Hot Tamales!

I am on a mission and I can't stop thinking about it until I get it accomplished. I want to make tamales---yes, tamales!! We are a Mexican food loving family, but you don't get tamales at many resturants- or the ONE resturant here in this town at least. So, I have done my internet research and found a site that even has pictures of all the equipment and food you need.

So today, I bought an 8 pound pork roast, a 5 pound chicken, 4 pounds corn flower, corn oil, a stock pot with a steamer thingy and after all that- I could only find ONE BAG of corn husks in this town. With all the meat- I could probably make 100 tamales to freeze for later-- but the corn husk thing is slowing me down. And there are no Mexican food grocers in town either- I looked! Blah!!! I might have to wait until Walmart gets some more or maybe see if I can buy some off the internet.

All I know for sure is- we will be eating tamales very soon- YUMMY

Well all this talking of eating....and NOT LOSING!!! I am holding VERY STEADY at the current weight-- looks like the 2 miles a day deal is not really cutting it yet--I am going to kick it up a notch-- I don't have a choice if I want to keep you people around!!

The kids and I start back to school tomorrow- I thought I would start out a little bit easy so I got some paint-by-number kits they are going to work on tomorrow and we are going to do a science project also. Doing this kind of stuff makes them really, really like homeschool.

I also signed them up for a drawing class- if they enjoy it I will let them it take more since you pay for it by the class.

Been scrapbooking like crazy lately- can't seem to get enough of it. I was thinking I would take some pictures of my layouts and post them here. Kinda funny taking pictures of your pictures- don'tcha think?