kitchen gadgets makin me fat

this morning i woke up and i was so happy that i already had my skillet made and just had to warm it up!

when i re-read what i wrote last night- the part about the agility equipment & training, i mentioned a hula hoop and yard dart hoop. i just wanted to clarify: i am not training them to hula hoop and play yard darts. i just need the hoop to train them to jump through it. i think they'll enjoy training..they're smart, in fact, if they get the jumping-through-hoops thing, they'll be doing what i do at work...maybe i will be able to train them to hula hoop and play yard darts! (then in a couple of years, they'll be doing my taxes for me).

the theme today on abc family seems to be excellent nannies (first mary poppins, then nanny mcphee, followed by sound of music and topped off with titanic..i'm sure there was a nanny somewhere on the boat). speaking of nannies, i was watching victoria on animal planet again last night, and she was helping a family who had dog nanny! who in the world has dog nannies?! three kids and she still needs a dog nanny? c'mon.

this morning, i 'hid' the eggs for the boys (no nanny to help out):

told you i was going to be sneaky when i hid them!

bruno was pretty good at it-he can get his mouth around an crunch it open real quickly, so i had to help chaco out a little. they were fine until chaco wanted what bruno had and got snippy...he's started doing that lately and they get all alien on each other (you know how the aliens had the mouth with the scary teeth and then sigourney would blast them away)...

that took all of 3 minutes. then i decided it was a doughnut day, so i found a doughnut recipe and i felt like homer price... you know, the one where he made all those doughnuts...i remember it from when i was a kid, and it's fun to read it to our kids at school again!

homer price!

with a little chocolate glaze...

...and a bit of coffee!

 i don't know how well they save, they might be rocks tomorrow, but i'm going to put them in an airtight bag and if they're any good, i might take them to school tomorrow morning. i swear, kitchen gadgets are making me fat.don't get me wrong, i love having cooking toys in the kitchen, it makes life easier, but it just makes me want to try more things and find new recipes. it's dangerous.

alright, blessings and may the power of the resurrection be real to you today!
jules

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doughnuts-asian cuisine?

ok, last night, i was in a bad way...i really could not keep my head up, i had the makings of the onset of a bad headache and so i crashed early. only to be woken up again by the tornado sirens.

i decided that hail is the evil stepbrother of snowflake. and the dogs started barking at the hail because it sounded like someone tapping on the window. (3rd floor, i knew better) i had no desire to go out and see how big it was; i just went back to bed wondering what my car was going to look like in the morning...i purposely park between two big trucks hoping it hits them first, but it's not like hail is a heat guided missile, it's gonna fall where it's gonna fall.

so you can imagine my relief when i got up early and saw no damage..and i looked from every angle! why did i get up early? well, i decided that my problem last night was lack of sugar in my system...so doughnuts really would help set my day straight. and i did it.

just playing with my food...don't worry, this was AFTER i offered one to you, xochitl

 i went and got me some kolaches and doughnuts! i've been wondering if doughnuts are an asian cuisine because in a 5 mile radius, i've visited 3 different shops and at each shop, the owners are asian. nothing wrong with that, just curious.

and i also made a stop at the texaco for diet coke and claritin...and maybe some chocolate. (WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME! i'm feeling a little like tina fey on 30 rock).

did you hear about the usps stamp gaffe? they made a stamp in honor of the statue of liberty, but the photography they chose was actually from a replica at the new york hotel in vegas. bah! and the spokesperson actually said that they still would've picked that photo...really? i mean, c'mon,this is a piece of history-a symbol of freedom that really held significance to all of the immigrants coming into ellis island-people who came into america with the hope of working hard to create their fortune. on the other hand, the replica in vegas represents (in my mind) the complete opposite.

bruno and chaco are having a little 'stare off' over a piece of rawhide. at first they didn't say anything, then out of nowhere, bruno said, "hey! if you don't give me the chew, i'm gonna tell her you eat your poop." and chaco stopped and yelled back, "liar liar pants on fire! i don't eat my poo, you do!" (i must stop reading dr. seuss to him) so, i don't know who to believe, although the other week when i was making the beef jerky, bruno was watching, and he said, "hmm...that kinda reminds me of something." but when i asked him what, he just kinda snickered and wouldn't tell me...

tomorrow = last saturday school ever! (...for now).

yes, i might be a little excited! i'm just going to spend the rest of this evening basking in that realization!
julie

p.s. hollie has a new post-check it out, it's a great little cup of 'dirt' for your kiddos!! her photog is so great!