have a few favorites. I like making Avanti's bread, Eric makes Subway loaves (he bought the mold for them), cinnamon raisin bread and then just regular old sandwich bread.

We have been canning our own chicken and beef stock. There has also been applesauce and pear sauce.     I am hoping to can many vegetables out of my garden this summer too, such as peas, green beans, peppers, and tomatoes.

We do not buy premade chicken nuggets or fries. Eric makes them as needed. I cannot believe all of the additives they have in even the frozen premade foods.

The kids and I have not been to a fast food place in over 6 months. We have only been eating out 1 time a month, mostly at chain restaraunts, but that is soon to change also.

My next task is to start making our own pasta. Homemade pasta has a taste that you just can't get out of a cardboard box. I remember my Grandma making pasta and I would sit there crunching away on the freshly dried pasta (yes, it was that good).

I will update when we finally have our new pasta maker. I am currently bidding on it on E-Bay.

Tidbits 1

I told you I would have tidbits of info for the coming events in our life.

In a few short weeks, Tabitha will be 5. So here are her tidbits...

1. Tabitha's first word was "kitty".

2. The majority of her diet from age 14 months to about 30 months was yogurt and mozzerella cheese sticks.
She did eat other things, but those were the 2 things we HAD to keep stocked in our refridgerator.

3. She learned to read over an 18 month period just recently. Eric and I can no longer spell things to each other, she will sound them out in her head and repeat it to us. We also can not allow her to be around us when we are on the internet, especially because of some of the comments that are posted on Facebook and other misc sites that are not child friendly.

Time is passing

It is so hard to believe that it is actually the year 2011. That means that Eric and I have known each other for 13 years, will be married for 10 years, Eric and I are "in our 30's!!!", Tabitha will be 5, and Grady will be 2.


Where does the time go?

I am going to try and scan all of our wedding pictures so I can post them on Facebook on our anniversary.

I am going to try and blog little tidbits about events past as the above events come to pass.

The first tidbit is - It's all Brian Auble's fault (not really, but lol).