Sunday, November 16, 2008
My Family's Holiday
Today is a Holiday in my world. Today is My Birthday!!! Happy Birthday to ME, and my brother and sister too. :)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Lest We Forget
Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada, a Day to remember and never forget our soldiers, those who fought and died, and those he fought and came home. 1 Day a year, to Remember but yet it seems to go in the blink of an eye, and I wonder continually if anyone does Remember because we're still fighting, we're still out there helping our Allies keep peace. I think it's a struggle that will go on forever. It's not something that will "never happen again" Almost every country in the world knows that the US is at war, but does everyone remember that Canada is there too?
Canada is trying to put the country back together? It reminds me of those strip mining agreements. You can go into the hole and get your Coal, Uranium, salt, diamonds or whatever is in there, but you have to fix the hole after you're raided it? If you take stuff out of the hole will you ever be able to find enough stuff to fill the hole up again? No there will always be the less stuff to fill up the hole, you can't create more dirt, or rock, that stuff took millions of years, for the stuff you took out? I don't know that any country will be able to live the same again after a war. They will not have the people they had before, they are dead. We will not have the people we had before, we will not have the same buildings.
I want to say Thank you to any one who has worked to keep my country safe. I hope we can continue to Remember what we have each and everyday. I pray that those fighting will come home safe and sound, and those teaching peace will have active learners.
Canada is trying to put the country back together? It reminds me of those strip mining agreements. You can go into the hole and get your Coal, Uranium, salt, diamonds or whatever is in there, but you have to fix the hole after you're raided it? If you take stuff out of the hole will you ever be able to find enough stuff to fill the hole up again? No there will always be the less stuff to fill up the hole, you can't create more dirt, or rock, that stuff took millions of years, for the stuff you took out? I don't know that any country will be able to live the same again after a war. They will not have the people they had before, they are dead. We will not have the people we had before, we will not have the same buildings.
I want to say Thank you to any one who has worked to keep my country safe. I hope we can continue to Remember what we have each and everyday. I pray that those fighting will come home safe and sound, and those teaching peace will have active learners.
Monday, October 13, 2008
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.
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.
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