Cinnamon Toast Biscotti

So far, my flowers are all holding in there! And my strawberry plant is growing berries! Fingers crossed! Not sure about the second dahlia, I THINK it's okay, but I won't know for sure till it blooms. I trimmed all the blooms off everything else to give them a rest, that is one thing I learned from my Mom.

We bought the boys baseball gloves today! We pulled our old gloves out a few days ago, to see if they might be interested in playing catch, and Joe was immediately hooked. With a big ole grown-up girl glove, he can catch and throw almost better than I can! For a 5-year-old, he is seriously a natural! I'm seeing Little League in this kid's future. Stephen started playing once he realized how much fun The Geologist and Joe were having, and he's not bad either! So today we went shopping for gloves, and they each found one that fit, in their favorite colors! Joe thinks he still likes my glove better... I'm hoping that wears off...

Weekly Menu July 1

Source: escapetoahappyplace

This week we have:
Homemade Hamburger Buns

The Geologist's Homemade Burgers

Cinnamon Toast Biscotti
Strawberry Shortcake Scones

For today, July 1...

Orange Poppyseed Tea Cake

Some days, you just want to bake a cake. But you have to wait till a weekend. And you have to pick a cake that your husband wants, otherwise it won't get eaten, and you'll have a whole cake sitting on your counter that you are not allowed to finish all by yourself. Sometimes you plan on using oranges for a cake, and end up using half oranges and half lemons, due to the selective memory loss of that fore-mentioned husband. You may even send him to knock on doors, looking for spare oranges. There probably won't be any. So the cake will be more of a "mixed citrus" than orange, but it doesn't really matter. That cake will probably be pulled out of the oven a few minutes too early, if you happen to be napping off a strange 24-hour virus and that husband is in charge of judging when the cake is done. You might even have issues making frosting, namely a fear of too much powdered sugar, that leaves you with less-than-gorgeous frosting, but don't worry, it still tastes good!

Dark Chocolate Black Cherry Muffins

Holy heaven and a half, am I glad to be home!! It has been a long, long day of errand-running. On the bright side, we have no errands left to run tomorrow! The longest, of course, was the DMV. Getting our driver's licenses changed to Colorado. We've been informed that is one of the things holding up our homestudy. Nice to know!! Anyway, when we got there, there had just been a crowd of lunch-break-ers about the same time as most of the staff left for lunch! We were there for three hours. With little kids. *Headache* Luckily, the boys were really, really good. Stellar, actually. The iPad helps. They're only allowed to play with it when in a waiting room, so it never gets old! And boy, is it a lifesaver! New licenses in the mail, groceries bought, errands over, time to breathe. Ahhhh... And blog :)

Chicken Fajitas and Cilantro Lime Rice

They're not pretty or fancy, but this is one of my favorite meals! The Geologist of course infinitely prefers the beef version, and I meant to make him some beef ones this time, but I forgot. So you get pictures of the chicken ones. :) Not much to write today, busy busy! Gotta get my house mostly tidied and baby- AND puppy-proofed, half an hour before I watch my friend's two little girls and their brand new puppy! We're going to have a blast, hope my carpet survives!

Weekly Menu June 17

Source: mytravelingteacup

This week we have:

Chicken Fajitas

Cilantro Lime Rice

Dark Chocolate Black Cherry Muffins

Orange Poppyseed Cake

For today, June 17...