Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

I needed to warm up the house and my home teachers were coming over tonight, so I decided to bake some cookies.  Sam wanted peanut butter and these were the result.

yummy! (that was from Sam!)

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar, packed

3/4 cup white sugar

1 cup peanut butter

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla (optional) *that's for you Kelsie!*

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 1/3 cup quick oats

-In a mixer, cream together shortening, butter, brown sugar, white sugar and peanut butter until smooth.  Beat in the eggs one at a time until well blended.  Add vanilla and mix.  Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture.  Mix in the oats until just combined.  Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

-Bake for 12 minutes in a preheated 350 F oven, or until just light brown.  

Overheard

Sam:  "...throwing ice like a hot Canadian girlfriend..."


???? Where did that come from????




*Edit:  I have since asked Sam, and apparently it is off of G-Force the movie!  But he didn't really understand what he was saying.*

Plum tart

No words are required!

I love James' prayers

... Thank you for this day.
Bless the food.
Bless that the military are up so they can fight.
And have a good day...

Pot Roast

Last night we had Pot Roast with homemade whole wheat biscuits.  The pot roast was heavenly, however I will be searching for a different whole wheat biscuit recipe.  Surprisingly though, Samuel ate a whole biscuit.

Oat Bread

The house smells so yummy right now!  I veered from  my typical honey wheat bread and decided to go for some oat bread today.  I haven't tasted it yet, but it looks fantastic!

Here is the recipe I used.

2 1/2 cups warm water

4 tbsp butter

2 tsp salt

3 cups whole wheat flour

3 cups all purpose flour

1 cup rolled oats

4 tbsp brown sugar

3 tsp active dry yeast

1.  In a small bowl, proof yeast in warm water.  (Let sit for a few minutes to make sure the yeast is still alive.)

2.  Meanwhile, in the bowl of a bread mixer (with a dough hook), combine flours, oats, sugar, salt and butter. 

3.  Add yeast/water mixture and mix for 5-6 minutes.

4.  Put in a greased bowl and allow to rise until double.

5.  Punch down dough and let rest for ten minutes.

6.  Cut dough in half and shape into loaves.  Put into greased bread pans and allow 30-60 minutes to rise.

7.  Bake in preheated 375 F oven for 35-40 minutes.

A tribute to Ryen

Samuel is not feeling well today and is laying in my bed.  He's been watching me play a few games of Bubble Popp on Facebook.  After my last game he said...

Sam:  Mom, you got all the jewels again.

Me:  Yeah, I almost always do.

Sam:  Why's that?

Me:  'Cuz I'm awesome like that.

Wow, what a day!

Well, today started off as any normal Saturday in Roosevelt might: with a trip to Vernal.  Sam was in desperate need of a new pair of shoes and some pants to fit his growing body.  We left at 8:30 to get an early start.  I wanted to be home by early afternoon so I could accomplish something on the house today.  However, several hours later, we finally pulled back into Roosevelt at 5:00.  I dropped some plants off at the church for the Stake Valentine's Dinner that was tonight.  Kristy [she's in charge of this activity and might I say the gym looked amazing!] said I could drop the boys off at her house and her sitters would watch them while I stopped by for an hour or so.  So I told the boys they would get to play with some friends and I went home to get ready.  Half an hour later, I was showered and dressed in a skirt and a new pretty pink sweater I had picked up in town today.  An hour to go and I sat up to the computer, turned on an audio book and waited for the time to go by.  By six o'clock, the exhaustion set in and I went to check on the boys.  The conversation went something like this...

[James had his headphones on listening to music.]

Sam:  Mom, when are we going to leave?

Me:  Twenty minutes...if we go.

Sam:  If we go?

Me:  Yeah, I didn't realize how tired I am.

Sam:  Can't you take a Xanax?

Me:  A Xanax?  I'm not irritated or anxious, hon, I'm TIRED!

Sam:  What can you take for that?

Me:  Sleep.

Ten minutes later...

James:  Mom, it's 6:20, are we going to leave yet?

Me:  James, I'm REALLY tired.  I don't think we are going to go.

James:  But I want to play with my friends.

Me:  I'm sorry, hon, but I am REALLY tired.

James:  Can't you take a Xanax and be happy?

Me:  You too!!!  No, James, I'm not sad.  I'm TIRED!

James:  What can you take?

Me: [Geez!  Duh kids, TIRED....TIRED!]

Me: I can sleep.

James: Oh.

Night on the town

I took the boys out for a rare night on the town.  For us that means a walk across the street to the movies.  We went and saw the new Percy Jackson movie.  The boys loved it.  On the walk home, we were talking about the super powers the demigods had.  James informed me that when he went to the bathroom, he tried, but was unsuccessful in controlling the water.  Sorry to burst your bubble James, but Paul is definitely not Poseidon! 

Moving

Well it looks like I'm going to make it barely over the year mark here in Roosevelt before we are on the move again.  This time back to Nevada.  Instead of Reno, however, we will be living in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe again.  At first I was not excited with the idea of moving, but now I'm pretty stoked about it.

Fact of life

After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF.

(I can't take credit for this, got it from an old friend from Nebraska.)

You know you have too many...when...

You know you have too many prescriptions when you take a Xanax mid-school day and realize thirty minutes later that you actually took a sleeping pill.

I can eat 100...

James came home with a bunch of papers from school today.  Here is one of them.  

*Click on image to get a better view*

After much ???? from me, he told me he could eat 100...french fries!  Duh, mom!

Is he worried?

James' dinner prayer went something like this tonight.

"...bless the food.
Bless our mommy and daddy.
And bless that mommy won't be sick anymore.
And bless that mommy won't be irritated.
And bless mommy goodluck..."

A little too late...

Tonight I allowed the boys to do something I have never done before.  I let them pull out the hide-a-bed and watch movies late into the night.  Around ten, I told them I was going to sleep and they could watch one more movie and then the tv had to go off and them to sleep.  I woke up at one o'clock to James yelling, "Mama, mama, I'm scared!"  Now mind you, the tv was still on and he was in the same bed as his brother.  I got out of bed, shut the tv off and told them that they would not be allowed to do this again.  Within one minute, they were both asleep and here I am, two hours later and I cannot fall asleep.