Crockpot Rice Pudding
6 cups milk
1 cup rice
1sp vanilla
3/4 cup sweetener
2 cinnemon sticks
nutmeg for garnish
raisins (optional)
Put first five ingreedients in crockpot on low for about six hours.  You can add raisins at the beginning if you want – but they will rehydrate and swell up.  I prefer to add them toward the end so they don’t [...]

I don’t know why I’m grumpy, I really shouldn’t be!  Today Ellie had her 3 year old well child visit and it went great!  She’s recently gone through a growth spurt and she’s now at the 50th percentile for height, and just over the 50th for weight, too.  Her hearing and vision are great, and [...]

So, we met a friend of mine from college today as she and her husband and sweet little baby were driving up the interstate.  It was lovely!  We went to Cracker Barrel and after the kids finished eating they were playing near the giant fireplace, where there was a checkerboard and a firetruck set out [...]

Here is my car, all clean and with the new carseats installed!  (I know I’m an unbelievable dork for putting pictures of my minivan on my blog, but it seriously has made me happier than anything else has in quite awhile!)

Check out the thrones?!  Aren’t those fabulous looking carseats?  (In case anyone is wondering why [...]

So, I did some things other than clean my car today!
David and I both had dental appointments today and they were both cancelled due to staff calling in sick.  So I had a whole empty morning… to fill with shopping!  I didn’t buy a whole lot, but I had fun!  I got the kids new [...]

I don’t get the urge to clean my car often enough.  At all.  Plus I have two kids who drag toys and snacks out to the car all the time and spill and make messes and I don’t pick up after them enough.  And, I always keep some extra jackets and coats and pillows in [...]

Bread Pudding!  Tonight I made Dark Chocolate Coconut Bread Pudding to take to a church dinner.  I used my Eggnog Bread Pudding recipe, except I didn’t use the sauce, added 1/3 MORE cup splenda to the egg mixture, instead of the spices I used dark cocoa powder (about 1/3 cup), and I put 2/3 cup [...]