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Homemade Quesadillas

June 10th, 2009 at 01:31 am

Sunday, dh had the grand idea to make quesadillas (with homemade tortillas).

Really wasn't very hard (at all). I'm a homemade convert. Yum!

Also, went well with our homemade salsa. (I posted the recipe ages ago - I can find the link if anyone is interested).

Between that and his Indian food cooking classes, he is ganing quite the homemade repretiore. Mexican food seems to be MUCH simpler, overall.

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BM was invited to a birthday party at a VERY fancy house the other day.

Finances are very relative. Back home everyone was to broke by rent and house payments to think of much else beyond that. & hanging around the "new mom" crowd here has put us across most of the same type people. (young and BROKE!)

We have some neighbors who have a HUGE house, but their yard isn't much to speak of, they mostly bought it with equity from the Bay Area (like many here) and they don't seem to have a lot of toys (though certainly plenty of income). So, people like that, I just don't think much about it. They certainly have more, but I've never been intimidated in the least.

But more and more (through school and tee ball) we some to come across more JONESES types. I couldn't tell you if they could truly afford their lifestyles or not. Who knows; who cares. But if I think about it I really haven't been exposed to too much JONESES in my young life. IT is interesting. I could see how it could get a little depressing on some level, if everyone has more than you. I think most of my friends of more recent years, not only did I have a more intimiate knowledge of their finances (they come to me for financial/tax advice), BUT no one really had much to speak of. They kind of squandered their money. We always had the "nice house." & certainly compared to any friends and family in the Bay (we have more house, hands down - for FAR less money). I do admit there is something about a bigger, fancier home that gets to me a bit. & I have no idea why. Considering at some point I thought we would never own a home and I still have to pinch myself sometimes that we do!

Then again, I told BM if he had that much fun, well, there's a friend he has to make. Big Grin That's the cheap route - go play with the Joneses. Come home later - hehe.

I used to worry since we did buy in a rather upscale neighborhood, that the kids would run into the Joneses factor. That they may want want want a little more than we ever did in our average middle class neighborhoods. Funny thing is most of our neighbors are pretty practical and down to earth. It's people in the general area, in other neighborhoods that we have been noticing this with more. Who would have thunk?

Oh well - they are out there and I am running across them more. Basically, we feel knocked off the top of the heap. We will most certainly get over it. Big Grin IT's just, different...

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I have been pricing waterparks. I think we may surprise BM with a waterpark trip on his last day of school. There is one here that is actually a pretty good deal. (The other one is highway robbery - yeesh!!!)

In San Jose there is a park with a modest/cheap water slide park. Like 4 basic slides. I miss those. Everything had to get so dang big and fancy and expensive. We may try to hit that one too, sometime this summer. But, for the fancy one, we can convert one day passes into season passes (for San Jose location too - that one is maybe a small premium). Yeah, we will do that!

I also wanted to hit an amusement park we had never taken the kids too. Got to cram it all in on my week off!

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School board politics - GOOD LORD!

It is pretty nasty in our school district right now.

I feel blessed we have our little charter school (& our kids made it in/will make it in). But we aren't immune either. We are still in the district.

The school politics in itself have been a doozy. But seems preferable in comparison.

Weeks like these I hope my dh doesn't waste his time, energy and money on a teaching credential. I don't think he would last 2 seconds. He doesn't put up with bullcrap, and I don't think he could take it! He's just not the right personality for it, I am afraid. Which is too bad. He WANTS to teach those grades no one else wants (like middle school).

4 Responses to “Homemade Quesadillas”

  1. sweetmama Says:
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    Stumbled on your blog last week. Really enjoying all your comments. I'm a 29 y.o. mom in the north bay. My "dh" (dedicated husband?)is pretty clueless about $, so I'm in charge of finances. I do have a question for you. Reading most of your old posts I see you stay at timeshares, but don't think very much of owning one. Why? Just curious.
    I look forward to continued reading!!

  2. monkeymama Says:
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    Thanks for stopping by!

    Aha, good question.

    We have a relative who owns timeshare(s) and we can stay free whenever/wherever, for the most part. So of course we use it. IT doesn't cost us a dime.

    Said relative tried to give us a timeshare at some point, and we said, "No Thanks!" Owning a timeshare comes with lifelong fees. If we inherit, we will give it to someone else. In the meantime, we enjoy free hotel stays/cruises without any strings.

    (If there are any fees to use the timeshare - probably - relative probably pays them for us).

  3. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    MonkeyMama,

    Regarding school politics. RE: Why I am a FORMER teacher. Of course my situation was Church Politics + School Politics. Fun, fun.

  4. monkeymama Says:
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    Even better!!!! LOL. (church + school). Ugh.

    I felt bad since dh's family is all teacher, that they discouraged him from teaching so much. But since then just about everyone I know who was a teacher said - "Don't do it!" Particularly since they do know dh's personality - they all say - "Don't do it!" I feel better understanding now that his family really does come from love anyway.

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