Happy Birthday to Mom!!!
In honor of my mother’s birthday today – I’ve found a great site for awesome, but inexpensive party decor. For example, these ceiling swags are made from plastic table cloths you can get at the dollar store!
Month: May 2012
Scooter’s Spaghetti
Ingredients
- 8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 large can spaghetti sauce (26.5 ounces)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup chopped green peppers (I usually omit or substitute red peppers)
- 1/3 cup chopped onions
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Fresh grated Parmesan cheese
- French Fried Onions (small can)
Directions
- Cook spaghetti according to directions on the package. Cook to al dente, drain and set aside.
- Brown ground beef. Drain excess grease. Add spaghetti sauce to skillet and heat.
- Combine onions, peppers and butter in small glass bowl. Cover and microwave 4 minutes on HIGH until soft.
- Add cream cheese and milk to vegetables and stir well. (If cream cheese is not soft, nuke it for 20-30 seconds to make it easy to spread.)
- Using a 10 x 6 dish, assemble in the following order:
- Thin layer of spaghetti sauce on the bottom of the casserole dish.
- Spaghetti
- Cream cheese/vegetable mixture
- Spaghetti sauce
- Parmesan Cheese (amount subject to your own taste)
- French Fried Onions (added during last 5 minutes of cooking)
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Top with French Fried onion and continue baking 5 more minutes. (This is the secret ingredient–don’t let them burn.)
Make this ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze without the French Fried onions. Don’t forget to add them 5 minutes before casserole is finished cooking. via salad-in-a-jar
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Dear FutureMe,
It’s almost time. You’ve been training for this for months. You’re ready, you’re strong, and you’re stubborn. You decided to do this because you wanted to work for something, you wanted the pain. You wanted to feel alive. If this isn’t going to do it I don’t know what will. I know the training has been tough, and I know the course seems bigger than it ever has. Like other people in the same position you’re probably thinking “This seemed like a great idea a year ago”. It was a great idea, and you are so much better for it. In just a short while you will hear the words “You are an IronMan”, and nothing will feel better. Even if you have to walk, crawl, roll, or hop across the finish line I know you can do it.
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You are a college graduate. You hold a master’s degree. You donate your time and money to worthy causes.
Pretty soon you will be an IronMan. All of this before you’re 25. I’m so proud of you.
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i hope this reaches you in a better life than were we are now. i hope you have, if not graduated, started down the road of your dream career. i hope the babies are doing well and smart as ever. i hope that we are still married to our wonderful husband and everything has gotten back to normal and even better!
i hope that over all…….. we are still and always will be……..HAPPY!
Homemade Foot Soak and Detox
Reblogged from an apple a day wisdom: Within reason and limit, I try to do natural things that are naturally good for my body. When I can find something really good for myself that I can do inexpensively from home, I get so excited. This homemade foot detox bath is one of them. The ions in the salt work as magnets to draw toxins through the skin of your feet out of your body into the foot soak water.
I love this recipe so much I have made up individual pouches and 3 time use jars of the mix to giveaway to 
friends and family as gifts.
Here is what you do:
Ingredients:
1 Cup Sea Salt
1 Cup Epsom Salt
2 Cups Baking Soda
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