Cinco de Mayo

It all started out last month when I had a craving for tacos. When I was a kid we used to make tacos for dinner. It was always such fun-- almost as much fun as the Chef-Boyardee pizza kits. So I got the ingredients and fixed them up.

I have never, and I mean NEVER had so many compliments. (this hurts my cooking-pride a bit, but there it is) I believe that I heard statements like "best dinner ever", "the best day ever", and my favorite, "we should have these every week... Taco Tuesday!" Needless to say we haven't missed a Tuesday... it is so looked forward to around here.

Well, this week Taco Tuesday fell on May 5th. Cinco de Mayo! Are you kidding me?? And also, May 5th happens to be Pablo's birthday.

Well, I am always up for a reason to have a party, so we did. A Cinco-de-Mayo-Pablo's-Birthday-Taco-Tuesday party. It was yummy and fun.

A quick look to the internet found us a fun fiesta treat. Sombrero Cookies! We altered them and used Keebler Fudge Stripe cookies and Rolos, but they were done just like these from FamilyFun.com.

Maddy's friend Nelson came over to experience our fiesta and he helped Maddy make the cookies.

And a mess.

And in case you were wondering... yes, we did sing to Pablo.

Side Note:

Did any of you ever watch Bewitched? or am I totally dating myself?? Please tell me that you at least watched it in reruns and aren't just thinking of the recent movie with Nicole Kidman... Anyway, do you remember when they switched Darrin? they didn't even tell the audience, or anyone, they just threw a new actor in there?
Well, to those of you paying attention, you might have noticed that Pablo looks just a little bit different than in the picture below when he was first won at the Burger Day Festival. I promised a post on the Perils of Pablo. I never did it. I am sorry.
Pablo didn't enjoy the four-hour car ride back from Oklahoma. He didn't make it. Pablo 2, the sequel, was purchased in Original Pablo's memory. On Cinco de Mayo.

Hangin' In

I needed this little morsel today...

By

perseverance

the snail

reached

the Ark.

* clip art: thumbs.dreamstime.com

Come What May, and Love It

This talked moved me when it was given. I have thought of it many times since. And I really needed to think on it once again.

God Bless You, Elder Wirthlin. You will be greatly missed. ♥

Masterpiece Classics

I guess I am a Masterpiece Theater junkie--though I prefer 'enthusiast'. I remember when I was a little girl in Canada watching television, and then Alistair Cooke would come on in his wonderful voice and introduce the movie that would send my friends out of the room and I would want to stay to get completely engulfed. I wish they had DVRs back then. Peer pressure usually sent me off to play Barbies, but oh how I loved those quiet nights at home when there was 'nothing on'. Nothing except Masterpiece Theater.

My children often ask me why my movies don't have color. I usually say, and firmly believe, that the best ones never do. They never believed me. To this day Stephie usually specifies, 'nothing black and white' during the process of movie selection. Well the black-and-white-being-the-best theory is true... except for Masterpiece Classics.

Has anyone else been reeling with delight from the wonderful 2008-2009 season? Click here to see everything that was aired this glorious season. (my DVR is busting with them... I just can't erase them!) But if you missed any, just click to watch the trailer and then buy the DVD.

We are in for another treat this weekend, set your DVRs for another Masterpiece Classic. This week it is Charles Dickins' The Old Curiosity Shop. Click here for trailer.

Oh, and please pass the popcorn.

Craziness

Today I got a text from my daughter. It said that there was a rumor of a shooting at the school, and that there were cops and metal detectors... I virtually FLEW to the school. It was frightening.

Arriving at the school I was one of about a hundred parents there in a line to request dismissal. During my wait, there was a steady stream of parents coming in and students leaving. It was surreal.

It turns out that a graduated student of the high school was shot and killed the other evening at an apartment complex and there was a threat of retaliation for that death. (I presume that means that the shooter was a student at our school??) Why else would that affect our school??

I can't believe this world. I can't believe that there were 20+ uniformed officers and many undercover officers at the school.

I am kind of in shock.