Breakfast Burritos

Either buy or make flour tortillas, and warm them if you like-I make mine because I like thick flour wraps. There are flavored tortillas which work really well for this, especially the spicy ones. Figure two for each person if they are really hungry.
The most basic form is scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, and salsa. Wrap in tortilla.

To wrap a tortilla, place enough filling that it take up the space of a dollar bill on a salad plate, the long side of the filling facing you, the short ends to either side. It won't look like enough filling, but you need the extra tortilla space to wrap it. You are going to make an envelope shape. Fold the short side ends inwards. Holding the short ends down with your index fingers palms down, use your thumbs to fold one long end up over the top of the filling, so it looks like an envelope with filling in it. Holding that down, close down the flap of the envelope.

Serve with good coffee or tea, V8 or OJ.

The possibilities for fillings:
Guacamole (tons of it, mmmm!)
Sour cream
diced red and or green peppers
diced tomatoes
diced avocados
lettuce
bacon
sausage
diced black olives
diced green chilis

This makes a great 'day after the big party' breakfast. You can chop all the veggies and grate the cheese the day before, put them out in bowls or a big platter. Figure two eggs and two slices bacon per person, and a two spoonfuls of each topping for two burritos per person. Make each to order, or what we do is use our large japanese grill top and fry up a pound of bacon and a dozen eggs all at once and everyone builds their own. You could also fry up everything in batches and keep in the oven on low to keep it warm until everything is ready.

Last night Dave's cousins Greg and Andrew and his brother Steve came by. It was really cool because Dave is still gone to school, I miss him and we were all bored. We were planning to just have another night with the three of us, but the boys are getting on each others nerves lately. We watched Timeline first, Tom really like that movie, it is a more little violent than I like, but I really like the emphasis on history and archeology, which I think he would do well in.

We then sent poor Tom to be and watch Reign of Fire. What a crappy movie. I want two things from this movie. One, to see more dragons, and two, to see Vin instead of Matt McCaunaghy. Matt just didn't cut it for the bald, wise crackin' kick butt American. He looked ripped, but even with muscles he lacked the breadth of shoulder and natural grace of Vin, and his nasally voice just didn't work. The dragons were so cool, but you hardly saw them. They probably ran out of money, spending it all on propane to get the fire effects. If there had been more Dragons, I would have really liked the movie, even if the premise was lame and the acting mediocre.

Well after Nick went to bed we all started talking about Nick and how he is growing up, and how terrified I am that he will end up getting into trouble. It was interesting, because Andrew is in college, and felt his parents were extremely over protective. But he is a great kid and never got into the kind of trouble I did, and that I fear Nick will face. So which is the way to go-protect your child but have them resent you, or let them go and risk them getting into trouble? Andrew, being the intelligent one, says that there has to be some middle ground. I agreed, and told him so. He thinks that you teach the basics, and trust the kid, but I think that you need to also monitor things.

But what if you don't trust your ability to teach the basics? It isn't that I don't trust Nick, he has been very trustworthy, and certainly is far more self assured than I was. I don't trust my parenting. It took me a lot of years to get to where I feel I am a good parent, but all those mistakes were made on Nick. Is admitting I made the mistakes and trying to be better enough? Is there anything more I could do even if I wanted?

I also really want to screen him from a lot of this stuff for a few more years. I can't help but feel like if I can give him another 2 years to mature before he has to face these choices, that he will be better prepared to make good choices.

The other thing is that I do not trust other kids. Some of the things his friends tell me they have watched just makes me very uncomfortable. The Blade movies, Matrix 2 and 3, Resident Evil, etc. I think if the parents or grandparents don't monitor the things their kids watch, what else are they not monitoring? I just keep telling Nick to come here with his friends, and that way someone is around. I know they will get away with some things, but if I can keep them from having the space or time to have sex or do drugs, hen I am ahead of the game.

We have to have the sex talk with Nick. I gave him a book so he knows the basics, but we need to actually discuss the realities of sex-pregnancy, stds, false allegations, etc, plus reasons to wait. Dave says he will do it, but he is procrastinating as much as I am. We have spoken about drug use a lot, so I think he understands the realities of that whole thing. I will keep talking about it though.

Anyone have any sex talk stories?

My mom gave me a pamphlet on periods and said if I ever wanted to talk....Yeah right. She never explained sex, never talked about waiting, birth control, how to say no, nothing. I don't think she was abnormal for that generation, but it would have been nice to have some extra information to go on.