Our crazy week and a BOGO coupon!

Man, it has been a crazy couple of days...Sorry we haven't been blogging!

We had one scary trip to L&D (My BP was reading serially high), we cleaned out the storage unit, made about a million doctors and dentist appointments and squeezed in TWO trips to Sonic in the last 3 days ;)

The storage unit fiasco...well, what can I say? We went to tidy up a bit and take care of some business and ended up staying for 6 hours getting everything "just so". Needless to say, I'm still nesting. The kids loved it; they played and played! But I am paying for it now...still tired from it!

I think every day for the next two weeks we have some sort of evaluation/dr appt/dentist appt. It's going to be interesting!

Nathan lost his first tooth the other day. He had had 4 pulled last year so some adult teeth would have room but this was the first one really loose. Aunt Tabatha helped him get it out; mommy couldn't do it! LOL

We put up some fall decorations...it's a bit early but here in Ohio it feels very fallish...been in the 60's and sooo pleasant. Today it was rainy...so we baked! Tabatha made Pumpkin Cookies....BUT a disclaimer that they taste more like muffins than the consistency of cookies but they were AWESOME! Here's the recipe and a pic :)

Pumpkin Cookies

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup quick cooking oats

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons cinammon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup of brown sugar

1 cup of white sugar

2 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups pumpkin puree

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (farenheit). Combine the flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and vanilla then stir in the pumpkin puree. Gradually stir in the dry ingredients until well blended. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 18-20 minutes for big cookies, or 10-12 for smaller ones in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely

So, finally a recipe! SO SORRY we haven't been posting recipes with the pictures of our yummy suppers...how incredibly rude of me! I've emailed those of you who have asked, and will start posting all old and new recipes here. To start with the old ones...I'll start with the Chicken Stir Fry that I posted a picture of the other day, but mind you how I LOVE shortcuts...so no judging LOL...this is my recipe so alter it away...I have my reasons for doing it this exact way...like laziness on parts of it, and my HBP on parts!

Fried Rice

1 package Uncle Ben's microwaveable brown rice

1 egg

1 small can of peas and carrots

1 tsp lite soy sauce

1 tsp extra virgin olive oil

Scramble the egg with the olive oil and soy sauce. Microwave rice in pouch following directions for 90 seconds. Drain peas and carrots. Add all items to a skillet and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes.

Chicken Stir Fry

1 bag of frozen Bird's Eye Pepper Stir Fry Mix (yellow, red, orange and green peppers with onions)

1 pint of fresh sliced mushrooms

1 bag of fresh bean sprouts

1 can of baby corn

1 can of water chestnuts

8 oz chicken breast tenderloins (I buy a 3 lb bag of Pilgrims Pride and we use it all week)

2 tbsp olive oil

Sautee chicken in olive oil until cooked thoroughly, then cut up into small chunks. I do this right in the skillet with my metal spatula. Add drained chestnuts, drained corn, mushrooms and beansprouts along with bag of frozen veggies. Sautee all ingredients 10 minutes or until desired vegetable tenderness has been acheived. Serve with fried rice and egg rolls (I buy frozen egg rolls). I don't season the stirfry mix because we have picky eaters in this household and I like to add soy sauce to my own. I don't know how many servings this is, but Tabatha and I plus both children who eat solid foods enjoy this plus leftovers :)

Here's some of those fall decorations we put up :) I know I'm a total nutcase for having them up this early...but it makes me happy!

So...I know you're waiting on the coupon... :) We are finishing up a fall kit tonight so make sure to check back...and in the meantime...enjoy this coupon code for any of our kits at A Cherry On Top. When checking out enter in BGDblogBOGO as the promotional code and buy any kit, get a second for absolutely free! :) You could get two bytes, two full kits, or two of our soon retiring $1.00 kits...the possibilities are endless!

Well this post has been like 5 miles long...so I'll big you farewell until tomorrow, scrappers! ~Lena