cold weather and baking

the cold weather is upon us. all i want to do is pull out my mixer, bowls and baking pans. at the moment i have a hankering for sticky buns, rolled in pecans. turning the oven on, filling the home with inviting smells and a warmth that only an oven can make.

turning on the crock pot and slowly cooking some stew or roast, mmm. the winter months are full of warming food, both for your tummy and your heart.

here is to the next few months being long and cold so we keep our kitchens' hopping with warming foods!

the days go bye. . .

yes, i meant to put the word bye up there. all the days just seem to fly by. no matter what i do or how i try they cannot and will not come back to me. you can beg and plead with the universe to give you back just one day, but it will not happen.

today i am thankful for all i have, and all i have lost in my life. the reason i am thankful for the things i have lost is because with out losing them i would not know, or understand, all the things i do have. relationships come and go in your life, and sometimes, the best thing to do is just let it go . . .

that being said i can say i am very thankful this year for all my family and friends. all the ones i have are the ones i want. nothing in life is ever easy!

growing up i remember wishing my family would care for me, as i only had a mother and step father and no one else. than as i got older i realized that it was my mother and step father that kept out everyone else, cut that tie and haven't looked back. i love celebrating the holidays and this year will be a special one as it is Kiran's first Thanksgiving, and first Christmas! i love all these firsts, just as i did with Tiffany.

so here is to hoping that we all have a great holiday season, and maybe some firsts for the rest of ya :-) i will try and share :-P

life moves all to fast. . .

kiran is five months old now. she is trying so hard to sit up, and wants to eat. every time we go to eat she is there with her little mouth drooling over whatever is on our plate.
it is amazing to see her finding her place in the world. she looks around and tries to figure things out. for instance, she has a pink giraffe my great cousins sent her and if you turn this little metal nob it makes noise and the head moves around. well, kiran has figured out how to make it work. she will lay there and play with that little metal nob. she looks up at us as if to ask us to turn it on. it is awesome.
tiffany is trying to be a kid while trying to be an adult, and the two do not mix. she wants to be in adult conversations, but she is a kid. it is so hard to be the age she is at.
her soccer season is almost over and she will be in the play-off's this up coming sunday. so proud of her and all the effort she put in this season, compaired to last seasons.

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women . . .

i have come to realize something in myself recently, something i am not happy about.
when doing things i bring attention to myself. have you ever noticed that you do this yourself?
normally mike will ask me what i have done during the day, and i tell him. he tells me what he has done, clients he has seen, ect. just a way to discuss the days events. but even when he doesnt ask i will tell him, i vacuumed, or i washed the windows (if he hadnt noticed). now why do i do this?
seriously, why do i need to let him know "hey buddy i kept the house clean." he knows, he can see it, and if he doesnt it doesnt matter. he does things i dont see, he doesnt bring attention to it. i realized this after seeing him work outside to take care of some gardening for me one weekend. he never said anything but i knew.

i have watched women talk to their significant others and realized it seems to be a theme among us, to tell our significant others of what we have done. but why?

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monkey love

tiff decided to hand kiran her monkey today and i got some of the cutest pictures. this is just one of them.

kiran is growing like a weed. she is almost three months old and wearing 6 to 9 month clothes. there are so many cute clothes that she has. she is trying her hardest to crawl as well.

tiffany is in soccer right now. they have not started any games but will in september. her team meets three times a week an hour and a half each time. she is getting in shape :-)

we are about to move, beginning of september. wish us luck :-)

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growing, growing, growing. . .

so all kiran seems to do is sleep. I know babies are suppose to eat, sleep, and poop but come on already! of course she is starting to turn around in circles on the floor. today she did half a circle and at the end of it all had a puppet zebra in her mouth for chewing purposes.

she loves sitting on the couch and just staring. of course, she only does this for about 5 to 10 minutes and than wants to be moved.

well maybe I'm glad she sleeps so much. . .

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bath time

tonight I was watching kiran as tiffany hopped in the tub to play with her, and she smiled. after nights of knowing we had to have her bath ready by 8, as she would scream otherwise, it seems she has something else to look forward to. . . big sister playing with her!

it was so wonderful seeing her face light up as tiffany went to get in the tub next to her.

tiffany seems to look forward to their special time as well. she was drawing out in the dining room when I grabbed everything for bath time, and within a minute she was in the bathroom ready to jump in.

she loves seeing kirans face light up as she tries to grab the bath tub monkey, attaches to the side of the infant tub. she gives it to her and the first couple times she opened kirans hand and placed it in her hand. now kiran is grabbing it by herself, as well as other toys.

but to me the whole point of this is to just enjoy all these little moments. something I will never get back.

makes me look for more rewarding moments in every day. we all know they are they. just need to look harder for them.

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art. . .

hundreds of years ago art was naked men and women protrayed in clay, rock, or stone. now art is considered photos painted or pictures taken.
little is shown to the people that still do art in rock or stone. . .
but what about the new art that no one really notices. . . the new artists every where. every website takes art to make it. who says art is just pictures you can wish to jump into, it can also be lines of code to make something work right or look good.

food for thought, this web page your viewing right now. . .is it just something to pass through, or did it take an artist of coding to make it work?

I think any person that makes a website is an artist, just some are good at what they do and the website will run smooth. . . or they don't know what they are doing and it will look ehh and run horribly.

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children & cleaning, atleast mine.

so my daughter has a list of chores that are suppose to be done every day. . . key phrase being "suppose to be."
now every day I try to stay on top of her to get them done. the truth of the matter is that it takes more energy for me to make her do them than it does if I had just done them myself. really makes me wonder why I even bother having her do them, sometimes.

than there are other times I ask her to do her chores and they are done in no time, and done right? what the heck?

I will be glad once she finally just does them consistantly right. . . the first time!

okay who wants some brownies? (and coffee, hehe)

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dna testing, not just paternity testing

there is a new thing out on the market, well maybe just a few years old new, called otc dna testing. one company can test your family history back 150,000 years to diseases you could have in your dna. however, after some of the people at the fda sent in their testing swabs they did not come back as expected, "Five staff members sent two DNA samples to each company; one with his or her real personal and medical information, and one with faux identifying and medical information.

Results varied markedly between companies and some information contradicted already diagnosed health conditions. Amongst the small sampling, the tests produced inconsistent results for the same disease 68 percent of the time." - Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Facing Fire by: susan brady

so my question is, how great is all this testing?

Medicated Children. . .

i have been reading articles on childhood obesity, diabetes and other related illnesses. it is really sad. they are saying how so many children have to take prescription drugs related to all these use to be adult illnesses. now these children that have not even reached puberty and are required to take these drugs on a daily basis.

what is wrong with us? we have all gone from going outside to play and get some sun to staying inside. the same old broken record going over and over again in my head about how the sun is bad for you and how it can cause skin cancer. truth be told i would rather my daughter get skin cancer than be obese and get diabetes and be on a regimen of these drugs. i would rather my daughter have to get a little bit of her skin cut off than be walking around a time bomb staying in the house.

but. . . there are no children going outside to play any more. oh it is to hot and nothing to do. what did we all do as children outside, we all had a good ol' time and played till the evening hours and than went home to have dinner and go to bed. our own children dont do this. . . we are to affriad of child predators and skin cancer.

so maybe we should watch our children and go outside with them, behind them with the sun block.

do you know that rickets has come back? yes, rickets. . .good ol' fashion vitamin d would take care of this but no. . .our children are locked in the house all day where it is nice and cool and no one bad can touch them. let us all go outside with our children, spend some time with them. maybe that would also help their psyicis as well and they would not need to go see a shrink when they are older because mommy and daddy never spent any time with them.

seriously. . we all need to throw our children outside and tell them to stay outside a while. yes i am talking to myself as well.

amazing how a little time outside could rid us all of our sleep problems, our obesity. . . our pains. . . just saying

coffee is off the banned list for athletes

just read an article saying that caffine can help the skeleton muscles provide longer endurance.
so all hail to the caffine :-)
I will keep drinking my coffee.

information taken from healthnews.com

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night time and/or morning

i am really learning to love night time. it isn't the fact that it is cooler. nah it couldn't be that. i think i am learning to enjoy evenings because that is when things are quiet. . . a hot cup of tea is better than a hot cup of coffee. the cars aren't buzzing outside, and you can just sit and hear the crickets and other insects.

i am learning to love early mornings too, why? because this is when kiran is most active, trying new things. a hot cup of coffee isn't far away (love the flavor of my coffee), the house is quiet while everyone sleeps but her and i. the birds are chirping and the world seems right.

sleepy eyes

great morning. hubby made chocolate chip pancakes and chipotle eggs. great combo.

got my garden watered this morning. should have a bunch of cherry tomatoes ripe within the next couple days, which will be really nice for salads. have one bell pepper which should be good to eat in the next couple days as well. not nearly as large as the ones you see in the store. i am guessing those ones are older than a year old. maybe mine will be bigger next year (if they survive the winter).

ahh a great cup of coffee and a wonderful breakfast, who can ask for more ?

the coffee

The day has to start with coffee, whether it be black or with sugar and cream. As a new mother, again, 5 hours of sleep is awesome. My darling daughter #1 sleeps 12 hours and complains she will take a nap. Oh the joys of being 10 years old and being able to sleep through a new borns cries in the middle of the night.
I love my darling daughter #2 but it will be awhile before I can sleep through the night again.

So anyone for a carmel moccioto? I need carmel. . .