It’s a grey, rainy day here today. The kind that makes me want to warm up the house with some yummy smelling dinner in the crockpot. So…I went online to find a recipe in which to use some ground turkey I have on hand and found this:
A recipe for Crockpot Lasagna on recipe4living. Yum! I even took a little walk in the rain to our local grocery store (only 2 blocks away) to get a couple of ingredients I was lacking, and it’s now bubbling nicely away. Well, not bubbling yet, but it soon will be! And it’s healthy, too. Ground turkey, fat-free cottage cheese, low-fat mozzarella-and the best part is, my family won’t be able to tell the difference!
Now, as I said in my About, my husband tells me I am soon to have my very own red room. We do have a red room of sorts in the house already. I should tell you that the house we live in is one that we purchased about three years ago for about $5 over the what the land was worth. Before you all flip out and think Wow! How lucky could you be!?!?, I have to tell you, this house was most definitely NOT liveable at that time. It had been left empty for three years before and animals and who-knows-what had been allowed to roam freely through it. We had to take it completely down to the studs and redo everything to make it habitable. We’ve actually lived in it just a little over a year. It is FAR from finished (I’m thinking another ten years may do the trick), but it’s really nice to be able to do everything the way you want it. Even when you have to do every bit of the work yourself on a very tight budget.
So the current red room has been my daughter’s. She kind of liked the color, but since we knew she would be going to college and we would be moving my son in there eventually, we didn’t go overboard in completing the room. This is what it looks like now:
The actual color is somewhere between the two shades it shows up as in the pictures. I’m in the process of moving some of my daughter’s things into storage, my sewing/craft items into the room, and also fixing the room up to be my son’s. A bit of chaos right now, yes.
A Red Room 