Weekend FUN!

My parents came in to Fayetteville Friday. My mom had a conference in Virginia and my dad came along.  They were here for about 5 days.  Man, that was not long enough...not at all. 

Saturday - We were invited to a BBQ for our friend Charles Taijeron.  He came to visit Jay's cousin, Therese.  It was a great little reunion.  We got to meet up Ash and her family.  My mom and dad had a great time. My dad got to meet up with a guy that was in his engineer unit in the guard.  My parents are very well known people and they really know their family history and relatives.  Jay and I got to meet our relatives that have moved out here to Fayetteville.

Sunday - We went to 930am mass. Than we drove to my Auntie Reese's place in Goldsboro.  My mom hasn't seen her sister in about 7 years.  My dad cooked a fantastic lunch.  Our menu was shrimp in butter & soysauce, mussels & crab in coconut milk, pika salad, okra in fine'dene, crab poke' and kimchee.  Gardner also bbq'd some steaks that were super yummy as well.  We were stuffed.  We had some good laughs and went down memory lane.  Tish and I told stories of our adventures in Malojloj.  The boys played cornhole.  We played Rock Band too.  That was loads of fun!

 

Monday - We took my parents around town.  We went to the 82nd Airbone Musuem and to see the planes.  Than we did a little shopping.  Ciena, better be happy with all the clothes she got...spoiled!!! My biha-girl also got lots of clothes too.  Dame also was spoiled with two new xbox games.

Tuesday - Dame and I both played hookie from school so we could spend as much time as we possibly can with them. I took my mom to do more shopping and my dad chilled at home with Dame.  They both did not want to go shopping.

Today I was so sad that I just wanted to stay in bed.  I miss them already.  The sacrifices we have to make to better our future.

Roskette

So I attempted to make my mother-in-law's recipe for roskette.  I prepped my ingredients.  Then I remembered that she mixes everything using her hand. So thats exactly what I did...from creaming the shortening and sugar to adding the flour and cornstarch.  Man was my are on fire! The next time I make it, I'm definitely going to use my kitchen aid or a hand mixer. I colored the dough red for Valentine's Day.  When it came time to roll the roskette, I attempted to do some heart shaped ones.  There were some that turned out nice and others that well looked more like eyes popping out.  My son made the best heart shaped cookie out of all of them!

I ended up making the roskette in the regular style (just making a coil) and the simplest one (rolling into a ball and pressing with a fork).  They tasted awesome just like how my mother-in-law makes it.  Her recipe ended making soo much cookies that I packed some for Dame's teachers and Jay's soldiers. 

Random Thoughts

I am a student at Fayetteville State University. Everyday on my drive to school and home, I am always thinking about my life and random things. Lately, my thoughts have taken me to whether I chose the right major. I am currently majoring in sociology...only because the school does not offer a bachelors in social work. I guess some of the courses that I am taking make me second guess my career choice.  I want to be able to work with at-risk youth/children or assist the elderly. How is a course in research methods going to help me do that? I'm just not sure of who I am anymore and what it is I want. Sometimes I feel like I've lost myself in being a wife and mother that I question what career path I want to take.

I think about my family back home and all I feel like I'm missing.  I miss just being around my family and just having them around. I've been thinking about my papa and how his health is going. I feel it in my heart that when my nana passed away, my papa just gave up on everything.  I just don't want to get the phone call that he's already passed and I didn't get to say good bye.

Even before my son was born, I've been struggling with my weight. In high school, I was in my weight range cause I played sports and danced hula. But after I came back from basic and ait training, I had gained about 20 lbs. From than, I had a hard time losing the weight and doing any pt.  I just gave up on myself and felt comfortable in what I had at the time. After I had my son, I had gained more weight, and today I still carry some of that weight. I watch so many shows about weightloss (Biggest Loser, Heavy, I Used to Be Fat) and always tell myself that I can do that....but I have no motivation.

My mind is full of random thoughts that I could never full jot down any of it. I could go from one random thought to another  just from hearing a song or seeing something.  So thats just some of the randomness that goes on while I drive to and from school.