mmmm good!

I just had to share a few things. # 1 two great recipes that go so well with the fall weather. Green Muffins...
3 cups flour
1 Tbs Baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 eggs
1/2 c milk (rice milk works well)
1/2 c oil
1/2c sugar (brown or white you choose)
2 c shredded zuchinni and apple. (I just shredded these with the cheese grater although the kids prefer the apples cubed)

preheat oven to 375 stir it all up and bake 20 min or until they are golden brown. mmm

Breakfast Oatmeal Pudding. So good that Liam had three helpings today
2 3/4 c old fashioned oats uncooked
1/2 c brown sugar
3/4 c raisins(we skipped this step, Liam and Isa are boycotting raisins)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 1/3 c milk (again rice milk works great!)
4 egg whites
1 t vanilla
preheat oven to 350. spray and 8 inch square glass baking dish
combine all the ingredients together pour in and bake for 50-60 min
cook until center is set and firm to the touch Cool slightly serve with milk or yogurt and fruit if desired store leftover pudding tightly covered in refrigerator.

#2 "Lonesome"

For weeks it seems
I've been:
Cleaning cupboards
Cleaning floors
Cleaning faces
Cleaning sores

Sorting clothes
Sorting needs
Sorting garbage
Sorting pleas

Mending armholes
Mending ceilings
Mending knees
Mending feelings

Cooking cakes
Cooking corn
Cooking self
Cooking - worn

Getting stepped on
Getting messed on
Getting oozed on
Getting bruised on

I've been surrounded by:

Arguing children
Creative children
Begging children
Laughing children
Practicing children
Crying children
Caring children
Adorable children
Others'children
Demanding children

And

Talkative friends
Concerned friends
Interesting friends
Dinner friends
Tennis friends
Drop-in friends
Book-writing friends
Knife-making friends
Farm friends

And

Loving husband
Demanding husband
Creative husband
Understanding husband
Un-understanding husband
Exciting husband
All-consuming husband

And through it all
I felt something--uneasy
Not really depression
or confusion or insecurity
(but some)
I think just mostly
lonliness
How strange
-with all that-
lonely?

Yes!
Lonely for myself:
Time to think
and create
and analyze
cleaning
sorting
cooking
getting
children
friends
husband
alone

- Linda Eyre


I thought this poem really hits the nail on the head some days are just not so easy to figure out why we are upset and I think this answers that question. Anyway, my week has been a great one now that the lice are gone. I read this last night and just thought it was too perfect to keep to myself. Anyway, I love you all. Enjoy my photoless post. Have a super night! Love jess