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Someone Please…

tell me…

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What is it with boys and guns anyway?

Have you ever noticed that you don’t have to actually hand them a play gun, because everything–EVERYTHING magically has the ability to become one? Rakes…tripods…cd cases…balloons…bread.

Whatever.

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In their mind, every inanimate object within their reach, has the innate ability to maim. This is a skill that only boys have–or, I might add, want.

From birth.

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Of course, this skill puts everyone in their rifle scope every waking moment. We wouldn’t want to waste precious practice time, would we? Consequently, no one is safe.

In fact, I remember helping 3 year old Daney boy get dressed one day and his little thumb-and-finger-gun kept being loaded and fired too dang close to my head for me to like it.

Finally, after having my ears and chin and both eyes taken out by Hop-along’s imaginary bullets and a bit weary of his gun hand waving in my face, I held on to his arm and said, “Hey! You know, it isn’t very nice for boys to shoot at their mommas.”

His eyes immediately filled up with tears and he collapsed in a heap in front of me.

“I wasn’t shooting my momma.” Oh, he was wailing now.

“Reeeeally?” I said.

And I’m Mother Goose.

He pulled himself up and wiped at his nose with his sweatshirt sleeve. To the washer with that one.

“I was killing the bad guys….

so…

they don’t…

get….

…you.”

dun..dun..dun.

sigh.

The “Mother of the Year” title  just flew past me…

…again.

Rats.

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Strawberry-Filled French Toast

If you wake up one morning and find yourself with fresh strawberries—ok, ok, frozen will work too—then you might want to think about adding this fabulous filling to regular old french toast. No one will sleep through a breakfast like this! I’m tellin’ you, it’s g0000d! You may even have to grab some and hide out–to avoid the mob that will surely come.

Strawberry-Filled French Toast

Filling

2  8oz. cream cheese

1/2 cup sugar

16 oz. strawberries

1 Tbsp vanilla

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

French Toast

11 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1/2 tsp. salt

24 slices of bread

butter

For filling, mix cream cheese and sugar together until fluffy. Add remaining ingredients, including strawberries and mix until well blended.

For French toast, whisk eggs, milk and salt together until foamy. Melt 1 tsp  butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Dip each slice of bread in egg mixture and place in skillet. Cook until underside is light brown. Turn and cook other side. Butter each piece of toast and set on warm plate until all are cooked. Spoon 1/4 cup of filling over 1 slice of toast and top with another slice of toast–like a sandwich. Dust with powdered sugar. Makes 12 servings.


Strawberry-Filled French Toast
 
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Ingredients
  • 11 eggs
  • ½ cup milk
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 24 slices of bread
  • butter
Instructions
  1. For filling, mix cream cheese and sugar together until fluffy.
  2. Add remaining ingredients, including strawberries and mix until well blended.
  3. For French toast, whisk eggs, milk and salt together until foamy.
  4. Melt 1 tsp butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
  5. Dip each slice of bread in egg mixture and place in skillet.
  6. Cook until underside is light brown.
  7. Turn and cook other side.
  8. Butter each piece of toast and set on warm plate until all are cooked.
  9. Spoon ¼ cup of filling over 1 slice of toast and top with another slice of toast--like a sandwich. Dust with powdered sugar.
Notes
Filling 2 8oz. cream cheese ½ cup sugar 16 oz. strawberries 1 Tbsp vanilla ½ tsp. cinnamon

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Cotton Love

One of my very favorite things…a mystery package, on the porch!

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I have one child that gets goose bumps when she walks up the office supply aisle in Staples. Pens, notebooks, paper clips just really work for her.

Then I have this other daughter that gets lightheaded over…dancing shoes. Ballet, ballroom, character or Latin. Doesn’t matter what kind–she’s got them.

I have another child that would walk to the mall, barefoot, in a blizzard for a sale at Archiver’s. Scrapbook supplies, stickers and grommets make her very, very happy.

Well let me show you what does it for me…

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Look at those perfect colors! Just imagining all the places this thread will go and what it will become in it’s second life. What beloved little soul will wear it or play with it and in what way?

Ahhhh…the potential for 100% cotton joy is staggering indeed. Better get a move on…

So—what thrills you to your toes? Share,  share…

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Cheetoes–a Completely Honest Taste Test

So many choices…so little time. What’s a Cheetos lover to do?

We decided to have a taste test to discover the winner for the “Very Best Cheetos in the World” contest.

In the running were…

Contestant #1

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Regular Cheetos

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Contestant #2

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Crunchy Cheetos

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Contestant #3

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Twisted Puff Cheetos

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Contestant #4

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Crunchy Mozzarella Cheetos

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Contestant #5

Fiery Hot Cheetos

Sorry, I don’t have a picture of the bag, because it melted through the table and kitchen floor and is no doubt on it’s way to the center of the Earth…or Hades…

and rightly so.

Next, we gathered the troops and force fed them the different styles of Cheetos and gave everyone a ballot.

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Here is what we came up with…

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#1– Regular Puffs–which in my unbiased opinion, are the only true Cheetos on the face of the Earth–received exactly 1 vote for 1st place. Everyone else thought it should be in 3rd or 4th place. The heathens.

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#2– Crunchy–received 5 votes for 1st place even though they are deep fried and very, very bad for you, and 1 vote for 4th place.

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#3 –Twisted Puffs–received 1 vote for 2nd place because they were really spongy and cheesy and good and 1 vote for 3rd place and 5 votes for 4th place, because my family doesn’t really understand the connection between puffy Cheetos and true unadulterated wisdom.

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#4– Mozzarella –received 1 vote for 3rd place and 3 votes for 4th place and 1 vote for 5th place because they didn’t really taste like anything. It was weird.

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#5– Fiery –received 6 votes for last place, because they were hot and nasty and deserve a cold and watery grave, except they also got 1 vote for 3rd place because Jacob’s singed tongue lava meter is all screwed up. He actually liked them.

So, as you can clearly see, Cheetos PUFFS are by far the best Cheetos in the land–even if more people actually voted for the crunchy ones.

It’s my test, and I can cheat if I want to…cheat if I want to…cheat if I want to.

(No animals were harmed in the making of this taste test…well, except for Beany who tried to eat #5 and caused a 3 alarm fire in his throat. But he’s fine now and his tongue has almost grown back.)

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True Service

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“There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell on the critical or the negative. Let us pray for strength; let us pray for capacity and desire to assist others. Let us radiate the light of the gospel at all times and all places, that the Spirit of the Redeemer may radiate from us.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
 
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