French Pastry Puffs

I made these wonderful puffs for breakfast this morning.

1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 cups sugar

1 1/2 tea baking powder

1/8 tea salt

1/2 tea nutmeg

mix all the dry ingredients together and make a little well in the middle.

3/4 cup milk

1 beaten egg

1/3 cups oil

mix well with dry ingredients.

bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes until lightly golden brown on the top.

while still hot roll in melted butter and Cinnamon sugar mix (1tea Cinnamon 1/4 cup sugar)

Ooooh these are so good!

Boy are just so funny...

Our morning started early around 6:15 with me coughing my head off!  Luke always the first to rise around here meet me in the kitchen already asking if he could watch TV. Answer- NO  I need to check the weather and the news.

Luke- You watched this same thing yesterday

Mommy- No Luke, its different today

Luke- Those funny looking guys were talking about cactus yesterday mom...

(How Cute) 

Mommy- its caucus honey.

Luke- any way I don't like this stuff!

We took a little drive over to my grandparents today and on the drive we pass many cows.  Bo yells "Happy MOOOOOO Year.

I rest my case boys are really funny!

Next Month

Well....  We made the appointment for the vasectomy reversal today!  We will go next month it was pretty amazing, the surgery will be on the same day only 2 years later as the original surgery.  So we get a chance to right our wrong on the same day we made the wrong only 2 years later.  I can't even begin to describe how I feel today, I am just so happy and joyful!  Daddy is just an amazing husband and his willingness to go through this, to have another child with me is an act of love that is taking are already wonderful marriage to a whole new level of deep compassion and love....

Now the big question is do we take the kids across the country with us or leave them with Aunt D and Uncle J?  I just don't know, we want to get away with each other and on the other hand want to have a little vacation with them.  We are going to pray about it I will let you know.

Oh and School was much better today, it was like all I needed to do was lay the ground rules and finale Luke got it MOMS NOT FULLING AROUND ANYMORE SHE MEANS BUSINESS!  So today has been a good day all the way around.  

Bo is having fun learning as well.  He is following along with Luke while we do flash cards its a win win situation Luke is teaching, Bo is learning and I am happy.  Daisy even repeats the flash cards as we go, I think she is the smartest 2 year old in the world and I am not even one bit prejudice!

Good Night and sleep well Blogging world..... 

Homeschool 2008

Did I mention that I resolved not to yell????  So today is day 1 back to school after oh a 3 week Christmas crafting, new toy playing, video gaming, way to much TV watching, brake.

We really did have a wonderful time over the holidays!  

Anyway Luke was all but thrilled about our big back to school bash...  He lost computer time by 10 and then lost TV by 11 it took 45 minutes to read a 5 page book and he cried no less that 5 times.  I on the other hand did not yell not even 1 time I did not threaten or lose my temper (I did grit my teeth twice)!  I prayed alot...  I prayed before we even sat down and I prayed with Luke that he would understand and be blessed with wisdom.

Some days I wonder if it would serve him any good to see what a whole day of school is like?I am no doubt sure if he spent one day in public school it would be a day with a sub and he would get to have recess all day and that would back fire on me big time!  He would lose his mind in a 9 hour day of schooling, he wants to be done with the 3 hour day we have, only after about 45 minutes.  I have decided boys need to play and play some more.  Luke would be happy to play all day.  

He is just such a perfectionist that he hates to read, in some crazy fear of mispronouncing or mistaking a word.  We are nothing but encouraging and supportive, so other than the fact that Daddy is also a perfectionist, I don't know why he worry's so much about reading to me his mama. He is a strong sounder outer (is that a word) he can read any word that follows the rules and he even knows many sight word but for just reading off the cuff he won't even try.   I truly want him to love to read as much as I do.

Books

I have read the most wonderful, thought provoking book I think I have ever read before...  Its called The Shack and it is just great!  I recommend this book to everyone who wants to get a glimpse of Gods love for us.  Just visit www.theshackbook.com for more information.  It was one of those books you can't put down, it took about 5 hours and I had read the whole thing.  

I am sick and so I took advantage of this little cold let Daddy watch over and care for the family while I curled up and read me a good book.  

Happy New Year.