I can't see.....

The fog was really thick when I took Addy to school. This is the view from our sidewalk this morning. I'm praying for a storm to blow all the gunk and fog out of the air. Just one more reason why January is so blah.

Chicken Fat

When I was in kindergarten we would exercise using the chicken fat song. I had forgotten about it until Sydnee came home from preschool the other day and told me about the chicken song. I found a web site that has the song on it. What a fun little blast from my past. If you're interested the song can be found here.

Blueberry Tea Bread

Another winning recipe from my cookbook! Yum!!! My bread took almost twice as long to bake as the recipe said, but it turned out really good. I pulled it out of the oven just before Addy got home from school. The recipe has tea in the name, so we had to have a tea party while eating it. Okay, it was actually a hot chocolate party since we don't drink tea. My sister brought the girls color changing princess hot cocoa mix (wow, that was a mouthful) from Disneyland. It's been sitting in our cupboard for a really long time, so I figured it was time to bust it out and drink it up. Sydnee chose purple and Addy chose pink. Ben even joined us and brought his doll (Maren) with him. Maren enjoyed fruit puffs during our party. I'm going to give this recipe 4 1/2 stars out of 5. If you yourself are a glutard, then check out the recipe here. P.S. A glutard is the name we have given to those with celiac disease.

Life Tastes Good Again

When I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2007, I was quite devastated. I love bread, a lot. Ben used to make me homemade bread every weekend and it was heavenly. When I got the bad news, I went through my own little grieving process. My mother in law took me to a store that specializes in all things gluten free to help me get started. She bought me a cook book called "Life tastes good again" its written by two local ladies. Neither one of these ladies has celiac, but they have family members that do. I have been to a few of their classes, and so far I have tried lots of their recipes. Their recipes are great, I haven't found a bad one yet. After watching the movie Julie and Julia, I was inspired. I don't like fancy french food, and Julia Child's recipes don't quite fit my gluten free (GF) diet. I have decided to make every recipe in my GF cookbook over the next year and blog about them. I think I'm boring and I run out of stuff to write, so hopefully this will help. I am also working on my personal progress with the young women. I figured this would be a great project to work on. As I write this, I have blueberry tea bread in the oven. I'll let you know how it turns out.

The Bible according to Fisher Price

Yesterday after I dropped Addy off at school, Sydnee asked if she could play with the tinker toys. I said yes and she returned with the Little People Noah's ark. I asked her if she knew the story about Noah and the ark. I thought this would be a good teaching moment. I told her the story of Noah, she asked if there were trees next to the ark. I told her that Noah used trees to make the ark. I continued to tell the story while she was playing. When I told her that the rain had stopped and the dove brought back the olive branch, she then asked "Is that when they took the top off?" I was a little confused. Then I realized what she meant. The top of our toy ark comes off so that you can play with the animals inside of it. I had a hard time not laughing. I had to explain to Sydnee that her ark is just a toy and that the one that Noah went on looked a lot different.

A new year, a new blog

I don't know why, but January always leaves me feeling blah. Whenever I feel blah I change something. Usually it's the length of my hair, however since my hair is already quite short, I can't do that. There isn't a whole lot more to change, at least not quickly. So, I decided to change my blog. Wow, you say. I know, it's a huge life altering change, but for now it's helping the blahs. I always have liked the saying about little girls... Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of. Well having 3 girls at home reminds me of all the sugar and spice, but there is also some naughty and not so nice moments. I decided to change the title of my blog to go with our life with 3 girls. Since this is my journal, I record the nice and the not so nice things so that one day I can look back and laugh and learn from this. So here is to the new year and making changes!

I bet you didn't know.....

I bet you didn't know that there are many different tooth fairies. I also would bet that you don't know that they are all different colors. Addy has a friend named Sariah who told her all about the tooth fairy. If you put your tooth in a glass of water, the tooth fairy will reach in to get it out and the water will turn the color of the fairy. After much coaxing (bribing) we finally got Addy's second tooth out. She is quite the drama queen when it comes to pain. I finally just grabbed it and pulled it forward and it popped right out. Addy wanted to try putting her tooth in water. Lo and behold, Sunday morning she found a glass of red water on the table with a dollar sitting next to it. We had a red fairy visit our house. Addy was very happy. I was thrilled because the tooth fairy didn't have to worry about waking any little girls up or being caught. So thank you Sariah and Thank you Kim (her mother) We now will keep watch for the colored tooth fairies.