I know I’m biased, but I think they’re pretty darn good-looking. lol

Kiddo - senior year 

Munchkin - junior year 

Sweet Girl - 3rd grade 

Little Man - preschool

I was all domestic this morning and made french toast. (Of course, neither Little Man nor Sweet Girl wanted any. Figures.)

Anyway… I looked in the fridge for the syrup and saw the container holding the last little bit of homemade syrup. "Yes!" I said. "I thought this had been all used up."

I took it to the microwave to warm it up, took the lid off & swirled it a bit… hmmm, it moved far too fluidly for refrigerated syrup. I took a quick sniff and laughed.

It was leftover ginger-soy dressing.

Boy, am I glad I double checked! I just can’t imagine what that first bite would have tasted like.

Sorry, Jenni… I know it’s been nearly a month. Here’s a sample of what we’ve been doing since my last post (or from before then, but I just hadn’t blogged yet):

- making yummy granola bars

- Munchkin had his Eagle Board of Review - now we wait to hear back from National, then we’ll be planning another Court of Honor!

- trying my hand at making hair bows for Sweet Girl

- Homecoming week! The boys dressed up in various fun costumes during Spirit Week; on ‘Decades Day,’ Kiddo was dressed as a ’30s gangster, while Munchkin went the ’70s leisure suit route

- Then there was the Homecoming dance

- one Wordless Wednesday, I prepped photos but didn’t post them… Kiddo’s 1st day of kindergarten, and then his 1st day of his senior year

- participating in a ‘googly eyes’ photo contest

- canning, dehydrating, and, for lack of a better term, pickling (pack the peppers into jars & pour boiling soy sauce over them)

- and then last weekend was the annual pumpkin patch

I didn’t get any pics of just Kiddo with his pumpkin - he was on the opposite side of the field from me.

- Of course, we decorated for Halloween on Oct. 1… no pics of that yet, though. It’s pretty much the same thing we do every year.

- last weekend was our Super Saturday - somehow I got roped into teaching 4 classes. We had a good turnout and a lot of fun, though!

- this week we marked five years since Daddy passed away. It doesn’t *really* get easier.

- yesterday Sweet Girl came home with a fever and a sore throat. Today the highest I saw her temperature was 103.6, the lowest 101.4… sigh.

- today Kiddo sat down with me to go through the order form for graduation announcements. Yikes.

Phew!

On Tuesdays, DH takes the kids to MickeyD’s for half price happy meals.

I stay home.

Win/win, ya know what I’m sayin’?

I stay home & fix food that nobody else will eat.

Tonight I experimented with pesto.

Where has it been all my life?

The other day I picked a ton of basil from my garden and made pesto; I didn’t have time to use it then, so I pulled out an ice cube tray and made little pesto cubes. (They work wonderfully for grossing out the kids, by the way…. little smelly chunks of green stuff? Ewww!)

This afternoon I pulled a few pesto cubes out of the freezer and let them thaw. And tonight I made a lovely little sauce out of it with a little olive oil and half and half (didn’t have cream in the house) and mixed it with some tri-color cheese tortellini.

Oh my heck. I think I’ve discovered a new Tuesday tradition for myself.

Tomorrow I’m picking the rest of the basil; hopefully I’ll be able to make enough frozen pesto to get me through the winter!

It must have been running through Little Man’s head all morning or something.

While we were sitting reverently and waiting for church to start, Little Man picked up his Book of Mormon and started riffling through it. "Shhh, Little Man!" I said. "Sit still."

"Look, Mom!" he said. "I’m seeking the Lord!" He kept flipping through the pages, back to front. Then he found the painting of Christ at the beginning of the book. He grinned.

"Look, Mom!" he said. "I found Him! I’m gonna seek the Lord again!"

And went back to flipping pages.

Oy.