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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nothing can ruin your day quite like an easter egg hunt

not gonna' lie, i'm a bad loser. i knew i wouldn't find anything. i knew it! i never do. i never win drawings, i've just never been lucky at those things. which really irks me about this morning. i told myself that i wasn't going to blog about the egg hunt because it was more frustrating than fun.i guess i lied to myself. so when i got back to my classroom empty-handed, i was in a foul mood. and it took everything in my to might to smile as the last person who found the last egg walked by saying, "i found the last egg!" when in my mind i was thinking something to the effect of...well, let's just leave it at that; besides, it's difficult to think bad thoughts about someone wearing a neck brace!

in fact, i was so p.o'd after i brought the kids up to the classroom, that i fixed my harry potter wand, and told them i was so mad that if the easter bunny came in-i would turn it into chocolate and eat it.

sorry, harry, Expelliarmus got nothin' on me! (i had to look up the 'spell'-ing)

i had to think about why i was in such a sour mood and here's my list (by the way, it's afternoon and i'm still a little bitter):
1. cramps since 4:30 am-i got up a couple of times and stretched and tossed and turned
2. missed breakfast for egg hunt and found nothing (and still didn't get a chance to go down to get anything)
3. didn't even get chocolate or anything...i might have to redeem this day with a bag of chocolate whopper bird eggs...pray for me that i don't slip into a sugar-induced-coma.

fortunately i have amazing students-i think they might've felt sorry for the losers...they gave me:

yeah, i got lots of pals.

this experience has prompted me to get a slew of plastic eggs to fill with treats and hide them all over the living room for the boys...and by hide i mean put them on the floor. i was going to just do a couple of treats, and have some empty eggs so they would have to sniff them out, but i think i might just fill them all because i want them to feel like big winners!
then we'll sit around in a triangle and i'll read the real easter story to them so they can appreciate the true meaning of Easter and the resurrection!

i am thrilled beyond description about the fact that tomorrow i get to sleep in with no saturday school!! i don't even know what i'm going to do with myself! but don't worry, i'm pretty sure that i can figure out something!

julie