Today was (is) the anniversary of dad's funeral. Not an all together bad day, the weather was nice, the kids were all to school on time. It's just well let's start at the beginning.
I didn't get to the store for groceries AGAIN! Life has been so hectic that I haven't really gotten to stop and do nothing during the day for any real length of time (after 9pm maybe just not before).
Anyway.... I started the day running late... no milk so no real breakfast for the kids... but at least they were to school on time right?
I skip my 9:30 meeting to go shopping, get the food for the next week and 1/2 for lunches and meat for dinners... Short of cash so take all the meat off the bill. OK now I'm down to $0.75 to my name... Take the kids some lunches for today... Go to work and put the perishable (ie. milk) in the fridge there and then get to work making circles for scouts (more on the later... maybe). By now it's creeping up on noon and my next meeting. And I forgot the get a lunch for me. So now I'm sitting in a lunch meeting without a lunch... Talk about fun.. NOT! Oh and by this point depression is sinking in. Gee I don't know why....
After the meeting I get some more stuff around work done... Mind you that only the noon meeting is actually work, the rest is all volenteer hours, so it's stuff that in a different frame of mind, I'd be glad to do. Just not today.
So now it's 4pm. I'm home and unloading the groceries (after I go back to work since I forgot the stuff in the fridge). Little lady decides to make some jello... I say fine you know how to do it... next thing I know there is an exposion in my kitchen and glass is everywhere! thankfully none got on the kids but WOW!! Turns out she didn't remember how we made it before and set the glass bowl on a burner and turned it on!! What a mess... what a smell. I now have melted glass and grape jello stuck to the burner and the under side of the stovetop.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
It's getting close
This is the recipe I found online and tweeked a bit. I just mixed it all in the bowl and microwaved it for 4 minutes, it did stick to the bowl a bit but it was soft, moist, spongy, and pretty good. I think it was the best one so far. Now to just get it to a coffee mug size for easy indulgence without the over eating....
INGREDIENTS
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
DIRECTIONS
Spray a medium microwave-safe bowl with non-stick spray and set aside. In a mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla extract, and milk; blend together. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt; blend into the mixture until smooth. Pour into greased bowl.
Cover and cook in the microwave on high for 2 to 2 1/2 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched. Since all microwaves cook differently, adjust the cooking time to accommodate your machine. To serve, let the cake cool five minutes, then cover the bowl with a plate and turn both bowl and plate upside down so the cake falls onto the plate.
INGREDIENTS
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
DIRECTIONS
Spray a medium microwave-safe bowl with non-stick spray and set aside. In a mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla extract, and milk; blend together. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt; blend into the mixture until smooth. Pour into greased bowl.
Cover and cook in the microwave on high for 2 to 2 1/2 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched. Since all microwaves cook differently, adjust the cooking time to accommodate your machine. To serve, let the cake cool five minutes, then cover the bowl with a plate and turn both bowl and plate upside down so the cake falls onto the plate.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Its' official!
The girls finished their Bronze this week. According to the person I talked to the paint we used will stay on the clay tags for the garden. I figured that if it doesn't then we can always re-write them in another type of paint or dye. The girls were so proud of themselves for finishing it, especially since it morphed from this little part in the beginning to some very major work by the end (at least that's how they see it)
See this link on the way to bronze regarding some of what they did.
Here is another part.
See this link on the way to bronze regarding some of what they did.
Here is another part.
After they dried we put them in the garden. Hopefully they are still there and in one piece when we go back next month.With this finally under their belt they got to receive their bronze awards. And about 10 minutes after that ceremony we had the bridging ceremony. Now everyone is at the cadette level. I feel like the girls were some how cheated out of a year at the junior level, but really there wasn't much left for them to do at that level.
This year we are going to try this new thing that national has called Journeys. I have to admit that it's a good program for the cadette level, but for my girls specificly I'm not sure they'll like it since we do character education at school and this year it's the same as what is in the cadette journey. Oh well, we'll find out on Thursday at the meeting when they all get their books.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Experiment munber 5
I decided to try again after the girls tried the following wih varying results...
Adding peanut butter - really BAD, had to throw it out.
Adding extra vanilla - no real change
Adding peanut butter chips - not bad with the chocolate, still has the same issues as the others though
Adding 1 extra TBS of sugar, honey (didn't measure) :(, 1 TBS brown sugar and NO cocoa - Not bad, tasted like a honey cake, still has a funny texture thanks to the egg but you get that will anything you use egg in with the microwave. - Verdict is I'd do this mix again. Forget the chocolate until I can come up with a better mix.
Adding peanut butter - really BAD, had to throw it out.
Adding extra vanilla - no real change
Adding peanut butter chips - not bad with the chocolate, still has the same issues as the others though
Adding 1 extra TBS of sugar, honey (didn't measure) :(, 1 TBS brown sugar and NO cocoa - Not bad, tasted like a honey cake, still has a funny texture thanks to the egg but you get that will anything you use egg in with the microwave. - Verdict is I'd do this mix again. Forget the chocolate until I can come up with a better mix.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Cake number one
Ok this one tasted better then the one I made last night. This time they used the Hersey's chocolate instead of the Nestle And they added semi-sweet chips. It came out really moist and tasted good. Not great but better then before.
3 minutes to chocolate heaven
A few weeks ago someone emailed be the 3 minute chocolate cake recipe. I forwarded it to a few people without trying it (something I never do) and now I have to say that I don't like the recipe as it stands. You see I'm not a chocolate fan. I do like good chocolate but not a lot of it. So now I'm handing the recipe over to the girls to let then have fun in my kitchen trying to make a better chocolate cake. This is the recipe that they will start from...
4 TBS flour
4 TBS sugar
2 TBS baking cocoa (not hot chocolate)
1 egg
3 TBS milk
3 TBS oil or melted butter
3 TBS chocolate chips
Splash of Vanilla
Mix the dry then add egg and mix then add milk, oil and vanilla and mix
Bake on high in microwave for 3 minutes.
Let cool slitely and eat.
Having said all that I guess I should go and taste test each version they come up with... Maybe I can get them to add some Nutella....
Results will be coming soon.
4 TBS flour
4 TBS sugar
2 TBS baking cocoa (not hot chocolate)
1 egg
3 TBS milk
3 TBS oil or melted butter
3 TBS chocolate chips
Splash of Vanilla
Mix the dry then add egg and mix then add milk, oil and vanilla and mix
Bake on high in microwave for 3 minutes.
Let cool slitely and eat.
Having said all that I guess I should go and taste test each version they come up with... Maybe I can get them to add some Nutella....
Results will be coming soon.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
visitors
I just found out some really interesting stuff. I have a program that tells me where people are from that look at my sites. And I really do have people other than my sister reading my blog! Australia, India, Greece and Portugal. That is so way cool!
In other news we are having a new girl visit our troop tonight. We're really hoping she decides to join us. It would be so great to have another person in our troop.
Speaking of scouts, I start PA training next week. I'm hoping that everyone from my troop can come. I've got some really cool stuff for them, I'll have to take a picture later and show you.
In other news we are having a new girl visit our troop tonight. We're really hoping she decides to join us. It would be so great to have another person in our troop.
Speaking of scouts, I start PA training next week. I'm hoping that everyone from my troop can come. I've got some really cool stuff for them, I'll have to take a picture later and show you.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Frazzle dazzle day
I am forcing myself to stay home today and work on the class the I'm suppose to be teaching next week. It's program aide training for the cadettes in our service unit.
The material that I've seen so far is way out of date so I'm trying to get it up to date and fun. Who wants to sit there and listen to somebody talk for 4 hours! Yuck! But I must say that it's a lot more work trying to get the program interesting then I thought it would be. I definately won't open my mouth next time... or maybe i will... it could be fun.
The real frazzle of it all is while I'm getting this class all set up I'm also getting the first aid, cpr and babysitting classes set too. ANd not jsut for the scouts, I'm getting this for the adults that volunteer at the church and for the youth at church that are volunteering in the nursery. Lots of work with very little time to do it.
Now the dazzle is the SU campout. That looks like it is going to be so much fun this year!! My girls are signed up as helpers (PAs) this year so they get to help teach and lead all the activities. And the great part for me is all I have to do is make sure the girls get trained, then supervise!! I won't have to be "in charge" of anything (as of right now). Someone else is cooking and planning all the activities.
That's all for today. For now anyway since we all know that my schedule changes quicker then Ohio weather!
The material that I've seen so far is way out of date so I'm trying to get it up to date and fun. Who wants to sit there and listen to somebody talk for 4 hours! Yuck! But I must say that it's a lot more work trying to get the program interesting then I thought it would be. I definately won't open my mouth next time... or maybe i will... it could be fun.
The real frazzle of it all is while I'm getting this class all set up I'm also getting the first aid, cpr and babysitting classes set too. ANd not jsut for the scouts, I'm getting this for the adults that volunteer at the church and for the youth at church that are volunteering in the nursery. Lots of work with very little time to do it.
Now the dazzle is the SU campout. That looks like it is going to be so much fun this year!! My girls are signed up as helpers (PAs) this year so they get to help teach and lead all the activities. And the great part for me is all I have to do is make sure the girls get trained, then supervise!! I won't have to be "in charge" of anything (as of right now). Someone else is cooking and planning all the activities.
That's all for today. For now anyway since we all know that my schedule changes quicker then Ohio weather!
Monday, September 1, 2008
It's amazing
What a half bottle of Riesling and a hot tub will do to one's perceptions. I feel much better now. Still missing the family but at least I know they'll be home by tomorrow night.
I've had the house to myself for 60+ hours now. Haven't done much work but I've done lots of introspective thought. I've decided I would much rather have the hubby and kids around for all the chaos then to be without them for this long again.
I've had the house to myself for 60+ hours now. Haven't done much work but I've done lots of introspective thought. I've decided I would much rather have the hubby and kids around for all the chaos then to be without them for this long again.
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