Finally, finally—the pink, fluffy shawl for baby Chomp is finished. Phew!
Since I’ve only been able to work on it on the weekends—it’s taken longer than usual.
I personally think that somehow…it matches her.
Happy Six-week birthday baby Chomp!
The Bald Kid’s Take…
on President’s day.
So “Bruce” and I are having this conversation.
I say, “President’s Day?”
And he says, “Yeah, President’s Day.”
I say, “Don’t you mean Honest Abe Lincoln’s Birthday where you cut out silhouettes of his face and make log cabins with pretzels and read stories about walking 5 miles to return a book and about abolishing slavery?”
And he says, “No. President’s Day.”
And I say, “Don’t you mean His Excellency, President George Washington’s birthday where you cut out silhouettes of his face and make cherry tarts and read stories about chopping down trees and telling the truth and about crossing the Delaware with his freezing soldiers?”
And he says, “No. President’s Day.”
And I say, “Who’s birthday is that?”
And he grins and says, “Who cares? We get a day off of school.”
And my brain says….tick-tick-tick—–
KABOOM!
It’s a good thing he was kidding.
Switching a 17-year-old to home school could really put a chink in his chain.
Note: The characters in this story are real. The names have been changed to protect the innocent and those who don’t want their whole face on my blog. Heh heh.
Hot Chocolate Cake
This is a simple one—but sooo cute.
1- Take 6 Valentine mugs—(we got ours from the Dollar Store) and grease the insides lightly.
2- Fill mugs just under half way full with prepared Milk Chocolate Cake mix.
3- Place mugs on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Don’t panic if the cake rises out of the mugs a little. They will calm down a bit as they cool.
4- Remove from oven–remember the mugs are HOT! It’s easy to forget. Trust me on this.
5- Place 3 mini marshmallows on top—they will melt a tiny bit and stick better if the cakes are hot.
6- Cool completely and serve to everybody you love. They will most likely kiss you and you’ll deserve it.
One’s Own Family
“Perhaps most significant of all classrooms is the classroom of the home. It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are the laboratories of our lives. What we do there determines the course of our lives when we leave home. Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg wrote in his book The Road to Confidence, ‘Despite all new inventions and modern designs, fads and fetishes, no one has yet invented, or will ever invent, a satisfying substitute for one’s own family.’ “
“Precious Children–A Gift from God,” Ensign, Nov. 1991, 68
Symphony Bar Hot Chocolate
If it’s snowing where you’re at, like it’s snowing where I’m at, you’ll appreciate this…
I’m pretty sure that all this time you thought you knew what a mug of hot chocolate was supposed to taste like. But I’ll tell you something–if you’ve been pouring a small packet of dry powder into a cup and adding really hot water, perhaps…you don’t.
In fact, from this day forth, you are liable to look on such a practice as complete hot chocolate blasphemy.
In the book The Polar Express, they described what the children drank on the train, as, “…hot cocoa as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars.”
Now we’re talking…
Candy Bar Hot Chocolate
Instructions
6 ounces Symphony chocolate, chopped
2 cups milk
Place the milk and chopped chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir gently to keep chocolate from staying at the bottom of the pan and getting too hot. If you like foam, stir with a whisk just until mixture gets steamy hot. Do not let it boil. Remove from heat. Add a dollop of whip cream to the bottom of a mug. Pour in hot chocolate.
Now, go sit down and put your feet up. You’re really going to love this.
Candy Bar Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 6 ounces Symphony chocolate, chopped
- 2 cups milk
Instructions
- Place the milk and chopped chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir gently to keep chocolate from staying at the bottom of the pan and getting too hot.
- If you like foam, stir with a whisk just until mixture gets steamy hot.
- Do not let it boil.
- Remove from heat.
- Add a dollop of whip cream to the bottom of a mug.
- Pour in hot chocolate.