Teen Envy

Oh to be a teen again.
Oh to be a teen from a
STINKING RICH FAMILY.
Check out these rooms from
Pottery Barn Teen.





You know what -
forget about being a teen again,
I'd like a room like these NOW.

Breakfast for a Month

Dylan and I have to be out of the house by 7:30am.
As much as I would like to prepare a nutritious, healthy
breakfast for the kid, it's just not happening. The way our
schedules work out, he enters the kitchen just as I'm about
to begin the great transormation from morning hag to
beautiful, gorgeous, I can't believe she's over 40 mom.
(ok, so I'm stretching it, but you get the idea - makeup time)
Yes, he can get himself a bowl of cereal.
He can even make scrambled eggs.
I used to buy frozen waffles.
They fall into the category of what I call "Stupid Food".
Also in that category are:
-frozen pizza
-chicken nuggets
-bagel bites
Once a child is eating what you're eating, you have
to stop buying that garbage.
Cook one meal for the family, everyone eats it or they don't eat.
Anyway.....
I decided to make my own "stupid food", but it's made with real
ingredients so it's not stupid.
AND since I make a lot of it and freeze it so Dylan can just
pull it out of the freezer in the AM and pop it in the microwave,
I like to call it Smart Food - not to be confused with the pop corn.

So here we go, lots of pancakes and french toast.


Now you need a piece of wax paper.
Come on, I know you have some in your pantry.
You probably have the first box you ever bought,
you know, when you first got married and moved into
your new house?
Place a piece of french toast on the wax paper at a diagonal
and fold the corner over.


Put another piece on top. Each of my little packages
has two slices of french toast or three pancakes.



Fold the sides in so they overlap.


Now, my favorite part, which I think is pretty clever.
Yeah, I know, I need to get out more.
Take that tail piece that's sticking out......



.....and tuck it in between the two slices!
(Kerry is a giant loser)



And Voila'! You have a nice little packaged breakfast.


Breakfast for a month.


You know that he had a bagel this morning and cereal yesterday, right?
Why do I bother??

Getting There

I'm slowly, but surely getting my house together.
You see, I have a terrible disease called....
DECORAPHOBIA -fear of making a mistake decorating
so you do nothing.
I took a terrific leap of faith by buying curtains and
nothing bad happened so I went ahead and 'gulp'
had an old chair reupholstered. I actually chose fabric
and everything. Here is how it turned out:

I love it, love it, love it!
So, now, a YEAR later, I took another leap and decided to get
some more furniture fixed.
Here are my chaise lounge and another favorite chair.


The fabric is flocked and the cushions are down - so comfy!
That pillow on the chair, I had that, it lives there.
And yeah, I know...wicker in the house....what do you want from me?
I'm going with the shabby chic look I guess.
Now this chair came out so well, I can't believe it.


It's a very old chair, it was dark brown with horrible pleather like stuff covering it.
Now look how beautiful it is!!! It's perfect in our bedroom.
Look at the terrific work the man did.
Wow, my pics are terrible, I have to learn how to use my camera.
Any suggestions? (canon rebel)