Happy Easter

We are having a Beautiful Easter!  After almost two weeks of rain and blah, it is in the 60's and SUNNY!  Very symbolic I think.

Grandma came for a visit.  (I love it when she cleans my stove.)

We enjoyed some of the BEAUTIFUL weather!  (Grandma's  Easter Lily with Hailey.)

We had a nice Easter dinner.  Yum!

Hailey modeled her new sun glasses she got from the Easter Bunny.  Purple Barbie Bling.

Missing Mr. Lemerond.

We had a long phone call today. 

Hope all of you had a wonderful Easter!

Gentrie

Easter weekend

Well, Easter Weekend is this weekend.  The weekend of new beginnings.  Grandma is coming over to visit.  She comes tomorrow and is picking up Hailey from daycare and hanging with her until I get home. 

I had a rough day today.  I am disappointed.  I really don't get it, I don't know what else to say.

I'm sad Mark can't be here this weekend.  We'll miss him.  I miss him now, I need to talk to him and for him to give me a hug.

OK, it's a new day tomorrow, let's move on.  Nothing I can do now.

I'll report on our nice weekend.  I'm excited.  can't wait for Grandma to get here.

Gentrie

A "Laundry" List

It's too busy.  I have a long laundry list of things to do in the next four weeks, besides go to work and take care of my daughter.

Paint basement floor.

Paint wall in Hailey's room.

SCRUB every room in the house top to bottom. (We are selling, believe me, I wouldn't otherwise!)

Manage somehow to keep it clean.

Cook dinners.

Get the shingle fixed on the roof.  (One blew off.)

Touch up paint the outside of my house and garage.  (Including trim and soffit.)

Get old appliances hauled off next week.

Sell a few furniture items.  (Bunk bed, computer hutch, fish tank...)

Sort through loads of stuff and thin it all down (clothes, toys, papers, house stuff...)

Finish at least one VERY important quilt this week (my Mom's) so it will be ready by her birthday.

Ewww, wash my windows, don't look at my front picture window if you drive by house.

Did I mention laundry?

Sigh......

I'm gonna go read, and then go to bed.

I'll start tomorrow, honest I will.

Gentrie

Divorce? I don't think so......

Mark is going to Montana to work, for a while.

We have explained to Hailey that her and I will be here for a while and Dad will be in Montana for a while.  We explained that this would not last long or forever, just a little while.

We thought we had made it clear the situation, she seemed to understand.

Mark told me today Hailey asked him if we were getting divorced.

Mark asked her if she knew what divorce was.

Hailey responded that "Divorce is when I live with Mommy and you don't live with us any more."  (Insert cheeky grin.)

Mark, being the absolute diplomat he is responded, "Well what if you lived with me and Mom didn't?"

Hailey said, "No I HAVE to live with Mommy, it doesn't work the other way." (That's my girl!)

Needless to say I assured Hailey we are not getting a divorce.

We are still a happy family even though we will be temporarily separated.

Even if it doesn't look like it sometimes......

In the real world, as always...........

Gentrie

Pressed Steak

I just had THE WORST steak ever!

We were on a REALLY tight budget this week so I bought all my meat at Walmart, which I usually NEVER do.

A part of that purchase was two tenderloin steaks.  I have eaten A LOT of tenderloin in my life.  While I would not say I am an expert on an Emeril or Gordon Ramsy level, I do know a thing or two about steak.

Well these were disgusting.  You know how some ham isn't a "natural" ham?  It's actually like ham pieces that they press all back together and add water and ham flavoring?  Well I think Walmart does that to their steaks.

There was no grain to the meat......that made me nervous immediately.  It felt rubbery as I was cutting it.

Then I (gulp) tasted it.  It actually took all I had to choke it down.  Not only was it the ODDEST texture I have EVER encountered in a meat, but it tasted like rubber injected with bouillon cube juice.  


NASTY!!!!!!

NEVER by steak, pork or hamburger at Walmart, it sucks.

I stick to turkeys and spiral hams from there.

People it doesn't get much nastier than what I had tonight.

I know we are on a budget right now, but this Montana-home-grown-cattle-ranch-beef girl will NOT suffer through another one of those again!

Note:  This is a warning, and my personal opinion.  I shop at Walmart all the time, just my experience and opinion on one product (or three).

Love you enough to warn you......

Gentrie