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Meal Planning Monday

30 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment

by marcaritaville in Menu Planning Mondays Tags: chicken, dinner, grill, grilling, meal plan, meal planning, steak

Wow, was last week crazy!!! I am so thankful for my kids, but I have to admit, I was secretly happy to enjoy my quiet house today. I love routine, and today it was nice to just settle back in to my routine.

Tomorrow I will post up some fabulous pictures of our vacation week. For now??? I will share our week’s menu. This week we are cooking a la Pioneer Woman. She speaks to my gastric soul.

Monday: The Marlboro Man Sandwich

Tuesday: Steaks on the grill with grilled veggies

Wednesday: Impact night Pizza

Thursday: Cajun Chicken Pasta

Friday: Chicken Parmesan

Saturday: sandwiches or grilled something (we will be doing yard cleanup all day)

There you have it! What are you having for dinner this week?

New York, New York…

28 Apr 2012 3 Comments

by marcaritaville in Uncategorized Tags: gryffendor, Harry Potter, knitting

We are just pulling in to the city. And I have knit my way through 4 states and 4 hours. Here’s a quick update picture of Katie’s Hogwarts bag.

Go Gryffendor!

Logging the Yard… Year 2

28 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment

by marcaritaville in Uncategorized

Remember last year? October? I was so excited that we were able to get loggers in to clear out our property. We had been looking for someone for a couple years, but could never afford it. Finally we found this small start-up company called SC Logging company. They needed the experience, the exposure, and references. They did the job for free.

Can you say “Too good to be true”?

Ya, well, they have moved on, left us with a massive mess we can’t even wrap our heads around.

I will be writing more about this probably tomorrow, when I am at the computer so I can post pictures of it all, but for now I want to share what the kids and I did yesterday :

We moved some seriously heavy logs off a small portion of my front garden.

Today?

We are on our way to New York City! My first time!

And now I should post this before we hit the no signal zone in VT.

Have a fun day!

Sometimes ya just gotta give up and have fun…

26 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment

by marcaritaville in Knitting Needles, Moments with God, My Crazy Life, The Children Tags: Family, fun, hiking, Kancamagus, knitting marathon, Lincoln NH, The Wilderness Trail

I was supposed to get quite a bit done on my Harry Potter this morning… I got it out, figured out where I was on a pretty detailed pattern I haven’t touched since before Christmas, and knit part of a row. Then? Ya, I pretty much remembered why I put it down… Because, DANG!, it takes soooooo long to go around this tiny intarsia bag. And takes total concentration. So, when Maddy called from her Geegee’s to ask when we were leaving for the hike, I was all “Um… NOW!”.

Then I called my Mama, and begged and pleaded until she said she would come and enjoy the family hike. We all got in the van and took off up the Kancamagus in Lincoln, NH. We stopped at this great place that a friend suggested called The Wilderness Trail. It is a great, almost level, hike of different lengths and difficulties. We opted for a 3 mile round trip along the Pemi.

The hike started at this fantastic suspension bridge that spanned the river below.

There were wonderful mini-waterfalls along the way, and the girls just couldn’t resist climbing out and posing on the rocks…

My family? Is silly…

Sometimes I feel amazingly blessed!

I got home, had dinner, took a bath, put on jammies, picked up the Harry Potter bag, and my hands said “Um… not a chance hiker lady!”. So, lesson learned… Don’t drive 3 hours and hike for another 2 and then expect to go home and knit intarsia on size 5 needles.

Just Sayin’

Knitting Day 2

26 Apr 2012 5 Comments

by marcaritaville in Knitting Needles, My Crazy Life, The Children Tags: Gryffindor, Harry Potter, Harry Potter bag, Hogwarts, knit marathon, knitting, knitting marathon

Alrighty – first off I want to thank all of my new subscribers. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to check in on my little corner of New Hampshire.

Today is the last day of the Knitting Marathon. I have participated in 2 others, and loved them, but this one is different for me because my kids are on vacation. I looked on facebook last night, and saw that one of my kids changed her status to “I. Am. So. Bored!”, so… I will be knitting until she is up and out of bed (she’s 14, so I probably have until noon, lol), and then we are off to tackle hiking up north.

I am off to start the Hogwarts Gryffindor bag… Katie will be VERY happy.

Final Marathon post of the day

25 Apr 2012 6 Comments

by marcaritaville in Knitting Needles, My Crazy Life, The Children Tags: Encore YArn, Harry Potter, knit marathon, knitting, knitting marathon

Hey y’all…

Today didn’t go as planned. I think I maybe knit a total of 5 hours today. 3 of those hours were taken up doing the garter stitch on a 12×12 square. I really DO NOT LIKE the garter stitch. Seriously… For every 5 rows I completed, I think I lose a quarter inch. I finally finished that square while at the movies with my kids watching Journey 2: mysterious Island. Then, in the dark of the theatre, I bound off, and cast on my second 12 inch square. This one is being done in patchwork.

In total, I knit a bit over 5 hours, celebrated 2 birthdays at my local yarn shop, drove a total of about 3 1/2 hours, finished my square, and RAN OUT OF YARN midway through my second. So, with that… I will pack it in for the night.

I am not certain what tomorrow will hold, as it seems my Crohn’s Disease has decided to rear it’s ugly head. With any luck, I will be knitting my way through Katie’s awesome Harry Potter bag – it is my first attempt at 2 color, intarsia knitting. (I started it before Christmas. and it was supposed to be her birthday present on New Years Eve).

Thank you, Cheryl Marie, for hosting the knit marathon for us! Can’t wait to see all you’ve gotten done.

Knitting Marathon goes to the movies!

25 Apr 2012 1 Comment

by marcaritaville in Uncategorized

So, i knit and ate food for 2 hours at my LYS… Then, because it’s school vacation, I went and picked up my kids and their friend Izzie and we went to Wendy’s and then to the movies. I am sitting in the theatre ready to knit my past 2 inches of this blanket square during Journey 2.

Are you knitting along? What have you done today?

Its a knitting marathon

25 Apr 2012 2 Comments

by marcaritaville in Uncategorized

I am coming to the realization that because it is school vacation, i will NOT be knitting for the full total time.

Right now I am starting my day off with my knitters at my local yarn shop. I will be here until noon, and hopefully get this square finished so I can have the needles for my sweater.

Off to knit!

Day 1… Bag 1…

24 Apr 2012 4 Comments

by marcaritaville in My Crazy Life Tags: 40 bags in 40 days, decluttering, organizing, purging

For my first area, I chose the most used part of the house… the living room! I did the front half of the room (or, the part that I look at the most). I worked on it far longer than the suggested 30 minutes, but I wanted to start with a bang. I have decided to go through each room, dividing each room in at least half, then go through the drawers and storage areas of each room during a second sweep of the house to fill up my 40 days.

Here is a first look at my livingroom “BEFORE”

Here is my after pic…

And HERE? is my 1 bag

What have you purged today?

40 Bags in 40 Days

23 Apr 2012 1 Comment

by marcaritaville in My Crazy Life Tags: 40 bags in 40 days, cleaning, decluttering, organizing, purging

OK, y’all come support me as I attempt this challenge! I am committing to purge a bag of stuff a day from my home. Read all about it here…

And please, join me! I need the support and companionship!

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Meal Planning Monday

New York, New York…

Logging the Yard… Year 2

Sometimes ya just gotta give up and have fun…

Knitting Day 2

Final Marathon post of the day

Knitting Marathon goes to the movies!

Its a knitting marathon

Day 1… Bag 1…

40 Bags in 40 Days

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