Weekend Ramblings

This is our cat, Socks. We found him as a tiny kitten almost dead. Everyone thought he wasn't going to make but me. He definitely is the boss of the house and he thinks hes a dog. I asked him to pose for my blog and this is what he did. He has his own style and I can respect that.

I have stayed close to home all weekend. I did my Kroger run on Saturday morning and Mr Ladybug and I ran to Lowe's for seed starting soil. We are an exciting pair. Our movie night was pretty good, I really enjoyed the new Flatliners. I actually told him that I wasn't sure if I would since the original had Keifer Sutherland in it. I am a huge Keifer fan and my family makes fun of me for it. I was over the moon when he had a few appearances in the new movie. Don't worry that's not really a spoiler.

So our oldest daughter came over for lunch. We decided on appetizers. I made a parmesan cheese ball, placed it on the coffee table where everyone was sitting, returned to the kitchen to start the next appetizer and came back to almost empty plate. They all loved it. I will have to add that one to the recipe box. Do you write your recipes down? Since Pinterest I am really bad at writing things down. Sometimes you go back to look at a recipe and the link doesnt work anymore.


Parmesan Cheese Ball Recipe

8 oz block of cream cheese at room temp
1/3 paremsan cheese, I used shaved but any should work
2 cloves of garlic or a teaspoon of garlic powder or garlic salt

Mix well with a hand blender and form into a ball.

As I have mentioned before a few of us are lactose sensitive so I stopped buying hot chocolate mixes and I can not find a powdered milk substitute thats affordable. So I make a mix and and we can add it to milk or almond milk.

Mrs Ladybug Hot Chocolate Recipe

1/3 cup of cocoa
1 cup of sugar

Mix in a blender or food processor until powdery. Use a heaping Tablespoon for each 8 oz of mild.

Whenever a seed catalog comes in I try to not thumb through it before my hubby gets home. Recently I have waited for him but while I am cooking dinner he will look at the catalog. How rude is that? Yesterday our Townsend and Son magazine came in. Its the place to get all your 17th supplies and our first order of seeds. Mr Ladybug had to go in to work so I didnt think twice about grabbing those seeds or thumbing through the catalog without him. I even sent him a picture of what he was missing.

We got the shelves up to start our plants indoors for the garden. We were going to put it in the living room, in front of our big picture window but we were afraid our cat would destroy it in our sleep. Hes a pretty evil cat but we are so lucky that he chose us as his family. I have to say that just in case he reads my blog. We decided to put it in our bedroom since we have a screen door on it. We did that so that we could keep critters, dogs or cats, in our out without closing the door. Expect to see lots of pictures of the plants and as get bigger!