Our Dream House

Someday…

Notice the yard…

and the flowers on top.

Can’t get much better than that!

More Cookies!

Okay so I'm not the Chocolate Chip Cookie Mom I hoped to be...But I did make more cookies this week and I thought they turned out quite good. Giovanni, my lonely four year old, helped me. I tweaked this oatmeal cookie recipe a little and this is what I came up with:

Cranberry Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 Tbs. molasses
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups oats
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
6 oz. dark chocolate bar
1 cup dried cranberries

Cream the butter. Add sugar, eggs molasses and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients. Chop up the chocolate bar...or let your son beat at it with the rolling pin, and add to the mix with the cranberries. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

Miracles of Technology

Back when I was a boy, I remember we had this really long phone cord because, for a while, all we had was one phone in the kitchen. The cord was long enough to stretch to my sisters' room, because my oldest sister used to go into her room and close the door while she was on the phone - probably with some guy. Now, she and the rest of us have access to one of the most amazing technologies ever invented: the cell phone.

I had a cell phone once in 2001. It was really cool, because I could download baseball scores in the middle of class. But then the expense got to be too impractical and I stopped paying for it. It wasn't until 6 years later that I got another one - this time prepaid. Needless to say, I don't use it all too much - at least, that is, to make phone calls.

Today, I discovered another wonder of this technology. While I was walking to the bus stop, I spontaneously began talking to myself. Immediately feeling how foolish I must look, I realized that all I had to do was pull out my cell phone and say whatever I had to say to myself into the phone! No one would ever know!

To talk to yourself without looking crazy
1 Cell phone

I could hug the person who invented cell phones.