Labels: At work, my crazy life

Labels: The Cake Lady, Triniti

Now I am the LAST person you should ask for recipes, the very last. I know how to make a handful of items well and the rest usually ends in catastrophe and occasionally loss of life.
But, seeing as how I have three little humans who are dependant on me for food for survival, I do try. And one of the rather awesome websites I use is Family Fun which has all sorts of arts and craft and best of all, kid friendly recipes :) Thank you Disney!
Since school starts next week and we doing this year sans daycare, I need to not only have snacks available for Em and Trin when they get home at 3:15p but also some new dinner ideas wouldn't hurt one bit. So I was browsing around for ideas when I came across this recipe which I had to share and really, who better to share it with than ya'll?

Colorful Cupcakes
The first surprise here: there's not a grain of sugar in these cupcakes. The second surprise: your kids will love them anyway.

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Meat Loaf
1 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese
3 tablespoons ketchup
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Potato Frosting
3 cups mashed potatoes
Food coloring

1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Line 12 muffin tin cups with foil bake cups.

2. In a large bowl, mix together all of the meat loaf ingredients until well combined. Divide the mixture evenly among the lined cups (the liners should be about three quarters full).

3. Place the filled muffin tins on cookie sheets and bake the cupcakes for about 15 minutes or until cooked through.

4. Divide the mashed potatoes among three small bowls and stir a few drops of food coloring into each batch to create blue, yellow, and pink pastel frostings. Spread a generous dollop on each cupcake.
Makes 12 cupcakes.

Oh man, how FREAKED are my kids going to be the first time they come home and these are sitting on the table for dinner??

Labels: Being Mommy, recipes

(Victor Buono)

Dear World:
I bequeath to you today one little girl...in a crisp dress...with two brown eyes...and a happy laugh that ripples all day long.. and a flash of light brown hair that bounces in the sun when she runs.
I trust you'll treat her well.

She's slipping out of the backyard of my heart this morning...and skipping off down the street to her first day of school. And never again will she be completely mine.
Prim and proud she'll wave her young and independent hand this morning and say "Goodbye" and walk with little lady steps to the schoolhouse.

Now she'll learn to stand in lines...and wait by the alphabet for her name to be called. She'll learn to tune her ears for the sounds of school-bells...and deadlines...and she'll learn to giggle...and gossip...and look at the ceiling in a disinterested way when the little boy 'cross the aisle sticks out his tongue at her. And now she'll learn to be jealous. And now she'll learn how it is to feel hurt inside. And now she'll learn how not to cry.

No longer will she have time to sit on the front porch on a summer day and watch an ant scurry across the crack in the sidewalk. Nor will she have time to pop out of bed with the dawn and kiss lilac blooms in the morning dew. No, now she'll worry about those important things...like grades and which dress to wear and whose best friends is whose. And the magic of books and learning will replace the magic of her blocks and dolls. And now she'll find new heroes.

For five full years now I've been her sage and Santa Claus and pal and playmate and mother and friend. Now she'll learn to share her worship with her teachers ...which is only right. But no longer will I be the smartest woman in the whole world. Today when that school bell rings for the first time...she'll learn what it means to be a member of the group...with all its privileges and its disadvantages too.

She'll learn in time that proper young ladies do not laugh out loud...or kiss dogs...or keep frogs in pickle jars in bedrooms...or even watch ants scurry across cracks in sidewalks in the summer.
Today she'll learn for the first time that all who smile at her are not her friends. And I'll stand on the front porch and watch her start out on the long, lonely journey to becoming a woman.
So, world, I bequeath to you today one little girl...in a crispy dress...with two brown eyes...and a flash of light brown hair that bounces in the sunlight when she runs.

I trust you'll treat her well.

Labels: Being Mommy, daughters

Amanda has this cool feature on her phone called "Fun Frames"...

Newcasters...


Emilee & Amanda

Purple Haze...


Astronaut Amanda.

Football Player Amanda.


Purple Football Player Trin.


I LOVE this pic of Trin.

Astronaut Trin.


Trin & Belle.


Chica.

Labels: Amanda, Being Mommy, Emilee, Noah, Ruthie, Triniti

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Labels: Being Mommy

Labels: Amanda, Emilee, Noah, Triniti

So today is a big day! I get to go and pick Emilee up from Summer Camp! I'm super jazzed! I dropped her off last Sunday so she has been gone for six nights so I am in Major Emilee Withdrawal Mode. I'm going to post a few pics from last Sunday but I am saving all of the camp photos for another post after I get her disposable cameras developed... (I don't want to all steal her thunder or anything...) at which time I will also post copies of all of the Emilee letters to home...
Hello mudder, hello faddah, here I am in Camp Granada...
It will be an Official Emilee Summer Camp Post.
In the meantime, here are a few pics I took when I dropped her off on Sunday...

Labels: Being Mommy, Emilee