March 13th, 2010
At Costco this morning, we bought some more Aidells chicken and apple sausages. We get them a lot. They are delicious ¬†and ¬†I thought I might try the Gruyere cheese and roasted garlic sausages too by Aidells. ¬†I had a sample taste even though I had already picked up the double package. ¬†They are very tasty. I looked at the sausages being offered and noticed that the look of the sausage wasn’t as cooked or burnt looking as the way I cooked them. Perhaps I was cooking them for ¬†too long.
When we got home and as we normally do after a Costco shopping trip, Adam  took the sausages out of their wrapping and packed 4 sausages each into a zip lock bag for the freezer. This is great but I have realized that I never see the original packaging and how Aidells suggests that the sausages should be cooked.
Oh dear.  Those poor sausages. I have been beating them up in the oven for way too long. I have been cooking them for nearly 45 minutes until the skin is almost burnt. I have been treating the already cooked sausages as if they were regular sausages fried on the stove in a frying pan.  It turns out that these sausages only need 8 Р10 minutes max on the stove or baked in the oven. I feel terrible about my past treatment of the Aidells sausage and did them justice this time by cooking them for 10 minutes only.
When I served dinner they looked almost anaemic though compared to how we are used to eating them but at least they were easier to cut into. It was always such an effort!
Anyhow, here is the retrieved wrapping that I managed to dig up from the trash can.
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January 19th, 2010
I am alone in the house for three whole hours.
My three year old and eighteen months year old are both in daycare. My husband, Adam is now at work.
The last three days have been noisy. Leo nor Roma attend daycare on Friday’s. Then there was the weekend and Martin Luther King Jr day, yesterday. The noise seemed to increase as the days rolled on. It was quite something.
Roma is in the habit of copying everything that Leo does. So if he decides to go screaming through the house pushing a truck along she will suit. Cute to watch but deafening too.
The weather has been wet so we couldn’t even take them to the park, to let off some of that steam. I then thought why don’t we take them for a walk around the neighborhood, even though I really didn’t want to venture out. I am so tired. The last three nights I have been waking up during the early hours unable to get back to sleep, right away. I am drained and just exhausted.
Yesterday I had had enough of being indoors. It wasn’t raining so we all got dressed for our trip to the park.
The slides were wet, the grass was muddy and the swings which were dry did not interest the kids. Still, Leo and Roma had a good time.
We came home, had lunch and put Roma down before going downstairs and watching Monster Inc. Adam and I seemed more excited than Leo. He hasn’t seen it before. We have. It’s a great movie. Once we started the film Leo sat riveted while Adam and I drifted into sleep from time to time. It was like we were playing tag sleep. Every time I looked over at Adam he was sleeping, he said the same with me. Leo’s eyes remained fixed on the screen throughout the ninety one minutes. Leo thoroughly enjoyed it.
This morning all I want to do is close my tired eyes. I want to go back to bed and sleep for eight hours. Of course I cannot do this. I have to go and pick Roma up from daycare in three hours. I pray that when we return that she will nap this afternoon. Until very recently she hasn’t been napping. She would rather try climbing out of the crib. A scary time for us but a new discovery for her. We have a huge bean bag placed by the crib for any future vaults over it. I hope today and her run around the gym, play with the other kids and just her busy fun time will mean that she will be tired and in need of a nap. I intend to nap if she does too.
This is what I will do with my time today. Sleep.
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