curly cubed

For those of you looking for curls in the last post, this should make it easier.

:)

sous la table

A fun new place to play!

Dance Party

Scott, Grace and I have had some dance parties lately. Yesterday was the funnest one yet! We made a "Dance Party" playlist on iTunes and pumped it up!

One of my new favorite dance party songs is in the video below. I didn't care much for the song until I saw this video and now I'm hooked. The video makes me smile. (Thanks Brianne)



Another one of my current favorite dance party songs is this one. It's another one that I didn't care for in the beginning but now I love it.

dough nut

What to do on a Saturday when your original plans don't work out and you find yourself with a couple of extra hours? Make doughnuts!For Christmas this year, Britta received a cookbook and I had my eye on a recipe called, "Franchise-style Doughnuts". It is pretty obvious what this recipe is supposed to imitate with a introductory quote like this:

"You know the place that makes doughnuts that are served fresh and hot, and they sometimes give you one free as you gaze at a conveyor belt of doughnuts in various states of manufacture?"

Then it finished like this: "Are these like those? Almost."

It should be stated that other than 1 quickbread (banana) and 1 or 2 bread-maker loaves, I do not have any experience in making a yeast dough. Even so, I had my hopes set pretty high . . .

We don't have a doughnut cutter, so we improvised with an empty tupperware and the tube which normally holds toothpicks to cut out the holes.

Next time we need to find a way to make them smaller. They rose too much and became behemoths!

One of the biggest problems was keeping the oil at the right temperature. After about 5 doughnuts, the oil cooled by about 75 degrees, so I upped the burner, but then the oil got too hot. Each time I added a doughnut, the oil got even hotter. I couldn't figure it out. It was almost always too hot or too cold from then on. We had to adjust the cooking time for each doughnut.

The glaze is pretty much butter and powdered sugar. But it is Go-oo-ood. It is the glaze that makes the doughnuts so much like the 'other' ones.

Here is the finished product. They are good. And they're big. And there are too many of them. Please come over and help us eat them.

Please.

Sleeping beauty woke up and...

Stood in her crib!

Time to move the mattress down!

EARTHQUAKE!!! oh no, it's just the washer

We dread doing laundry at our house. Do you remember in Mary Poppins when the neighbors blast a cannon every hour that shakes the house? Everyone rushes to stabilize anything not nailed down. Well, we have a very similar rush every time the spin cycle starts.

One of us has to rush to sit on the dryer and stay there to prevent it from traveling across the room and banging into the wall. The whole house shakes. We can never leave the house when the washer is going. It's kind of an adventure to do the laundry, like in the movie Mr. Mom. Alas, it's an adventure that we would be happy without. Someday.

I guess that's what you get when you buy your washer on Craigslist for $30!

In 2010, I...

Will learn to embrace change.

Will try to be more sensitive to the needs of my sweet husband and baby.

Want a new hair cut.

Will finally have some time to get rid of lingering baby fat.

Plan to bake new things.

Resolve to not stress out my life because of work.

Want to find happiness and love in every single day.

What are you going to do?