Today I have pondered on what the Dr has said to me.  She has not said much about diet yet, but we are going to talk about it Wednesday.  I have been trying to watch my sugars, trying, its hard, but technically its easier than before when I just wanted to lose weight!  Go figure.  When it is a necessity it comes easier.   

I researched one of the drugs that Kristine said that I "most likely" will be on.   It's more disheartening than when I found out I was going to have a C-section!  And that was really the last thing I wanted to do when having my first and possibly only child.  So, its called Byetta, said Bi-ay-ta.  And apparently what I thought was a new pill is actually an injectible drug.  That means that I am going to be insulin dependant.  Not the first thing that I expected to be doing as a newly diagnosed diabetic.   

I guess you pray long enough and hard enough to lose weight and God provides an option.  Not the option I was hoping for, but his will is what I will be doing.  Don't get me wrong I never prayed that divine intervention would take over and *POOF* Skinny, but I prayed for the strength and the will power to have the ability to lose weight.  Little did I know he said diabetes will give her the strength to say no to sweets, goodies, and candy.  It really is a little funny!   You ask and you shall receive. 

Hmmmm.....maybe next time I ask for something I will make a plan, lay it all out on paper, get a presentation together......THEN pray in a manner suitable for me.  lol.   Today I make of it what I can. 

SMILE

:D 

New Chapter

           

          So, on December 20th, I found out that I am diabetic.  It's called Diabetes.  Everyone knows this but it is strange to say it.  "I have Diabetes!"  For me it is easier and less real to say "I am diabetic."  I am not sure why, or the reason, but it just suites me better that way.   I was not told a whole lot yet.  I was put on glucophage, one pill a day for seven days, then two pills a day for, well...until I am told to do something different! 

          In my new journey, I decided that I will write down my feelings and thoughts. Today is the second day I started the two pills a day.  They said it would have side affects....lol, side affects, right?!?!?!   I had not had said side affects, yet.  So, I decided to go to Dollar Tree.   Just when you don't expect the "side affects" to happen, they do!   I had to stand in an aisle until the urge had left me and told my husband my tummy was not under control, and the best part.....I was not sure it would get under control.   The only problem was that it happened three times at the store.  Luckily, my husband new about the restrooms that were available to customers.  

         After all was said and done, I have learned my lesson(s).    1. Don't underestimate the almighty SIDE AFFECT,  2. I am still not sure what I am doing with my diabetes,   and 3. I just wing it.....for now. 

I will learn what I am supposed to do and follow all my orders, but until then I am trying to stay away from sugar, and I am trying to cut back on my starches.   For someone who LOVES sugar, and goodies, I was a good girl today and went to a childs Birthday party and did not have cake or ice cream!  I was very proud of myself.  I almost broke my arm patting myself on the back! DOH!  Then the pinata came....they key to Tritan's undoing.   Well, I did not gorge myself on candy, but I did savor one lovely, smooth, delectable Tootsie Roll.   It was heaven in a little piece of plasticky chocolate.  

          I move on to the next day.  But my blood sugars look better now than they did last week.  Of course last week I checked them after a meal and this week is before breakfast and before dinner.  We will see how things go.  Hopefully better than they have as my body has been coping for who knows how long.  

New recipes

Well, I stink! I wanted to use this to post about recipes I found online, but I have made several different recipes and have not blogged about them. So here I am. :)

I found a recipe for Red Lobster Shrimp Scampi. It was super easy and tasted really good. I did change the recipe a bit. I did not have any wine and I was serving some church members so I opted to try it out with sparkling grape juice. I did not like the grape juice it gave the shrimp a sweet-ish flavor that I did not like.

Ingredients:

• Red lobster shrimp Scampi shopping list
• 1 cup white wine shopping list
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter. (do not use margarine) shopping list
• 3 teaspoons minced garlic shopping list
• parsley shopping list
• 1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined

Instructions:

• Bake at 350 degree oven for about 6 to 7 minutes. YOU CAN SAUTE THIS ON TOP OF THE STOVE INSTEAD OF IN THE OVEN
• Be careful not to overcook the Shrimp. The shrimp is done when it has turned pink

I also used the pre-cooked shrimp instead of fresh shrimp, simply because I could not fathom the idea of "deveining" the shrimp. I did find another recipe that claims to be "straight from the master chef himself, Michael LaDuke." You can find the other recipe here: http://shrimpscampirecipe.org/


I paired this with a recipe that I found for Olive Garden Fettucine Alfredo.

Ingredients:
Servings:

6 6

6

Servings Size

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 tablespoons cream cheese
• 1 pint heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• salt
• black pepper
• 2/3 cup grated parmesan cheese (preferably fresh)
• 1 lb fettuccine, prepared as directed

Directions:

Total Time: 25 mins

1. In a medium saucepan, melt butter.
2. When butter is melted, add cream cheese.
3. When the cream cheese is softened, add heavy cream.
4. Season with garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
5. Simmer for 15-20 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly.
6. Remove from heat and stir in parmesan.
7. Serve over hot fettucine noodles.

This was a really good recipe. I did not change anything with this. It tasted really good. I could not get the cream sauce to be really smooth, it had some chunks of cheese. I may not have used the correct pan, but it did taste good. I served this to some people from the church and they loved it.

I am going to try to keep up on this. Just for myself, cuz I am terrible at keeping up on a diary or now a blog. lol

Autum

Recipes

So, I have decided to use my blog for something that I love as well as to inform those who may stumble upon it to help out with their cooking experiences. I LOVE to cook!!! I experiment with recipes and/or find a recipe that sounds like it would be good so I will make it.

Now there are times when I find a recipe and I do not have the exact ingredients so I will substitute. This blog will help with those substitutions, hopefully, and let you know if you have heard about a different way to make something, I may have tried it......therefore you will have a soundboard to use so that you may know if it was successful or if it tasted good. Let's get started!

I wanted to make a carrot cake, but did not want to go through the hassle of making it entirely from scratch....plus I had two cans of carrots that I would not use as a vegetable. I went online and found this recipe that sounded good enough and I had all the ingredients:

EASY CARROT CAKE

1 (2 layer) yellow cake mix 1 1/4 c. Miracle Whip 4 eggs 1/4 c. cold water 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 c. carrots, finely shredded 1/2 c. walnuts, chopped 1 (16 oz.) tub vanilla ready-to-spread frosting Combine cake mix, Miracle Whip, eggs, water and cinnamon, mixing at medium speed on electric mixer until well blended. Stir in carrots and walnuts. Pour into greased 13 x 9-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes, or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool. Spread frosting on top. Makes 12 servings

So, I whipped up the cake and threw in the canned carrots, using a potato masher to break apart the canned carrots enough that they were not whole in the cake. It smelled good when I was mixing everything together and it tasted fairly good. As an afterthought I had decided that it needed a bit more cinnamon, but the cake was already in the oven. Now it was moist enough and mixed well........

When it was done it looked very tasty and baked up nicely. I let the cake cool and instead made my own frosting from scratch.

We waited until after dinner for our dessert then cut the cake. It was really dense and did not raise too much. It was thick and very, very moist. In fact it was a little piece of "lead" cake. It did not taste BAD, it actually had a decent flavor, just needed more cinnamon, lol. But I could not get past the consistency of the cake.

I would not make this cake again. I also am not sure if it was the cake mix that was used instead of using individual ingredients or if it was the canned carrots, but I will not make this cake again. That is my opinion on this recipe, if you have had a different experience or have any questions, please feel free to comment.

Smile :)
Autum!

Tough Times

So here we are back at my in-laws house again. But this time we are trying to get back to UT not just coming from Ut. We would like to be back at home it Ut so that we are near friends and more family. We are stopping here in order to try to save money to get a place when we come home. No one wants to accept our dogs. They are not bad dogs, they just shed and there are two of them! Not to mention our two cats, two birds, and a mouse.

But that is not why I am writing today. I am a little frustrated, along with the rest of the world, that I can't just go out and get a job right off the bat. I am not used to having to job shop for weeks on end. Plus I have only been doing it for two weeks. I am used to being able to just try for a couple of weeks then giving in if I had not had any prospects I could just try the local telemarketing/customer service businesses. I will keep at it and hope for the best.

But if worst comes to worst, I may have to sell my talents. LOL, no just typing, bossing, organizing types of deals.

Until the next time,
Smile :)
Autum

Life goes on......

So during these last few months I had been very tired and lethargic. We found out that we were pregnant and were supposed to have been about 13 wks along on the 25th. I started to spot and was very worried, but it was only small so I pushed the worry out of my mind.

It was when I started hemorrhaging more that I went to the hospital. They said that it was a threatened miscarriage. So they checked everything out and did all of the tests, but they were a bit inconclusive.

The baby only showed 6 wks, but we believed we should have been 10-13 wks, depending. But come Monday July 27th in the evening we miscarried. It is sad and I never got to know the baby, but it was still a part of me.

I wish that I could know why it happened and for what reason, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be just yet.

We will continue to be hopeful and see if we are to be blessed with another baby.

Faith

I know that the economy has probably affected us all these days. In one way or another this has probably touched each of our lives.

We have been feeling the affects since our work has declined and has slowed down. We are still remodeling homes, and it is very lucrative right now with the home prices being so low, but it has slowed down as well.

I was praying for several days that we could have a little bit of money to be able to pay our bills and just keep our home. And sure enough during the same week that I was asking for help two roofing jobs were handed to my husband. THEN in the same week, THE SAME DAY, two more roofing jobs were given to him.

Now Ricky has four roofing jobs to do, but that is not all, the town he is in has several roofs that need to be reshingled. So, he bid on another job while he is out in Sterling. Not only that, but his boss got him his own business license for roofing and remodeling!!!

I thought that he might be able to start his business here in Colorado, but this is much sooner than I thought. So, keep your head up and have Faith. God will provide! Unfortunately, it is in his time and not ours.

Smile :)
Audie!

New blog for the Booga

I have opened a new blog dedicated just to LynLee, not just about her, but FOR her. If you would like to read along the blog is lynleehope.blogspot.com.



Smile :)

Autum

Spoiled!

Well, sorry it's been so long since I have blogged. Not that anyone probably reads this that much to have noticed. But since we moved we did not have a computer. Just an old out dated laptop that was set up for AOL. Which BTW if you have not had AOL before its like an infestation and it is everywhere in the computer. So that being said....we had to do something about the TV situation since we did not have a digital converter and the list was on hold due to government funding. We opted to try out Comcast and get the internet as well.

We hooked up the Internet and it did not work. The connection could not find the ethernet. We called my father-in-law who also has three computers: one desktop and two laptops. He lent us one of the laptops. Which did not work, either. It seemed to be something wrong with the connection, but there was not. Our computer only had Windows 98, so we upgraded to Windows 2000. Still nothing. The borrowed laptop had Windows XP, still nothing. We gave up. It took about a week to find that our internet connection was fine, but the computers we were trying were no good.

So here it is Valentines day! My husband bought me a white rose symbolizing his true love for me. He also got me a cute little red and white teddy bear in a basket. But since my birthday was on the 11th, he went shopping this weekend. He brought me home a new computer!! It was really sweet, considering he went over his budget by several hundred dollars. I expected something on a smaller scale, but when my husband gets something in his mind and mix that with what he feels in his heart it can equal the best most sweetest gift, with a big price tag!!!! lol

I love him and would not trade him for the world. Just wanted to brag as it were that my husband is the best that I could have ever asked for.

Smile :)

Autum

New Home

So we have moved into our new home. Well, new to us, but completely refurbished inside. And some refurbishing outside. I will put some pics online when I can get some. It is so nice to be in our own home and to be able to do what we want when we want. When you live with another family you can't do anything when you want. You shower aro9und their schedule and they have to work around yours. You can't just cook, or leave, or sleep, or much of anything when you want to. But now If I want to nap when the baby does I can. Not that this happens that much, lol. But it could!

Anyhow pics will follow as soon as I can get them. We don't have our own computer just yet, but still feel free to email us.

Love everyone,
Autum