Hey, take a gander at them moccasins!

Bit of my weekend week...

 

My Coatt Necklace

Pineapple Chicken Tacos - Recipe next week.  

My new Mocs. First I have ever owned. 

 

Bonham with one of his favorite coaches after earning his orange belt this week. 

 Trying on his new belt and practicing his karate face.

Taking a pic in a mirror of a tee with writing on it doesn't work. Duh. 

Here's the thing. I am a CA girl. Through and through. And there is a lot about living in OKC that is tough for me...and although not on this blog, I complain about those things often. But there is also a lot about OKC I love. The development and progression of downtown and the surrounding areas that has happened in the past 10 years is amazing. And the love and support the city shows for the OKC Thunder is really fun to be a part of. I seriously know more about the NBA than I really should. So when my friend Ryan made these tees, I knew I wanted one. For those of you local, you can buy them at Blue 7.

 

My little brother got his arm stuck in the microwave.

I realize I have a bit of an oatmeal obsession going on right now. I've shared with you both baked oatmeal and oatmeal breakfast cake. Today friends....another oatmeal. But this one can be made in under 3 minutes and is 105 calories. Microwave Banana Oat Cakes. I just had one as a snack and I am in love. I topped it with a tsp of peanut butter. Next time I am thinking of adding some chocolate chips...4 or 5 is all you would need. Or any of the add ins suggested by Averie in her post. Yum. This is now in the breakfast and snack rotation for sure.

1/2 Banana, mashed
3 Tbsp Oats
1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1 Tsp Cinnamon

Mash it all together and mix well.
Spray a bowl with non stick spray and dump your mix into it.
Microwave for 90 seconds. Let stand for 60 seconds.
Flip out onto a plate.

I made and ate mine in about 5 minutes total, so no picture. I apologize. And I could wait to post this until I made it again and take a pic...but instead I am just going to post. If you like oats...try this!!!!

Check out Love Veggies and Yoga for more great recipes. I just added her to my reader and you should too.

I don't know....Maria says she's dying...

Round up.....I have nothing. Nada. No bookmarks to go to. No posts saved in my reader. It was either a really boring week, or I just slacked.

So let's wing it.

Based on the comments from yesterday's post, I can keep the monitor for now, but I do need to start pro-actively working on night time potty training. Ok. I listen to you guys. I will get on it. Bonham actually wants to do it, so that is a good step. BUT...my mom is coming in a few weeks so our sleeping situations are going to be moved around for a few days, then I go out of town for a long weekend and then we are in CA for Spring break. It seems wrong to start now, right? Can I get a pass to start in March when we get back from LA? What say you peeps?

And more things I want from Gap. Well, really just this. And this.


I love these pocket totems Kelly posted. I would love to give one to Bonham to hold when his nerves got the better of him and I wasn't around.


I think I have posted this before, but now I can't find it. It is another variation on baked oatmeal - but with peanut butter. This one is more like a bar that you keep and eat at room temp. If you cut it into 6 portions they are 170 cals each. Oatmeal Breakfast Cake.

Hey look at that. I pulled off a round up after all.

Sounds of silence....

At what age does a (baby) monitor become an invasion of privacy?

Bonham has never come into our room to get me. Ever. If he wakes up at night and needs me, he call for me. When he gets up in the morning, he calls for me. He has gone through phases where he will come get me in the morning, but never at night.

In our old house I could hear him from our room. I hadn't gotten rid of the monitor yet, but I was feeling like I could and should...but then we moved. We live in a smaller place overall, but the placement of our rooms makes it so I cannot hear him...unless it is 100% silent and he screams.

That might be ok. I mean, if he really needs me, he will scream. But....it's not really the middle of the night that comes to mind. Right now the monitor allows me to hear him even when we are in our room with the TV on. If I take away the monitor and he calls and I don't hear him, then eventually he will start just coming into our room to get me. Do I want this? Right now we live in pretty much certainty that the "pop in" visit will not happen.

Another obstacle is potty training. Yes, Bonham still wears a pull up at night. Look, please don't judge me or tell me I suck. Bonham potty trained early....by 2 1/2, at least with pee....poop was a longer process. We didn't even attempt night at that time. I kind of thought a time would naturally come when his pull up was dry in the morning and we would try then. But that hasn't happened. He refuses to get up and go on his own at night. So, I have told him that starting now anytime he calls me in at night (he sometimes has bad dreams or whatever. He's just never been a great sleeper and sometimes he calls me in...anyway agin, don't judge) that we will go potty while I am in there. And I have said he call ask to go potty anytime and I will take him (which makes me cry....the thought if increasing my night trips to his room rather than decrease...oh god!) So....these lead me to think we need to keep the monitor.

But honestly I feel like a jackass for still using/having one. Btw, ours is usually set so low that I barely hear him over it. So I'm not like listening to him breath or sleep or anything. It just helps make it so he can call to me without screaming.

Am I the only one out there with a monitor in their 5 year old's room? I almost want to give him a walkie talkie to just call me when he needs me...seems more age appropriate. Anyway....let me hear your thoughts. Be gentle with me....

If you want to find all the cops they're hanging out in the donut shop...(part 4)

Music Quiz, Part 4...the end.

This is REALLY hard for me. I hate stopping mid stream....but I also don't think anyone is really having any fun with these posts....so this is the last one. If you want answers to the last ones, or the rest of the lyrics/answers....let me know and I will e-mail you. 

Anyway...a few more since I had this ready to go...

76. I can't help recalling how it felt to kiss and hold you tight
77. Will you meet him on the main line, or will you catch him on the rebound?
78. Watching every motion in this foolish lover's game
79. You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day
80. Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dream, red, gold and green
81. They threw an American flag in our face
82. When I'm dancing close to her, I can smell the chemicals
83. She told me to come but I was already there
84. Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
85. It belongs to them, let's give it back
86. Everything you do is quite angelicate
87. Rolling like thunder under the covers
88. I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set
89. My eyes dilate, my lips go green
90. I touch you once, I touch you twice
91. To have you with me I would swim the seven seas
92. Crazy little woman in a one man show
93. Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
94. Got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hand
95. There is freedom within, there is freedom without
96. But whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose
97. I need fifty dollars to make you holler
98. So let's sink another drink `cause it'll give me time to think
99. Goddess on the mountain top
100. Couldn't see how much I missed you (now I do)

What can I say, some ideas for series work, others do not!

If you call an audible, always make sure your fellow Crashers know...

This post has 2 recipes in it. The one I was going to make, and the one I made. This is the recipe I was going to make. My friend Farrah gave it to me ages ago. Its a copy of a Johnny Carino's recipe...but I have only eaten this version, never the one at Johnny Carino's.  It is so yummy.

Spicy Chicken Pasta (Johnny Carino’s)

1 lb    sliced Portobello mushrooms

¼ c   chopped garlic

2-4 tbs       olive oil

1 c     chopped green onions

2 c     chopped, cooked chicken (best with seasoned, grilled chicken)

1 small jar roasted red peppers (chopped)

1 small jar sun dried tomatoes (chopped)

1 jar Sun Dried Tomato Alfredo Sauce (Classico Brand)

½ lb  shredded asiago or parmesan cheese

1 pint heaving whipping cream

1 tbs cayenne pepper

1 box penne pasta

Sauté mushrooms and garlic in olive oil. Cook until almost soft. Add cream and cheese. Mix until melted. Add Alfredo sauce. If too thick – add more cream. Add all other ingredients except pasta. Simmer on very low heat stirring often for 15 minutes. Serve over cooked pasta.

Once made can be put in a casserole dish and then heated in oven before serving – is better this way because the sauce thickens more and sticks to the noodles. 

So that was the plan. Then I went to the grocery store and they didn't have the Sun Dried Tomato Alfredo. So in the middle of the store I called an audible and decided to wing it. I bought everything above except the Sun Dried Tomato Alfredo. Instead I bought regular Alfredo sauce. Here are the additional items I bought....

1 jar Sun Dried Tomato Alfredo Sauce (Classico Brand)

1 can petite diced tomatoes I forgot to add these, but they would have been good I think.

Eskridge Sausage

Spinach

And I didn't use any heavy cream.

I basically made the same dish, but I added sausage and tomatoes (drained) and spinach, used the regular Alfredo and left out the cream. I made it in the morning and put it in a casserole and then reheated it at dinnertime.

And I took no picture. 

Wow. This post sucks. But both recipes are good. Trust me.

We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.

Bits of last week...

Our last meal At Nichols Hills Drugstore. A real soda fountain. A Classic. Bonham's favorite lunch spot in the world. This place will be missed by all of us. I actually held back tears as we said goodbye to the counter staff.

I have been taking TRX at Bonham's Karate place for a while now, but last week they convinced me to try the kickboxing and core classes. I have now done 2 of each and I love them.  Very new for me. Way outside of my comfort zone both physically and mentally. I feel like an uncoordinated dumb ass....but I feel good about trying and doing it. And I am now officially a student and a white belt. Bonham outranks me by 2 belts...or he will this Thursday when he moved up to Orange.

I swear this looked better in person than in this pic.
Anyway, dressing like a real adult for lunch with a friend. 
BR Flannel pants that are maybe 10 years old - seriously, how is that possible? Are they now vintage? Geeze.
GAP tee from my sister, Target belt, very old Green Nine West heel that I love.