next stop....food tv

I didn't realize that I was that great of a chef. This morning during breakfast, the littlest guy looked at his plate and exclaimed "this is the best breakfast I ever seen"

I was sorry I didn't take a picture of the masterpiece before it was served.

a sleepover at grandma's

Early tomorrow morning, the boys (soon to be 3 and 6) will be coming to our house for a sleepover. Their mother, my daughter is getting her tonsils out. After spending this last year with one infection after another in her throat, and ending a month ago with an abscess that wouldn't go away, the Ear Nose Throat specialist that was called in strongly urged her to do so. Part of her problem is that she is allergic to most antibiotics. Her regular doctor rarely will give her an antibiotic, preferring to let her fight off most infections naturally and save the drugs for emergencies. This last infection took two rounds of different drugs to finally cure her.

The boys are more excited about the sleepover than having any sympathy for mom. I'm sure they have big plans for the week. They were mad that it didn't start tonight.

Auntie, my other daughter, gave them Spider Man ready beds for the special sleepover when they were in Chicago visiting her a few weeks ago. We got to hope their parents have packed enough for this sleepover. The last time I had one child with no underwear or socks.

pioneer woman

We spent 4 nights and 5 days at the family camp at the lake. Such a wonderful relaxing place. It has all the modern conveniences that makes an early pioneer woman jump for joy!

Lucky, lucky me!! This is the stove I get to cook on! Oops, this picture shows we are in need of a polishing.

Funny thing, the burners don't turn on with the turn of a dial. This is what we needed to do so we could cook. We were completely out of wood.

Of course we also had to make more of this for the fireplace in case we needed heat.
After you fix a lovely meal you need to go to the pump to get water to heat on the stove so you can wash dishes. Here is our ice box. Just kidding, what do you think we are anyway. We do have electricity, so we have a modern refrigerator. The ice box is used for a pantry.

We had the boys spend one night with us. They were able to spend 2 full days playing in the woods, swimming, going for boat rides and fishing.
We didn't catch anything big enough to keep, but this little guy was so cute I had to post the picture.

On a side note....this is my husbands fishing boat. The boat he just had to have. In the 5 years we have had this boat he has never caught a fish that was a keeper. Not for lack of trying.

where did my prince charming go

Last Saturday night ended the annual week long community festival celebrating the community's heritage. It was a fun filled week with a children's parade mid week and the large parade on Saturday afternoon. The week is consists of community picnics, fish boils, princess pageants, social night on the town, and this is the week of class reunions. It ended on Saturday night with a huge fireworks display over the lake.

We, meaning myself, husband, daughter and son-in-law and their two sons walked back to our house to wait for the traffic to clear so they could drive home. Kicked back in the family room, the little guys (6 and almost 3) and I were talking about the fireworks display, remembering all of our favorites.

I told the boys that when I turn into a fairy princess and we live in a magical fairy princess kingdom I will decree that there will be fireworks every night. That's how much I love fireworks!!

I have a rule here that if I have to play superhero with the boys, I get to be a princess with a sparkly dress. Sometimes my dress is pink, usually it is purple and if I get very lucky it can be lime green.

So anyway, the reaction to my proclamation from the smarty pants 6 year old, who now that he has finished kindergarten knows all he needs to know.....

He rolled his eyes, looked to his mom and said............" yeah, like that's going to happen."