I've Learned

We all know this quote is truthful. I can personally admit I have done all of this! All before I left high school.

This past week we began the beginning stages of planning our 10th year high school reunion. I helped our class president add people into a Facebook group that was created, I grabbed my yearbook and started typing in names. We found all but three from our class! But then I sat there looking through my senior yearbook, I cried!

We were so hard on ourselves then, I don't know if everyone was but I know I was. I never felt like I fit in with anyone besides a few people. Honestly I had told my husband that I really didn't want to go back. It's been 10 years and I can honestly say I have spoken to maybe around 5 or 6 people from our graduating class. So why go back? So you can judge how much better your life is than theirs? So you can gloat about what you do?

I can honestly say that is not my reason for going back. I want to go back to see people who I have not seen in 10 years. I want to go and mend fences with a few people who I have hurt. I want to rekindle my relationship with a few close friends that I have let time, distance, and my stupidity get in the way of.

While I sat there looking through my yearbooks I realized how much I have grown in 10 years. I was quiet in high school (for those who know me now I know it is a shocker) and I kept to my clique of friends. I guess you would call me a nerd or awkward. I left my school in the dust when I went to college, I didn't want to be known as a "Riverside Snob" or known just because of where I went to school. I decided that I wouldn't let what people thought of me hinder me any longer.

We all wanted to fit in during our high school years and we wanted to be accepted and to be 'cool.' Once I got to Tech I wanted nothing to do with my past, I appreciated where I came from and everyone who had helped me but I wanted to figure out who I was and what made me happy. I became close friends with someone who graduated before me from my high school but that was my only tie to it.

It took a while for me to stop caring what people thought of me, but when I finally did I was truly happy. I began to come out of my shell and I realized that I was trying to be someone who I wasn't. I was wanting to fit in and to be liked by everyone and that is no way to live. I wanted to be free and not worry about those who didn't care about me.

'Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind' -Dr. Seuss.

I kept that in my head, yes it was our class' quote but it meant so much to me during the first year in college. During this time in my life I was dating the man who I would end up marrying, he even said he could tell when I became 100% comfortable in my own skin because it made our relationship so much better.

I know we all grow and we all find our way in this world but sometimes it is nice to go back to our roots and feel secure in ourselves when we do. I think that is the main reason I want to go back to our reunion, I want to see who has grown, who has changed, and who has remained in their high school bubble.

Messed Up Taco

Ok so this is a recipe that my mom found and I have made it for a while so I decided to share it with you. We all know that Taco night can get repetitive so here is a way to make it unusual.

Here is what you will need to make this:

1 lb of ground beef
a packet of taco seasoning
3/4 cup of water (or what the packet calls for)
can rotel (optional)
a jar of salsa
Mexican cheese
a tube of crescent rolls
sour cream


Preheat your oven to the temperature that the crescent rolls call for., mine called for 375 degrees.


First brown the ground beef fully. Then add the taco seasoning, water and the can of rotel.


Once you have boiled all the water out of it (if you are like us and like them messy leave a little water in the meat mixture), turn off the heat and pour the contents of your pan into a 9x13 inch pan. Spread evenly along the bottom of the pan.

 Next take your salsa and pour on top of the meat. I used about half of the jar but you can use however much you would like, just remember to save some for your chips!

After you have the salsa spread cover with the Mexican cheese. Once again how ever much you would like to put on there.

Take your tube of crescent rolls and open it. Unroll it fully on top of the cheese, do not separate each crescent roll it's easier to just unroll it onto the top of the mixture. Do not worry about the openings in between they will bake together and close a bit.

Put it into the oven for however long the crescent roll tube says or until golden brown.

Take out and serve either with a dollop of sour cream, salsa or a combination of both!!!



I hope you enjoy this recipe!!! It takes maybe 30 minutes to prepare so great if you have to quick make something for dinner.

Enjoy and have a blessed day!!!