Tex-Mex Style Macaroni & Cheese
Yields: 4 servings Serving size: 1 cup Calories: 185 Total Fat: 2 g Saturated Fats: 1 g Trans Fats: 0 g Cholesterol: 4 mg Sodium: 451 mg Carbohydrates: 30 g Dietary fiber: 6 g Sugars: 12 g Protein: 8 g
Ingredients
•8 ounces (dry) whole wheat macaroni
•1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained
•1 (24 ounce) jar Picante sauce, no sugar added
•1 teaspoon cumin
•1 teaspoon chili powder
•1/2 teaspoon black pepper
•kosher or sea salt to taste
•1 cup 2% sharp cheddar cheese, grated (block cheese is best)
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cook macaroni according to package instructions, drain. Combine in a large mixing bowl, cooked macaroni and remaining ingredients. Add to medium casserole dish, spread evenly, bake approximately 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Add additional cheese if desired.
Just Me
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Heat Wave BROKE
Heat Wave finally broke. It has been horrible. I can not wait (yeah really can) for the electric bill to come in for this.
10 long days. It's been 10 consecutive days at 100 or hotter. That's 2nd best to the record for consecutive days of 100 or hotter of 13 set in 1936. The hottest of this stretch was Thursday June 28th at 108 (the hottest day since the 1950s). 8 of those 10 days set record high temperatures. Also, this is the warmest start to a year on record (through July 7th)
And all this comes after last year's 4th hottest summer on record and 2010's 5th hottest summer on record.
Below are the daily highs for this heat wave with an R next to any new record high temperatures for that day:
June 28= 108 R
June 29= 106 R
June 30= 105 R
July 1st= 102
July 2nd= 100
July 3rd= 101 R
July 4th= 105 R
July 5th= 105 R
Julu 6th= 106 R
July 7th= 107 R
Only at 81 so far today. That is great!!
Just Me
©2006-2012 emptynester, all rights reserved.
10 long days. It's been 10 consecutive days at 100 or hotter. That's 2nd best to the record for consecutive days of 100 or hotter of 13 set in 1936. The hottest of this stretch was Thursday June 28th at 108 (the hottest day since the 1950s). 8 of those 10 days set record high temperatures. Also, this is the warmest start to a year on record (through July 7th)
And all this comes after last year's 4th hottest summer on record and 2010's 5th hottest summer on record.
Below are the daily highs for this heat wave with an R next to any new record high temperatures for that day:
June 28= 108 R
June 29= 106 R
June 30= 105 R
July 1st= 102
July 2nd= 100
July 3rd= 101 R
July 4th= 105 R
July 5th= 105 R
Julu 6th= 106 R
July 7th= 107 R
Only at 81 so far today. That is great!!
Just Me
©2006-2012 emptynester, all rights reserved.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Blog Change
New Name, New ideas, New everything. No more errands of kids. No more sports. Time to make changes.
There comes a time when you stand back and say .. Okay I am done. I did my job. I raised him.I gave up me for him. That statement is far from true. I did exactly what I wanted. Now time to move onto the next step.
Empty Nest ...
In little over a month the last phase of High School begins. Senior Year. I can not wait to see what joys and expectations come through for son. Senior Year is the year. The birdie gets even more ready to jump out of the nest. I can not wait. I certainly hope senior year meets all his hopes, dreams, and expectations.
Couple weeks ago they had Senior Yearbook Pictures. I could not believe how grown he looks in that cap & gown. He certainly became a great Young adult. All the fights, drama, and court orders have made this moment worth EVERY MINUTE!!
College bond he will be. Where yet? Ah, who knows. He will work it all out.
I am looking forward to this next step. Seeing what brings to my little world. Will I return to work? Will we allow a niece to move in? I don't know. We have many options. Travel? I will start to figure it all out. As son takes steps closer to walking across the stage into his new life, I will start mine.
I have never been as happy as I am this summer. Stress still seeps through. Why wouldn't it? It has been a hard road these past 18 months. No one walked that road with us but the 3 of us. You can say I can imagine. But really no one knows what it was like. What still could be. We still do have to make through another 9 months up at the High School. But only good can come walking these next mile(stones)
So with thatI we start the new journey. The journey of just us. The empty rooms. So now the memories of mom, hockey mom, baseball mom, live in these walls. Now starts the Chapter of Walking through to the Empty Nest ...
©2006-2012 emptynester, all rights reserved.
There comes a time when you stand back and say .. Okay I am done. I did my job. I raised him.
Empty Nest ...
In little over a month the last phase of High School begins. Senior Year. I can not wait to see what joys and expectations come through for son. Senior Year is the year. The birdie gets even more ready to jump out of the nest. I can not wait. I certainly hope senior year meets all his hopes, dreams, and expectations.
Couple weeks ago they had Senior Yearbook Pictures. I could not believe how grown he looks in that cap & gown. He certainly became a great Young adult. All the fights, drama, and court orders have made this moment worth EVERY MINUTE!!
College bond he will be. Where yet? Ah, who knows. He will work it all out.
I am looking forward to this next step. Seeing what brings to my little world. Will I return to work? Will we allow a niece to move in? I don't know. We have many options. Travel? I will start to figure it all out. As son takes steps closer to walking across the stage into his new life, I will start mine.
I have never been as happy as I am this summer. Stress still seeps through. Why wouldn't it? It has been a hard road these past 18 months. No one walked that road with us but the 3 of us. You can say I can imagine. But really no one knows what it was like. What still could be. We still do have to make through another 9 months up at the High School. But only good can come walking these next mile(stones)
So with that
©2006-2012 emptynester, all rights reserved.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The New
*blowing off the dust*
Been a long time. But after much decisions, this is where I want to be, need to be. I started this blog for a different reason than probably most. I started "blogging" (if you choose to call it that) to more journal. The remember the funny little things. The sad. The important. I was here for me. Not for others, not for comments, but for me. That is what I want again. A place to write my feelings, hopes and dreams. Maybe blogger isn't where I should be. Possible a private journal is what I should really look into. When I started "blogging" USB drives were not all the rage, and I just wanted to place my "journal" where it could not be lost in a system crash. So that is still in the air. Possible another route to go, but placing on the back burner for now.
I do know I have outgrown the name of Baseball Mom. That is not a right fit for me any longer. Teen is not playing, and really it just doesn't fit in the direction I am hoping to head. To change. To grow. But that will be on the burner as well,as I think about it.
So now marching forward .. last year I had set goals for myself (see below) that I failed to even put a dent in. That is not acceptable.
2011 TO DO LIST (BOLD IS COMPLETED)
Complain Less
Cook more
Learn/Try Something New.
Reconnect With Friends
Reduce the amounts of soda every day
Replace My 15 Year Old Glasses
Spend More Time With The Husband
Stop Letting The Small Stuff Over Come Me
Take More Photos
Yeah, no that is not good. So besides sitting down to catch myself up on the comings and goings of 2011, I need to sit down and make goals for this new year. 2012. How am I going to change the pattern of events that keep reoccurring over and over, with no new outcome? There is so much that needs to change - it is time to help that along.
Baseball Mom
Been a long time. But after much decisions, this is where I want to be, need to be. I started this blog for a different reason than probably most. I started "blogging" (if you choose to call it that) to more journal. The remember the funny little things. The sad. The important. I was here for me. Not for others, not for comments, but for me. That is what I want again. A place to write my feelings, hopes and dreams. Maybe blogger isn't where I should be. Possible a private journal is what I should really look into. When I started "blogging" USB drives were not all the rage, and I just wanted to place my "journal" where it could not be lost in a system crash. So that is still in the air. Possible another route to go, but placing on the back burner for now.
I do know I have outgrown the name of Baseball Mom. That is not a right fit for me any longer. Teen is not playing, and really it just doesn't fit in the direction I am hoping to head. To change. To grow. But that will be on the burner as well,as I think about it.
So now marching forward .. last year I had set goals for myself (see below) that I failed to even put a dent in. That is not acceptable.
2011 TO DO LIST (BOLD IS COMPLETED)
Complain Less
Cook more
Learn/Try Something New.
Reconnect With Friends
Reduce the amounts of soda every day
Replace My 15 Year Old Glasses
Spend More Time With The Husband
Stop Letting The Small Stuff Over Come Me
Take More Photos
Yeah, no that is not good. So besides sitting down to catch myself up on the comings and goings of 2011, I need to sit down and make goals for this new year. 2012. How am I going to change the pattern of events that keep reoccurring over and over, with no new outcome? There is so much that needs to change - it is time to help that along.
Baseball Mom
©2006-2012 baseballmomrambles, all rights reserved.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Died ..
... Or so it seems. What can I say? Been a murderous March & April. I really need to catch up.
But until then ..
Baseball Mom
©2006-2011 baseballmomrambles, all rights reserved.
But until then ..
Baseball Mom
©2006-2011 baseballmomrambles, all rights reserved.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Day In The Life
I've never done one of these, so I'm going to give it a shot. I saw this on The Adventures of the Headless Family.
3:00 Woke up starving, tried to ignore and go back to sleep
3:35 Gave up ~ went to kitchen had a bowl cereal.
4:00 Tried to go back to sleep. Watched Good Wife & Doogie Howser.
4:45 Said Screw it, got up got dressed
5:02 Started writing this post
5:10 Put clean dishes away in dishwasher/reload dishwasher
5:30 check emails
5:35 CDD gets home
5:36 Talk to him for a bit while I pick stuff up around living room
5:45 Take Dakota out to pee wiping up blood drips as we go
5:52 Call into CD to start getting up
5:55 Log into Facebook (Farmville actually)
6:01 Go in to get CD up
6:02 Taking his temp
6:03 Fever 101.3
6:05 Start fighting with CD & CDD that he can not go to school
6:10 Lost fight.
6:14 Finally get CD to take some medicine and eat something
6:21 FINALLY pulled CD away from hockey game CDD & him are watching
6:35 Start Dishwasher
6:44 Leaving to drop CD off at school
6:57 Drop CD off
6:59 Return checked out items to library
7:10 Arrive back home - sat down to watch last of AI with CDD before he goes off to bed for the day
7:27 Take out Ground Beef for CD's Sloppy Joe's tonight's dinner
7:29 Pour Cranberry Juice and go back to reading Google Reader, Facebook, blogs, and emails.
8:14 Go start load of laundry
8:20 Back to Farmville
8:45 Decided hungry again, made Cinnamon Rolls
8:50 Change laundry around, realizing there is blood all over CD's white short (from the dog) CRAP! Treated washing again.
9:15 Eat Cinnamon Rolls while watching Hellcats
9:30 More laundry .. still trying to get blood out ..
10:00 Folding and finishing up Hellcats
10:15-11:30 Talk to mom on phone
11:45 Hang up more laundry, put away clothes
12:10 Laid back down
2:15 CDD & I got up.
2:30 Made lunch for CDD & watched TV together
3:15 Make CDD lunch/dinner to take to work.
3:30 Leave to take CDD to catch his ride to work
4:00 Back Home. Check Emails, Facebook, Farmville
4:20 Start frying hamburger meat for sloppy Joes for CD.
5:00 Dinner completed. Dishes put away in dishwasher. Started reloading
5:20 Leave to pick up CD from after school. Third day of baseball tryouts
5:45 Serve up dinner for CD
6:37 CD shower, Back to laundry have to wash & dry baseball clothes for yet another day of tryouts tomorrow.
7:15 Back to email, Farmville
8:19 Baseball clothes in dryer
8:23 Throw remaining dishes in washer
8:45 Change into PJ's going to watch TV until fall sleep ..
Okay so that is about a typical day. Actually a earlier nite than usual for (1)CD is in middle tryouts so no extra activities to do. (2)CD is not feeling well and tired from all the workouts this week.
This was actually a PITA to do. I almost quit mid-day. ha!
Baseball Mom
©2006-2011 baseballmomrambles, all rights reserved.
3:00 Woke up starving, tried to ignore and go back to sleep
3:35 Gave up ~ went to kitchen had a bowl cereal.
4:00 Tried to go back to sleep. Watched Good Wife & Doogie Howser.
4:45 Said Screw it, got up got dressed
5:02 Started writing this post
5:10 Put clean dishes away in dishwasher/reload dishwasher
5:30 check emails
5:35 CDD gets home
5:36 Talk to him for a bit while I pick stuff up around living room
5:45 Take Dakota out to pee wiping up blood drips as we go
5:52 Call into CD to start getting up
5:55 Log into Facebook (Farmville actually)
6:01 Go in to get CD up
6:02 Taking his temp
6:03 Fever 101.3
6:05 Start fighting with CD & CDD that he can not go to school
6:10 Lost fight.
6:14 Finally get CD to take some medicine and eat something
6:21 FINALLY pulled CD away from hockey game CDD & him are watching
6:35 Start Dishwasher
6:44 Leaving to drop CD off at school
6:57 Drop CD off
6:59 Return checked out items to library
7:10 Arrive back home - sat down to watch last of AI with CDD before he goes off to bed for the day
7:27 Take out Ground Beef for CD's Sloppy Joe's tonight's dinner
7:29 Pour Cranberry Juice and go back to reading Google Reader, Facebook, blogs, and emails.
8:14 Go start load of laundry
8:20 Back to Farmville
8:45 Decided hungry again, made Cinnamon Rolls
8:50 Change laundry around, realizing there is blood all over CD's white short (from the dog) CRAP! Treated washing again.
9:15 Eat Cinnamon Rolls while watching Hellcats
9:30 More laundry .. still trying to get blood out ..
10:00 Folding and finishing up Hellcats
10:15-11:30 Talk to mom on phone
11:45 Hang up more laundry, put away clothes
12:10 Laid back down
2:15 CDD & I got up.
2:30 Made lunch for CDD & watched TV together
3:15 Make CDD lunch/dinner to take to work.
3:30 Leave to take CDD to catch his ride to work
4:00 Back Home. Check Emails, Facebook, Farmville
4:20 Start frying hamburger meat for sloppy Joes for CD.
5:00 Dinner completed. Dishes put away in dishwasher. Started reloading
5:20 Leave to pick up CD from after school. Third day of baseball tryouts
5:45 Serve up dinner for CD
6:37 CD shower, Back to laundry have to wash & dry baseball clothes for yet another day of tryouts tomorrow.
7:15 Back to email, Farmville
8:19 Baseball clothes in dryer
8:23 Throw remaining dishes in washer
8:45 Change into PJ's going to watch TV until fall sleep ..
Okay so that is about a typical day. Actually a earlier nite than usual for (1)CD is in middle tryouts so no extra activities to do. (2)CD is not feeling well and tired from all the workouts this week.
This was actually a PITA to do. I almost quit mid-day. ha!
Baseball Mom
©2006-2011 baseballmomrambles, all rights reserved.
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