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Food From Back East
When we moved to Utah, I had no idea how much I would miss the resturants back home. All over America, there are places that you can go to get burgers and pizza. There are even places that you can go to get a good steak, but there is nothing like those original mom & pop resturants that you find in your home town.
Back in North Carolina, my family and I had gone to a little place called Zorbas. Zorbas was a place where you could get almost anything that you wanted. Still, I had my favorites. I really liked their spaghetti combo. It was a spaghetti plate, fit for two, with meat sauce, onions, peppers, polish sasuage, and I would add mushrooms and cheese. I would order this almost every time that I went there. The times that I did not feel like spaghetti, I would eat a gyro. Now if you know anything about gyros, you know that it is hard to find a real one. People make them all of the time with thin slices of frozen steak. Let me tell you right now. If this is what you’ve had, it’s not a real gyro. A real gyro is lamb cooked on a metal steak. When it is perfected, thick slices of meat are cut and placed on a pita. From there the rest is up to you. Zorba’s had the best gyros. They also had great pizza that made me think of New York pizza shops. All I can say is…delicious. My husband and I had been going there since we were dating. It was our favorite resturant.
Another thing I enjoyed about back east, was the Chineese food. I have tried different types out here and none come close. It is very unfortunate because I really, really, like beef and broccoli. There are Panda Expresses everywhere, but that doesn’t compare to the chineese back east. Then there is only one place that I have been that is good and it’s PF Changs. Although its good, I have 20-30 minutes away and wait in a line to pay an expensive bill. All I really want is to be able to call the chineese resturant around the corner and order a quick dinner for me and my family. For now, I guess, I’m just going to have to keep wanting.
Now, this sounds like a really sad post and it kinda is, for my taste buds, but there is a happy ending. I really enjoy eating philly steak and cheese sandwiches as well as hot wings. Would you believe that my husband and I found a place that sells both and they are really good. Guess what the place is called, Back East Cheesestakes. This food is so delicious, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. The wings are good and satisfy my tastes for back east cooking. Once I get a picture, I will post it and that will explain it all…well almost.
I think it’s time for me to go and eat some lunch. 🙂
A Bit Satisfied
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been very busy. Cleaning, cooking, taking care of my children, being a loving wife, and going to college have been my daily chores. Now when I say that, I don’t mean that I had to do each one of these things one day at a time. Instead, I’m saying that I had to do all of them in the same day. Many times it felt like I had to do them all at one time. Now, please know that I am not complaining. I am so blessed to be able to be a stay at home mother. I get to assist my husband in ways that I wouldn’t be able to if I were working right now. Not only that, but I get to be available whenever my children need me.
Now when I’m stressed, it doesn’t seem this way. It feels more like a trap and I’m stuck with so many responsibilities that I can’t breathe. Thank God for reality. Really!!! I’m not trapped, I’m extremely blessed.
Well, being a student has been really hard. There are times when I don’t want to do any work at all. I just want to sit and do life as usual. I have wondered how I would have time to read the books that are required of me and make sure that my family eats dinner. Honestly, I have not had to make sure that anything got done besides my school work. Once I stopped trying to do everything in my own strength, God empowered me, and everything moved smoothly.
For a while, I had fallen behind in my school work. I wasn’t sure how I was going to catch up, but my husband just told me to give it all that I had. He said that I should email my professors and submit the work. I am so thankful that I listened to that wise man of mine. I ended up getting really good grades in my classes. That is the story for last semester.
This semester was the same story, but with a little twist. Instead of being in two or three classes, I was in five. Yes, five. I didn’t think that my school would allow me to take that many at one time, but it happened. I scheduled my classes wrong and they overlapped. Honestly, I was extremely overwhelmed. The good news is that no matter how overwhelmed I was, God still took care of me and my family. Again I had to learn not to do things in my own strength, but to be honest with the Lord about that fact that I didn’t feel like I could do it, but that I was going to put my hand to the plow. I trusted that He would make it happen. Guess what?! He did.
Yesterday, I finished up two of my three classes. One of my good friends texted me with an encouraging note that she was praying for me to get my work submitted on time. It really helped me and I did. I got my work submitted by the deadline. It was like a breath of fresh air. On the way to this point, I was ready to give up and throw in the towel. No, everyone did not always eat at our scheduled dinner time and laundry wasn’t always folded and put away, but my husband still encouraged me to give it my all. As I did, he helped by washing laundry, dishes, and taking care of our children. I must say it again. Thank God for my wonderful husband!!!
That’s right! Now that I have completed that work, I am a bit satisfied. I am satisfied with my life, position, calling, duties, gifts, friends, family, and all the other blessings that I have. I guess it just took a little work for me to see things from the proper perspective. Well, not only work, but trust as well. I had to trust that God would give me all that I needed to get to where I needed to go.
I do have more work to do. The laundry continues, of course. Dinner needs to be cooked. Life does go on, but I’m perfectly fine with that.
2012 Reading Goal
Recently, I decided that I would give myself a goal of readingg 15 books for the year of 2012. I spend a lot of time reading for school and I just want to make sure that I am reading for pleasure, growth, and understanding. I’m sure that this will not be an easy task, but it is one that I am commiting to for myself.
I have found the goodreads app and I like what it has to offer. I am able to track those books that I want to read and the ones that I have already read. It also offers me an opprotunity to join a community of people who are reading as well.
If you would like to join me feel free.
Post a comment and let me know what you think…
Something A Little Different
Everyday we do the same thing. Monday through Friday, I struggle with my kids to take a nap. They really don’t want to take it and I want to try something different, but what? What am I supposed to try to make nap time great for all of us? Well, today we did something a little different. We went for a bike ride.
After all of the “stress” that I had been feeling this week, I needed a bit of a stress reliever. Now it wasn’t easy because my legs were hurting, so I just took it slow and we didn’t go too far. We did enjoy ourselves though.
We stopped at a park and I let the kids play for a while while I just sat. That’s right! I just sat on the grass with nothing to do and rested. It was really nice to just sit.
There was a lady there win her two children and they had brought some Subway to the park for lunch. The fittest thing happened. These three, or maybe four, ducks began to Walt to their table. The ducks had come from a pond near by and were simply seeking to join them for lunch. She and her kids hurried and swallowed their lunch and the moved to another location. The ducks must not have gotten the memo because the follower her as she we to her next location.
After my children played, the got into the bike trailer and I rode home. It was really nice. We were on a trail out here in Utah and the mountains made the scenery amazing. With my iPhone playing music, I turned around only to see that my children we asleep. I smiled a continued to ride. It turns out that Precious was really asleep meanwhile Ice Man was only pretending. It didn’t matter though. It was a great ride and I think we’ll do it again sometime soon.
Now that I’ve had a nice break, I’m back home and must get to work on my final research paper for school and all the other work I have, which includes folding laundry.
Today is a really good day and a wonderful occasion to smile.
New Feelings…
I’m sitting here with my journal in front of me. I’m wondering if I want to write about what I’m experiencing right now. It isn’t anything horrible, but it isn’t great either. Do you ever have feelings about someone or something that you aren’t quite sure you want to share? I do. I have a very expressive personality, so I normally feel like finding some way of expressing my feelings and thoughts. In the midst of finding a way, I wonder. I wonder if I really want to share how I feel. Now, although I am currently blogging, I find that I don’t always want to. Its a little confusing. I look at the way that so many people are able to express their thoughts and feelings without any concern. I’m not like that. I am always thinking about what I said or wrote. I ask myself if it will be perceived as what it is. Although it may seem like it, I’m not as worried about what people think of me as I am about the truth being known. I don’t want to be seen one way if that is not the truth.
Now I know I am not responsible for the way that people perceive me, but I must admit…it is hard. The life of a mother is not easy. It isn’t the hardest thing in the world either. Being a mother and a wife add to the pressure of being a woman. When I say pressure, I am saying that the normal life of a mother and wife have a ton of different experiences attached to it. Add to that fact, being a student and a military wife. All of these things coupled together equal a balancing act that most people don’t have to deal with.
There are often a lot of things that I think of and want to blog about, but I am often not sure if I should. I ask myself how much my readers are supposed to know about me. I wonder how much they are supposed to know about my family. I guess the truth is that you can know as much as I tell you. There real question is, how much am I willing to share. This brings me back to my journal.
Today, I am experiencing some feelings that I have never felt before. I’m not quite sure how to deal with these feelings. I don’t really want to talk to any of my family or friends about the way that I’m feeling. I definitely don’t want to Facebook it either. Although I don’t really feel like writing about these feelings, I will. Not on this site, of course. I am going to journal and pray about it. I believe that by doing that, I will be able to grasp my feelings better. After grasping them, I hope to understand and deal with them. Then…I will blog about it.
I wonder how other people deal with their “new feelings?” How do bloggers deal with their emotions? How do writers find a balance between natural expression and writing? How do mothers and wives, with all of their exciting, heart breaking, loving, funny, embarrassing, emotional, eyeopening experiences find a balance between expressing themselves to the world and those around them while keeping things private. It gets kinda hard sometimes.
There are things that I want to share sometimes that I am not sure whether or not I should. Since I can’t decide half the time, I choose not to. Being in a new state offers tons of experiences to blog about, but sometimes I wonder. I ask myself how I would feel if those involved in the experience wanted to keep it private. I’ve had experiences with my neighbors, friends, family, and strangers, that I want to write about, but there is always the question of Netiquette.
Well, I may not have it all figured out, but I pray I will understand it all soon. Then maybe I will be able to talk about my feelings in more detail, but when I act or talk, I want it to be wise…
Until Next Time…