Week 17: Grilled Mozzarella Sandwiches!

Ugh, I'm plagued by the "spring cold" today.  My throat started hurting yesterday.  By this morning, I had my usual spring sinus pressure and headache.  This evening I'm absolutely dragging.  A bad sub report from Friday, a mountain of papers to grade, crazy high school kids to babysit, I mean teach all day, and I'm counting down the minutes until I'm heading to bed.  And I'm bummed!  77 degrees tomorrow and Wednesday and I'm feeling so lousy!  We didn't even take the kids for a walk today.

It could be that we had a very busy, but fun weekend.  Or it could be one of the many germs I'm subjected to with two kids in a daycare and my job in a petri-dish known as a high school.

We'll go with the latter.

Last week was fun!  We had a Costco date after work on Thursday to pick up some new shrubs for the front porch.  Of course it decided to hail as Scott arrived with the kids.  But, a little retail therapy later and slices of pizza for dinner, we were over it.  The trickiest part was getting those shrubs in the back of my Jeep.

Friday I had a conference for work out in Waterford.  I love the opportunity to learn new things that I can take back to my classroom and, of course, the ability to get OUT of my classroom for a day.  The foreign language department gals met up for breakfast in Farmington and carpooled together.  That evening I went with my sister-in-law to the Plymouth Newcomer's Bunco night.  An evening out with some girl friends, glasses of wine, and winning some money = jackpot!  I felt so alive going out sans kids and having adult conversation!

Saturday was Sean's last gymnastics class for the season!  I think both Sean and I was overjoyed by this.  Neither one of us seemed to enjoy this class.  But, they made it fun for the kids on their last day by having an inflatable bounce castle, jumping on the trampoline, and playing in the foam blocks.  Lastly, they let the kids stand one by one on a podium and awarded them a ribbon.  It was adorable!

Lunch, a quick nap, and we loaded the car up to head out to Rochester to visit our friends!  It was such a gorgeous day.  We walked the kids to an elementary school down the road to play, came back for pizza and salad, and just caught up.  Both kids behaved and were ready for bed after a busy day.

Sunday we finally had to slow ourselves down.  The rain definitely helped with that.  We had massive amounts of laundry, a visit from Nana and Pops, home repairs, and Sean's very own car wash we made in an effort to sanitize all his Hot Wheels (thanks to Evan finding them and putting them in his mouth...Lord knows where these cars have traveled to).

Think he has enough cars?

Sunday at lunch time I was racking my brain trying to come up with something different to eat for Sean while using what little things we had left in the pantry and fridge.  The benefits of putting off grocery shopping until tonight...

And we came up with this great idea!  Grilled Mozzarella Sandwiches ala Martha Stewart!  The reviews were horrible and we didn't have garlic bread, so we just made up our own, very simple version.

2 slices of bread
Butter
Slices of Mozzarella cheese
Garlic Salt
Pizza sauce or marinara sauce

Make it just like you would a grilled cheese sandwich, except sprinkle some garlic salt on the bread after you've lathered it with butter.  Slice into strips and dip in the marinara sauce!  It's delicious!  And we even got creative and added some pepperonis to the mix to!

I can't take credit for the picture.  We were too busy throwing together a quick and yummy lunch before Sean had a melt down.  The kid sure lets us know when he's ready to eat...and it's imperative it's on the table in 2.5 seconds or he'll whine, beg, and scream for "nola bars", "peanut butter crackers", or "nilla cookies". 

So, we won this battle.  And managed to find another Sean approved lunch. 

But, more importantly than that, we finished the updates to the front of the house (for now) and couldn't be happier with how they turned out!

Before on the left, after on the right: