Eggplant Parmesan:

Found super easy recipe here:

Ingredients
3 eggplant, peeled and thinly sliced
2 eggs, beaten
4 cups Italian seasoned bread crumbs
6 cups spaghetti sauce, divided (could use less)
1 (16 ounce) package mozzarella cheese, shredded and divided
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). (I fried...it was amazing)
2.Dip eggplant slices in egg, then in bread crumbs. Place in a single layer on a baking sheet.
(Did I mention that I fried them???amazing)
Bake in preheated oven for 5 minutes on each side.
3.In a 9x13 inch baking dish spread spaghetti sauce to cover the bottom. Place a layer of eggplant slices in the sauce. Sprinkle with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. Repeat with remaining ingredients, ending with the cheeses. Sprinkle basil on top.
4.Bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until golden brown.

We all loved them...cut thin, it is amazing how far three eggplants go.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

POTTY STORIES...

Since I mainly do this blog to write funny stories for our family memories...I just couldn't pass up posting these two stories from this weekend.

On Saturday I was at my son's soccer game. My four year old had to go potty. I looked way over to the other side of the park and saw the potty...hmmm...do I really want to drag the baby and the four year old all the way over there?

So I said, "Let's just go potty here, since no one is around and I will help you...so I pulled down her panty hose, held up her dress, held her up in "potty" position, and waited for the urine to flow...nothing happened and I heard a little gas...I squealed..."Do you have to pee or poop?" "I gotta poop." I laughed, "We can't go poop right here!" So off we went to the disgusting potty before it was too late!

We watched the rest of the game and on the way home my baby got into some of the kids candy. I looked back and he was eating a dum dum lollipop, wrapper and all.

This morning the baby woke up and I changed his poopy diaper...and saw sticking out of his hiney a piece of paper...it said, "dum dum." Man, even the baby is calling me names.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

TURKEY SOUP:

Quick and easy...Main recipe found here:
Of course for my family I doubled.

2 1/2 c. stock from turkey
1/4 c. butter
1/4 c. flour
1/2 c. light cream ( I used whole milk)
1 c. rice
1 tsp. celery salt
1/2 tsp. basil
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. turkey, cut up

Directions
1.Place turkey carcass in a soup kettle or Dutch oven and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour. Remove carcass; cool. Set aside 3 qt. broth. Remove turkey from bones and cut into bite-size pieces; set aside.
2.In a soup kettle or Dutch oven, saute the onions, carrots and celery in butter until tender. Reduce heat; stir in flour until blended. Gradually add 1 qt. of reserved broth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.
3.Add cream, rice, salt, bouillon, pepper, remaining broth and reserved turkey. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30-35 minutes or until rice is tender.

Love easy...it tasted really good...my 12 year old had 21 bowls in two days...not really that good.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

CHOCOLATE DIET?

Choc-O-Licious from HUNGRY GIRL:

3 Musketeers Mini Bar - 24 calories, 0.7g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

3 Musketeers Fun Size Bar - 63 - 70 calories, 2 - 2.25g fat (POINTS® value 1 - 2*)

100 Grand Fun Size Bar - 95 calories, 4g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Almond Joy Snack Size Bar - 80 - 85 calories, 4.5g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Butterfinger Miniature - 45 calories, 2g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Butterfinger Fun Size Bar - 85 calories, 3.5g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

SHOCKER! Butterfinger Pumpkin - 160 calories, 8g fat (POINTS® value 4*)

Hershey's Kiss, Any Flavor - 21 - 23 calories, 1 - 1.3g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Hershey's Miniature Bar, Any Flavor - 42 calories, 2.5g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Hershey's Milk Chocolate Snack Size Bar - 67 calories, 4g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Kit Kat Mini - 42 calories, 2.2g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Kit Kat Snack Size Bar - 70 calories, 3.7g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Milky Way Mini - 38 calories, 1.5g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Milky Way Fun Size Snack Bar - 75 - 80 calories, 3g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Mounds Miniature - 63 calories, 3.7g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Nestle Crunch Mini/Miniature - 30 - 50 calories, 1.5 - 2.5g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Nestle Crunch Fun Size Bar - 60 - 70 calories, 3 - 3.3g fat (POINTS® value 1 - 2*)

Peeps Milk Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Pumpkin - 110 calories, 3g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Reese's Miniature Peanut Butter Cup - 44 calories, 2.6g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Reese's Snack Size Peanut Butter Cup - 80 - 110 calories, 4.5 - 6.5g fat (POINTS® value 2 - 3*)

Snickers Miniature - 42 - 45 calories, 2g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Snickers Fun Size Bar - 80 calories, 4g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

Twix Mini Caramel Cookie Bar - 50 calories, 2.6g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

Twix Fun Size Caramel Cookie Bar - 80 calories, 4g fat (POINTS® value 2*)

York Dark Chocolate Covered Peppermint Pattie Pumpkin - 50 calories, 1g fat (POINTS® value 1*)

For those like me who eat the entire bag...sorry don't have the calorie intake on that...

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

All Saints Day:

Mary dressed as St Therese finally gets the donut
with some help from the Sister from the Servants of the Lord.

Cecilia coloring with "St Mother Theresa"

Which one has the token?

All the Saints

ST Maximilian Kolbe with his "Bosco Bucks"

Little Mary being Mary

Young Dominic being St Joseph

Young Robert being Joseph with his coat of many colors

I got interviewed this week for an article on All Saints Day and Halloween.

(RNS) read the entire article here:

While ghouls, witches and wizards run door-to-door for treats this Halloween, St. Michael, St. Patricia and St. Lawrence will swap candy in their basement, sharing stories of their heroic exploits.

One child, wrapped in toilet paper, sticks out from the rest, not because she’s an Egyptian mummy but rather St. Lazarus, the dead man raised to life in the Gospel of John .

The festivities are part of an All Saints’ Day party hosted at the home of Sam , a Catholic mother of 12, who wanted a more sacred alternative to Halloween.

“It’s all about having fun in your faith. Just being a Christian and Catholic isn’t something to be embarrassed about,” she said. “We make faith come alive.”

Sam said the tradition started because the first neighborhood they lived in wasn’t the safest, but also because they wanted to highlight the religious aspects of the holiday.

Halloween, after all, was first known as All Hallows’ Eve, the night before All Saints’ Day, when Christian churches commemorate all the known and unknown saints and martyrs.

Thy will Be Done!!! +JMJ+

Receiving Communion and Spiritual Communion

My meditation today from the Intimation of Christ.

The Sixth Chapter
An Inquiry on the Proper Thing to Do Before Communion

The Disciple

WHEN I consider Your dignity, O Lord, and my own meanness, I become very much frightened and confused. For if I do not receive, I fly from Life, and if I intrude unworthily, I incur Your displeasure. What, then, shall I do, my God, my Helper and Adviser in necessity? Teach me the right way. Place before me some short exercise suitable for Holy Communion, for it is good to know in what manner I ought to make my heart ready devoutly and fervently for You, to receive Your Sacrament for the good of my soul, or even to celebrate so great and divine a sacrifice.

When you can't get to daily mass make a spiritual communion.

Act of Spiritual Communion
by St. Alphonsus Liguori (A.D. 1696-1787)

My Jesus, I believe that Thou art present
in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love Thee above all things and I desire Thee in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though thou wert already there,
I embrace Thee and unite myself wholly to Thee;
permit not that I should ever be separated from Thee.

Thy Will Be Done!!! +JMJ+

Movie Review Monday: Same as last week...

I talked about this movie last week...but did you know there are eight books?

How To Train Your Dragon
We all just loved it...from the one year old (ok he didn't tell me) to the 20 year old!

Wish I knew there were a series of books...cuz I make my kids read the book before the movie.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+