I have been freezer cooking my what off?

A couple days ago I got the freezer cooking bug.

I thought it was because I knew I was getting another freezer. I had visions of having it stuffed with ready to go home made meals. How this came about was around 2 months ago my daughter's dryer died. Well, she and her gonna-be-my-grandbaby-daddy are young and struggling to make a house payment (yes, my kids are 20 and buying a house!) they don't have spare cash just laying around for these types of problems.

So, we made a deal, she had a freezer she wasn't using and I needed another one. I called my BIL down at Fred's Appliance and see if we can get hooked up with a deal. Which we did, no prob. The deal between me and my girl was, give us the freezer and some cash (when they happen upon it), we get them a new dryer. It took a while to get the freezer home, with schedules and what-not. We made plans to get it today.

I made:

3 pans of Chicken Enchiladas
3 pans of Penne and Cheese
1 pan of Chicken Cordon Blue Casserole
1 pan of Chicken, Broccoli Wild Rice Casserole
2 Meatloafs
12 Meatloaf Muffins
and, 3 containers of Broccoli w/Cheese sauce.

I am thinking, this is a nice way to go into a new to me freezer :) Life is good, yes?

YES!!

I am in the middle of powering out some chicken in my pressure cooker for the Casseroles yesterday, just minding my own business and doing my own thing. The phone rings....

It's my sister...

She says, "What are you doing today?"

I say " Cooking."

She says, " Can you come to my office this afternoon?"

I say, "Why?"

She says, "Mr. Boss wants to talk to you."

I say, "Ok, I will be there after I drop the boy off at school."

Back story here, Mr. Boss is my Insurance Agent. I'm thinking, Oh Shit!
What did I do? Am I getting Sued? Did I actually talk that much Trash about Safeway that they are suing me?

So, I go in, and to my relief I am not being sued for talking trash about Safeway, I got a job offer! And, now you all know, I don't care for Safeway.

It has been 6 years since I have worked outside our home. I had planned on going back to work when our boy started school full time, but given how the economy is I was really freaking out about it. To have a job just fall in my lap, so to speak, is miraculous.

I told Mr. Boss that I had to talk to my DH and mom about it. We got the details for maintaining the household worked out and as of next Monday, I got a job! I will be working M-TH in the afternoons and I am actually very excited. Not so much about working, but that even after 6 years of not working, my skill set is attractive to someone who has run a successful business for 30+ years in Spokane WA.

So, as it turns out, I wasn't freezer cooking to stuff my "new" freezer, I was doing it because God was cluing me into my new circumstances.

I am not - by any means- a religious person. But, signs are what signs are. And I am thankful to God for kicking my butt into gear so that while I transition into being a worker bee again, we will still have good meals to eat :)

Boy, Beebee gun and one big bummer

In case anyone was wondering why I have not done a favs of the week yet...

Yup, that is a shattered window in one of the French Doors that goes out to our back patio. Our neighbor boy - who - before I go any further - is actually a very sweet and responsible kid - was playing with his new Bee bee gun in his back yard. He must of gotten it for Christmas this year and a couple days ago I knew that it was new because I could hear him shooting it from inside our house, where I could not with his old one.

Anyway, he was shooting at his target and since I have never seen him point it anything but his target I was not worried. I let the cat out and took 2 steps out of the room when I heard POP!

Then....crackle....crackle....crackle....

Then Colby started screaming that something hit the window and sure enough, I pull back the blind and see the outside pane just spider web shattering while I watch.

Now, of course I have to go around the block and knock on my neighbors door and basically pretty much let them know what happened. This is always a dicey situation, no matter how it goes it is uncomfortable and any Police officer can tell you a story about how something like this has turned into the Hatfields and McCoys in any given city. I was nervous to say the least. I didn't want to come out all teeth and claws and ruin what has been a friendly-over-the-fence relationship. Proceeding with caution...

I explained the situation, the poor boy was so upset! He had not even realized that it happened and I felt so bad for him. He goes to a different school then the one that most of the neighborhood kids do and doesn't have alot of friends on the block so he was just doing what he enjoyed to pass a bit of time before it got dark. His parents took away his toy and locked it up. He apologized profusely and I couldn't be mad, it really was an accident. A Bee Bee ricochet accident.

So, we are working it out now with his folks and Insurance. We are really lucky that all of our neighbors are so nice and I was really relieved that we were able to resolve this is a friendly fashion. This actually happened before at our former home and it didn't really work out....

Anyway, this is why there are no favs this week. But, if your out and about and find something really hot please leave a comment and let us know about it :)