Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

I started this post yesterday but Thankfully, my children saw the need to take my USB cable. Thankfully because I spent the day with them, slaving in the kitchen to produce this!!!
(poor guy didn't have a chance after I invited him to dinner)
Thankfully everyone helped.  Hubbie made bread crumbs from bread while I was at mass. AJ finished the job because instead of 8 pieces Hubbie heard 5.
MJ went to the store with AJ and Daddy to get peanut butter because what is a house without peanut butter. (also I needed to concentrate on the turkey)


I'm thankful for Superstore for letting me buy a turkey at "regular" price while it was on sale and having me go back to the store to get my money back. I loved the way they implied it was "my" mistake that they over charged me for my 4.94kg Turkey.(difference of 6.45canadian dollars) Thank you for doing your own leg work after me standing at your customer Service Counter for 15minutes (you said it was 10? really who is the customer, I said it was 20minutes, let's meet in the middle?). Thank you for finally giving me the difference in price, even after your mistake which according to store policy is to refund me the full price of the defrosting bird.(thank you for letting me use run on sentences) I could have brought him back to the store in his 1/2 frozen state. He was tasty after I plucked out the leftover feathers that Presidents Choice neglected to remove before bagging it in a GRADE A package, with the fine print that reads "graded before adding gibblets". (CYA statements?)


Thank to TJ for staying home from the trip to the Peanut Butter store (not Superstore btw) and helping me basted the turkey by reminding me when the time came. I think he just wanted to open the store repeatedly to smell Turkey doing his thing.


Thank you for Canada for having a holiday this weekend, and not leaving us out of that Columbus Day party down south. It's a great excuse for a turkey and visiting family and friends.



Thank you earth for growing Carrots and for the person that invented vegetable peelers. I can't imagine how many fingers I'd have lost or how much carrot and potatoes would be left if I had to resort to the knife plan.

Thank you Tenderflake, Sheriff and Goodine's Poultry Farm for helping me achieve Lemon Meringue success. I'd hate to have to go to SS to buy a Pie after that turkey price fiasco.

Thank You all for reading my rambling posts, about life and days here.

Happy Thanksgiving Canadians! And for my US readers and family, I'll do this again in November but I'll buy my Turkey elsewhere.

(sorry if you are getting this repeatedly, my pictures aren't lining up) 

Looking around the House

I have to ask this question. I have 3 boys all out to school today. I'm sitting here sipping my tea. I have to clean the house, I have someone coming to talk to me tomorrow at 10am about doing some "product sales" as I will call it. It's all "door to door" "web to site" or whatever. I wont give you all the details until I know them. I know I love the company's products so why not spread the love?

So in preparation for this meeting tomorrow, I'm looking around the house and noticing all the dust that I've left sit for the 7yrs we've lived here. I know I did some preChristmas or Pre EasterBunny or even Speed cleaning for guests (that are family) during those Seven years? but really? How on earth do the rest of you people manage to keep up?

Where do I start? I was sitting in the hall lastnight with a wash rag removing spots of unknown origin. I've  also come to realize I totally need a new Vacuum.  How is it that I've been using this thing and thinking it's picking up anything. There is Duct Tape on the hose!  (psssssssssssttttttttt sears Canada? send me a free vacuum? just saying)

Soooooooooo what ever will I do. I asked Hubbie with a wiggly eye whatever will I do now that he house is empty? (he hadn't left for work) and he says "Clean?"

I said "If you say that again?I'm going to have to throw a Tote full of STUFF you left hanging around the front door at you! because you really don't get it!"  

OK what are the rest of you all doing now that your kids aren't in the house? Please someone tell me? 

Wordless Wednesday:Alone

I am alone! did you hear that? yes that was the radio? And that? the
stove clicking for tea steeping? That? yes that is the sound of my
harddrive and my card reader. Pictures coming soon.

next up...

"I'm BORED!" <--oops did I say that?

Also principal told me to stop doing the happy dance in the hall ways.


Silence? might be Kyoot(pronounced cute if you are new here)

ps. Does anyone know why I can't get WorldlessWednesday.com not to load? too busy?

Friday Fill-ins, Moonlight madness away!

1. Wait! Wait, don't forget _______Friday Fill-ins, I wont______.
2. ____Brake troubles_____ followed at once by ____Muffler problems, but now the van is ready for Winter_____.
3. The trouble is ____life doesn't come with a Crystal Ball, but I'm going to try to be prepared for holidays that return every year______.
4. ___Christmas seems but isn't__________ many miles away.
5. With a faint pop ___the brake Fluid was all over the driveway___________.
6. ___The CAA tow Truck was_____ shadowy and ominous.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __taking my fixed van out to Moonlight Madness, (think Black Friday at night because Canadians are at work in the morning)___, tomorrow my plans include __having my sister visit, and bowling and maybe seeing Santa in his Parade___ and Sunday, I want to __have fun with my kids which might include them letting me play video games "with" them___!

Tuesday are Random they pop up Randomly

Yep it's Tuesday again, ever notice how it Randomly shows up in like the almost middle of the week, not quite the middle, but randomly placed, ok so no it's not showing random but I'll make it random.

Dishwasher now works much better. A Valve had to be replaced, it was a little gunked<-- (new word apparently, ADD! )up from previous 17yrs of use or so. ICK! Hard Water is not cheap.

I did some easy baking this weekend, Peanut Butter cookies those 3 ingredient kind, egg, PB, and sugar, done! bake, and done. gone!!! all goneeeeeeeeeee the boys ate them almost the minute the got in the house. They didn't leave a crumb for Hubbie. He was not amused.

Friday was not a happy day here, my son was picked on and I'm not happy about it in the least. I will be talking to the school after I cool down. For all the talk about not bullying there wasn't a lot done about it either.

Christmas is coming and I'm not ready, I keep procrastinating, I've got to start making lists so that I can DO something! at the rate I'm going I wont have anything done because I haven't started the list and then I'll leave something half started or not done.

More tea, must have more tea.


Weight loss has turned into weight gain, it has nothing to do with the cake but it might have something to do with the leftover Halloween chips. Those chips? they say 90cals per serving but I swear when I look in that bag it should say less then 90cals, cause there is no way 5 chips can be 90cals?

I've decided I'm not going to be baking this Christmas, nope not going to do it. If you want shortbreads, I'll buy you one of those pre-made cans of the stuff or go to a bake sale and have someone else do it and wrap it and tag it and seal it up with duct tape. Yep that should help. Me? Glutton? no just impulsive eater or Seefood diet.



I've going to wrap up the random, I've got nothing else to put in here, I'm boring this week, nothing big happened, no chairs were covered in snow, no kids were curling(tournament at the arena), bowling was ok, we supported them well with the purchase of chocolate bars. I spent too much time researching how they get the caramel inside. The kids did help though, they offered to eat it all for me.


Oh I went to see my son do Judo this week, he's good, and those "games" they play (warmup, and theory) would probably have me sleeping on those judo mats! where do kids get all their energy? play play play, fight fight fight, play play play, laugh, run, jump, play?? Drum Drum Drum.


I don't even have pictures to add today. There are no leaves on any of my trees, there are no deer coming to visit. I think all the gophers are asleep, all the raccoons ate all the berries on the bushes, and all the skunks are curled up under my baby barn.

BTW what keeps you all reading?

Happy MY Birthday (and the brother and sister)

Yep Today is my Birthday, no we're going to not focus on the people I share my day with, ME it's all about me! :P OK and My Brother and Sister, but I was here first. Yep ME !


Happy Birthday to ME!! My FB is full of Wishes, that's one plus of the site, you are never ever forgotten on your Birthday, your friend's list comes alive that day. I got my first Birthday phone call from my sister, it was on the call Display so I could pick up and say "Happy Birthday" instead of "hello" heheh. My SIL wrote on her status "Happy Birthday (Brother, Sister) and (Me). It's really fun to see your name Everywhere! It's almost like being Famous but not.

So Happy Holiday in my Family Day! My plans?
Well I'm still in pjs at 9am so that's going well.
Breakfast and tea, that's done.
I got a Card from Hubbie lastnight because it wasn't rated G for the boys to "read" haha or hear me reading, hehehe
I got a dishwasher delivered and installed by Friday into Saturday. It works! no Leaks, and the dishes come out clean vs putting them in again for another go. Yes I'm totally that kind of person. I HATE with every ounce of HATE doing dishes. I hate it so much I wont let my kids do it for fear they will grow to hate it as much as I hate it when they are older and live with Dishes STACKED for more then 24hours because they are avoiding doing dishes because they HATE them. It's that bad!
My Mom and Dad came to visit me Thursday night, they drove the 7hours from the island and then left Saturday morning to go to my other brother's house (not the Birthday brother). They were all about the Costco shopping from what I understand. It was a nice visit, they washed my dishes.
Friday night hubbie and I went out shopping without kids. FUN!There were no movies playing I Wanted to see. I could go see a movie for free today but nothing is playing. I think all the good movies are waiting for US Thankgiving Weekend. Bummer for us. They should have a GREAT ME holiday release date for Canada. ME did I mention it's all about ME (and the brother and sister? )
Tonight I'll be having Cheese cake I think, I've left the planning of that to the Hubbie (xing fingers) I'll try to remember to take a picture so it last longer.
Happy Birthday to ME (and the brother and sister)

Friday Fill-ins, Memories of Turkey...

1. The last band I saw live was ____Kim Mitchell playing in Ottawa, Ontario Canada 1996 or 7. _________.
2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is __the Turkey but this year, back in October I compromised and made a Ham for my son, well no it's not the same, so last week when Turkey went on sale, I went nd bought me my Turkey! YUMMY! we had turkey dinner, then hot turkey sandwiches, then cold turkey salad Sandwiches, and finally I managed to get me some Turkey and Ranch Wrap. YUMMY Turkey!_______. (if you don't celebrate thanksgiving, insert your favorite holiday)
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is ____not even started, I'm waiting for better prices______.
4. Thoughts of ____decorating this house now_________ fill my head.
5. I wish I could wear ______my hair short sometimes but then I'd kick myself for getting it cut________.
6. Bagpipes ___are what played when I walked down the aisle more then 14yrs ago_____.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _Spending time with my parents, they are came to visit yesterday____, tomorrow my plans include _Bowling, shopping for skipants and warm socks____ and Sunday, I want to __watch AJ curl, I think if we get our "stuff" together get to early mass, and sundayschool all accomplished on time, we can all go. We'll see how tired we are though come Sunday, what happened to that off time Weekends used to be? hmmmm___! Posted by Janet at 8:46 PM

Friday Fill-ins The Friday before Halloween

It must be Friday somewhere already? so I'm early!

1. "It was a dark and stormy night.", _was designated by some group as the worse intro sentence to a story ever, but I can't remember the name of the group or where I read/heard it_____.

2. _______My sister has a huge collection of books at her house and we were discussing the pile of books and my piles of books and that my piles were read and her piles were read, but by ourselves,____ so I offered to take the books myself. (She in turn will take mine)

3. Rushing out, __to get candy and treats will be the name of the game Saturday night, but I think one of the kids might be allergic to Chocolate? I just don't understand how this happened, MY child allergic to chocolate? I'm allergic in a different way my reaction is just "fat"________.

4. _____During the summer when I was on the island and had that flat tire, I was sitting in the van playing cards with my Mom while the boys were glued to their electronic devices and that's when______...I think I heard a howl!

5. Shhhh... __did you hear that footstep? It must be the deer, it will not be a bear trying to get our your treats________.

6. _______Trick Or Treat Smell my Feet____ give me something good to eat!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _finishing off some costume add ons and getting the boys well rested___, tomorrow my plans include __Bowling with costume party, getting prep for supper done in advance because we have friends coming over to Tick or Treat in our little area vs their apartments, and it's supposed to rain, so I need a bit of a back up plan too___ and Sunday, I want to __get them un-sugared up and ready for going back to school on Monday, I can see it now, sugar? we didn't put any sugar in our lunches? no not us mom, Dad ate it all, so then I've got to desugar him up too___!


Speaking of Sugar... these are sugar cookies with jam and orange and brown Smarties(Canadian Smarties have chocolate) on them for finger nails or Almonds. Now I'll go back to the just nuts since mr allergic to chocolate can't eat these. The photo has both versions in it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yes today is Thanksgiving weekend up here in Canada so today I'm baking a spice cake with AJ and getting ready to have Ham for supper. The boys Grandparents will be here next weekend so I'm saving my Turkey and fixing for their visit. The boys have been off school since Thursday and will be home Monday as well. We usually have our meal on Sunday dinners here so if we have guests they can us Monday for their clean up, travel or lazing around.

Yesterday we went out to meet up with some friends. They are visiting family in the province and seeing the East Coast for the first time. Last night we met in person for the first time. Allison and I have been emailing and chatting and talking on the phone for the last 8+yrs. We met online while expecting our 8yrolds. Yesterday those 8yrolds got to meet for the first time.

The funny part of the whole thing is the boys asked me how I knew Allison, and I said I met her on-line, and that's when the big eyes started staring me down with words like "Strangers, and internet, and careful", so I know they've been listening to me.


Happy Thanksgiving I'm so Thankful for Friends and even Computers! :) I'm also Thankful to Allison's family for hosting us and feeding us and our kids, it's so nice to meet new friends.

Friday Fill-ins, Meet Up

1. Sweet dreams __are when all the boys are in bed___.

2. _____This weekend is going to be fun______ especially for me.

3. Silliness _is fun_______.

4. ____My boys are going to have lots of silliness and fun_______ this Halloween.

5. Outstanding or not _____I can't help but be bias when it comes to my children______.

6. ___Nachos and creamy cheese and salsa, onions, bell peppers, tomatoe chunks and Jalapenos all mixed together heated and then topped with sour cream________ is what I want right now!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __sleep___, tomorrow my plans include __meeting up with a friend I've been talking to online for the past 8+yrs,and getting to meet her family and introducing to mine, finally___ and Sunday, I want to _rest and relax, and wait there's MONDAY too!!! Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to my Fellow Canadians____!

Excitment of Tuesday Afternoon

So I was waiting for Hubbie to come home at supper and go out with MJ to the Doctors office yesterday. We got a quick appointment with the Nurse Practitioner lastnight to check out a Gash in his chin he got while "bouncing". I say 'stop bouncing"' but he doesn't listen and yesterday he bounced right into the kitchen counter SMACK! I put a bandaid on it but wanted to verify it didn't need stitches. It went very well, off to the office we went. We could have gone to the ER but I thought that might be a bit more excitment then necessary for the 1/2inch gapping gash. Got it fixed.

This is what I saw mowing my lawn!!A Doe A Deer and her Triplets?

through the screened Porch





Without the screen in the way, they just stood there watching me snap away.







And then they left, that's a fawn butt in the ditch. I'm sorry yesterday's post wasn't as pretty, but yes see Deer!

Fall pictures

The view from my front door out through the screen porch to my neighbours woods. I love that I get to see this and it's not plastic leaves! I'll have to decorate for Halloween soon, some of my neighbours have started to add pumpkins and scarecrows. I didn't catch any nice pictures of them though.


This is in my side yard....

I took MJ and AJ out for a walk on Saturday afternoon while the Hubbie and TJ were out helping a friend move into her new apartment. Yes I have 3 boys, Yes my youngest son's bike is pink? No we don't care because that bike? FREE~! now that's living on a budget!! It still peddles and it even carries rocks, there were some rocks all over the end of the road here and hard to walk on so we piled them into the back of the Trike and put them in the Big Puddles at the end of my driveway.




And this is what I found on my lawn, ok I found Many
but it's fall! it fell there, I'll leave it until the spring, it will protect the lawn from the heavy snow, and fertilize as it decomposes. Free Fertilizer!


And finally I couldn't leave this picture out, this tree is now 1/2 naked but on the weekend it looked like this. It was a slow and peaceful weekend and these trees are changing in that same fashion, slow and peacefully.



This is an extra post today so you can see my Random Tuesday Thoughts under this one.

Random Tuesday Thoughts, First Sick Day

Tuesday is back! yep it's back it's almost my favorite day of the week now this makes posting easier because I've got a bunch of things to say but the don't take up a whole posts.



My internet company is still suckage, apparently according to others we'll get a HUGE "bill" that will quote the amount of overage and the a -that amount minus the 25.00 cap! oh joy. Why? I'll never ever really know I'm sure. 2wks, to blow through 95G? I suspect the boys were watching Webisodes of their favorite cartoons? That no TV thing is probably part of the cause.

We've already had homework struggles so many struggles that the boy had weekend homework. Middle child syndrome I suspect. He seems to honestly think that he doesn't have to do homework, or that someone else will pick up the slack? uh no! not in my house! I've already got my "RED PEN" circles for not initializing the homework book. I hate the Red Pen! it's not MY homework!

The critter count is up again, and I have pictures!

The chipmunk came back, and climbed up our screen door, while we were eating supper. We managed to get the camera in time, he wasn't shy at all.



Lastnight I opened the patio door to get some fresh air coming through and what do I see at my back fence? 4 deer. It looked like 1 Does and 2 fawns. The fawns didn't look so tall. I got a "tail" picture.


I didn't move fast enough but Hubbie was in another window and saw them too! so I'm not lying! I'll find those pics,(that's totally a tail, see, ok click on it, it's his butt! back two hooves and that little tiny whiteness is his tail flicking as he Hightails it out of there) may have to use my laptop though, I wonder if I can leave them apples? I had some weeds? that grow along the edge of my lawn and it's missing all it's leaves about 2/3of the length of it. I'll go out again today and see if they ate the other third while we were sleeping. No signs of Bear though, YAY!

The fall color pictures are coming too. I did take some, but I have to upload to the laptop and then post from there. So I have to draft on here, then upload on there then post to the draft. How sad is that? and I have a personal Tech... Sad! Maybe I really should pick up those programming and HTML books in the basement and learn this stuffs myself?


Interesting fact as told by the kid in grade 3! Covered Bridges are also called Kissing Bridges because they are dark enough to steal a kiss?This is what they are teaching in the school system up here...? I'm not so sure that's a good idea, I've met my Hubbie, I've heard his growing up stories. I've met their grandfather, I think it's genetic!

I've decided some of the other fall pics need their own post. So there may be more today or tomorrow. We've got cross country running tomorrow. I must remember to bring the Camera.

And...here we go!


1. My car _is a van with two sliding doors, but this week? my drivers side slider is stuck and according to my Hubbie and the guys at the shop it's going to take a LOT Of work to get it unstuck because it's not just stuck but locked and stuck and in order to fix it we have to get the unlocked to work! I'm not happy. I did get to drive the new car this week. I don't like it, it's a sporty car I feel small on the road____.

2. ___My Hubbie's Birthday________ is coming up next.

3. Lately, things seem ____rushed, now we have band, bowlingX3, Cross country Running X2, and me trying to fit in my work out time_______.

4. _____The bathtub, with a book,______ is one of my favorite 'hiding' places.

5. What happened ____to those days when my kids were tiny and liftable? Now I've got kids as tall as my shoulders or belly button_______.

6. _____Losing weight______ is not impossible! (not gaining it back is the hard part)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _my big walk while the kids are home playing with hubbie, and then maybe some movies with the kids____, tomorrow my plans include ___take the kids bowling, playground hopping while it's still warm enough, late night walking for me before the sun sets__ and Sunday, I want to __have great a Sunday mass experience as last week,I didn't have to waggle my finger or whisper to anyone in my family about their behaviour, it was calming and I was one happy Mommy, Praying we get a Sunday like that this week too___!

Random Tuesday Thoughts, Boys to I Ramble too Much?

It's Random Tuesday Thoughts Day! So I'll get myself started here.
Got my badge (check)



Got my thoughts (half check)
Got the MJ entertained (half check, he's on the sofa laying under his favorite blanket sucking his thumb... it will hve to do)

Tried to win me somme money today but I guess my fingers just aren't fast enough. Didn't make it to the 10th caller. next time they will do it again before noon.

Groceryday, must get food! you know real food so I can continue cooking meals. Tonight as AJ says "you have to go to school too today", it's Meet the teacher night.

i'm stuck on my laptop this week because my desktop wont show me anything! I suspect a video card was killed/maimed/distroyed in the rebuilding of my computer. The personal tech has been using and creating words I don't like.

This laptop keyboard drives me to insanity. I just accidently highlighted the whole post and it vanished into 1 letter. ACK! undoooooooooo

I think MJ might just fall asleep there. Maybe if he does that I can go back to bed? no that would be lazy, pushing almost 400.00 worth of food should be a workout right? I wonder if that's what the sign outside the grocery store means? "need a work out?" it came be the gym upstairs because those people just look to happy bouncing around. They all smile after they leave? it can't be a real work out, I've never smiled after busting my ass and leaving 400.00 at the cashier?

The Fall fair is over, I didnt' go we didn't take the kids and we didn't fork over 26.00 a person. YAY! that reminds me my van does need gas, I hate putting gas in my car, I need me a full serve gas station.

My Gas station likes me though because I get loyalty points also for buying various bad for me things in their convenience store and bread and milk and eggs! They are actually cheaper there which totally goes against what it used to be growing up. Convenience store = more $, not here.

That reminds me our babysitter now makes pizza down there instead of babysitting and that means I've got to book a different babysitter this month. GRRRRR


I feel bad that Patrick Swayze has died at 57! that's so young but I have to say it's not many in Hollywood that can say they were still married to their original wife! Pancreatic Cancer is so very scary. Is it just me or do you hear of more people having it? I can count 5 just in my head without thinking long about it.

Fall has been beautiful so far. Oh and I did get the tent to fit back in the bag! I worked hard saturday morning nd realized that I had to roll both tents that were in the bag and the fly around the long poles! win, I got MJ to sit on the bag while we zipped it and then we also zipped the extension down to small again. YAY!

The ShopVac got all the sand out of my van, I was tempted to get out the hose.

Oh and the laptop does know how to get my pictures off my camera YAY me. I did that yesterday but tell me how many of you have paper pictures in your home since the invention of digital cards? Both boys have asked for pictures to bring to school of themselves for projects. It took me a hour to figure out how to copy some pics from FB and then send them to my printer on this. Of course my little helper dudes were telling me they knew how to do it. Sadly they learn on Windows at school which doesn't always work the same for me and my linux machines.

Oh and the critter count increases, we were sitting at the dinning room table and I hear a scratching, I look out the closed patio door and see a chipmunk (ground squirrel the one with stripes) trying to climb up my patio window. MJ and I investigated and then thought about feeding him a single serving cup of Kraft PB but then I got all worried that his poor tiny jaw would stick together like a dog and a piece of gum? we took the PB back in. He'll be back I'm sure just to see MJ try and let him in. It was the funniest when he first started scratching because my window looked like one off those "squirrelized" pictures.


OK I've rambled enough, if you're still here head on over to Keely's and get yourself a badge and ramble on yourself or just find yourselves some better Random Ramblers. OK now Ive got that song Rambling Rose? (is that a song?) in my head.

It's getting exciting here,

So it's mid to end of November here, and it's Getting close to US Thanksgiving. The neighbours to the south are getting all drooly over Turkey sites, while me little miss (hahaha I said little) Canada is up here thinking of all the things I haven't done yet for the end of December. I went to my WW meeting last night that's where I talk about my ass and it's size and where it should be and how it's not where I put it last week and so forth. I'm up 2lbs of Birthday goodness from that Holiday I Self Proclaimed for the 16th of November. oops! I guess that's what I get for bragging about my rings falling off? Maybe some good quality water drinking will fix it.
Today the boys have no school, who ever thought that having all the conference days for teachers during the school year was a good idea, should re-assess. There are grand scale discussions going on right now in 1 boy bedroom on the size and shape of a car track and his ability to make his cars go faster then they are rated for without falling off the track. I think he's telling everyone not in the room with his play by play. There are 2 boys in the living room discussing in elevated voices as only a 9yr old and almost 4 yr old can do, about how the singing on Mickey Mouses' 3 Musketeers is not as good at the shriek... I mean singing of some HSM peoples. I think both are wrong what we really need is a good low key dosing of White Christmas, ahh Bing you really do make life look so much easier. How is it that you set up a huge STAGE show in about a weekend while the rest of us struggle to with costume changes for the white that is about to fall at some point.
I was actually surprised that the white didn't show up Sunday, it's something I've counted on for the last 30++++++ years but nope none, it was rain rain rain. I'll have to find the pictures I took of the construction site in our back yard. If only my brain could figure out how to get the pictures from TJ's Camera on to My computer. I will figure that out.

Happy Thanksgiving

Good morning, it's October, and the second Monday of October here in Canada so it's Thanksgiving Weekend. For most that means Turkey weekend. It's tradition in my family to have the Turkey on Sunday because a lot of my family uses Monday for traveling home, with leftovers of course.
This year I've left the turkey in the freezer for Next Weekend because my inlaws are coming to visit. Next weekend is also AJ's birthday, it's going so fast I can't seem to keep these boys from growing up. He is having a birthday Party and it's going to be on Saturday afternoon. I'm just hoping I can get the house into a kind of order so that the kids don't think he's already spoiled. I have a hard time getting rid of toys here. I'm the kind of person that remembers where every single toy came from and when it was given and by who it was given.
He wants to have Pie for his birthday cake. I'm thinking I'll save that part for Sunday. I'll have cake for the birthday party.
Today though, since it's Thankgiving and we aren't having Turkey I'm going to bake up some muffins for the week's lunches. The boys have School On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week and I'll also ahve some of these muffins for the visiting inlaws since they like to hav esomething with their tea.
Recipe to follow, it's the very first recipe in the Jean Pare (accent over the e), Muffins and More volume in the Company's Coming cook books, it fits since I have Company COming!

Topping 1/4 cup brown sugar, 2TBSP flour, 2TBSP soften margerine, mix it up into crumbles but if it's a bit soft and pastish it works too,

Muffins,
1.5 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar(I've used splenda sometimes)
1TBSP baking powder,
1/2 tsp Salt (I've cut this to 1/4 tsp when I think of it)

1Egg
1/2 cup milk (I use skim)
1/4 cup of oil,(I sometimes sub in 1/8th of that in apple sauce)
3/4 cup of shredded apple, with or without peels, I peel them.

mix, pour into greased muffintins, I get about 12muffins, and then I top with the topping and bake at 400F (200C) for 20-25minutes, my old stove 18minutes work, my new stove is 22minutes.

If you can get them to cool before they disappear they freeze well. I'll throw them in small zip bags for kids lunches. They don't usually last that long if hubbie knows I made them. The trick for that is to bake them while he's at work, and the cook a meal after to cover over the apple muffins smell.