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Weekend Check-in (Lite): May 4

I don't have time for a full report this weekend, so let me just do a quick run-down of what's happening in my kitchen today:

Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos (for the freezer)

Homemade sunscreen -- an experiment

Coconut lotion bars -- also an experiment, cooling in silicone muffin molds right now. Wishing I had some essential oil other than lavender for scent (not being particularly drawn to tea tree or eucalyptus for lotion, the other two oils I keep on hand)

Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal (a triple batch for the freezer)

I'm still waiting on a shipment from Amazon (of dried calendula petals and bentonite clay), but up next in the "experiment" department will be calendula salve (because we have angry wasps on our deck) and a new deodorant recipe (one without coconut oil, so that it won't melt in the summer heat).

I always feel a little guilty when I don't have anything to blog about: not because I'm concerned about building a big, money-making blog with a huge readership (I'm totally not), but because if I don't have anything to write about, I must not be doing anything interesting! We've been more consistent on completing Levi's math lessons, and the boys are playing outside a lot, and Silas -- newly pulling up on things, climbing up stairs, eating massive amounts of a food -- is simply taking a lot of attention. :) I'm going to choose real life over blogging about "activities" any day!

Happy spring, happy May, happy beautiful weekend!


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  1. AnonymousMay 4, 2013 at 4:26 PM

    Silas certainly has a look of his own! What a cutie!

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  2. ChristyMay 4, 2013 at 7:33 PM

    Oh, I made some chocolate granola bars, too. http://themarathonmom.com/chocolate-granola-bars.htm

    Can you see the cut to the right of his nose where he face-planted into a Duplo? That was just a day or so after he climbed over a toy bucket and split open his lip. Might be a rough ride with this one. :)

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