Standiford Family

I was going to post about me starting work on Kade’s curtains but that will have to be another day when I hang them or something.  This post was taken over by cravings.  Do you get cravings?  Sometimes something sounds so good you just can’t be happy until you have some.

I ran out to grab a curtain rod for Kade’s window so I could start the curtains.  While I was out Mickey asked me to grab some Red Vines.  I stopped at Sam’s first because I knew he “needed” more fruit mentos.  I looked for Red Vines there.  Nothing.  I go next door to Walmart.  They only have black.  Yuck.  I called Mickey and he said he would be fine without them.  Well, he might be fine but now he had me craving the darn things.  I decide to stop at Target since it’s on the way home.  I hit pay dirt.

They had 26 oz. bags on sale 2 for $4.  I grabbed two but the way they are disappearing maybe I should have bought more.  I may have to make another run tomorrow and hide them for a while.

What do you crave?

Sorry about the food two days in a row but I had to share my favorite burrito filling.  I know it doesn’t look that great but it tastes better than it looks.

I slaved away (I did have some help) making this for tomorrow’s dinner.  It’s so yummy I could eat the filling with a spoon or on a chip.  I like it wrapped up in a shell with melted cheese too.

I usually make a double batch because it can be a lot of work.  I leave out enough for one meal and end up freezing enough for at least another two.  Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Our dinner tonight was provided by Pizza Hut.

We watched “Furry Vengeance” for family movie night.  We don’t recommend it.

I was supposed to do a do-over of Meg’s first day of school.  I took the picture this afternoon but the subject of the photo was not the most cooperative.  I’ll have to do another one tomorrow.  Maybe we’ll get it right.  Who knows.

So today’s picture is the before of our bedroom.  Imagine walking through a pretty bland (color wise) house and walking into this.  (You’ll have to imagine this times four to get the true experience.)

It was rather shocking the first couple of times we walked into our room.  Today I painted this wall.  I’d already painted another one.  It’s taking a while since I’ve had other things to do.  I would like to finish the other two walls by Saturday.  I might get it done.  I will post an After picture after I make another trip to IKEA for accessories.   I LOVE the new color.  A few comments about it (by other people) are:  calming and it’s like a spa.  Totally what I was going for.  Stay tuned.  I bet you can’t wait.  Neither can I.

I finished up the kids’ bathroom last week but had to wait another day or so for Mickey to put up the towel rack before I took pictures.  I also had to remember to take the picture early in the afternoon or it wouldn’t turn out.  Here it is.

And from the other side.

I really liked how it turned out.  The green is a little yellower than I had wanted but it works.  I’m going to make a white valance for the window and sew on ric-rac or ribbons in the colors from the shower curtain.  That should be fun.  My favorite little thing is this.

We found the bowl and washcloths at Target as well as the shower curtain and rugs (there are two of them, one in each room).  It still needs some art work but that shouldn’t be too hard to find or make.

This is what we had for dinner tonight.

It was good.  Pulled pork and Sweet Baby Ray’s on a bun.  Yum.

I had good intentions last night to put the pork roast in the crock pot before church.  Well…three slow moving kids plus a tired and itchy mom don’t really allow for extra time or even a thought about dinner plans.  (I think I’ve only used my crock pot about 10 times in the 17 years I’ve had it.  It doesn’t rank very high on my kitchen tools list.  Obviously.)  I ended up putting it in the oven in the clay baker from Pampered Chef.  It turned out pretty juicy.  I just wish pork wasn’t so fatty.

Today’s post was going to be about my grandma’s funeral but when I went to take a picture of something the camera wouldn’t work.  Duh, I left the battery charging at home.  I really need to find my brain.  The funeral was nice but they are so much better when the minister or whoever actually knows the person that’s died.  We had a family luncheon at Honkers afterward.  My kids were sure to point out all the geese to me.  I’ll admit it, it was a little scary being in there.  Not.

On to the post…

I few weeks ago Mickey and I did some yard work.  I tackled about 6 bushes.  Apparently I missed a part of the rose bush.

It was growing through the deck floor.  I know I really cut that thing back but this stem must have been hiding under the deck and then made it’s way through.  I took care of that stem and a few others that had grown a foot or two in the last few weeks.  I think it’s growing faster than the weeds and the kids.

(Sorry this is going to be a lame post.)

Here in the mid-west we have pretty high humidity.  I love it for the most part.  My skin doesn’t crack.  My nose rarely bleeds.  My hair is curlier.  I still use lotion but only once a day.  We, like most people, don’t like the humidity to be high in the house.  That’s where the AC comes in.  It leaves enough for us to be comfortable.

In our new house it seems the humidity is even higher.  We’ve had to buy a dehumidifier for the basement because water was dripping from the ceiling.  Not good.  Every night I empty and start the dehumidifier.  It takes 12-14 hours for the 2-2.5 gallon tank to fill up.  I believe we could have a pool in the basement if we didn’t run it all the time.

Mickey and I were discussing why we have to run it everyday here when we almost never had to run it at the old house.  (The previous owner wasn’t running one.)  The only difference we could come up with is that our current basement is pretty empty and not finished.   (The previous owner had the basement filled with crap.  I guess it absorbed the moisture.)   Anyone have any other thoughts?

Like I said, pretty lame.

In other news, I bought paint for the kids bathroom along with towel bars, a hook, and a light fixture.  I will post when it’s finished otherwise a lot of posts over the next few months will all be about painting the house.  That’ll get boring for sure.

Looking at this picture don’t you think we’d have a good tasty dinner?  I thought so.  But that’s not what happened.  I hadn’t made shish-ka-bobs in a long while.  I’m not sure what went wrong, or that anything really did go wrong.  It just didn’t work out the way we had hoped.  We tried some potatoes (regular and sweet) but they don’t cook fast enough.  I think for next time we’ll ka-bob the meats and cook the veggies in foil.  At least we had enough to pick at to be satisfied.  Afterwards the cookies Mickey baked filled us to the top.