Waffle Brownies

Last Monday for FHE treat I made these!

They were pretty cool. I saw it one the Rachael Ray web site and thought that I would try it. You basically use a box brownie mix and prepare as normal except you omit the water. Now her site says to keep the brownie in the waffle iron for 10 minutes but mine burnt if I didn't take them out when my waffle iron light went off.

Don't forget to grease your waffle iron pretty well and taking them out can be tricky because they are soft until they cool for a min. But all I did was flipped the waffle iron over and they fell onto the plate. Then I topped it with A scoop of Ice cream and choc. syrup. Yummy!

Out with the old...

(here it is, my new fridge)

In with the new Refrigerator! Yay! I finally got one. It came on Thursday. They even came earlier than the time window they gave me which made me even more happy.

I find myself looking in it just cause its so pretty. At least compared to my old one. It was a little tricky to get everything in. Even though this one is bigger than our old one I didn't know where the best places were for everything. I'm sure in a little while everything will have a certain spot.

I also often find myself forgetting that I now have water and ice that I can eat and drink. Like the other day I was talking on the phone thinking to myself how thirsty I was. Then I remembered that I had nice filtered water that I could drink and that made me happy. I even put crushed ice in it. Yay! Happy day.

When to say enough?

After our weekly outing to Costco (yes I said weekly. Its so sad) We came home and put everything away. I hadn't seen Little C in a while and started searching. I went into his bedroom only to find him sitting patiently on the top bunk with his arms folded... waiting.....

What and Who was he waiting for?
When I entered the room he said pointing to the T.V., "Mom wace ON!" (which means race car, which means Cars) He had already watched it twice today. He is obsessed. I reluctantly turned the movie on and left him to it.

He will sit there there the whole time and not move. If it were on replay or whatever I would probably never see him.

We went shoe shopping for him the other day because his shoes broke. While there I learned 2 things. First I had been cramming his feet into a size 6 when he is apparently an 8. Second that you should never show a 2 year old a shoe with his favorite character on it if you don't intend to buy it or until you check if they have his size!

We walked in and I foolishly said,"Look. McQueen." Little C looked and it was all over. Every other shoe I tried to get onto his foot was met with tears and screams for "MyQueen". They only had them in 7 and a half and up. I thought that he needed a 7 at the most. Then once the lady told me that he needed 8's I was relieved. So now he has light up McQueen shoes and never wants to where anything else.

Needless to say I will probably be throwing him a Cars themed party for his Birthday.

A Year of FHE

Done!

I just recently participated in a FHE Group. It was a lot of work but will be well worth it. There were 7 of us so we just divided up the year, made a calendar of topics and went to work.

We each made 7 FHE lessons. They all had to have a story, coloring page, activity and needed to be printed on card stock, colored and laminated. We set a deadline and tried to stick to it as much as we could. It's hard when you are working with so many different people though. But I have gotten almost all of mine from everyone and all mine are finished and given out. Now I can work on the list of unfinished/new crafts.

I am glad that I participated in the group and I am glad that it worked out. Now I have a year of lessons all prepared, I would like to get one more though, but this time I think that I will be doing this.... Club FHE. Then I can rotate lessons and they (the kids) will never know. I heard about this group from a friend and just read the web site and now I am in love. I will be ordering the year kit all at once although I do like how if you do it every month they send them with that box that is labeled and everything. Would be much more organized. I guess I will have to make those myself.... Add it to the list!

Yard work

Today I mowed the lawn! ... I KNOW! Its the first time since we have the new grass. It was getting so long and Big J never has time to mow so I decided today was the day.

It started when I just wanted to go pick up Cheyenne's "presents" but it was hard to pick them up when the grass is about a foot tall. So I thought that if I try and keep it short it will be much easier to pick it all up.

So when I got the mower out I tried to start it like 5 times and couldn't get it going. (I tried moving the choke and all that but it was hard to figure out which way to move it and then if I was to leave it like that or what) I knew that I had to admit defeat and call in the "Big Guns". I was not thrilled with having to call Him but there was no other way. I knew that he was first going to make fun of me and then going to say, "I can't believe you don't know how.". And I also didn't really want to admit that I was going to do it because once I do it then he is going to make me do it all the time. I don't know maybe I should just do it once a week but I don't want to. (but does anyone, really?)

After getting the mower going I mowed half the yard and realized that I wasn't holding down the lever to make it "drive". Here I was actually pushing the thing when I could have just been steering. Needless to say that the second half of it went much faster.

By then I was on a roll and kept going, I cleaned the patio off too. Ours seems to get so dirty. Mostly because the do has a hole that she digs right next to it and then it blows all over. Soon I will fill it and the grass will grow over it. Until then, children, don't fall in the hole.

Now that its all done it feels so nice and fun out there. The kids are out there right now. (they are never out there)