A great meal with family and more.

Today was really just another day, though Faelyn and Zoe stayed home from school sick with a red and icky looking sore throat. They both seem to be feeling better now, mostly.  Christopher got off work at 3pm and then went out and got a few things we needed. Rhiannon got home a little before Christopher did. Her boyfriend Chris brought her home (it does get a little confusing having two Chrises heh), and stayed to work on math homework with her. So we asked him to stay for dinner.  We had a great time sitting at the table all together as a family with the newest "member". They've been together 10 months and seem to be soul mates.  I don't see them breaking up over anything really.  So we're getting to know him. :) He's getting more comfortable around us, and we with him as well. The girls told us about their day, and Christopher and I talked about the days when we were dating and in highschool. It was nice. They're playing games together now, while I had to get to work.  (It was a little slow at shift start, so I decided to blog real quick.)

I made Island Pork, brown rice, a salad and corn and then peach cobbler for dessert.  I got the recipes for the pork, rice and the cobbler all from one blog. http://homesteadinghomemaker.blogspot.com/ I LOVE her site!  She's got amazing ideas for freezing meals for crockpot cooking and more.

Island Pork:
http://homesteadinghomemaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/crockpot-freezer-meals-part-3.html

How to cook brown rice:
http://homesteadinghomemaker.blogspot.com/2011/06/adding-more-brown-rice-to-our-diet.html

Cobbler:
http://homesteadinghomemaker.blogspot.com/2011/05/super-easy-peach-cobbler.html

The cobbler used whole wheat flour and skim milk and I used real butter instead of the fake margarine (we're trying to get away from fake foods - don't count the fake slim fasts lol)  It is SO GOOD!!  We put Blue Bell light homemade vanilla icecream on it. YUMMY!

Check these recipes out and look over her site!

Patty