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Just An Inch

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I’ve been toying with doing something with my hair lately.

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Decisions, Decisions

I think occasionally about dying it, but realize that I wouldn’t do the upkeep.

Probably not

Blonde?

not brave enough for this!

PURPLE??

(photos modified using Modiface Hair Color App)

I love my hair being long, but usually end up with it in a pony or messy bun.

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I also thought it was cute when it was short. I buzzed it off after Andrew was born.

Add a bow :)

I GI Jane’d it!

On Tuesday, I decided I was going to get my hair cut short.After washing my hair, the stylist said, “You know, if you cut one more inch, you could donate your hair.”

I didn’t even hesitate. “Cut the extra inch.”

I knew that if I cut my hair the way I intended when I walked into the salon, it would be quite a while until I could donate my hair again.

She dried my hair, then sectioned it off into four pony tails and cut. After she said, “ok, now let’s figure out what to do with what you have left!”

Short Rapunzel is cute!

It’s not horrible! 🙂

I’m still getting used to the final product, but it was an extra inch. People talk about going the extra mile, but going an extra inch might be all you have to do to make someone’s life better.

Happy Mushroom Day!

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Tonight I had every intention of posting a step-by-step on how I make stroganoff. But of course, I started cooking before I took photos. And then I had a my youngest telling me, in a very loud voice because obviously I hadn’t heard him the 400 times he had told me, that he wanted cereals for dinner. And no that isn’t a typo, cereals is plural because he wants a whole bowl. Try arguing with that logic…

So I resigned myself to posting a recipe without the tutorial, but with the finished dinner plate instead.

And then we ate…without the photo of the stroganoff, noodles and bright tricolor medley of corn, carrots, and green beans. And of course I didn’t think about it until after I had “lunched up*” the leftovers.

* lunched up is a verb meaning to place leftovers from dinner in containers for lunch.

Feeling a bit morose, I decided to slice up the cake I had baked, only to realize that I had forgotten to take photos of the cake too!

After thinking that I have the be the worst blogger ever, I told the guys that I will have to make everything another time so that everything can be photographed.

Everyone smiled as they ate their cake. How could I torture them with all this delicious food again!!

Tonight’s blog post might not have turned out the way I had planned, but so it goes. My family is fed. All is well.

Menu Planning and Holidays

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Last Friday, I decided to make a menu and grocery list.  I looked ahead on my food holidays calendar, and created a menu to celebrate those holidays.

Monday: Columbus Day – which means Italian – Angel Hair and Alfredo, wedge salad with Italian dressing, and garlic bread made with Jimmy John’s day old French bread

Tuesday: Mushroom Day – Stroganoff with extra portabellos

Wednesday: National Boss Day (Is that a real thing??) – Shepard’s Pie

Thursday: Pasta Day – Ravioli with sausage in a chunky red sauce

Friday: No real holiday, which means choose your own holiday…well not really but we haven’t had BLTs in a while

Weekend: we’ll have a full house, so it’s a little less structured.

Anywho… I have had this all planned out, groceries bought, meals prepped, when I realized at work this morning that today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada.  HOW DID I MISS THAT?! I mean, you would think I would remember that being 1/32nd Canadian…I guess I will have to chalk this up to poor planning.  I am sure that my great-great-grandparents would say don’t worry aboot it, eh?

A Sweet Mistake

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Life can be filled with sweet mistakes.

In my family we tend to wear a lot of hats, figuratively, wearing a hat literally just looks odd on me. My oldest is a student, an artist, a big brother, and occasional babysitter. The youngest…well he’s testing out the Terrible Two’s…so he is less than helpful sometimes! (but adorable in hats!) My Sweetums is my partner. We are a fantastic team. We might not be as well oiled as possible, but we are patient with each other (most of the time), very understanding of each others schedule and willing to pick up each others slack, because we know that the other would reciprocate.

Last year, I had a job where I worked a lot of night shifts. I would try to have dinner at least started for my guys with instructions on how to best finish it up. One night I had put a pot roast in the slow cooker with instructions on how to make a gravy using the “drippings” in the cooker. I said to add some flour and milk. Well evidently not everyone in the house knows that the flour is in the biggest plastic container and the powdered sugar is in the smallest.

The oldest loved the sweet gravy. He has asked for it numerous times since.