I got the idea for this at someone’s blog but I can’t remember where… I did change it a bit though…
I mixed one can of whole cranberry sauce and then poured orange juice into the can measuring a half a can and mixing the two together and adding a bit of honey….
Put a pork roast or any type of meat into the crock pot adding pepper, seasoned salt, ginger and nutmeg…
Pour cranberry/orange juice mixture around roast and cook in crock pot on high for six hours…
Very Tasty…
Happy Journaling…
These pictures are from Wednesday morning’s sunrise…
Facebook has an application called On this day, God wants you to know… I’ve been reading it on a couple of my friend’s pages and decided to finally sign up myself as it says something different for each person….
Below are the ones from Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week…. So far they are perfect and fit accordingly with hubby not working right now…
On this day, God wants you to know
... that all is well. All is going according to plan. Trust that there is a bigger picture. Trust that life is unfolding as it should.
The radio station that I listen to one day was asking everyone to call in and pick one word to honor God… I think it may have been for New Year’s Day for the new year… Not that I called in but the word I chose was TRUST… the message above that appeared on the first day has been what I have been telling hubby since he lost his job…
On this day, God wants you to know
... that it's time you let go. Yes, of course, you want to control so everything happens in just the way you want it. But at the end of the day, we control nothing, - it's all in God's hands, - has always been, and will always be. So, do what you can, and then let go, and let God handle the rest.
And yesterdays was perfect too as I’ve been telling myself every day that every thing happens in God’s time…
On this day, God wants you to know
... that when you are feeling anxious, remember to breathe. Allow yourself to breathe in and out slowly. Allow your breath to bring you to a place of calmness. Allow yourself to be calm like the eye in the center of the storm.
And even though I had a good day today, today’s was just nice to hear…
Yesterday and today were busy days at work getting ready for inventory… I forgot to wear my pedometer today but I’m sure I got in another 19000 step day just at work…
Yesterday son2 missed the bus again… and with the time change his split second timing in the morning will get worse before it gets better… son2 had a rough homework day yesterday, not that he had a lot just that he kept getting distracted too easily… so it took forever… son1 called while we were doing homework so hubby answered… son1 wanted to come over and do laundry… I was expecting him this weekend… hubby told him it was fine… I told him it wasn’t fine as it was already 6pm and we were still doing homework, I hadn’t fixed dinner yet and by time son1 got there and finished laundry it would be close to 9pm on a school and work night… so he called son1 back and son1 said he would do his laundry at the apartment complex… I felt bad but we have to learn that we can’t always tell son1 yes…
Today son2 did not have tennis so he hung out with his friends… I told him he could hang out but no spending the night… he got home on time and then asked if he could spend the night at his friend’s… Answer still no, he wasn’t happy… a little pudding cake and he’s fine now… reading his National Geographic Kids magazine…
We are watching The Mentalist… Had pizza and pasta for dinner… I’ve been doing good so far on eating less during lent… Stopping during the meal and not having seconds… I did have a brownie after lunch… so when I had some hot chocolate after dinner and then hubby fixed me some pudding cake, the pudding cake was too far as I was then full… but I only had one piece of pizza and a small bowl of pasta…
The big news of the week is hubby got his unemployment extension!!!!
Now The Mentalist is almost over, I’m taping Fringe and I’m ready for bed at only 9pm…
Happy Journaling…
I am off today so this will be an ongoing entry throughout the day… Although it is after 10am and the day is moving on without me…
I slept in til 6am, yes that is sleeping in when usually I am already at work at that time… Tried to get son2 out the door for the bus, but he missed it… our boys have trouble talking, listening and moving all at the same time… so I was trying very hard not to talk to son2 as each time I did he kept stopping from getting ready for school… plus he doesn’t understand that just cause the bus comes at a certain on most days that it doesn’t mean it won’t come just a smidge earlier on another day, as it did today… so hubby drove him to school and I got son3 up and me in the shower… son3’s morning ritual is get dressed, eat breakfast while watching Curious George, brush his teeth, study his spelling words on the white board in the hallway and get shoes on and out the door… he even got dressed on his own and picked out his clothes while I was in the shower and hubby was taking son2… however as much as son3 is starting to show independence, he is also showing the not so good side of independence and saying no to me a lot and arguing… but that’s an easy fix as long as he loves video games and I can threaten to ground him from them…
We are still walking son3 to and from school for the exercise… not that we like to cross the main roadway that only has stop signs and is the cut through for the freeway that everyone uses… the school has been very good about finally consistently having a crossing guard there but still once in a great while there is not, like yesterday and today… so of course every one barely stops even if you are in the crosswalk… so today we are almost to the middle of the street when the car that stopped in the left turn lane stopped just enough and then went… we were still a couple of feet from him but still what if at that instance son3 had decided to finally have a boost of energy, generally he is lagging behind us which is also not good in the crosswalk, and run ahead of us in front of the car at the same time he decided not to wait til we had crossed in front of him… so as his window was open I called him a bad name… he made no eye contact or retaliation as he knew he was wrong… and then of course all the way to school we had to explain to son3 why the man was wrong and why Mom was wrong for calling him a bad name… this town makes me so angry every day to walk and drive here, as I’m sure every town does… if only I had a helicopter…
Now hubby and I are home, have had breakfast, talked a bit and now he is outside working in the backyard~fixing fences and such… I have a list of things to do today and need to get busy… especially since lent has started and my goal was to be on the computer less and taking care of the things around the house I have been neglecting over the winter… I have started the laundry and now I am off to wipe down the boy’s bathroom and clean my bathroom…
It is now almost noon… both bathrooms are clean, vacuumed the bedrooms and hall, second load of laundry in… took pictures for my TMS entry and now I’m having a cola break… hubby did get a job call earlier but since they didn’t identify their company and only referred to the resume they received we’re sure it is from the online job websites however it is probably outside sales commission or work from home… if you love selling insurance of any kind and are extremely outgoing and love talking to people then there are a lot of jobs for you… however we would prefer an actual work place to go to and clock to punch… not rely on commission only and have your own cell phone and laptop…
Off to water the houseplants and then watch Emergency while I work on my blog entries for Motivation Station and Krazy Kitchen…
Now it’s almost 5pm… We watched Emergency and I had some lunch… Finally finished my entry for TMS… I knew what I wanted to write about, just couldn’t get my thoughts in order in the entry… We walked to pick up son3 and took Danny with us… Son3 only had to write his spelling words in ABC order as he did his math homework at school… still need to test him on his words and read a bit later… he still didn’t take a test on the last book we read… Son2 had decided this morning that he wasn’t going to tennis practice as he had homework to catch up in: a lot of history and some zoology… he’s working on it now…
I put some pasta on the stove to boil and some meatballs in spaghetti sauce and proceeded to put the ink I bought in the old printer… I always just order the refill generic ink online where you can get 3 black cartridges for $20… I still had some generic color left… so replaced all the ink, proceed to print the taxes on the little bit of paper we have left and it won’t print… a pop-up comes up saying the printer had a part not working and to contact the dealer…. ARGH! always when I want to print… and I just got a new printer last year but did not want to spend the $60 to replace the ink in it… since it was new did not want to buy generic ink… so I went to my room to finish my chocolate bar from last night and hang up and put away the laundry… if hubby can’t get the printer to work tomorrow then guess I will be ordering ink and paper for the new printer… I know we are getting a refund but that is for hubby not working, not ordering supplies to get the refund, lol…
Just waiting for the last load of laundry to go in the dryer… and make some garlic bread and veggies to go with dinner… we got Bones Season 3, Emergency and Life as we Know it from Netflix today… Everything is a repeat again tonight on TV… Watched Glee last night…
Hubby is outside watering the backyard… I think the rain is done for the year and time to turn the sprinklers back on… Gonna finish fixing dinner and since I got a few things done today, I can relax for the rest of the evening…
Happy Journaling…
Today was a nice busy day of getting ready for inventory… no time for thinking about the supervisor position… I cleared some clearance from the stockroom to the floor, stocked the kids and women’s hanging flip flops, cleared the garbage from the stockroom to the bailer, went to lunch, finished opening the boxes, no more boxes til tomorrow when they bring up today’s truck, put away the women’s shoes and put away the men’s work boots… I got in over 19000 steps on the pedometer…
Came home to talk with hubby about his day, he did a bit of grocery shopping… he’s been taking Danny for a walk when he picks up son3 from school… once son3 was home we did his homework… just homework for today even though he missed yesterday… and only ten spelling words… so just spelling sentences, write his words, a math page and finish reading his Spiderwick book…
Son2 was home from tennis, they had a scrimmage today but he lost his 3-8…
I just pulled out all the leftovers from the fridge for dinner… I had two chili dogs and finished the cranberry/orange roast… We’re watching a couple episodes of Twilight Zone and then son3 needs to get in the shower…
Glee is on tonight… I’m heating up some water for hot chocolate… and I think I have a Hershey bar still left from my Christmas candy stash… It’s Mardi Gras so chocolate is my gluttony of choice… Then tomorrow starts Lent, which I have a list for…
And tomorrow I have a day off…
Happy Journaling…
Son3 stayed home from school today… He started getting a fever last night… and when I checked on him this morning as I was leaving for work, I could see him glowing from the hallway… his cheeks and ears were bright red… He was fine by time I got home and will be going to school tomorrow… so it was nice not having homework tonight but I’m sure we’ll have extra homework tomorrow… actually they started benchmarks again this week but it said they are practice for the ones in April…
Son2 is now home from school and tennis… both boys are showered and we are just waiting for the boneless rib shaped pork patties that we will have on buns to finish cooking so we can have dinner… we have Family Guy from last night that I taped to watch… all the Monday night shows are repeats tonight…
Which is good cause son3 and I have to finish reading his Spiderwick book so he can take some AR reading tests this week…
Well I’m 98% sure I probably got the lead position… only because I talked to my lead this morning and she told me about her discussion with her supervisor and the store manager last Friday… it did come down to me and one other person… so I’m glad for the competition… I’m sure it will still be a few days before they announce anything… and then next week is inventory… I will be so glad when it is over… still lots to do but we are way caught up with opening the boxes compared to last year…
Just a short update tonight… as it’s almost 7pm and we are finally ready for dinner… I’m working later this week to get ready for inventory… of course soon I may be working even later with the new position…
Happy Journaling…
Home from work… Hubby’s been working in the backyard… the boys have been watching Futurama online at Netflix… I’ve checked email and facebook and now I’m fixing dinner… some leftover roast and chili hot dogs… I’ve sent hubby to get the boys off the computer… as son2 still has homework and needs to get his clothes ready for school and tennis… son3 is off to the shower and needs to finish reading his book for school… we have Facing the Giants to watch tonight and Simpsons and Family Guy are new tonight…
Another fast day at work today… I set the ad… the other associates after what seems like a month now are still setting the new Spring shoes for women… of course the mixed directions they have gotten have caused them to have to reset it about four times now… I then went to lunch and was just putting away the shoes in the stockroom when I got called to the store managers office for a second interview for the shoe lead position… I was in there over an hour… he likes to talk… and since I’ve known him for thirteen years, I’ve heard all his stories before… he said a couple more have dropped out of the running since talking with him… I told him I was still interested and not backing out… I still think I am the most qualified out of everyone… and he probably knows it too, however there have many years and times I didn’t pursue other promotions and we talked about those… So I’m still waiting to see what fate has in store… when I got back on the floor of course the other associates wanted to know how it went… they want me to get it as they know me and don’t want a stranger, lol… One of the shoe associates that also applied said she had a dream that I got the position… Actually after talking with him today I feel more comfortable about taking the position then scaring me off…
I still think that this is part of the reason hubby lost his job… forcing me to continue on in my career after putting it on hold the last ten years or so since son3 was born… and waiting to see if hubby was going to step up his career at anytime… not that I wouldn’t take advantage of staying at home, I’m meant to go to work… hubby however I think prefers to stay home and take care of the house and the boys… not that we can afford for either of us to stay home, just that hubby will now work around my schedule when he gets a job and I will put in the hours…
Hubby does have an interview coming up on March 17th… He’s been applying at everything, part time or full time… and finally got an instant interview at one of the online applications websites for Macy’s…
So I’m still trusting God and waiting to see how his plan plays out… of me becoming a supervisor again… what kind of job hubby will get… that we will still pay the bills… and one of us will still always be here for the boys… I know it will all work out… I’m just impatient to see how…
Meanwhile we have about a months worth of work to get ready for inventory on the 15th/16th and only a week to do it… but I keep telling myself I’m not the supervisor yet so it’s still on my supervisor to have a plan to get ready…
Also hubby has been out of work for six months now… just doesn’t seem real… we got the last unemployment check and now waiting to see if he will get the extension… I feel he will though…
Son1 has been coming over about every two weeks to do laundry… he did come over for a minute on Friday as he needed some things from his stuff in the garage as his brake line broke on the Jeep… haven’t heard from him since so I’m guessing he fixed it… he has changed position at his job too… he is now in shipping instead of receiving… he was having a conflict with his supervisor so management moved son1 so they could access the situation… meanwhile his roommate is moving to a new and better job with a new company soon…
Son2 spends all his day at school and then tennis… his report card came: PE A; Anatomy C; English C; US History C; Geometry A; Zoology C+; Cooking/Sewing B; Draw/Paint A… Told him a few too many C’s in the important classes…
Son3 finally had his state testing writing test… so hopefully we are done writing essays for now… what he needs to get caught up in is his AR reading; reading a book each week and taking a test on it… actually reading as many books as you can and taking tests to accumulate points… but by time we are done with regular homework, I just want some down time and so we haven’t been reading in quite a few weeks… although he still hasn’t taken a test on the last book we read… So he finally agreed on a few books today from the bookcase that we can read and the school has tests on them in their system… On the 17th he is going on his mission field trip… I will probably have that day off as he will be on his field trip and hubby has his interview and we have inventory on the Wednesday before which is my usual day off… See how everything always works out…
Now if I could find some time this year to take some vacation at work… I’ve usually already had two weeks of vacation by this time of year…. One in January and one for the week of Easter… but since my vacation got all messed up last year, I didn’t have any vacation left for January… and Easter is late this year at the end of April so still a long way off… not to mention if I get the position will I be able to take off on vacation so soon… Meanwhile I haven’t had a whole week of vacation since my birthday last year in June…
Dinner is ready… Time to round up the boys… Almost 6pm and still lots to do with eating dinner, watching movies and shows, getting ready for school and having five minutes of quiet time with hubby before I pass out for the night…
Happy Journaling…
