Illuminatea

I don't know that I talked about the release of Harry Potter 7 and events surrounding that. First off we did go down late to the big Borders store in the Redmond Town Center. I was amazed at the sheer amount of people there! The children wanted everyone to get dressed up. Devin and I went as muggle parents of a young witch and wizard. The ...

Yesterday and today were just beautiful. Today it got over 70 degrees outside according the thermometer in the shade on my front porch. My garden is looking awesome and I am pleased with my progress. I have slowly been working on getting my Garden ready for spring. I have mown the lawn, and done a touch of weeding here and there between torrential ...

Well the past week has not been nearly as productive as I would have liked. On top of the snow day last Thursday where both kids were home from school, Alaric has been home sick ever since. This is one of those things where the "mommy instinct" kicks in really strongly. I had been watching him close as I didn't like how he sounded ...

Today was a good day. I got to go shopping all by myself and take as much time as I wanted. I went to a little gift shop in Redmond I keep meaning to check out called the RoseTree cottage. I then went to Borders where I picked up 2 books I didn't have as well as the new UK Country Living. For lunch I went to the British Pantry in Redmond and ...

Today was an odd day but good. This morning I had to take the kids early to school so Treanna could go to choir. On choir days Alaric goes to a friends in the morning to go to school with him on the bus so I don't have to head up the hill twice. Well it was snowing. School was still on time and in session but it was really snowing this ...

Along with other Yorkshire Pudding experiments Monday night I made Toad in a Hole. I started by baking the sausages in the giant roasting pan and mixing up the pudding ingredients and getting them ready to go. After the sausages were done there was plenty of grease in the bottom of the roasting pan to just pour in the batter. It smelled wonderful ...