Book or Recipe by it's cover..... Don't judge!

Ok so a couple weeks ago I am thumbing through the Cookbooks I have and I have some Country cooking book that had some "misc" recipes in the back. I love these kinds I could read these all day long. But one caught my eye

Peanut Butter Banana Toasted sandwiches.

Come on. Are you kidding me? Mashed banana in Peanut butter?? I have had some crazy combos like
Salt on Mangos
Cereal and Yogurt
Crepes and Yogurt
cottage cheese and Ruffles potato chips
I mean I am willing to give anything pretty much ago.... ask R.G. I downed some nasty sesame seed sweet ball of pooh yesterday.

The Banana and Peanut butter sounded to me like someone pulled it off of the Oscar the grouch menu. Something like "Pickles and Ice cream"

So I had to give it a whirl.

LOVED IT! Made my kids eat it and they TOTALLY LOVED IT.

So here it is. Peanut butter mixed with two mashed bananas to taste.... sandwhich them like toasted cheesers and grill them on each side. Eat hot steamy mess and LOVE IT TOO! I dare you.

Two brothers

Yesterday morning around 4:30am I woke up to some light peering through my door. The normal dark house is not usually lit up so well at that hour. I slowly made my way down the stairs. I then hear some clanging and banging of our fisherprice train set. I look and the two boys are already getting the tracks laid and the trains moving.

I am too tired to be really upset. So I gently tell them to go back to sleep.
Thing 1 instantly turns to the FISH and in a direct tone says,

"I told you this was a bad idea!" We had two cranky boys to deal with yesterday.

If it Sounds Gross.....

It could be but try it anyways. Here is where I am going with this. I love food and yesterday I went with a friend to a SUSHI BUFFET. I thought it was just a normal sushi place. I am glad I didn't research it before hand and just went. So glad we did! Thanks R.G. I need some more adventures in my life.

Any one want to RACE?

On Labor Day this year I ran a 5k It was so much fun!
Here are some of our crazy shots. :) the after ones are the best who knows what was going through my head!

Surprise!!

We had a surprise birthday party for our friend B.W. and we had so much fun getting there and setting the whole thing up.
Here are some of the shots from the party. Thanks I.W. for setting this up we had a total blast!

Thing 1 Humor

I have to post about Thing 1's humor lately. Couple years ago it was the art of the nonsense joke. Where you just got the cue to laugh from his own fierce laughter.
This week we have been introduced to "practical jokester Thing 1"

"Hey Mom! I have Poo on my arm" he yells from the bathroom. This was such a disgustingly gross image that entered my mind so I armed myself with baby wipes . Then he showed me his "muddied" arm. It was peanut butter. FUNNY...... to him..... Me I still used the wipes for the peanut butter.

Earlier .......
I am getting out of the shower and started dressing. I think I had one item of clothing on. All of a sudden I hear foot steps on the stairs. My door is the one at the top of the stairs. So I call out...."oh Who is there" and I hear a quick answer "It's me George"

You would think that simple phrase would have no effect.... WRONG with that simple phrase I have never moved across my laundry filled bedroom so swiftly. I was a lighting bolt. I can't even remember crossing the room I was just there shutting the door. FAST.

"George" is our neighbor. You know, you have a "George" in your neighborhood too. The one that knocks on your door CON.st.ant.ly at the same time everyday to see if Thing 1 (or your child) can play. He has been known to not understand "boundaries" being only six I can cut him some slack. Let's be honest, I am still working on that.... I just didn't want to blind our fine youth we have in our neighbor hood :)

First Day of School

Ok here are my little versions of the place mats we made in the wee hours the day before school started up again for Thing 1. They were fun to make and my table has so much less milk spots that I hate cleaning up! Three days after using them for like every meal we finally threw them in the wash. I love these and I think I will be getting out the good old machine soon for another round of them but in matching color schemes. It was a great day. I am still without my charger for the camera so these pictures were brought to you by a little iphone action. Thanks Band! Hope that thing comes in the mail next week :) more funness to post ;)

Mom Planners: What make the best... The best.

2009-2010

School is starting folks. For some it has already begun!Today it started for us.

Of all the things I am passionate about it is my time. My time to do things, and have control over. I don't usually either of these things TIME or CONTROL. (See in Fig. 1) This seems to be my latest trick.

Hence, I obsess over tools, tricks and tips to give me as much time possible.


I am a Mom so I need something that is fun to look at, and I can relate to. UM......Hard to find for me ;)







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Here is some of the best of what is out there. Thoughts and links are beneath each picture.

MORE TIME MOMS Mom's Agenda


These are easy on the wallet, slick smooth format of the weeks. Kind of a two for in the world of aesthetics. I like the set up of the monthly budget planner page.


Circa 2010 Weekly Agenda Notebook Junior


I just love how this is set up. So sleek like a desktop calendar. It is just straight up pretty and you can find others like it here.

Bob's Your Uncle 8 Days a week Planner Journal

I love that you don't have this one dated. It is perfect for the notes and journal I seem to combine anyways. The cover is happy and cheery, perfect for the inside of my purse.


momME Weekly Planner Sheets

I included these because they would be a fold and go. I only think I would fold and went ;) in my world right now but in the near future I do like this model. I just need all the wee ones in school first :) I am for sure getting this system when things slow down around here.


The MomAgenda


This has all the bells and whistles for moms and what they need. I just need a landscape view of my weeks. They are very hip and come in some awesome colors as well as durable covers for us messy types.


Busy Body Book Family and Personal Organizers


This is one of the ones I was really taken with. Cute cover designs. And awesome for the family schedule that is visible so you know when to leave. And for me when to set an alarm to leave :) I may have to get one of the wall calendars (scroll down to the bottom). SUPER FAB.


So I decided to make my own :)



Ok so the top area is the weekly schedule Starting with Monday.

The second area for the important things to concentrate on. "Priorities"

Then there are "Ideas" areas for your children and hubby. Or the categories you have some idea about. Ha Ha. There are lines so you can add your own time schedule for each day. It has helped me really focus on the things I need to.

The inside pages are only printed on one side. So I can take notes on the page above the week. I have been using it for a month now and I LOVE how it focuses my brain. Check back with me next month when I have left it somewhere and can't function lol. That is until I print out another one :)

Based on this idea. The only complaint about the originals I had was they weren't "pretty" enough :) I reversed the design and made them blank so I could fill in the dates. I just printed it and spiral bound it. Oh and had them laminate the covers.
***If you download it please let me know what you think in the comments area :)

Here are the documents in pdf format.
The Front Cover here.
Download the inside page in weekly format.
Download for free the Back Cover.

So.....
Do you like other ones? Did you find one in Italy that we can get in the US and I don't know about it?? I wanna here about it.

I found a new site.....

I know when don't I find new sites.....

But this one has easy sewing and creative projects to try. HELLO right up my alley? Heck YES.

Here is the latest and greatest one. I can't wait to do it and serve breakfast on these for the kiddos next wed. When SCHOOL STARTS!

Sorry here are the links

Creative Kismet

and table placemat will be the next project....

my picture???? soon my friends soon!
My camera charger died hope to get new one in the mail by next week or I'll cry a bit.

List list who has a list?

For those who know me I love things, lots of things. Here is a list of just some of the things I love.

1. Good Deals on Clothes, Hand bags and pens.
2. Pens (Parker and Uniball Jetstream are at the top of the list right now)
3. New Planners/organizers
4. Journals
5. Digital scrap booking
6. Drawing
7. Carving
8. Playing out Doors
9. Selling crap around my house on ebay
10. Watching Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and Operation Repo.
11. Reading good books.
12. Munching on Mochi
13. Helping others.
14. Clean floors. (So rare I think it is like finding a treasure when it happens)
15. Making things.
16. The 'idea' of Sewing
18. Illustrator
19. Randomness.
20. Gardening

Twenty things you LOVE what are they? Post them and I will make you something :)

Self Portrait.....

Ok Thing 2 is just cracking me up lately. I love that she loves to draw. But this cracked me up. Everytime she draws herself she is drawing this little stick person. I am so glad I am a mom. And her mom at that.

Imaginative Play taken too far.

Once upon a time, like thirty years ago. In a land called Idaho. There lived a little girl with lots of energy. She was two and took her diaper contents and spread it all over a beloved Dresser vanity mirror. "Finger Painting" was one of my favorite activites evidently. My father has yet to let anyone.... anyone let me forget by retelling the story over and over again. I was dubbed "PunkyDoodle" from then on.

Like many things it has come back full circle to me and my family. And payback's a _____(insert favorite word).
Here is a picture that describes (without a real description) what happened. Here is our newly bleached kitchen set. And no the accessories are not included anymore-sad face-or ewe face I can't tell which dominates at this time.

The Fish has a new nick name too. Lil' Chef.

Mr. Roboto:

We started with an empty can. And ended up with these fun things. I got the idea here.

The good experience was worth it.

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The one thing I am really not content with here in Davis is the water and that it doesn't have fluoride in it.

She had gone to school and was coughing a bit. Her crown was from school that day. Thing 2 has cavities in her back molars. Two rather large cavities. The one we were into fix today was really big. 5 minutes into the procedure she was asleep. I couldn't have asked for a better way for things to go. She loved getting a "star in her tooth" and can't wait for the next one. We'll see how it goes.
We have another app mid next month. I hope she sleeps for that one :) She did awesome. I am glad we have the dentist we do. She is really great.

Free Tickets

Oh you know there are few things better in this life than a great band in the summer evening sun. Are you wondering why Coldplay looks so close? Because when they put on a show they change the stage local. We were like 20 feet from them for three numbers!! It was AMAZING!

The Beach is such a wonderful thing.

We just went to another Northern California Beach.
Heart's Desire Beach
It was awesome. The waves were non-existent the sand was a bit rocky, but great for the kids to stack and play with.
We were next to this family that had great shovels. They dug a trench and let the kids play. I am really considering what I can trade for shovels ;)

Farmers and their markets

I love the fresh produce and the extreme fun for the kids. The farmer's market here is seriously a market on crack though there is so much fun to be had every Wed. night. We have been quite a bit this year.

There are benifits to apt. living.

We have been here for awhile now we have some cool things going on here like apartment inspections. I have had three in the past two months. The city the county and the development company have all been out in the past little while. I love cleaning under pressure but to do it this many times really is getting this place functional. I am more organized and dirty laundry free. I feel like I am not able to work on anything when everything is clean. No organizing and re-arranging cause it is all done. What ON EARTH am I going to do with myself? I guess I could finish one of the MANY projects I have started. Like the business www.mommakes.com that is just stagnant and waiting to be done.

There are fun things to do too. Summer activities like:

The theatre that is putting on free movies.
Beaches
Camping
Lakes and Resivors
Library Free books
Gardening (future post)
Our town's Picnic in the park.

Friday we went.....

To Muir Beach!! It was so much fun! This summer has been one out door adventure after another with our little troopers. The feedback thus far has been good :)

I have been really impressed with the way the kids have handled the time with the shortness of on hand cash. We have been just driving to local places and getting out to walk and play around. This summer has been the best so far. Can't wait to see what else we can get into this week!

Oh Say Can YOU SEE??

The Fireworks? No not really, they were behind those trees like the parachuters were. But we all moved a slight bit over and could see everything just fine. It was fun to hang with the gals and all the families for a chill evening.

Here are some shots of the fourth of JULY ;)