BBQ Season

Yesterday was a very eventful day. Mom and I made some delicious foods for the bbq we had. We made these delicious Potato Bombs. We got the idea from these old guys off of youtube. Which you pretty much take an apple corer and take the cores out of as many potatoes as you'd like. Then you stuff them center with what ever you like.  The guys on the video put pancetta (it is probably spelt differently) and also stuff them priscutto, spam, hamburger, sausage.

With each meat they mixed it together with cheese, onions, garlic and herbs and spices. Then mixed them around and then just stuffed the potatoes with the mix. Then cut the cores in half and put them into to potato to keep the stuffing from coming out. Then wrap a piece of bacon around each potato and then wrap in tin foil.

Here is the link to the guys video it is yummy. Click Here

Child Like Faith

Since my book has been published I have been thinking of nothing else, but ways to get the word out about my book. I been focusing on my book way too much and trying to be super mom when I can't. I been letting house work go and putting my baby off onto my husband trying to be on all the social net working sites that are out there to get the word out.

I've been googling and searching out how to get my books into stores and who to contact at stores. When I should be actually paying attention to my family. I forgot how might of a God I serve and he created everything in this world. From trees (which my books are made out of) to houses, the earth well just EVERYTHING. I forgot to put my trust and faith in him like I use to do about anything.

So I leave my book into your hands God. I will do what ever I can do (time permitting), but I am no longer going to take away precious time from my daughter and husband no more. The Lord knows what needs to be done and will allow the right people to stumble upon my book and love it and share. And through word of mouth it will spread like wildfire.

I have not been being the best mom and wife lately. I been thinking of me, which is selfish. My daughter needs me and so does my husband. So no more putting my daughter in the play pen watching tv or movies all day. It is summer time and beautiful out. I am going to start enjoying this beautiful weather that God has given us to enjoy.

I just want to say that if it were not for this dinner outing that I went out to with my mom and the ladies of the church to Appleby's and listening to something the pastors wife had said about God being in control and trusting him. It would not of hit me like it did. Even though she was only speaking about something personal in her life about having to let God deal with everything and allow everything to go the way it should on his time. It made me realize that I have not been putting my trust in him and that is something I need to start doing like I did as a child.

So from now on I am going to start to have Child Like Faith and believe God will take care of me.

Solar Eclipse

So apparently there will be a solar eclipse later on this evening. I was reading an article that was written on behalf of a scientist. He is saying it looks bad and that there is a possibility of a power outage. I hope not. Last time this has happened it actually affected Quebec back in 1989.  To be honest it makes me nervous, especially with what has been going on the world for the last year or more. Floods and earth quakes in diverse places that usually do not get such things. I hope that the power does not go out. And if it does I hope not for long.

I was hoping to see this solar eclipse, but I guess from what my father was saying you can not look directly at it, or else you can ruin the retina of the eye. Only way of looking at it is if you make this look out thing from a card board box with a couple of holes.  I am not going to bother trying, since I do not have a box to do it with.

I guess I should get going for now, my poor husband is in the backyard cleaning it up so we can enjoy going out there now that the snow is gone for good and besides, I want to enjoy the sun today, before the eclipse arrives. It is apparently arriving at 6:00pm Edmonton time and it is noon hour here now. So I best be on my way to lend a helping hand.

On a total quick subject before I head out. Just wanted to mention about my book. I will be converting my book into various formats to be bought in e-book style and when it is actually done I will be sure to post a link for all you e-book lovers.

My Book Is Also Available On Amazon

Hi everyone!! Not only is my book just available my online book store, but also available at amazon.com and here is the link if you wish to purchase it that way.Click >> Here << I hope you all enjoy my book of poetry.

Ashley

Officially A Published Author

Is happy to share with the whole world that I am officially a published author! I finally did it! I am so stoked that I can hardly ramble on about it. So here is the link to purchase a copy if you wish to do so at: https://www.createspace.com/3739742

Butter

I decided that I would try something new when it comes to butter. I think the price of organic is ridiculous and heavens knows what they really put into non organic butter. So I came across a post on Pinterest on how to make your own homemade butter. This is probably not new to everyone, but new to me. All you got to do is take a mason jar and fill it half way with heavy whipping cream and just shake. Keep shaking until it thickens, then let it sit for at least 5 minutes, then shake again until liquid forms, then pour liquid out, and shake again, and if there is more liquid pour out and shake one more time. Then there you have it BUTTER!!

Mother's Day

Today is mother's day. I enjoyed myself a lot. I did not think I was going to get up at 6:30 am like discussed the night before, but I did it. Jonathan took me to Cora's, but the best part really was not the food. It was having my 15 month old daughter just eating up all the water melon and strawberries.
I am not going to make a long post, but mainly wanted to share my excitement about my little girl and her love for healthy foods. I am so glad that she has good taste buds. I guess when she is older I will not have to argue with her to eat her fruits and veggies. To all the Mother's out there. May you have a blessed day and enjoy every minute that goes by.

Stitches

I was going about my day like I usually do. Get up about 9:30 am or 10:00am. I make myself break fast and also something for Aaliyah too. I have my tea or coffee depending the mood I am in the morning. My day carries on from house chore after house chore, got some laundry, dishes and cleaning of the floors all done. I finally took a quick break to catch up on my usual social net working sites to see what my friends down home are up to. After all that is finished and out of the way, I get up and decide to make supper. I chose seafood bisque since it is Jonathan's favorite plus he requested it. I started to make it I opened up a can of clams and the can opener did not fully cut all the way around the rim so part of the lid was still intact. So I decide to be stupid enough to take a fork to the lid and pry it until it lifted enough so I could put the can of clams into the crock pot. But of course once the lid was fully lifted the fork slipped and straight into my hand goes the rough edges of the lid. It cut my hand so bad that it was shooting out streams of blood. I went into a quick shock, then started yelling for my mom to come down stairs along with yelling help. I started to hold pressure on my hand then my mom came in and took over, she held pressure on it, while my father called 911. So once the ambulance arrived they wrapped me up and took me to the hospital. Got me all registered. I waited entirely a good 2 hours. The first fifteen minutes were in the waiting room, the remainder of my time was spent in the ER.  I had to get four stitches, which was cool to watch the doctor do. The worst part was the numbing from the needle it actually burned quite a bit. I have a few photos to share, but not as of now. I will upload them in the morning.

New Blog and Update

I think I am doing well with my new blog I just opened for just my writing it is sure helping me clear my head and gather my thoughts better. I should of thought of doing separate blogs a long time ago.  Here is the link to my writing blog here.

Just a quick update on my actual book that is in the making as we speak, well I just read the whole book and high lighted a bunch of errors, typo's, grammar, punctuation's and spelling mistakes. I also fixed them that quick too. So now I need to re-upload my now corrected documents full of poetry and have it reviewed again a second time.  Just in case I have not shared my fan page for my book on facebook here's the link and check it out for yourself here.

Kidney Stones

I am up earlier than usual today. Not because I want to be. I'd rather be sleeping in as usual, but when your parents come into your room and tell you their going to the hospital not knowing what is wrong with my father. I just laid there in bed kind of worried. I was wide awake since 5am. I get up at 7:30am wondering what the heck is going on. No one has called to let me know what is wrong with my father. So as my over thinking little brain gets going. I start to get worried thinking maybe he died or maybe this or that.  So I am now and it is now 8:18am. Mom called at 7:45am to let me know dad is fine and they found out through an ultra sound and a cat scan that my father has kidney stones. Thank God! I thought of much worse things that are possibly happening to him. I know kidney stones are painful, but I am glad that, that is what's wrong with him. Instead of a heart attack or failure of some part of his body. In no time Dad will just have to pee the stones out and he will be fine.

So now that I know what is going on with my father I can relax a bit now. So here I am eatinga bowl of cereal, just finished my orange juice, now going to make myself a cup of java and then take the shells off my two boiled eggs. I am glad you're okay Dad. Well I am going for the time being to have my first cup of the day I need to wake up more now. I am starting to feel a bit drowsy from being up earlier than usual.

New Blog For My Writing

I am making a new blog attached this account I sign into, which is cool, because you can have a bunch of them connected to one login user name. I have this one I am writing with and my newest one I just started and it is for just writing, I need to get use to writing, because soon enough I am going to write a novel on something I experienced and I am a little rusty with just normal typing. I need to start writing properly again. If you have not noticed. I have not taken the time to break my writing into different paragraphs lately when my subjects change. I also do not use the proper indentation, grammar, punctuation, which has had an effect on people not really reading my stuff much anymore. My page views have gone down dramatically since I got lazy. It is not like me to not care how my writing is. So here is my new blog for just writing at: Ashley Morin . I hope who ever goes to my writing blog that you like it and if not, oh well. Not everyone likes the same stuff.

Bisque & Housework

Well today is one of those days for good old comfort food. So I am making a seafood bisque, well actually not to seafood, because not everything from the sea is in it, but here what is: baby shrimp, clams, salmon, pollock or known as imitation crab meat. For the base of the soup I always use two cans of milk along with two cans of the clams along with the juice for the flavor it contributes to the base. I add about a table spoon of crab seasoning I buy from epicure. Which is a spice and seasoning company that sells all sorts of stuff for making dips or things to flavor soup bases and pretty much any goes when it comes to epicure. They even have stuff for making a delightful cheese ball as well. Anyways back to my bisque. I do not like salt, because it not being good for you although I like the flavor so the best way to have the flavor in your food is sea salt. I also threw in maybe 2 table spoons of butter. Yes real butter, not margarine. I hate margarine. I was reading an article on margarine and the way it is processed and made, it is a molecule off from being paint. Paint is made with the same ingredients. So if I wanted to melt my tupper ware I will do that, because margarine has melted plastic in it too. YUCK. Just to think of the fact that I use to use margarine over butter. Kind of makes me feel sick.

After the bisque Jonathan and I are going to attack our bathroom and be ride ourselves of the smelly poop diapers and also sweep and mop the floors. Which is a regular routine of ours on his 3 days off. I try to keep up as much I can when he works, but sometimes housework vs baby, it ends up I have to deal Aaliyah first she is my main priority and if every time I put her down and she is crying and nothing soothes her, but her mommy holding her, then that is what I have to do. I find I have to wait for her to take a nap so I can actually get things done,but even at that in order to do the job right you can't rush it, it takes time. I still wonder to this day of who ever made up the saying "the house work will take care of itself". I wish it was the case, because then I could do what ever I wanted, but we all know right now I am in fantasy land if I think that it will ever take care of itself.

Hopefully after we're done the house work we can go for a stroll or a leisurely drive to a park or some nice country roads. I am tired of being cooped up in this house 6 days then 3 days off Jonathan get that is my only form of freedom. If only Edmonton were much easier to understand and get around. And not so damn big I would take a step outside my door and beyond the McAllister look alike mall across thee street. If I go out with out Jonathan it is always to that mall and I hate malls.