I walk now!

Musicals!

EmilyStyle a random blog I read just wrote this post about musicals. Now it made me think of 10 random facts about the role of Musicals in my life...

1. I love musicals, and I have not watched one or went to one live in a very long time.
2. Matias loves the West Side Story soundtrack and we now have a routine for JETS song
3. I want to host a musical viewing night once a month!
4. My favorite musical is Les Miz, followed closely by Martin Guerre.
5. Joe M. (my first true love:)) broke up with me the day after we saw RENT.
6. I saw Showboat and then stole the soundtrack from my mom and still have it...when i get sad I play old man river and lay on the floor and feel sad (beat that emo kids)
7. When people in middle school would look at my cd collection they would reply....you only have musicals.....(and only Ryan M. would understand the truth behind it all)
8. I characterized most of high school by musicals
9. I wanted to be a musical theater actress, and was going that route in college.
10. I have never been to Broadway (sad and true)

Feliz Cupleanos mi amor

Today my husband is 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! I want to wish him a super happy birthday!!!!!! I did get his present finished more of that to come later!!!

Sassy pants easter party!

Hi all we back! It was great to get away from the comptuer and tv! I was happy to have some time with my parents and eat some yummy food. See some friends and go to church and say all of my favorite easter sentances. (HE HAS RISEN INDEED) We have no pictures of this but Matias got some rubber boots when we put them on him, he wore them all morning. When they fell off he wanted me to put them back on... So cute!

Here are some lovely photos from easter at my parents house. As Matias grows his sassy pants personality appears more and more. I am ok with this trait. However, it never allows for us to get a decent picture of him anymore.

I am still working on getting the viedo of him posted, hopefully when both computers are operating again I will be able to do so! Until then enjoy Mr. Sassy Pants

Radio Silence

Hi Everyone!

I want to say that I am fasting from the computer until next Monaday! I wish you all a happy Easter. Next Tuesday is Luis's 30th and I am working super hard to finish his gift! We will be in Duluth for the weekend. Look forward to viedo of Matias walking!

Again bless you and bless christ for giving up his life to take away my sins.........

I'm Back and ranting....

I’m back! Sorry food week went down the dumps. But I was out at the guard base for my last 4 days of work! YEAH! I am officially done with the military. I do have plans to post my last two food week entry’s but there are on my home computer. So LOOK forward to that. Beside the military thing, our basement was found out by the good ole city and we are now trying to figure out how to dig out our basement floor 7-8 inches…..apparently when we bought the house the former owner had a stop work order from the city and never disclosed it at selling. WoW I am super glad we decided to finish it so the city could stop us. SO people don’t lie when you sell your house. Oh and get a permit…. Because you will leave two people who have already spent there “construction” budget and will have to figure out how to rip it all out…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, oh and come up with the money to fix it.

This brings me to my next point, about why I should never break the law, lie, or cheat. I will always get caught! Seriously it is God gift to me. Because when ever I do something somewhat questionable I usually get caught or feel so guilty, I feel the need to confess. For example in High School I took a salt and pepper shaker from Sven and Ole’s after a ski meet. I had it for a year. The next year I returned it to them. I walk up to the counter handed them the shaker and said here, I accidentally took this last year. Thankful they did not care.

I guess if I can do anything as a mother is to make Matias a good citizen and one that will return a salt shaker to Sven and Ole’s. I am proud that I am a bad liar cheat and law breaker. It keeps me real :)

I hope all are well and safe after St. patty's day

Food Week Day 3!

BEHOLD THE BENTO BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what the heck is a bento. I think this gives a great description about what is…via

'O-bento' is what the Japanese call a packed meal, usually lunch. Bento boxes
have internal dividers, and sometimes several stacked layers, so different kinds
of food sit in their own little compartments. (This is nice if, like me, you
don't necessarily like to mix flavors!) The whole thing is usually wrapped
together with chopsticks in a cloth or special bag, and the goal is to make the
whole package as attractive as possible - from considering the color
combinations of the food and presenting and garnishing it as neatly and artfully
as you can, to co-coordinating the box, chopsticks and wrapper, and any other
items like paper napkins, knife and fork or spoon, drink flask or thermos.

Sugarbunnies
Originally uploaded by My Bento Lunch

Up above view a super creative bento!

Now way back in the day at CMS (Cloquet Middle School) I ate lunch with a variety of people, however 2 of my loyal readers to this blog ate from a bento everyday for lunch. Now Sam, I must admit your lunches were perfection. You had a plastic container that held your sandwich and carrots neatly. Your sandwich was always cut in half and you always had baby carrots and a cupcake cut in half and flipped over to protect it’s frosting. (I am not sure if Randi had the same thing) Seriously, I loved your lunch for the pure aesthetic of it. Did your Dad pack them?

If I am not mistaken they looked alot like this:

See how cool that is! (I had great lunches packed by my mom and she always wrote really nice notes on napkins!) But my sandwich could have been less smashed...

So I think as a mom who will one day send her son of to school (Did I mention they have all day Kindergarten in the cities :)) I think this might be a valuable way to send lunch with Matias and I think everyone should have an up side down cupcake…