We've been doing a lot of these lately....

 

 

Roderick had his wisdom teeth out yesterday, so we've been doing a whole lot of milkshakes. He seems to be doing well, despite the fact that they removed all four wisdom teeth and a couple were a little "hard to get." He was completely aware...no "happy gas" or relaxing pills for him. Not sure I'd be able to do that as I don't even like to get a cavity filled. (Thankfully that has only happened 3 times in my life!) The pain meds seem to be working well. He's a little swollen today, especially on that "troublesome" left side. In the meantime we are both enjoying lots of milkshakes! ( The temptation is too high, I can't make one  and not enjoy a little myself!)

P.S. You know you've been looking at too many food blogs when you find yourself taking pictures of the ingredients for making milkshakes....AND you really know you've been looking at too many of them when you proceed to take "pouring pictures." Although I think I could use some food photography lessons! 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I just love Valentine's Day...not because of the roses and chocolates and other commercialized aspects, but because it's a special day to express love to my loved ones. My parents always made a big deal of the holiday growing up and over the years its become my favorite holiday.

This year I decided to make some nifty little suckers I found in the back of the Family Fun magazine. As soon as I saw it I knew I need to make them for our 5 year old Sunday school class. Only problem is they need mini candy canes and I saw it several weeks after Christmas. BUT I found some for .37 on clearance! Perfect for frugal natured me!! I just love how they turned out.

I will say that the recipe said to form the candy canes into hearts and put in 235 degree oven on parchment for 10 minutes. Well, this is what happened when I did that.

Not exactly what I was looking for. Very, Very thin and brittle. I found that putting them in a 225 degree oven for 3-5 minutes gave me the results I was looking for. I also used dark chocolate candy melts instead of oil and chocolate chips, simply because I didn't have chocolate chips and I was in a store where I could get the candy melts with a coupon really inexpensively!

This year as we were discussing what to do on Valentine's Day Roderick said he wanted to have a slumber party under the stars.  So that's just what we did.  I'm sure you are thinking HUH?? It's February, wasn't that a little cold?? Well no because we put a few glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling, blew up our queen size mattress and watched movies together in our living room. Oh, and ate popcorn made on the stove with a whirley-pop. (My Valentine's day gift to my love. He had popcorn made with one at a friends house and couldn't get over how great the popcorn was.) Now we are spending some time at the library with my husband studying and me on the computer. Hey, at least we are together!

  

I also had to share these adorable slippers my friend gave me for Valentine's Day! They are beyond soft and so comfy! 

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 Today's color was red!