"air quotes"

Church- good as always, something I needed to hear, now if only I can apply it.

Mom’s-good food, great company. Sorry I had to take off and didn’t get to help clean up, I’ll do it next week. And now you have it “in writing”

YOGURT MAKING CLASS- So much fun! Can’t wait to try it, and yes you may get some from me if it turns out good.

Grocery shopping-The joy of getting to go alone was only slightly diminished by the crowdedness of the store.

Dinner- Babe made it; it was Mexican chicken skillet with yellow rice and grilled/sautéed zucchini. It was delicious and got a 3 out of 3 kid rating (the other two were full from crackers)

Friends over to play game- Good time with good friends, made me realize how little I paid attention to the world around me as a teenager. (We played trivia pursuit 90’s edition)

Frozen hot chocolate?

Another snow day? What is a mom to do with 5 stir crazy kids? Send them out to play in the snow of course. Only two of them wanted to go out in it, and that didn’t last very long. Whenever my kids go out in the cold they want hot chocolate to warm them up when they come in. After reading all of the snow ice cream posts today it made me want to try to make some, but we didn’t have the right ingredients for any of the fun ice creams. So I decided to make some frozen hot chocolate, it must be possible they sell it at serendipity in NYC, however I’ve never had it and I hear they keep the recipe a secret, so I just thought I would make my own concoction. Here is what I did

Ingredients you will need

 

I put my water in the microwave, 1 minute for every cup you make, 1 cup per envelope.

While that was heating up I put the hot chocolate powder and the marshmallows (we only had the large ones for some reason) in the blender. Then when the water was done I poured it on top and blended it all together. *WARNING* make sure your lid is on real tight, somehow mine kind of exploded out of the lid and got hot chocolate all over my counter, it wasn’t scalding so no one got hurt.

Once your hot chocolate is ready (I guess it really is more like warm chocolate) pour some into a bowl

Then add scoops of snow

 (if you do it the other way it melts the snow too fast and just makes cold chocolate soup)

The snow will suck up all the hot chocolate and will magically turn the snow brown

Serve

And enjoy

Snow days

New curtains J bought for me :)

Pictures from all the snow we got.

comes all the way up to the first bar of the fence

big boys venturing out

see the layer of ice on everything

Ice + snow = clean house.

Today when we woke up everything was covered in ice. Jeremy went ahead and went in to work. He came home a couple hours later. It felt like Saturday most of the day. It then started snowing around noon and didn’t stop for seven hours. It is very pretty but I’m glad I had nowhere to be.


We spent most of the day cleaning. Jeremy did a couple of odd jobs that had been needing to be done. Plus he bought new curtains for the living room and a new rod to put them on. It looks great, I will take pictures tomorrow and then you can see the snow too.

We had hamburgers for dinner, they were delicious, and the babies had chicken nuggets. Everybody enjoyed their dinner.

Here are some pictures I meant to post on Thursday, from Bikes balls and you.

One of mine (Micah I think) and one of Dana's

Hosea-who always stops and poses for me

Dana's little boy Gavin in motion

Best friends "Abra" and "Gabin". At one point they had lost each other and were both running around in opposite directions yelling for each other, it was very cute.

Actually playing together instead of fighting!!

Ice Storm 2010-day 1

We are expecting an ice storm so I am blogging early today in case we lose power.

I took the babies and Avrah to bikes balls and you today; they had a blast as always.

Jeremy came home early because of the ice so I didn’t get much done.

I did get the hall/game closet cleaned out. I don’t have a before picture so the after picture would not be nearly as impressive.

Dinner is breakfast pizza with cantaloupe, don’t know the kid rating yet, but I’m sure it will be around 3 out of 5. Just a guess.

Also I am starting a postcard project, so if you would like to be involved and send me a postcard that would be great!

Stay warm.

Potty talk

I got a potty chair yesterday and let the babies sit on them last night. Today I put them on 4 times. They really do like sitting on the potty. I have the potty chairs set up in the bathroom. Our bathroom is set up so that the toilet and tub are separate from the sink. So I put their chairs in the sink room, we have a little stool and that is where I sit, now if for any reason I need to get up and go get something, they get up too. Micah feels that the door needs to be closed so if I get up and go get something, like a diaper or another toy/book because they are fighting over the one, Micah will stand right up and shut the door behind me but he forgets to sit back down and promptly climbs up on the stool and of course if he is not going to sit on his potty then neither is Hosea. So in the less than a minute that it takes for me to get whatever it is, there is havoc in the bathroom. Neither of them have gone in the potty yet, however as soon as I got their diapers back on Micah pooped (twice this happened) and once while I was getting Micah’s diaper back on him Hosea stood up and peed on the floor. I really didn’t expect much from them today as we are just practicing and getting used to the potties.


Tonight we had roast beef paninis (from the left over roast from Monday) with tabouli and potato salad. 3 out of 5 kid rating.

OH and I have a correction from last night it turns out that Micah did eat his lasagna (Jeremy was feeding him) there was a lot on his tray and the floor so I just assumed he didn’t eat, I stand corrected.

Great news!

I have great news! My old friend that just broke read about it here. After reading yesterdays blog my sister my pampered chef consultant called me and told me that if I sent in a palm sized piece of my broken bar pan that pampered chef would send me a new one for free! Isn’t that awesome?!

I got to hang out with my best friend today, and go to lunch with my two bestest friends. Turns out the babies do not like sushi, but I do so that is ok.

I got another potty chair today so now we can let the potty training begin. Tonight after dinner and before their bath I had the boys sit on their potties and read them the “once upon a potty” book to them. I don’t think they are ready yet, but just thought I would introduce them to it.

Oh dinner was Lasagna and it got a 3 out of 5 kid rating. For some reason the babies don’t like any kind of pasta except for spaghetti, very strange.