Elevator Etiquette

Is there such a thing as elevator etiquette? If there isn't there should be,


I work in an office building that has 12 floors and a penthouse suite. Sometimes the wait for an elevator can be long (or longer than I would like.) There can be a crowd waiting for the elevator when the doors open too.


When I am waiting on the first floor to go up to my office on the 10th floor I always stand off to the side when the doors open, so I can be sure that if there are people on the elevator they have room to exit. Twice, today as I go to get off the elevator the person(s) waiting to get on have literally hit me as they shove their way on. Ummmmm, hello! I am trying to get off of here people. Can you wait until I get out of your way before you lunge in the elevator?


Doesn't that seem like common courtesy? Or am I just nuts? ** umm, don't answer that please!

Banana Crepes

I always thought crepes were hard... they really aren't. The first couple I made didn't turn out very well, but now I have been making crepes for many years now. My family particularly loves these banana crepes. I recommend serving bacon or sausage on the side and sometimes I also cut up cantaloupe to serve on the side too. If you desire you could top with whipped cream, although I never have.


These are very sweet. They are crepes with bananas in the center and a caramel sauce over the top.


Banana Crepes
INGREDIENTS:
CREPES:
1 c flour
1/4 c confectioners sugar
1 c milk
2 eggs
3 Tbls butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt

FILLING:
1/4 c butter
1/2 c packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp nutmeg
6-8 firm bananas
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 c milk


For crepes: Stir flour and sugar together. Add milk, eggs, butter, vanilla and salt. Beat until smooth. Heat a lightly greased 6" skillet, add about 3 Tbls of batter, spreading to cover bottom of skillet. Cook until lightly browned, turn and brown other side. Remove to a wire rack.


For filling: Melt butter in a skillet. Add remaining ingredients and cook until slightly thick. Add bananas, cut lengthwise. Heat 2-3 minutes. Place bananas and sauce in crepe and roll. Spoon more sauce on top of crepe.

Spring Break

So, most of the kids will return to school with stories of family vacations, but not my kids. They will have stories of time spent with family though.

Monday they got to spend the whole day with grandma and grandpa, they helped make pancakes and played games with grandma too.

Tuesday was spent with their cousins. Our niece has three kids all about the same ages as our kids, she has 2 girls and a boy and we have 2 boys and a girl. They all get along real well. They played hide-n-seek, board games, computer games, went to the park, climbed the big trees in her backyard, made their own pizzas for lunch and watched a movie.

Yesterday, our close friend took them with her to where she nanny's. (ok, ok, I realize that isn't family!!) The kids she nannies are very close to the same ages as my kids and the two little girls (both 3) just played and played all day!

Today, grandma and grandpa were going to take them to the zoo, but naturally today it is snowing (even though earlier this week it has been sunny and in the 70's!) So, I am not sure what they are going to do today, but I am sure they will have fun!

Tomorrow Mr. Man has the day off so he will be spending all day with the kids and maybe they can go to the zoo if the weather gets nice!

Hair washing

I do not wash my hair everyday. For one thing, I have my hair colored and I feel like if I go every other day washing it that my color stays a little longer (I am probably fooling myself, but it makes me feel better!) For another thing, I am lazy and prefer to use those extra minutes in bed in the morning - well, ok ok usually I get up real early for some "me" time and so I actually prefer to use the extra minutes in the morning with one more cup of coffee or read a few more pages in a book. On the days that I do wash my hair I make sure to give myself an hour to get ready. On the days I am not washing my hair, I can get ready in about half hour or so (again, that kinda depends on how much coffee I can shove down my throat before the shower!!!)

I go into ALL that because I just saw a lady who clearly did not wash her hair this morning, or yesterday and maybe even since Sunday! It was extremely greasy. It would be one thing if I saw her in her sweat pants lounging somewhere, but she was here, at the office building. EW!!!

If my hair EVER looks that disgusting I hope someone would tell me. I work in my office mostly by myself so no one would even care or even be here to tell me that I look like a greasy slob, but still!!! Ew Ew Ew!

WFMW - Grocery List

Our closest grocery store just remodeled and during the grand opening handed out printed lists of what was on each aisle. The list was numbered aisle by aisle and listed the items found on each aisle. I took this and made copies of it. Then I hang it on my refrigerator and circle the items as I run out of things. Then on grocery day I take this list and can shop easily aisle by aisle.

I recently decided to go to a different store for some sale items and decided I liked this store's layout better than the other store. I went to the Customer Service counter and asked if they had a similar list and they did! So I took it and made copies of it. Now I hang this list on my fridge!

This is what works for me. For more awesome tips and tricks, head over to Rocks In My Dryer.

Decorating.... Wendy's Style

Apparently Lady Bug does not have the decorating gene. We went to Wendy's fast food restaurant the other day for dinner. While she and I were sitting at the table waiting for the men in our family to bring our food Lady Bug started noticing the fabulous decor of Wendy's. She started telling me how we needed to get salt and pepper shakers "just like this mom"

ME: "Oh, you mean the ones that you can find in the picnic aisle at the store?"

HER: "yep. AND we need to get a picture like that too."

ME: "Really?"

HER: "Yep. AND we should get chairs like this too."

ME: "Well, yes, because the turquoise and red goes realllllly well with the table we already have."

HER: "yep!"

Guess I will need to work with her on style, so instead of working on numbers or letters we will be looking at some of my favorite design blogs now, while she is still young and impressionable!

Children's Ministry - First Sunday

This Sunday was the first time that our new children's ministry at church had "Kids Church". The woman heading it up did an amazing job and thought of all the little details! It turned out great.


I stayed in the big room to help keep kids "reigned in". Since it was Easter they did puppet skits, a video segment and songs. We had all the ages in there, except for the nursery kids. All the kids loved it. I think it will be a lot of fun.


Each week we will be doing kids worship with all ages (except nursery of course) and then the kids will be dismissed to their own classes. The children's minister recently purchased new curriculum so that essentially all ages will be learning the same story (at their own levels of course). I think this will be cool so that parents can go home and have discussions about what was learned!


I am super excited about working in this ministry!