tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77411733979106524242024-03-18T21:59:32.376-05:00Life of a RoadwifeAngelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-91326310029009424402011-10-29T08:24:00.000-05:002011-11-02T08:25:23.549-05:00Vroom Vroom
One thing that many people ask me is "what do you kids play with in the hotel?". Well I have to admit its made me more creative! But you would be surprised how easy everyday items can be used to entertain a child. My go to item... painter's tape. This stuff is amazing for traveling. Here is one of the examples of how I use it... I make race tracks! I also took one of the thick paper bags with Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com1Kuwait29.31166 47.48176628.4256295 46.2183385 30.1976905 48.7451935tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-28005613787843779782011-10-28T08:38:00.000-05:002011-11-02T08:38:50.863-05:00Pinterest
If you haven't heard of it you need to! Pinterest.com is hands down my best motivator and idea maker. Pinterest is a site that basically lets you "pin" things on to "cork board". I have several boards ranging from kids activities, fashion, food, house ideas, travel, etc. You can make as many boards as you want. Next you add the "pin it" button onto your web-browser so when ever you see Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com1Kuwait29.31166 47.48176628.4256295 46.2183385 30.1976905 48.7451935tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-19898840193616570022011-10-01T13:14:00.000-05:002011-11-02T09:26:30.105-05:00Great Cloth Diaper Change-Guinness book of World Records!
This one was in the making. On April 23rd, 2011 9AM PST London and I set a world record for the most cloth diapers changed at one time! Well us and 5,025 other people that is. The event was five countries and 127 locations around the world all trying to bring awareness of reusable cloth diapers. We went to the host site of All Things Diapers in Blaine, MN which is a great store and has Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0Des Plaines, IL, USA42.0333623 -87.883399141.9861868 -87.9623631 42.0805378 -87.8044351tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-22948116299649230622011-04-27T14:09:00.000-05:002011-04-27T14:09:01.711-05:00Toys for the imagination: Painter's tapeI'm always on the lookout for great toys or games that travel well, have multiple ways of playing/use of them and most importantly sparks my child's imagination and creativity. One of our must "toys" is currently good old fashion blue painter's tape. I love the Scotch Blue Painter's Tape, unfortunately they never seem to have coupons and since I'm not a regular to Home Depot or Lowes I never can Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-27556448988892297952011-03-02T13:24:00.000-06:002011-03-03T13:33:35.337-06:00Italian Sausage vodka sauce pasta (Ben R's Recipe)
While in New Orleans last year Troy's trainee cooked us a great dinner! So I got the recipe and recreated it....well close to it that is. You can't find pre-made vodka sauce here...so that I made from scratch. We gave it a 4/5 stars.... Pretty good and I think would be perfect if I did the spicy Italian Sausage and added pepper flakes.
Ben R's Italian Sausage Pasta:
"1 box of rigatoni Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-25795340840968528172011-02-23T07:32:00.006-06:002011-02-24T08:15:33.571-06:00Elimination Communication"As featured on Good Morning America..... London and Angela!"
That right people London and I got our "15 min" of youtube fame today. (ok more like 20 seconds but we will take it). The video clip that I posted on youtube when London was 5 weeks old was used as an example on Good Morning America for a segment they did on Pressures to Potty. Now as much as I love that they didn't make Elimination Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-41121544687940368372011-02-22T13:44:00.002-06:002011-03-05T09:52:32.803-06:00Geocaching
All ready to go!
Per wiki- "Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System(GPS) to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-67567431302000441662011-02-21T13:38:00.000-06:002011-03-03T13:41:13.750-06:00Day in the life of...Did a little project for some online friends and wanted to share with you all. Two days here actually. A weekend day with daddy home and a normal everyday with just london and I.
DITLO
Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-65529658633581744632011-02-15T10:16:00.003-06:002011-03-03T14:02:05.788-06:00Fried chicken....not like grandma's.So I tried to make Grandma B's fried chicken..... FAIL! I burned my hands so bad from oil while flipping the chicken I'm not cooking till they heal. No pictures because it was that bad and my hands hurt to bad to take photos. :(
I tried to do it from memory, maybe that was the problem. Here is what I did.... (PLEASE help me out on what I did wrong).
Bought whole chicken with skin cut up (I need Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-88314515199127036752011-02-14T10:15:00.000-06:002011-03-03T13:37:33.478-06:00Valentine's Day.
I <3 you!
A cute simple way to spruce up a meal with love....
Cut strawberry hearts! I put them on london's oatmeal today.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-89184481400651077022011-02-13T15:31:00.002-06:002011-02-13T15:41:54.580-06:00What is a VPN and how to get itWhat is a VPN?
Per Wikipedia a VPN is-
"A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure such as the Internet to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. It aims to avoid an expensive system of owned or leased lines that can be used by only one organization.
It encapsulates data Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-20365961525033850502011-02-10T17:36:00.000-06:002011-02-10T17:36:58.734-06:00Troy's Favorite mealThis is the recipe that troy begs me to make. I think its fine but not on my favorite list. Either way I found the ingredients (or at least what I think they are) at the store so he is getting it for dinner tonight. What is this cooking masterpiece you ask?
Tator Tot Hotdish (or casserole to you non-SD people).
1 lb browned hamburger
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of corn
Mix the above Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-81878312996944966862011-02-07T09:50:00.001-06:002011-02-07T09:57:02.448-06:00Old Fashion Pancakes
Perfect Pancakes
I need to start this by stating I have never once tried making pancakes....even from the box!
I was in the kitchen and followed this recipe to a tee:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-28843642925450866832011-02-04T10:05:00.001-06:002011-03-03T13:38:08.327-06:00Drinking Games: Three Man (dice game)And next on "educating' the Polish with our American drinking games......Three man!
You need two dice.
Game rules:
+ Take turns rolling once (normally clockwise) to determine who will be three man fist. The last person to roll a 3 or a total of three is it. You may need to go around more than once if no one gets it.
+ After the initial three man has been chosen, any time a player rolls a Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-7197862767549001202011-02-03T08:17:00.000-06:002011-02-04T08:23:25.878-06:00How to revive Play-Doh
I went out to buy some new Play-Doh and you would be shocked on how much they want ($10 for 2 jars). So instead I decided to try to revive our Play-Doh. We get tons of Play-Doh time at our house so we really can't go without! :) I looked up ways to just make some but a couple of the ingredients are one's I have access to...so that post will have to come another day. Instead I got my hands Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-76468382131991686142011-02-02T09:54:00.001-06:002011-02-02T10:33:34.487-06:00Drinking Games (cards): President and Asshole (also known as P&A or just asshole)So I'm teaching the American drinking games to our co-workers who are originally from Poland. And having some fun doing so! We taught them how to play Spades and Yahtzee last week, and everyone (well not the pregnant girl of course) just socially drank. Now its time for the drunk games. So tonights game was P&A. I'm going to go over how *I* used to play it....or at least how I remember to! Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-68474552271535928082011-01-30T09:20:00.004-06:002011-02-03T08:09:14.401-06:00Ok Ok I give already....I have been trying to figure out how to use my new(ish) camera now for a bit. I don't really like to read to learn things, so I have been using youtube and just messing with it. But thats starting to get time consuming so I gave up and thanks to OnlineFreePDF I was able to find my operating instructions for my camera and I'm going to read it. Mark this down in history people! I, Angela, am Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-11786874939052665172011-01-24T20:49:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:16:56.402-06:00Getting Wordpress on a Mac for Newbies.1. Download Wordpress and unzip it.
2. Download MAMP. Don't need MAMP pro from what I can tell so far...but you do have the option to upgrade later. Leave the Apache port at 8888 and the MySQL at 8889 (some instructions will tell you to change them...DON'T listen!).
3. Once you have your MAMP installed on your computer (placed in the app section). Open your Wordpress folder and copy and Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-48742428340299567632011-01-21T11:36:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:16:45.028-06:00I have a name.Well I have a domain name that is! After asking around it seemed like everyone likes GoDaddy. Then I also noticed that my uPromise account has Godaddy on it for 8% towards college...that was a no-brainer for me.
So I went with that and got myself my first domain name. A domain name is the www.DOMAINNAMEHERE.com So once I figure out hosting/template stuff and move everything over I will share, butAngelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-17334622257718785942011-01-21T09:05:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:16:32.730-06:00How to Cook Black Beans (or Turtle Beans)
Raw bean, Soaked bean, Cooked bean.
Here are the step by steps to cooking black beans (also known as Turtle beans):
First step is to soak your beans over night. Rinse off your beans in cold water, picking out anything that isn't a black bean) and put in a medium size container. Your going to add 3 times the water as you do beans. So I added one cup of black beans to 3 cups of cold Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-30290239520132922992011-01-19T14:19:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:16:23.296-06:00Breakfast for dinnerMy normal fried potatoes involved me getting a 1/4 a stick of butter and melting it down with a whole small-medium onion.....sauteed, then add a can of sliced potatoes. When all warmed and brown I dump a ton of garlic salt and Lawry's on it. Here I have no garlic salt, Lawry's and no canned sliced potatoes. So I have to go old school and learn how to make good old fashion fried potatoes. I Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-19142355318243576402011-01-17T19:17:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:16:11.183-06:00Water For Elephants by Sara GruenBook #1 (goal is 5) for the year was "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. I got the book on loan (love that kindle lets us share now!) from a friend. I heard that Reese Witherspoon is going to be staring in the movie version of this book and its due out in April '11. Since I love Reese and I try to see all her movies I wanted to read the book, because I can't read a book after I see the movie. Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-16429947400625314062011-01-17T16:35:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:15:51.195-06:00Homemade Chicken Noodle SoupMy entire life I was always so impressed by people who made their own noodles. I thought for sure this was a couple day process! LOL Also my mom makes a pretty good chicken noodle soup, so I thought I would try doing both.
I followed this recipe for the noodles. I found making noodles was way easier than I thought. Ok my arms hurt a touch but that could be because of my t-rex stature. The only Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-41405256960430643282011-01-11T12:49:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:15:35.339-06:00Stove Top OatmealI'm sure many of you are laughing that so many of my firsts this month are cooking things on a stove top! :) But growing up we always used the microwave for everything (popcorn, instant oatmeal, warming beans--which came precooked in a can). I rarely get a microwave now a days. Before having a child that wasn't a problem because good old McDonalds is everywhere (well NOT Trinidad--weird country).Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741173397910652424.post-61291032416592845022011-01-11T08:15:00.001-06:002011-02-01T18:15:22.604-06:00Carambola (aka Starfruit)
I'm always lost when I get into the produce section of a store.... I rarely know what anything is. And I even less of the time know how to prepare it. Well today I tried a Carambola (starfruit).
According to the website if unripe it should taste like a green apple. The description as says that mine is ripe. I can see the green apple flavor...but its also citrus like....so citrus apple would Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250630542580441208noreply@blogger.com0