update

still sick! I keep telling myself that I am better because it's been so long. But i still feel yucky! Coughing my brains out and feeling fatigued. I am even going to have to miss Grandpop's birthday :(



Asa just fell asleep in his booster chair. I was wondering why he was so quiet.

I DID MY TAXES!! It was very hard this year because we took money out of a mutual fund last summer....you wouldn't think something as minute as that would wreak such havoc on your filing of taxes, but I was on the phone with our investment company, h&r block and the IRS to figure out how to sholw that one item had long and short term gains and they were obviously accuired at different times....AH! I am so getting rid of our mutual fund, no lie---it is NOT worth all that aggrivation! I did finish though, and filed everything online. Except for my local which I will mail today. It feels so nice to have that done!! Early this year(for me). There are websites which offer free filing for people in certain salary brackets. I thought that was awesome. I use H&R Block Online because they have previous years on record and I am familiar with their software. Sometimes I get annoyed with them though because it's hard to figure out what they mean from their examples....

Next on the looming list of things I need to do soon: Finish Asa's baby book and some family albums. The hard part about that is the pictures are all still digital and stored on different computers some of which aren't connected to the internet. So I'll have to import them to this computer and send 'em over to Winkflash.com ( my favorite online picture developing company) then I can get crackin'.


Wednesday we are looking at 3 homes. Yes we changed our mind again and are hoping to buy quickly...maybe we are insane. I like all three homes. One is in a very good location and the other two are iffy. But they are all nice and spacious and one has a lot of property which would be great. I really hope and pray that one of them is the house for us and we can move things along quickly.

Here is the recipe for the BBQ sauce:
1 Bottle ketchup
1 Cup brown sugar
1 red onion (sliced in medium strips)
1 Tb Cumin
1 Tb Chili Powder(if its not very spicy add more)
3 Tb Dark Molasses (use less if desired)
salt and pepper
Pinch of Tabasco(we put 15 dashes)
Pinch of Coriander

Just add the onion last so you can mix everything together smoothly. slather on your meat and grill away! Seriously good tasting sauce here.

(Picture from Christmas, but I thought it was cute!)




Daylight time begins this Saturday night. Don't forget to Spring Forward :)