I get so excited when I find yummy recipes. This was on http://www.greenereating.com/ and is such an easy yummy and healthy snack. Trav is always my true gauge on goodness because he can be difficult to please with healthy things. But he came home before the kids got out of school and ate them all before they got home. Granted, he was really hungry, but he thought they were yummy. So I had to make a double batch, which lasted barely into the next day.
Raw Oatmeal Cookies
1 1/2 - 2 c oatmeal
1tsp cinnamon
1 c dates
1 c raisins
Combine oatmeal and cinnamon. Chop dates into a fine mush (I used a food processor). Mash together, add raisins and keep working it until it makes a dough that will stick together. I added a little water to help it along at that point. Roll into balls and smash into cookies and they are ready to eat.
I gave some to my friend and she admits they weren't her favorite, but she was expecting more of a cookie texture and taste and it's more like a great granola bar type....she liked it better after knowing that =).
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Full week
Summary of a wild and crazy week.
Starting with a migraine, and wearing sunglasses for 4 days, and I still feel kind of weird and light headed and tender.
Last minute temple trips. If you are going to have a headache, this is definitely the place to have one. Quiet and peaceful and soothing.
2 year old who thinks he can change his own diaper 3 times this week after having a stinky diaper. The last time I found him upstairs in the bathroom, with nothing on. He was messy, and the roll of TP was partly undone and I could see he had tried to wipe himself. No trace of the messy diaper. So Ammon and I did an emergency search. It was nowhere upstairs, but I saw a little spot at the top of the stairs, indicating he had come all the way from downstairs. So we ran down and didn't see it anywhere. Then I smelled something as I stood at the sink. And there it was in the garbage can. So he had taken it off, put it in the garbage and then went upstairs and tried to clean himself. Fairly impressive. And with one small carpet spot to show for it. Phew. But it's a habit I don't want to continue.
8 year old who cries hysterically every time he strikes out, and therefore strikes out every time. Some intensive practicing yesterday with Dad, that is...practicing smiling and having fun and not getting angry.
6 year old who cries hysterically because he didn't get ice cream at the party, therefore he didn't get to go back and get ice cream.
6 year old who is also very sweet and praises his little brother for writing 2 letters. He went on and on telling him what a good job he did. It warmed my heart.
8 year old with 2 ticks to pull off in one day. Nasty, ewww, gross. They really love this child. He does not really love them back.
Family Home Evening about cheerfulness and kindness to other. Not that any of our kids need that lesson, especially a certain 8 year old who I just don't know what to do with sometimes.
Fun yard sales where we found a baseball glove and a bat and missed out on a bike for a poor 4 year old still riding a tricycle.
Bargain box is a great place where today I bought some church pants, a church shirt, a pair of jeans, and pair of tennis shoes for $2.25.
Oh and as a sidenote, I get called a new calling at church. No sleep after that. Oh my goodness. What is our Bishop thinking? So now I keep waking up at 3:30 or 4 a.m. and just getting up after not being able to go back to sleep. That one's not common knowledge yet, though.
Lots of dishes and vacuuming, even more laundry, and I only get one run in because of my silly head.
And a little awesome extra time with my awesome husband, since most of his squadron was gone and he took a couple of extra days to be home before leaving to play racquetball for the Airforce team at nationals. Go Travis! I sure would like to go...
Toys constantly dumped out of bins, cupboards emptied of tupperware and utensils, tubes of toothpaste smeared all over bathrooms, marker on kitchen floors, water dumped from cups to floors all over the house all week, and lots of giggling and trying to escape the house and get into the fridge--all by one silly 2 year old.
Oh and finally, tonight was a great game for one 8 year old who did it! He had a good attitude and tried hard and it paid off! 4 hits, first time attempting to pitch (and threw an out on 1rst as a pitcher). It was heavenly (yet I have to say very stressful STILL--what in the world did I put my parents through by playing sports?)
Starting with a migraine, and wearing sunglasses for 4 days, and I still feel kind of weird and light headed and tender.
Last minute temple trips. If you are going to have a headache, this is definitely the place to have one. Quiet and peaceful and soothing.
2 year old who thinks he can change his own diaper 3 times this week after having a stinky diaper. The last time I found him upstairs in the bathroom, with nothing on. He was messy, and the roll of TP was partly undone and I could see he had tried to wipe himself. No trace of the messy diaper. So Ammon and I did an emergency search. It was nowhere upstairs, but I saw a little spot at the top of the stairs, indicating he had come all the way from downstairs. So we ran down and didn't see it anywhere. Then I smelled something as I stood at the sink. And there it was in the garbage can. So he had taken it off, put it in the garbage and then went upstairs and tried to clean himself. Fairly impressive. And with one small carpet spot to show for it. Phew. But it's a habit I don't want to continue.
8 year old who cries hysterically every time he strikes out, and therefore strikes out every time. Some intensive practicing yesterday with Dad, that is...practicing smiling and having fun and not getting angry.
6 year old who cries hysterically because he didn't get ice cream at the party, therefore he didn't get to go back and get ice cream.
6 year old who is also very sweet and praises his little brother for writing 2 letters. He went on and on telling him what a good job he did. It warmed my heart.
8 year old with 2 ticks to pull off in one day. Nasty, ewww, gross. They really love this child. He does not really love them back.
Family Home Evening about cheerfulness and kindness to other. Not that any of our kids need that lesson, especially a certain 8 year old who I just don't know what to do with sometimes.
Fun yard sales where we found a baseball glove and a bat and missed out on a bike for a poor 4 year old still riding a tricycle.
Bargain box is a great place where today I bought some church pants, a church shirt, a pair of jeans, and pair of tennis shoes for $2.25.
Oh and as a sidenote, I get called a new calling at church. No sleep after that. Oh my goodness. What is our Bishop thinking? So now I keep waking up at 3:30 or 4 a.m. and just getting up after not being able to go back to sleep. That one's not common knowledge yet, though.
Lots of dishes and vacuuming, even more laundry, and I only get one run in because of my silly head.
And a little awesome extra time with my awesome husband, since most of his squadron was gone and he took a couple of extra days to be home before leaving to play racquetball for the Airforce team at nationals. Go Travis! I sure would like to go...
Toys constantly dumped out of bins, cupboards emptied of tupperware and utensils, tubes of toothpaste smeared all over bathrooms, marker on kitchen floors, water dumped from cups to floors all over the house all week, and lots of giggling and trying to escape the house and get into the fridge--all by one silly 2 year old.
Oh and finally, tonight was a great game for one 8 year old who did it! He had a good attitude and tried hard and it paid off! 4 hits, first time attempting to pitch (and threw an out on 1rst as a pitcher). It was heavenly (yet I have to say very stressful STILL--what in the world did I put my parents through by playing sports?)
Temple trip
There's nothing like having friends good enough that you can make a temple trip happen overnight. Well, for us, at least. 3 1/2 hours isn't THAT far, but we have not been to the temple in over a year! Trav took leave on a Monday and Tuesday twice in a row and that gave us a couple of long weekends. Unfortunately those are awkward weekends broken up by soccer and baseball and Sunday and school. But it was oh so nice. We had hoped to make a temple trip during that sometime, but it wasn't working out, and they are closed Mondays. But here I was walking with my friend Rebecca on Monday morning, and I mentioned we had hoped to go but wouldn't and she just asked why we couldn't go on Tuesday. She let all of our kids sleep at her house so that Trav and I could leave at 6a.m. the next morning (we had to get back by 6pm because I had to be at the church helping), and she got Noah and Kaden off to school, and took care of everyone all day for us. And she acted like we were doing her a favor. That was her "temple service". I love wonderful friends--they make me want to be better. As Trav and I dropped the kids off Monday night and put them to bed, we left and suddenly realized we didn't HAVE to go right home, so we grabbed the moment and went to a movie. It would have been better if I wasn't still trying to get over what must have been a migraine from the day before, but you have to grab the moments when you can! Anyway, we got up early, drove to the temple, did a session, had lunch and drove back, and that was our day. I am so glad we were able to go!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The story of my life
Trav was tdy for a week and this is the emergency he came home to last week. My kids are sneaky....they know if they start comb my hair and play with it near the end of a book, there is a good chance I will read longer and delay their bedtime a little. It's true--hey and don't we all need a little pampering, especially when our husbands are not their to pamper us? Anyway, Kaden was combing my hair and Ammon decided to use a lion, and I let him. It was a while before I suspected he was having trouble and I offered to help get it out. But this thing was really stuck. Luckily Trav was pretty much on his way home from the airport, so I just waited for him to help me.
Beautiful Giant Moths
We went to the baseball diamonds last week to try to teach Noah how to slide. We get easily sidetracked, but this moth was the highlight of everyone's week.
It was the biggest moth/butterfly I think I have ever seen!
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