Leftover Turkey Enchiladas
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about
cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Last
week sucked.
On
Tuesday while in the middle of cleaning the house, I got a call from the
principal. Apparently HBear wasn't feeling well. By the time she got to the
office her temperature had skyrocketed and she was in full-blown tears.
I
honestly don't know how parents with seriously ill children do it. I am such a
wimp I hated seeing my baby sick.
HBear has
gotten a slight cold a few times. She has had a fever (38 or so) a few times.
She has even vomited a couple times. But to sleep all day, have a steady 40
degree temperature even with Tylenol, throw up multiple times and not eat or
drink for days... Well I just can't take it!
It was
horrible. The only thing making it worse was on Wednesday night when I looked
at Ninja’s face and realized he had gotten it too :(
He
actually missed work on Thursday! In almost 15 years I can't remember the last
time that happened!
On top of
all the illness this week was a short week. HBear had early dismissal on
Tuesday and Wednesday and a pro D day on Friday. That meant everything was
compacted. Hot lunch was on Thursday.
You know what’s
busier than the busiest Thursday?
Canceling
our life on the busiest day, Thursday. LOL
Thank
goodness for my HotLunchBesty picking up the slack! I had to call in for
school, call in for Brownies, call in for Broadway, call in for HBear’s first
gifted class, and I completely forgot to take SBean to her music class LOL. Not
that I could've left all the sickies at home by themselves anyways haha. I had
to make sure my HotLunchBesty had the cheques, the labels and the lists and the
milk was being picked up. It totally threw me off my entire game for the week.
On
Wednesday we had our parent teacher interviews. It went really well. So here's
the thing, HBear is like a sponge. She loves learning. We never have to force
her and she picks workbooks to do instead of TV LOL she's just that kid. We are
extremely lucky. She has been reading for quite a while. She has a very high
level of reading and comprehension… Although it has been a fight for the past
2 years to get teachers to see this. I am very careful about the books she
reads. Just because she can read them doesn't mean she should. She is still 6.
I don't want her reading books about grade 6 issues when she is in grade 2.
However, the books she brings home for take-home reading have like 6 words on
each page. They are not challenging and in fact she is discouraged by these
books.
When I
mentioned this, the teacher explained to me that there are only 2 months into
school. She has no idea what her reading level is that so she's just put her at
the same level as everybody else.
Exactly!
We are 2 months into school, how do you NOT
know?
I also
explained that HBear was quite upset that her new gifted program would be
taking up her library time. I asked if there was a way around this.
She said
that HBear could go to the library at recess if she liked. Completely missing
the fact that there's the social aspect and the learning aspect of library
class. I guess we will just have to continue our own lessons at the public
library… See below for that horror story LOL.
Thursday
is our takeout night and when I went to McDonald's to get dinner I gave her the
order and of course checked the bags. I do this every time because they always
forget something. We eat there every 2nd or 3rd Thursday so I know
this to be fact. So I count everything and when I get home I realize they
shorted me a large fry. I even upsized them for my monopoly pieces LOL so of
course I called them. They told me that they don't do anything anymore if
there's an error! Seriously, that's what the manager told me. She said unless
you want to come back right now and get your French fries, which I did not
because the rest of my food we get cold, there was nothing she could do about
it.
Well… It
is Monday and I am still smiting about that.
On Friday
it was a pro D-Day and HBear was not only feeling better but pretty antsy from
being stuck in the house all week. So, we went to the library!
I had
returned all the books a few days prior because they were due. I had kept 5 out
for renewal that HBear wasn't quite ready to part with yet. We went to Storytime
and the girls had fun.
Then we took our 40 books up to the front to check them
out. We put them all up there with the spines all together to make it easier on
the librarian. Then she looks at me and says “you still have one book out and I
can't let you take anymore out.” I explained “Oh no these are my 5 renewals…”
and she said “no even with those 5 you still have 1 out I'm sorry you can't
take any books out until you return it.”
Seriously?
Are we doing this again? 3 weeks ago when we returned our books they did the
same thing to me. I got angry and left all my books there because I knew I had
returned all of the books. When I got home I called them and told them that I
don't have it please check the shelves. They told me I could come back and check
whenever I would like!?! For sure I
would love to come back and do your job! Ninja went back to take out the
books and he found the book on the shelf.
This time
I said fine I will go check the shelves and find it myself and the lady said “we
can do that for you when we have time.” Actually, I would like to take out all
of these books now so I will go check. By this time I was vibrating and the
wonderful children's librarian said don't worry about it I will renew it for
now if you can't find it at home will worry about it next time. Thank Gawd for
Julia!
So, I
went back up to the front and said everything has been taken care of please
check out my books. And the librarian said “you know you don't have to get mad
at us it's very frustrating when people like you don't return books.”
!!!!!
I just
looked at her and said “if that's frustrating to you maybe this isn't the right profession for you, I suggest changing it.” I checked out my books and we left.
I have
since written a four-page letter to the library director. I have read
their 9 page mission statement, where they talk about community and giving the
patron the best experience… I have listed all of my experiences at the library
that are absolutely unwelcoming. Hopefully, things will change as I have always
loved going to the library and I think it is so important to maintain a
relationship with the library so that the girls grow up feeling the same way.
Saturday
night was Octoberfest. Ninja still wasn't feeling top notch but he had plans to
go with his parents and my Dad. So, I loaded up the girls and took them all to
the convention center. They all got out and the girls started bawling! “We want
to go we want to go!”
Yeah? You
know who else wants to go? Mommy. Mommy always gets to stay home with you instead
of going out. But lucky for us, we get a Girl’s night instead!
“But Mommy
we had a girls night last weekend” they whined.
You're
absolutely right. Mommy and the girls had a girl’s night last weekend while Daddy
and Papa were in Vancouver at the hockey game… My point exactly LOL
HBear
finally got it and they settled down. So, we went home and had a picnic in
front of the TV watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the original one
not the crappy Johnny Depp one. After baths, books and snuggles they were in
bed by 8 and I had some time to do laundry before I had to drive my in-laws
home.
They all cabbed
it home after 10 and I drove my in-laws back to their house. The gates to
their house we're closed and of course I hit the wrong buttons and called 1 of
their neighbors! LOL My MIL laughed and said “At least you don’t have to press
anything to get back out” I finally got to their driveway and said good night
and then pulled back down.
The gate
wouldn't open.
I'm dead
serious. It has never happened before and of course it could only happen to me,
this week LOL.
I saw a
pin pad so I got out of the van and tried a few codes, it worked! But the gates
to come in opened and not the gates going out. So I quickly ran out and punched
in my in-laws code to ask them to buzz me through.
My MIL
said OK I'll press it right now. Yeah… so the in gates open and not the out
gate. We tried 3 times before I realized I had to book it back to my van, back
up, go in the other lane and hopefully get through before the in gates before
they closed on me the wrong way LOL.
A half an
hour later I finally made it home from my 10 minute drive.
Yesterday,
Dad woke up and said “I really want to try those new wraps on the breakfast
menu at McDonald's.” So I say, “I'll go and get them!”
He gave
me $40. I went through the drive-through even though I was still angry about my
experience on Thursday. When I get up to the lady my bill is $21.13 so I gave
her the 20 plus $1.15.
Of course
I had to pull ahead and wait for my order. When I got home I realized that I
had given her both 20s!
Shit.
Totally my fault but I have been a CSR, hell I even worked at McDonald's for
years. I never would have taken apart 2 20’s and kept 1. Karma to that
lady!
I will be
stewing over this for a while I can guarantee it LOL. And that's it, next
takeout day we're going to Burger King!
First
world problems. ;)
Now for
the positives!
The Conservatives
are out! Ninja popped me some corn so I could throw it at the TV but I didn't
even have to! It was a historical evening and Ninja and I recalled when we
first met and I brazenly said "Mark my words Justin Trudeau will be our
Prime Minister one day." Hopefully he lives up to everything he has
promised.
Everybody
is healthy again!
HBear’s
teacher said nothing but wonderful things about her!
While
everybody was sick SBean and I dismantled the backyard for winter storage!
I got to
get into a clean bed twice this week. I had cleaned all the sheets at the
beginning of the week and everybody sweated out there sickness LOL so I
did it again yesterday!
Everybody
got sick the week before Halloween instead of the week of!
I
finished Christmas shopping for my Sis and her family!
With half
of the house in bed all week the house stayed relatively clean and being
housebound left me time to wash the floors and clean out those closets...
Especially the front hall closet that I have nicknamed Narnia LOL.
The girls did some Halloween Mask painting!
The
backyard got put away,
HBear and Grandma went to Fabricland to pick out fabric to make special new pajamas,
This
is what my she picked out?!?!?! LOL
AND... I got to snuggle with my girls a lot this week!
That
alone made up for the entire rest of my sucky week J
After the
stomach bug ran its course, I used up some of our Thanksgiving turkey that I
froze to use at a later date. This was a really easy recipe that took less than
30 minutes and tasted awesome :)
Leftover Turkey Enchiladas
2 cups leftover turkey, cut up
2
cups enchilada sauce
10 small
tortillas
1 cup
Mexican cheese, shredded
1 can
black beans
2
tablespoons, taco seasoning (I used Epicure Fajita
seasoning)
2
tablespoons cilantro, chopped
Preheat oven to 375.
Grease a oven safe dish. Add 1/4 cup of enchilada sauce to the bottom of dish.
Warm tortillas and place appropriate amount of turkey... beans.... cheese and a sprinkle of seasoning.
Wrap up and place in dish.
Pour enchilada sauce over the wraps.
Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Top with cilantro.
Labels:
Enchiladas,
Leftovers,
Mexican,
Turkey
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