he puts up with alot...

I came in the other morning to Emma putting one of her shirts on the dog... Apparently he was cold. I have also seen him with make up on, feather boas around his neck and sunglasses over his eyes....He puts up with alot from these girls....and he loves every minute, well okay, he might not love every minute... but he does put up with it all! :-)

"That" Mom

Oh how I wish I was "that" mom....you know the one, she makes something creative for every holiday, she can bake cupcakes and swirl the icing perfectly, or make cut out cookies and decorate them so they look like they came from a bakery...yea..."that" Mom.

I have been seeing all these cute cupcakes and decorated cookies in magazines for valentines day, I could make those I think (insert sarcastic laughter here) Well I tried, and umm yea....I'm not "that" Mom.

First I find a cutout cookie recipe, it says its perfect for cutouts or cookie spritzers (more on that later) I make the recipe....easy enough....put it in the fridge to chill....yep I can do this.....take it out of fridge and roll it out, umm not looking so good.....cut them out, or when that doesn't work just attempt to make circles...add sprinkles (they make everything prettier!) I get the cookies on the pan, all nine of them, I'm laughing...okay maybe I was almost in tears...except I don't cry over things so trivial...so yea, I was laughing ;-) When the cookies were done the girls each had one, then Josh had one and yea, he's not a good liar..."These are good (as he makes a this is disgusting face) well the first bite was good, the second not so much." So, I throw away all nine cookies....yea, I'm not "that" Mom.

I try again, this time making a recipe I'm familiar with. The first pan comes out of the oven they are super flat and won't come off the wax paper...but thats okay...they just need to cool, so I turn to put them on the island....and drop the whole pan on the floor! (they still didn't come off the wax paper) In to the trash they went! I finally was able to get two pans of cookies baked to take to the party, they weren't pretty, nothing like the ones in the magazines, but they tasted good, so atleast they had that going for them!

I tried to be "that" Mom today, I didn't suceed...but I'm sure I will try again...and maybe, just maybe someday I will come to your party with a perfect plate of cookies...magazine worthy....yea, someday I will be "That" Mom!

silly faces

I must confess

This post is supposed to be for Not Me Monday....but I must confess....it's all true....and, it was me. :-)

So the other day the girls and I decided to make a cake, I've been trying to turn pretty much everything we do into a learning experience, Becca helped read the instructions, we talked math when putting the ingredients together, then we threw a little science in by talking about how the ingredients change once cooked. Oh yea...I was feeling pretty good about myself, we had a great learning experience, and we were going to get to eat cake in thirty minutes, yep, I was doing good.
I gave the girls the beater to lick....they later took the bowl....which was a good thing seeing as it would be the only part of the cake they would get to eat.



The girls kept asking me if the cake was done...I kept telling them no, and not to open the oven. I thought I smelled something burning, but just knew that it wasn't the cake, maybe some had dripped down the side or something. When I finally peeked into the oven, what I saw made me double over in laughter, our cake was gone...well it wasn't in the pan anymore, (sigh) Apparently I didn't put the pan together right. Are you ready to laugh....this is what I found in my oven...



yep, our whole cake had leaked out the bottom of the pan, it was now a large pancake on the bottom of the oven....a large pancake that needed to be flipped! In order to get it out I had to get a spatula and scoop it all up, the girls didn't find it quite as funny as I did....they had really been looking forward to eating that cake!



YUMMY huh, well at least they got to lick the bowl!

Almost wordless Wednesday

Butter $2.14...
Sugar $1.09...

Watching my daughter make cinnamon rolls with Granny...

Priceless!

Not Me Monday

Drumroll please.... are you ready for this past weeks not me's? Well here we go!

I did not drop a pan of biscuit dough on the floor and then pick it up and save it for later in the day when I let the girls play with it, i mean that would be gross and thats what playdough is for!

It was not this mother who tricked her girls into eating spinach by hiding it under the sauce on their pizza....okay maybe it was me but really that's pretty smart thinking!

And my 3 year old does not know more about cooking than I do....

Me: Emma I will be right back I need to put the chicken in the oven
E : Okay (as I'm walking out the door I hear) Mom don't forget to take the "fat" out of the middle of the chicken, it's in a bag and Granny says it's not good to eat.
Me: (thinking oh I'm so glad she reminded me) Well of course Emma, I was going to take it out, no it's not good to eat.

I mean really....you're going to believe that a 29 year old has never cooked a whole chicken....and her 3 year old had to remind her what to do! No....that was definetly Not Me!

I Am Not An Eskimo...or a minnow

I was so not made to live where it is cold, this little cold snap we are having is not fun. The girls and I have been stuck in the house trying to stay warm and we are going CRAZY! So thats whats been going on in our house....a whole lot of nothing. Oh how I can't wait for Spring!
Today Emma was writing and she said Mom how do you write minnow
Me: what?
E : minnow
Me: minnow? like the fish
E : nooo like (singing) abcdefghijkl minow p
Me: (smiling) Emma those are letters L M N O P
E : no! its minnow