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Saturday, November 14, 2009
More Cupcakes!
I made these for our Enrichment party last week. I am on the committee so I volunteered- a lot of work but a lot of fun! Especially since I love the ladies in our ward! The Christmas trees are lemon cake with a white choc meringue buttercream and the others were pumpkin and chocolate. I tried making the cupcakes from scratch this time and I realized Lemon is tricky! My first try turned out more bread than cake so I had to resort to a cake mix with add ins. The chocolate and pumpkin were Martha recipes and turned out great. I love doing these but need a reason- who wants 60 cupcakes sitting around the house? Not to mention the 100 mini ones that went along with them.
Friday, November 13, 2009
"LIFE IS NOT FAIR"
That is what I tell my kids all the time-
When they are complaining that someone got TWO cookies and they got one- or someone got to stay up later- or go to more birthday parties- or do less work..... the list goes on and I try to remind them it would be CRAZY if we tried to make everything exactly fair.
So how come I dont remember that when Ty is coughing so hard his whole head is red and I am afraid he wont stop-
Or when I am carrying him up at night and have to avoid looking at his little neck because I dont like to see the trach hole-
Or when I cant take him out to the park to watch his brothers and sisters because his lungs might get too dry and then we are back to the coughing-
Or when Ben has had his trach out for a year and 1/2 and is doing SO well and his doctors tell me he needs it back in. Whaaaaat? How is that fair? How can that be what we need to do to him?
He is already fighting so hard in his little body that cant keep up with his mind.
Why cant I take all their troubles for them?
I know life is not fair-It is not SUPPOSSED to be fair. I just need reminding sometimes.
Because usually I can remember how blessed I am that these little boys are even still here.
They remind me that they dont even see their lives in anyother way but loved and wanted.
Their faces remind me that WE get their sweet spirits and faces and bodies in our home.
That they NEVER get tired of hugging us and loving us.
They are not complaining that life is not fair.
But sometimes I just want to stomp and yell for them.... "ITS NOT FAIR!"
When they are complaining that someone got TWO cookies and they got one- or someone got to stay up later- or go to more birthday parties- or do less work..... the list goes on and I try to remind them it would be CRAZY if we tried to make everything exactly fair.
So how come I dont remember that when Ty is coughing so hard his whole head is red and I am afraid he wont stop-
Or when I am carrying him up at night and have to avoid looking at his little neck because I dont like to see the trach hole-
Or when I cant take him out to the park to watch his brothers and sisters because his lungs might get too dry and then we are back to the coughing-
Or when Ben has had his trach out for a year and 1/2 and is doing SO well and his doctors tell me he needs it back in. Whaaaaat? How is that fair? How can that be what we need to do to him?
He is already fighting so hard in his little body that cant keep up with his mind.
Why cant I take all their troubles for them?
I know life is not fair-It is not SUPPOSSED to be fair. I just need reminding sometimes.
Because usually I can remember how blessed I am that these little boys are even still here.
They remind me that they dont even see their lives in anyother way but loved and wanted.
Their faces remind me that WE get their sweet spirits and faces and bodies in our home.
That they NEVER get tired of hugging us and loving us.
They are not complaining that life is not fair.
But sometimes I just want to stomp and yell for them.... "ITS NOT FAIR!"
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Et tu Pierre?
Sunday, November 1, 2009
It weighed 165 pounds......
"Well, while you all were divvying out candy I was baking, pureeing and cooking down the flesh of a 165 pound pumpkin that Natalie won from Trader Joe's. We carved it and had it out for one night then started cutting it and feeding it to ourselves and the chickens! I now have 15 little bags of puree in the freezer- pumpkin pie in the fridge and a whole slab of cooked pumpkin I am going to cut up to make pumpkin soup. So what did YOU do all weekend?"I am not sure I would recommend doing this- it was quite a messy project but I guess it was satisfying putting all those little bags in the freezer!Spooky Halloween Night
Natalie- same costume as last 2 years- spider queen!!!
Jack - scary vampire "mom- with my black hair I could be ANYONE, no one will know who I am!"
Scott- poor car accident victim
Ben and Ty- not cooperating for the picture in SCARY spooky Halloween shirts.
