Bad For You

"Mommy today we made snowmen at pre-school with candy cereal, you know the round ones like cheerios but the kind that's bad for you."

"Cool."

"Yeah but I left it at school, can we go back and get it so I can eat it?  I will eat vegetables later."

"Why sure."

She loves pre-school.  We stop in to pick up her snowman and the teachers come over and great us and take time to catch me up on what's happening.  It's such a lovely place we are soooooo lucky!

Take Two: 3 of 48

This was a bit lame but it counts as stash sewing so here goes....

Sick of 15 plastic bags when you come back from the grocery store?  Make a couple of these fruit bags.  This was a mesh type fabric that I got from Mary and it's better looking in person though the dimensions I came up with are dorky.  I made 3 of them.  I need vege and bulk bags too but I think they need to be out of cotton.  I used them this week for apples, oranges, and onions.

Drawing With Phia

Sophia was drawing these amazing birds and I asked her to show me how.  Watching her explain it to me was like wow!!!  I grabbed my camera and said show me again.  Watch this...




I know I am totally bias, but is she not totally freaking amazing or what! 
Do you see the swell of mama pride encompassing the planet?  I'm sure you do!

Sno....nope

Last week or there abouts we got a bit of snow. 

Now if there is one true deal about me...I am nuts for the stuff. 

I love it.

So at 5:00am when I awoke without the aid of my alarm clock because of the snow hush.  What did I do?  I got my kids up and in their gear and out into the back yard (yes I am sure my neighbors do not like me).

 It was awesome and true to Washington form by 6:00 it was raining.

Look at that beautiful mushy mess!

This Little Boy

This little boy is always in motion.  Always building and creating, and sometimes destroying.  He has spent hours banging those little pieces in and out of those boards, and even though we will no longer be able to play the games as it was intended, the amount of creative play he has enjoyed is so worth it. 

Work Work Work

Play Play Play

The Vegan Times

Veganized Bran Muffins

These were great the kids snarfed them down!

I am not much of a cook.  Never have been.  My brother got my mom's mad skills in the kitchen and I got my Dad's.  (Sorry Dad)  Yearly I go to a candy making party with some great friends at her parents farm.  We spend the day yakking and making candy.  This lovely group of ladies know me.  I stumble around, read the recipes about 30 times, and even though in the past 9 some years I have improved I am the weak link of the group.  Well this year we got a special treat.  Maggie's Dad supplied me with a massive and I truly mean massive amount of potatoes and acorn squash.

We have eaten them every which way but up and I have to  say we are not sick of them.  I still have a little stash left and they are the best tasting and bizarrest shaped babies you have ever seen.

My point oh yeah... so we went to a vegan restaurant last weekend and they had a poorboy sandwich that was potato salad in a sandwich so what has David been eating this week?

No idea what's up with the color there but this was yummm!  This whole vegan adventure has been good for me.  I have taken more cooking chances and had more cooking successes then I have ever had before. I will definitely walk away with a few more recipes to add to my box.

Birds

We have a heap of birds in our area and the kids love to watch them.  On a cold afternoon we went for a walk and found pine cones.  Added bird seed and peanut butter and tada instant Bird attractors. (Squirrels like them too.