Phoebe has gone political...O-Phoebe, O-Phoebe, O-Phoebe.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Ooey Gooey Cinnamon Rolls...MMMMMM, Good!
I've been craving a Cinnabon cinnamon roll ever since Sarah and I shared one a couple of weeks ago. The problem is, I neither wanted to drive the distance to buy one or pay the cost for one (at over $3 each, the frosting should be laced with gold dust!) Not being able to put my cravings aside, I decided to try my hand at baking some myself. I found a promising recipe online, bought some yeast and went to word mixing, kneading, rolling, and baking. This was the result...
I had some very satisfied customers as well...
And here's Ben waiting for a chance to get one of his own...
I had some very satisfied customers as well...
And here's Ben waiting for a chance to get one of his own...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Three Posts In One
Post Part One: There's A Monkey In The Cupboard!
Ben loves to climb into the daycare cubbies (and throw their contents out!) He is so small he can stand upright in them.
Post Part Two: Hair...Long Beautiful Hair!
Jack and Ben are hippies! They have long hair and I cannot bare to cut it. Cutting it, to me, signals the end of their babyhood. Cutting it means I have to admit they are becoming Big Boys (same thing goes for the binky!) Oh but they are so sweet with all that hair if you ask me.
Post Part Three: The Family That Closets Together, Stays Together!
The Family Closet...an absolute necessity, IMO, for anyone with a gaggle of kids. The shear volume of laundry generated by my kids is overwhelming in itself. Add to that the folding and trekking up stairs to put it all away, it causes even the strongest person to swoon at the mere thought of it. We are very fortunate to have a small spare room kiddy-corner to our laundry room, and adjacent to our downstairs bathroom. I have converted this space into a family closet.
Here we have two sets of shelves for storage and hanging clothes.
Here I hang Jack and Ben's shirts and a few of my own. The top shelf houses clothes Ben needs to grow into, the boys' swim suits, and hats and gloves. The middle shelf is the clothes I fold for the teens and dh that they are supposed to transfer to their rooms.
On these shelves I hang Austen, Owen and Will's shirts. The middle shelf houses my toiletries (the little boys have a hay day if I leave my make-up out where they can reach it), the boys' clean sheets and a few odds and ends. The top shelf holds baby clothes in various sizes and a box of Christmas stuff that needs to find it's way back into the shed.
These colored drawers hold the Austen, Owen, Will and Jack's pants and t-shirts (large ones) and pajamas (small ones.) The two drawers (green) above hold Ben's socks and jammies.
This dresser is for my and the boys' socks and underwear.
On the opposite wall (not pictured)is a larger dresser/changing table where I store the rest of Ben's clothes and all of mine.
Ben loves to climb into the daycare cubbies (and throw their contents out!) He is so small he can stand upright in them.
Post Part Two: Hair...Long Beautiful Hair!
Jack and Ben are hippies! They have long hair and I cannot bare to cut it. Cutting it, to me, signals the end of their babyhood. Cutting it means I have to admit they are becoming Big Boys (same thing goes for the binky!) Oh but they are so sweet with all that hair if you ask me.
Post Part Three: The Family That Closets Together, Stays Together!
The Family Closet...an absolute necessity, IMO, for anyone with a gaggle of kids. The shear volume of laundry generated by my kids is overwhelming in itself. Add to that the folding and trekking up stairs to put it all away, it causes even the strongest person to swoon at the mere thought of it. We are very fortunate to have a small spare room kiddy-corner to our laundry room, and adjacent to our downstairs bathroom. I have converted this space into a family closet.
Here we have two sets of shelves for storage and hanging clothes.
Here I hang Jack and Ben's shirts and a few of my own. The top shelf houses clothes Ben needs to grow into, the boys' swim suits, and hats and gloves. The middle shelf is the clothes I fold for the teens and dh that they are supposed to transfer to their rooms.
On these shelves I hang Austen, Owen and Will's shirts. The middle shelf houses my toiletries (the little boys have a hay day if I leave my make-up out where they can reach it), the boys' clean sheets and a few odds and ends. The top shelf holds baby clothes in various sizes and a box of Christmas stuff that needs to find it's way back into the shed.
These colored drawers hold the Austen, Owen, Will and Jack's pants and t-shirts (large ones) and pajamas (small ones.) The two drawers (green) above hold Ben's socks and jammies.
This dresser is for my and the boys' socks and underwear.
On the opposite wall (not pictured)is a larger dresser/changing table where I store the rest of Ben's clothes and all of mine.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Bargain Update
I went over all the clothes and added up what they cost before the super discounts....$614.39!!! I saved close to $473!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Holy Bargains Batman!!
I got a tip that a certain Target was giving an additional 30% off their clearanced clothing and I being a bargain junkie, made a dash to check it out. It was AWESOME!!!! I bought 66 clothing items for a total of $144.88. I'm talking shirts, sweaters, hoodies, pants, sweats, button down dress shirts, even some cute girly shirts for a friend's daughter. I got clothes for all five little boys, Michael, and my friend's twins. 66 items for $144.88!!! That's an average of $2.15 each!! Tomorrow I'm going to figure out exactly how much I saved. I'm high from my bargain binge...
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Austen is Eleven!
This is a bit late in posting, but Austen turned eleven on the 8th, a birthday shared by Elvis as well as our new pug Phoebe (There ain't nothin' like a pug dog...) Austen was born on 1/8/98...in room 28...at 8:28. That's a lot of 8's! Anyway, he was born on Elvis' birthday and our last name is Priscilla Presley's maiden name (cue Twilight Zone music now.) It has been a wonderful eleven years with this amazing boy. We presented him with a scroll that told him how much he means to us, and what his birthday present is...
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year!
We had a very low-key New Year's Eve. I bought the boys some party hats, horns, and party crackers. We munched on a ton of junk food and ended the night with hot fudge sundaes and The Simpsons Movie. The little ones and I turned the lights out at about 10 minutes til midnight (I was exhausted) but I let the two older boys stay up to ring in the New Year (I laid in bed listening to them tell each other "Happy New Year!" and to the fireworks outside before drifting off to sleep.) The only pictures I got were a couple of blurry ones of Ben..Oh Well!
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