Sunday, July 31, 2011

My Marine

My daughter Sam came to me one day and told me she wanted to become a Marine, WOW, I didn't see that coming. When your daughter decides to get married you usually have seen the boy around for a while and can sense when they are getting serious, No Motherly senses this time! Nope, right out of the blue. I have to admit I think she is perfect Marine material and I am very proud of her. Before she left she knew she would miss Mother's day so her and her sister (Alli) went and bought me this Marine scrapbook. I had already been trying to find one and those two sneaky girls found one for me..yea. Now, the Marines don't care if you need photos of your precious child for a scrapbook they just take your child and you get what you can. The first page of the scrapbook came with a title page, "I served in the United States Marines". I placed her platoon photo on it and it fits perfect (she is on the bottom row 4th from the left). When my daughter signed up they gave her some free stickers and a shirt, the shirt fits me so she gave it to me. A lot of people ask me where I got the shirt and I tell them "Give them your child and they will give you a shirt". I placed one sticker on the back side of the cover and the other sticker on my truck. On page done, four more years to go.













I HATE Housework

Every time I empty this sink it fills back up again, who invented it? All a sink is, is a dirty dish holding place...that's it! I can't wash my hands in there because its always full. Seriously, it only fills up every two days since all of the kiddos flew the coop, maybe I'm just getting lazy!!! If you look at the dishes in there and think I could use paper plates and plastic cups, you'd be right, but then my environmental recycling conscience would bother me. So I will just keep on filling up the sink and think about putting them in the dishwasher tomorrow. I need to go lie down now to forget about the sink!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Banana Cream Pie, Yum Yum

Banana Cream Pie, it tastes good and its good for you. Look at all of those banana slices and who doesn't like bananas? I used regular French Vanilla Pudding but I have used the sugar free pudding and it was just as good.
1/2 cup of soft Parkay butter
1/3 cup of sugar
1 3/4 cup of Graham Cracker Crumbs
3 bananas
2 cups of milk
2 - 3 oz pkgs of French Vanilla Pudding
24 oz Whipped Topping

Mix sugar, butter and graham cracker crumbs. In a separate bowl mix the milk, pudding and 12 oz of the whipped topping until thickened. Sprinkle half of the crumb mixture onto the bottom of your dish. Slice 1 1/2 bananas and layer on top of the crumb mixture. Pour half of the pudding mixture onto the bananas. Repeat all layers and refrigerate until ready to serve. Cover the pudding with the remaining whipped topping just before serving.