Lunar Eclipse

I know you heard about this, now go outside and behold!!! A total eclipse( of the heart) of the moon, now sillies! it is beautiful. night night..

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Gingerbread Men and Christmas Gift Guide

time to make Christmas cookies!
1/4 c. softened butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. molasses
3 1/2 c. flour
1tsp baking soda
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp salt

1/4-1/3 c. water

cream your butter and brown sugar together

it's good and creamed when it is all incorporated together and starts to form a ball

add your molasses. if you spray your measuring cup with a non stick spray, it will pour easier.

mix together. don't taste, molasses is yucky. wait till it is gingerbread.

sift your dry ingredients together.

mix your flour mix into your wet mix in 4 steps with water in between.

it will be crumbly, but knead it to a ball. you can do it.

see.
if it won't come together, add a tiny bit more water till it comes together, not sticky.

roll your dough out onto a floured work surface.

roll, roll, roll. the cookie does puff slightly when baked, so if you want a thin cookie, roll 1/8 in thin.

cut with your cookie cutters.

have fun!

these star wars cookie cutters would make a great gift as well!

oh yeah, bake at 350 degrees F. 10-20 minutes, depending on the thickness and hardness of your cookie. so watch them!

Message From Santa

juni, bee, popi, and my Greek, all got personalized messages from santa himself. he knew juni was trying hard to brush her teeth really well and was doing a good job of it. he knew beila was trying to mind her teachers at school.
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fill one of santa's lists out about the person you want to send a video to, and magically, the elves turn it into a personalized message to that person from santa HIMSELF! you should have seen the girls eyes when santa said their name, and knew what he did about them. and the best thing is, is that it is free:)

a little sick

I've been in bed all day nursing my tummy. I was a grouchy mommi when I took the kids to school this morning. I slept most of the day and my Greek helped with popi, and then she slept most the afternoon allowing me to rest. my tum tum started feeling better and I drank a cokeacola, for it's tummy soothing affects, and picked the girls up from school and flash the guinea pig, came home and got back in bed to rest. so, I do apologize, no gift today. I'm watching the new US version of top gear...I'll tell you how it stacks up to jeremy's antics. rest rest rest.

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17 Weeks

Christmas Gift Guide, Keel's Simple Diary

from my favorite book store, taschen, comes keel's simple diary. i gave away a bunch of these for Christmas last year, and kept one for myself. i love the way it is set as a fill-in-the-blank diary. good for procrastinators like me:) i don't know how the recipients have been keeping up with theirs from last year, but i myself have only filled out a couple pages even though it takes only seconds...i'll fill one out now....

your day was...reclusive
why: because i haven't left the house.
and time stood still: when i got a kiss!
"a sunrise has no stage fright."
girls are born...(circle all that apply)
with beautiful gifts and burdens.
to feel and to deal.
to love.

see, easy peasy. i also have the keel's all about us and all about me. basically the same fill in the blank concept. i love it!

Christmas Program at Christian Montessori Academy

the girls' had their Christmas program at school yesterday. always cute. the younger kids which bee is in, sang some songs, then the recorder group played, which juni was in. the band played some Christmas tunes, and then it was time for the upper school skit! june was an "old woman" in the skit playing cards. she was just happy she didn't have to talk. bubbe held popi while i videotaped the whole thing, i guess that's why i barely got pictures!