Monday Musings

If you don't like the weather in Texas just wait around for five minutes . . . I'm pretty sure that almost all of the 50 states lay claim to this saying (well maybe not Hawaii . . . ), but y'all honestly we've been all over the board here lately. Today the high was forty three. Forty-three in Texas, is like negative fifty anywhere else. And when it's cold, there are two things that I want to do more than anything else . . . eat and hibernate . . . in that order. I need to go to the grocery store, but I'm holding out for warmer temperatures. I don't function well at all when it's cold. But I'm not complaining. After the summer we had, I promise I'm not complaining.

In honor of the fact that it's cold out, I made Chicken Noodle Soup in the crockpot. You know, I didn't think it would work, but it did. And it was good. I didn't really follow a recipe. And if I wasn't so lazy I'd write out exactly what I did, but I'm lazy so I'll just give you the gist. I cut up the veggies yesterday. Then I put the vegetables, three chicken breasts, one can of broth, and about six cups of water on high all day. This afternoon I took out the chicken and put in some angel hair pasta on high along with a can of cream of chicken soup to thicken the soup. The noodles took around thirty minutes to cook, and then I added the chicken back in (chopped up). And that's about it.

Now I'm baking Paula Deen's Lemon Bars. Y'all these things are unbelievable. I'm actually making them for our staff Christmas Party at school, but I went ahead and made a pan for me Patrick. I linked the recipe if you want to try them for yourself.

Other than that we are busy, busy, busy. December is crazy. Oh and Andrew volunteered to play his "carmonica" at the next musical we have at my school. I can't wait to tell our music teacher. I'm sure she'll be really appreciative. ;)