With my husband out of town at a conference all week, I relied heavily upon the benevolence of others for our dinners and entertainment this week. :) So, here's the short list:
What I'm Cooking
Homemade Cheerios (using the first recipe on the site). We stopped eating most cereal several years ago, but I've always kept a box of Cheerios on hand during the finger-food stage of babyhood. (If you really want to know why, it's because of articles like this one. The same information would apply to baby "puffs." If you don't want to know why, don't click the link. I'm not judging anyone.) Note that I did NOT spend time making O-shaped snacks!! I cut the squares a bit too big, and baked them a smidge too long, but overall they were easy to make and surprisingly tasty. Toby and Silas are fans. :)
Cinnamon Coffeecake Muffins (made with leftover oatmeal). Sounds weird, right? I thought so, too, but I had a pesky one cup of oatmeal hanging out in the fridge, and one cup of oatmeal just doesn't get very far in my crowd of oatmeal-loving boys. They were actually pretty good, very moist. I halved the recipe, since I only had one cup of leftover oatmeal, and decreased the sugar (I used sucanat) even more than that, using only a scant half-cup for the recipe.
What I'm Reading
Still finishing up Shepherding a Child's Heart. Still really glad I picked it up again now that I know more about disciplining children than I did five years ago.
I also flipped through the latest Rachel Ray magazine, thanks to the subscription from my aunt. :)
Weekly Snapshots
What I'm Cooking
Homemade Cheerios (using the first recipe on the site). We stopped eating most cereal several years ago, but I've always kept a box of Cheerios on hand during the finger-food stage of babyhood. (If you really want to know why, it's because of articles like this one. The same information would apply to baby "puffs." If you don't want to know why, don't click the link. I'm not judging anyone.) Note that I did NOT spend time making O-shaped snacks!! I cut the squares a bit too big, and baked them a smidge too long, but overall they were easy to make and surprisingly tasty. Toby and Silas are fans. :)
Cinnamon Coffeecake Muffins (made with leftover oatmeal). Sounds weird, right? I thought so, too, but I had a pesky one cup of oatmeal hanging out in the fridge, and one cup of oatmeal just doesn't get very far in my crowd of oatmeal-loving boys. They were actually pretty good, very moist. I halved the recipe, since I only had one cup of leftover oatmeal, and decreased the sugar (I used sucanat) even more than that, using only a scant half-cup for the recipe.
What I'm Reading
Still finishing up Shepherding a Child's Heart. Still really glad I picked it up again now that I know more about disciplining children than I did five years ago.
I also flipped through the latest Rachel Ray magazine, thanks to the subscription from my aunt. :)
Weekly Snapshots
Silas, looking at Sandra Boynton's Frog Trouble, singing his favorite Getty hymn.
Levi joining on the couch to read his literature book of the week to Silas.
Baby with a bucket on his head. :)
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