Baking!!!

I'm on my annual baking spree. My ambitions for this year include 7 types of cookies and 4 different bars. Whether this all gets done before tomorrow night, I dunno. But I'm certainly gonna try! So far, I've got 4 batches chocolate chip cookies, 4 batches peanut butter cookies, 2 pans of peanut butter rice krispie squares, 2 pans of brownies and a pan of cafe au lait bars completed. I've also got dough for 2 batches of sugar cookies in the fridge. Those, for sure, will be done tomorrow (well I guess today now lol). I also hope to get the cherry spiral cookies and rocky road squares done. Everything else would just be a bonus.

Brianna is a Timbit!

Brianna's having a blast in her curling lessons. Today they had the year end Christmas party and the kids got their vests with their names on it. Brianna is just tickled and won't take it off lol Lee asked to day if she's enjoying curling and wants to stay in it... I don't think there's any doubt of her sticking it through for at least the rest of the year!

Screw The Diet!

Ok, so it's Christmas. Who the hell can stay on a diet now!?! I've totally fallen off the wagon and gotten ran over it anyways, so I aint even gonna bother now. Christmas eve is in a week, I start Christmas baking on Monday (7 diff cookies and 4 diff bars) and we have 2 Christmas dinners to go to. Not to mention all the junky crap you get for Christmas and all the leftovers everyone is stuck with. Yup, screw it!

On to baking, a much happier topic. This year, as always, I'm making a bunch of stuff and sending some in to Lee's work. I'm also sending a bunch into mom's work and will probably bring a bunch to Grandma Hart's (if there's any left by Christmas Day!).

I am making:
- Fudgy Brownies
- Cafe Au Lait Bars
- Rocky Road Squares
- Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Bars
- Peanut Butter Cookies
- Sugar Cookies
- Cherry Spiral Cookies
- Chocolate Coffee Cookies
- Chewy Skor Cookies
- Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Devil Bites

No wonder I say screw the diet lol

On To Computer Number 3....

Yesterday mom's laptop would no longer load an internet browser. The net was working fine cause my weather eye loaded and was giving the correct weather, but Mozilla wouldn't load. Even went so far as trying Internet Explorer, no go. *sigh* Thank cripes, we got my dinosaur of a laptop (which we didn't think was even internet capable!) to work with the net. Now I don't know if there's a wireless card in it cause I have my modem cable plugged into it, but I don't care! I still have net! I sooooo need a new computer....

Mom moves in!

Mom's moving in today. It'll be a great money saver for both of us. She won't be paying her rent but she'll be bringing down ours by paying part of it. No idea when she'll move out, but we know it'll be at least Spring before that happens. Who wants to move in the winter!

It's a hell of a lot easier to move 1 person into a 3 bdrm house than it was to move 4 people into a 2 bdrm apartment back when we first moved to Cornwall! Most of her stuff is going in the basement and she's taking over Isaac's room. I really wish I had been able to paint it first, but I've been so busy with our first few weeks of homeschooling. Oh well, maybe we'll try to move around stuff later...

Remembrance Day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Today we remember the fallen and the ones who have served. Bow your head and honour them with a moment of silence at 11am today. Freedom isn't free. Someone had to pay for it.

Die Cold Die!!!

Ugh! Been sick since Friday. Evil cold has also spread to Olivia who is miserable poor baby! It's not really terrible, just stuffed/runny nose and a cough but it's enough to be freaking annoying!!!!