Let me start this post by saying I do not like to camp. My son had a boy scout camp-out one year on Mother's Day and I whined so much the rest of the camp wanted to vote me off the campground! This was, of course, before the copperhead snake was found under my chair! After that, several other moms came over to my side and complained loudly also!
That said, I think I like to camp more than my husband. His idea of camping is to stay outside until bedtime and then come home. Sometimes, it's really good to be the female in a relationship because you never hear of mom-daughter camp-outs. It's always the dad that gets stuck doing those things. Moms and daughters do things like shopping, getting their toenails done and watching tear-jerker movies that the guys in their lives won't sit still for.
My husband and daughter are camping out tonight. Our church is sponsering a DD camp-out and I signed my husband up because he was out of town and my daughter's friends and dads were all going! Normally, we have a rule about signing each other up but lately he's been signing me up to bring things to work so I just thought a little payback might be good! Not really, but she really wanted to go and I know, and so does my husband, that it won't be many more years when camping out with dad will be really, really uncool. So we bite our lips and pack for the camp out.
I'm checking the tent today for spiders and creepy crawly things. I've got the blow-up mattresses and the battery operated pump ready to go. I'm getting the fishing poles untangled. I'm praying for no rain!
They should have a memory when they return whether good or bad. I had a friend once who always said, 'You'll have a good time or a good story!' Maybe they will have both!
PS- got an email saying the camp-out is cancelled due to the weather we've been having. They are postponing until the fall! By then, she'll be aged out and into the youth group. Maybe I'll just set up the tent in the backyard and they can pretend to camp-out!
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Chinese Chicken Slaw
My son and I were on our own the other night for dinner. My husband and daughter went out on daddy-daughter date night. Every year, we have a daddy-daughter dance in our town and they've attended. I take her to get her hair done and buy a dress. Daddy buys a flower for the pretty girl and they go out to dinner before the dance. This year, she decided that she was too old to go. It made my husband very sad but he, typical male, didn't say anything about it.
My daughter commented a few days after the decision not to go was made that what she was really going to miss was the dinner with her dad. I happily volunteered that her dad would take her out for dinner anytime she wanted. Well, they got dressed up the other night, went out for linguine with red clam sauce and ice cream for dessert. Dad was in his element! What a happy man he was to show his little girl around town, except this time, his little girl wore high heels!
Son and I were on our own for dinner and I didn't really want to go out. I found a head of cabbage that needed to be eaten. I decided to make chinese chicken slaw. I had a rotiserre chicken I had purchased earlier in the day so I deboned it and chopped it coarsely. Here's my recipe for the slaw I made and I do say, it was delicious!
Chinese Chicken Slaw
1 head chopped cabbage
1/2-3/4 cups chopped chicken per person
1 can mandarin oranges, drained
1/2 cup black seedless grapes per person
2 T toasted almond slivered per person
dressing:
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon chili oil (too taste, it's really hot)
mix all together and let sit until salad is ready
I chopped the cabbage and chicken and let my son take out what he could eat onto his salad bowl. I then put the oranges, grapes and almonds on top and poured some dressing on top.
It was a hit! He told me I could make that anytime. Maybe I just will, it took all of ten minutes to make!
I'm sure I could persuade the other two to do a daddy-daughter dinner more often!
My daughter commented a few days after the decision not to go was made that what she was really going to miss was the dinner with her dad. I happily volunteered that her dad would take her out for dinner anytime she wanted. Well, they got dressed up the other night, went out for linguine with red clam sauce and ice cream for dessert. Dad was in his element! What a happy man he was to show his little girl around town, except this time, his little girl wore high heels!
Son and I were on our own for dinner and I didn't really want to go out. I found a head of cabbage that needed to be eaten. I decided to make chinese chicken slaw. I had a rotiserre chicken I had purchased earlier in the day so I deboned it and chopped it coarsely. Here's my recipe for the slaw I made and I do say, it was delicious!
Chinese Chicken Slaw
1 head chopped cabbage
1/2-3/4 cups chopped chicken per person
1 can mandarin oranges, drained
1/2 cup black seedless grapes per person
2 T toasted almond slivered per person
dressing:
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon chili oil (too taste, it's really hot)
mix all together and let sit until salad is ready
I chopped the cabbage and chicken and let my son take out what he could eat onto his salad bowl. I then put the oranges, grapes and almonds on top and poured some dressing on top.
It was a hit! He told me I could make that anytime. Maybe I just will, it took all of ten minutes to make!
I'm sure I could persuade the other two to do a daddy-daughter dinner more often!
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