Oberweis Dairy came by the other day and Josh ended up signing  up for their delivery home service- for 6 months you get free delivery and a free porch box and you dont have to order much each week, could just be one thing of yogurt.  I wasnt too thrilled with Josh doing this without me nixing the idea for him but the milk is said to be better since it doesnt go through all the intense processes, and I secretly always thought it would be cool (I was always jealous of my friends who had yummy yoder milk delivered to them growing up) so I didnt argue.

Our first delivery came today. for this week, Joshy ordered Milk, egg nog, and we ended up getting free choco milk. the chocmilk was delish! And I'm usually not one for bottled choc milk- i always end up mixing it half and half with white. Eggnog was bang. I've yet to do a taste test of white- you know, compare it w the store bought stuff...   Not disappointed in the drinks.

But you know what I was disappointed in?  The porch box!   I was psyched about havin a cute little metal porch box on my doorstep. I like things like that. Our house was built in the 40s, so kickin it old school on the porch would have been badass.    These hopes and dreams were beaten, smashed, and shattered....   The porch box is now a cooler...So now instead of having a retro door step, its more white trash. This deeply saddens me, so I am now on the lookout for a metal porchbox- if you see one, let me know!

I've been lookin like a madman for a kitchen for Jake. Ok, well that might be an over exaggeration. I spent the last few days looking for good ones on craigslist- brand new those things are hella expensive!   Like $120-200!   Well I found a wooden one for a good deal, its very exciting stuff.

Yeah, its got pink doors and stuff, but I figured we could easily paint that and I could make a new more masculine curtain.      And then I found a redo..

how cool is that?!  Josh saw it last night and it made him more excited about it.  =)   Still not sure what color we're gonna paint it.  We may have access to free/cheap tile so it might depend on that.  I was actually ok with not tiling it but Josh likes this picture so much that he wants to.      We pick it up tomorrw and I'm soo excited about it tht I dont know if I can wait til Chistmas to give it to Jake. But, alas, Santa says we hafta wait...  =(.


I know generally speaking, in terms of christmas gifts, its one big item and them smaller things. Yeah, we broke that rule.  Before I found a kitchen, or got serious with the kitchen search, Joshy got a little tikes basketball hoop- good deal on groupon! So Jake has two big gifts (that we got for a good deal) and for now no smaller gifts under the tree or stocking.    We've got to get cracking!!!     He's so easy to shop for that its hard, its hard to control yourself when shopping for him!

I LOVE pancakes... Truly madly deeply love them....

So much so that when I was in high school (back before I learned of the level of deliciousness of homemade), I would make a batch almost every day after school. No lie, I would eat the whole batch to myself- eh, half lie- I would save the last 2 for my dogs...    It would probably explain my slight chunkiness back then despite the fact that I was ALWAYS in dance classes/rehearsals.

Last weekend, I made pumpkin pancakes with a cinnamon syrup. Who doesnt love pumpkin. They were pretty yum, and the syrup was too! It wasnt as good as maple- but you cant get much better than pure maple syrup. If only I wasnt too cheap to buy it.....(That stuff is soo awesome, it even tastes good on vanilla ice cream!)  

I had a lot of syrup leftover- it filled up about a quarter of a peanut butter jar- so I made pancakes again a few days ago and put some one it.   Jacob LOVES cinnamon, so he was totally digging it. Homeslice was literally licking his plate clean!      I used a  IHOP copycat recipe. I approved of it!     They tasted yumm with the syrup only as I kept eating them I kept thinking that it was missing something.  It was like eating a cinnamon roll, but without the icing. And whats a cinnamon roll without the icing?

I WAS going to make breakfast burritos this morning with my leftover homemade tortillas (everyone should make their own tortillas, its soo easy!) from the blackbean burgers I made the other day- we didnt have any buns so I figured it was easier to put them on a tortilla.     But you know how the saying goes- LOVE CONQUERS ALL.   So pancakes it was. This time with a cream cheese glaze in addition to the cinnamon syrup.  

Pinterest it was! On my mission to find a recipe for a glaze, I came across a recipe for Cinnamon Roll Pancakes. It was like fate.  Since I already had some cinnamon syrup, I didnt want to make the one in the recipe. I didn't have much milk left in my fridge (we REALLY need to go grocery shopping here- lol) so I decided to do the IHOP pancake recipe again, since it calls for buttermilk instead of milk. Turns out I didnt have enough buttermilk- so it was half butter milk half regular milk so I coulda just followed that particular recuple after all. But IHOP pancakes ARE delicious.....

You're supposed to swirl the cinnamon filling into the pancake as its cooking, but since I used my syrup it didnt work out so much. The syrup just got sticky and a little gummy, so I had to just use it as a topping. Note to self: stick to the recipe- =P.   But even doing it my way was delish!!!

Thank You cinnamon syrup for influencing me to eat pancakes not once, not twice, but three times this week.

Its about damn time...

I dont know what took me so long, but I'm finally getting shit straight for my licensure.  Snail mailed a transcrpt request to Shenandoah to be sent out and did one for tcc. AND getting my proof of expierence thing sent out.   Hopefully things havent changed so I wont have to take another class or anything like that. Tell me why it took so long for me to take the bull by the horns to get it done?        If I did it sooner- back when I first found out that it didnt all get sent out- I'd have a job and my husband wouldnt have to work two jobs.  

I went to the teacher development program at secep last week and had an interiew the next day.  It wasnt really a typical interview. The guy asked me what I had left on my k-6 licensure and told me to get that done ASAP and have the stuff sent to him before I sent it to the Dept of Ed so he can have it in my "purple folder' and we can figure out if i hae anymore requirements to fulfill.  I'm assuming that meant that I was 'hired' for the position, but I havent received a call about orientation yet.  

I'd be starting out as a noncontracted daily sub @ $11/hr, then a noncontracted TA, then a contracted TA @$14/hr, then I could become a Sped Teacher @ about $41k/year.  So when/if I start, I really need to book some but and show uber initiative so I can move up as quick as possible.   Cuz $41k is soundin real nice to mama right now. Hell, $11 an hour aint too shabby either. Aside from my tutoring stint when I was in college, itll be the highest hourly job I've had.  And 11 certainly beats the 0 that I'm making now!

I've vented a lot about the hubster on here, but have I ever mentioned how amazing he is? He's currently workin 2 jobs! So he gets out of bed by 730am, gets home by 1-130, leaves for te shipyard at 215 or so and then comes home at 1230am.   Its crazy. I def admire him for it.

Though I wasnt happy about the results of the presidential election, my previous post about ranting wasnt revolvd around that.  It was other people's posts about it on facebook. It wasn't just irritating me, but some of it was starting to be somewhat offensive.  Who we vote for is no ones business but our own. I was just getting sick and tired of people talking about defriending people because of their beliefs- beliefs that theyve probably had for a while. It didnt stop you from being friends with them before....       But what really got to me were the multiple posts on how if you're a women you shouldnt be voting republican.  Who are they to say who I should and should not vote for?   It doesnt make me any less of a woman to vote for another party. I was moe concerned about the economic stuff and NOT obamacare...     I feel like I had more to say at the time......


Harold from Harold and Kumar go to white castle is totally on the 2nd episode of felicity btw.

I saw a pregnant belly cake earlier today and now I really want to make one. That and a penis cake..  Only I dont have the cake pans for them.  But how fun would that be?!!

a political post/rant may be coming soon.  But first I must put all tge pots and pans away (Jacob put them all in the middle of the living room)

Shit just got real....

The twins' birthday party was today.    Their cupcakes didnt turn out as well as I would have liked, but thats just me being picky.  I made 2 flavors- chocolate with marshmallow creme decorated and sugarfree yellow with sugar free lemon curd filling and choc ganache.   The choc was supposed to be like thing 1 and thing 2 so I put them in red liners and dyed the icing electric blue...  I need to check out diff liners cuz once baked, you could hardly tell they were red (was slightly disappointing for me) and I used a dif tip so the icing looked dif than the pic I was using as a reference.   I made lil cat in the hat hats out of marshmallow and red chocolate, they didnt turn out too bad but a couple were a lil messier than I wouldve liked.         The choc ones were a hit- there were only a few left.   People may haveb been a bit apprehensive over the oter ones, cuz if it were me I wouldve been like"sugar free? eww.. no thank you!"   The mom JUST found out she was diabetic a few days ago and asked if I could make a diabetic friendly cupcake so that I tried. And I'm not gonna lie, theyre actually pretty good! I think I may have liked them more than the chocolate.  The lemon curd was tart and the ganache just balanced it out. Was yum...and I'm not even much for lemon. Totally wish I had some extra left over at home.            

I probably lowballed it.  I gave her a good price, but I had a bit too much fun with coming up with my own thing- like fillings, so it cost me a little more than planned. And then the sugar free thing cost a bit more too. A big ol bag of splenda cost twice as much as a bag of regular sugar. I had already given her a price, so I didnt think it would be right to go back and be like "o hey it changed gimme all your money". Either way I'm making a profit and she's one of my first non-family payin clients. You live, you learn. She's already asked me to do another order for her next month- woopwoop. And if she and her family/friends are happy, it could mean more orders from other people and whatnot.      Until then, I've gotta work out some of those kinks.  =P

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I had a second interview at Panera on Thursday, but they never called me back.....    BASTARDS!  jk.           I've still got the SECEP thing to go to Wednesday night, cross your fingers a million and a half times people!      

I've been wanting to make a KooBakes Tshirt. You know rock it out like the champ I am and have the world see it and maybe ask. Free  publicity! And I just think it would be badass.  Mainly, I want to be a bad ass.... It was just going to be a plain tshirt, but then I went to the little girls section (the benefit of being kind of small and relatively flat chested) and saw some longsleeve tees- it IS getting cold, ya know? They had some or 2.50 but then I saw a pink striped one that I realy liked. Pink and crew neck usually not my thing, but I already have silver sparkley letters and i just envisioned it. It was a pricey 5 dollars, but playas gotta play, right?    Now that I have a fullprced shirt and not a half off shirt, I might just keep it. I'm sure I'll change my mind once I find those letters in my craft room.....      Be on the look out people! And I'll be on the look out for more cool shirts that I can maybe make...   =)

Wanna hear something crazy?

Josh says dinosaurs are made up...whats wrong with him?