Another post of randomness!

-I haven’t been posting a lot lately because since my desktop stopped working I can’t use photoshop and so I can’t edit pictures and with my netbook I’ve been having all kinds of trouble uploading pictures.  I think, though, that the netbook issues are all fixed now so I’ll start posting pics more often again.  In the meantime, this pictures from Easter really struck me this week… usually I think of Killy as looking like me and Ellie as looking like David, but in this picture they actually look a lot alike!

-The kids are out on summer vacation and I only have one more day of regular work and then I’ll be out, too!  (I think I’ll be working a little for the school system over the summer, but not much)

-Its Family Recipe Friday again!  I’m going to share the Oatmeal Muffin recipe from my mother-in-law that I mentioned last week.

1 cup oats

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup brown suga

1 egg
1/2 cup melted shortening (or vegetable oil)

1 cup flour (I use whole wheat, of course!)

1 tsp baking powder (if using whole wheat, increase to 1.5 tsp)

1/2 tsp soda (do about 3/4 tsp if using whole wheat flour)

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup fresh picked berries (optional, but really make these muffins AMAZING)

Soak oatmeal in buttermilk one hour (you can skip this step if you need to, though).  Add egg and beat well.  Add sugar and mix.  Add cooled shortening.  Add flour sifted wtih dry ingreedients (I’ll admit I never sift anything). Add berries.  Bake in greased muffin tins at 400 degrees 15-20 minutes.

-Speaking of recipes… Katie told me someone told her that Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies are amazing.  I desperately want to try those, but I’m trying to loose weight this summer (down five pounds already!) and I think that they would be phenomenal and dash all my hopes of looking good in a bikini in the beach… but I keep thinking about them!  Someone out there needs to try them and report back!

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