The Simple Woman’s Daybook

The Simple Woman’s Daybook

09/03/2010

Outside my window… clouds fill the gloomy grey sky.

I am thinking… about the sick children resting in their beds upstairs.

I am thankful for… the snuggle time I got with Zion this morning.

From the learning room… I am thinking about the end of this term and the beginning of the new term.

From the kitchen… I am thinking about the pizza that will be for dinner tonight (our new Tuesday Tradition).

I am wearing… my everyday clothes.

I am creating… some fun new downloads for my website.

I am going… to tend to sick children today.

I am still reading… Born On A Blue Day, Pen On Fire, Managing Their Schools, Educating The Whole Hearted Child, and Henry Huggins (we found it).

I am hoping… to coax the children into doing a minimal amount of work between coughs and whines.

I am hearing… cars drive by, children coughing, and my husband snoring (in the rocking chair beside me – he’s sick too).

Around the house… are little messes made by children playing this morning.

One of my favorite things… was taking a Sunday afternoon nap with Malachi this week.

A few plans for the rest of the week… Scratch the plans to visit Nana (all the kids got sick). Portfolio is due on Friday!

Here is a picture thought I am sharing this week…

I absolutely love this picture of my son at the beach. What do you think?

Check out what other’s have said by going to The Simple Woman’s Daybook.

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The Quest For Eggless Muffins

I am supposed to make muffins for breakfast this morning – according to my new menu plan – and I don’t have a suitable recipe. I have a great recipe for muffins which don’t have any eggs or dairy, but they have flax (which I am out of). So, I set out again in search of recipes for eggless muffins.

When I have searched for recipes before without any egg or dairy (Hosanna’s allergies), I have  looked for vegan recipes. Sometimes vegan recipes use weird ingredients (no offense to any vegans reading), so today, I decided to search for eggless muffins and just replace any milk (if I need to). I really miss eggs.

I found this Vegan Blueberry Muffin recipe that looks promising.

They replace the egg with vinegar. I haven’t heard of this before. I have lots of vinegar (and it’s cheap).

The recipe calls for milk and I happen to have a bit of soy milk in the fridge. I would have used water or water mixed with the leftover jam from the bottom of the almost empty jar in the fridge.

It calls for lemon zest, but I don’t have any lemons to zest. I do have oranges that I could zest.

Let me tell you a funny story about my oranges. We did our major grocery shop on Friday and I bought three bags of oranges. Only one made it into the fridge and the other two went missing. We looked high and low for them. We looked in my sister’s van (she drove me), we looked all over the house. We could not find these oranges. Well, I opened the deep freeze to pull out something and there, in the deep freezer, sitting nicely on top, were the two bags of oranges. The oranges were completely frozen.  I didn’t know what else to do, so I shoved the oranges into the fridge in hopes that they thaw and are edible. I’ll let you know how it goes. (They zested well, but my husband says that the innards taste like watered down orange juice).

The recipe calls for blueberries and I think the berries in my freezer are blackberries and not blueberries. Yup, they were. They were really sour too, so I went with the full amount of sugar.

In the interest of getting breakfast on the table and not making everyone wait even longer, I am going to attempt this recipe and see what happens. Normally, I would search out a few (or a few dozen) and pick the one I liked best.

I made a double batch of the recipe (doubling everything). The batter tasted good (which is usually a good sign). I only have a jumbo six pan (I really need to get some new muffin tins) and the first pan is in the oven.

I wanted to get some nice pictures of the muffins when they came out of the oven, but everyone gobbled them up so quickly I didn’t get a chance.

The recipe made 15 jumbo muffins and fed 7 hungry bears.

The muffins were delicious and this recipe is definitely a keeper.

What is your favorite muffin recipe?

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Signs Of Spring

In a recent post, I mentioned that the weather has been simply beautiful.

Earlier this week we went for a walk around our neighborhood looking for signs of spring. Check out what we found.

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

Blossoms…

and more blossoms.

Zion and Hosanna enjoying snacks as we go on our walk to look for signs of spring.

Malachi looking cool in his sunglasses. All the boys love these glasses.

Smiling Moses in the wind.

Elisha ready for our walk.

Elisha and Malachi playing in the grass.

Moses, Elisha, and Malachi playing at the park.

Zion and Hosanna watching the big kids play at the park. Gearing up for nap time.

Flowers…

Flowers…

Flowers…

Flowers…

and more flowers.

Moses posing at the park.

It seems to me that spring is here early. What do you think?

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Follow Up to Child Prodigies Post

As a follow up to my Child Prodigies Post, I found some more information about Connie Talbot.

Connie Talbot has her own website.

You can also find out more information about her on Wikipedia.

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A Trip To The Park

We have been missing in action this week because the weather has been AMAZING! It feels like spring already.

It was windy out, but the weather was beautiful.

Zion and Hosanna riding in their buggy.

Elisha at the top of the play equipment.

Elisha doing the monkey bars. He is incredible!

Moses, looking very serious.

Moses being goofy.

Malachi. I wonder what he is looking at?

Malachi and his smirky smile. So cute.

Malachi having fun.

Moses and Malachi climbing and having fun.

Moses and Malachi climbing and having fun.

We visited two parks close by to us on this walk. The second park was full of kids so we don’t have any pictures from there. It was a beautiful walk and a fun time at the park/s.

Daddy was with us, but he was taking all the pictures so there were no pictures of him.

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