From my honeypot to yours!

Christmas means parties, late nights and rich foods. Coming up with the perfect dish to take to your umpteenth party can be a challenge. Here is one of my favorite recipes: Lupe's Fresh Salsa Mexicana. It is delicious, and healthy (well, depending on how many tortilla chips you eat with it.) Enjoy.

Lupe's Fresh Salsa Mexicana

3 tomatoes, chopped

1/4 onion, chopped

2 jalapeno peppers, chopped

small bunch cilantro (5 or 6 branches), chopped

Salt to taste

Juice of one navel orange

Cut tomatoes, onion, peppers and cilantro into very small pieces. Add salt and orange juice, mix well. Serve with your favorite tortilla chips as a snack.

If you like your salsa on the milder side, remove and discard the seeds from the jalapeno peppers.

Note: Always wear rubber gloves when chopping jalapeno peppers!

Great Expectations

My youngest child started grade 1 this past September. I thought to myself,  "now that I have 6 plus hours a day to myself I am really going to get some things done". I made the lists and set the expectations...

So why may I ask did I think that I could accomplish two to three times as much just because I didn't have little miss mouse tagging along with me? I really don't get much more done at all it is just that I feel less guilt about ignoring my child while I am working since she isn't here to be ignored.

Sick Days

So, one of my children is home sick from school today. The weather has turned incredibly cold outside and so I must admit that I was happy to keep her home. We have stayed in our pajamas and cuddled in mommy's bed. We have watched movies and sipped hot lemon to ease sore throats. I realized part way through the morning that there is a positive side to having a sick child. It forces me to slow down and while everyone else is out of the house my little girl and I have had an opportunity to bond together. I also realized that some of my most positive memories from my own childhood are times that my mother was caring for me while I was sick.