My 4 1/2year old has suddenly decided that he likes Apple Crisp. Not only does he like it, he “loves” it! He can be so funny. Sometimes it takes a little bit of coaxing to try new things but once he does he usually finds that he likes things. With the apple crisp he wasn’t too sure about it because it has nuts in it (that gives anything a bad vote in his book) but as soon as he tried it he declared I was “a good cooker.” I’ll take that!
As a mom, I always want my children to like the food I make, especially the healthy stuff, and I want them to eat it up so I don’t have to put away leftovers or throw any food away. I tend to be a stickler about them cleaning up their plate or no dessert and all that. Well, the last time I made Apple Crisp I was wishing I didn’t always encourage the kids to eat quite like that. My oldest ate his meal so he was allowed to have dessert, apple crisp. He ate his ration of crisp and asked for some more. Okay, we gave him some more. He gobbled that up and asked for even more! Yikes! Between him and my husband I had to make sure I jumped in there and got mine before they ate it all! I think from now on I’m going to have to start doubling if not tripling the recipe!
Pulling an apple crisp, or an apple pie for that matter, out of the oven around here is like hitting the button on a Slimline Light Switch to turn out a light. Pull it out of the oven and it’s gone in the blink of an eye, before it even has time to cool! I could probably install an EagleEye Motion Sensor, and it wouldn’t even have time to sound an alarm before the food was all gone.
I’m interested to see how pumpkin pie is going to go. My oldest son went to Swamp Fox Farm recently on a preschool field trip and picked out a pumpkin. When I asked him what he wanted to do with his pumpkin he declared right away that he wants pumpkin pie. (I’m really glad he said that over cutting it up for a jack 0 lantern. It’s much more practical.)
Thus far we have managed to cut up the pumpkin (not an easy task!), roast the seeds, boil the pumpkin and stick it in the blender. I haven’t actually gotten around to making the pie. In fact, I finally put the pumpkin mush in the freezer until I can get around to it. I like pumpkin pie, I just haven’t been in the mood to make it yet. We’ll have to see if the pie will disappear as fast as the apple crisp. I have a feeling it’ll be gone pretty quickly as well. Maybe not quite as fast, but it probably won’t be sticking around to get old!
Anyone who has ever been to my home knows that I love pictures. I have picture walls. Most of the subjects are my two lovely daughters who, when they were young, were quite adorable. They are very close in age and I took great pleasure in dressing them alike which caused people to constantly ask if they were twins. During their baby, toddler and early elementary school years, I would take them to have their photograph taken every month. Back then, they had such cute girly-girl outfits and that was one way to show off those adorable garments.
Of course, as the years have passed, they have grown up and don’t look anything like each other nor do they dress alike. One is very conservative and the other is a bit trendy. Then of course, there are the teenage facial blemishes and the bad hair days that accompany the process of growing up which no one wants to see in a photograph.
I was recently asked if I could provide some pictures of the girls when they were little for a family member. Since this person lost all of the photographs they had in a fire, it would be quite a job for me to gather together all of the pictures I had and get copies made. I decided it would be just as easy to scan in all the pictures on my computer and then place them on a USB drive and give them the drive. That way, they would have all the pictures and there would not be any time constraint on them to file them away. They could print off what they wanted easily by taking the flash drive to the local photo shop and have them print it off.
This turned out to be a big hit. They loved the flash drive idea. It was so convenient for them and they got to print off as many as they wanted of what they wanted. In fact, it was such a nice gesture, they asked me for permission to reproduce that flash drive to give away as Christmas presents to other family members. The idea caught hold and other family members decided to do the same thing and passed out custom flash drives with family photos on it. I now have a family photo file on my computer that has tons of pictures of my nephews. Perhaps someday my sister will wise up and produce a niece or two so that the balance between male and female can be reestablished.
I’ve set my screen saver on my computer to slide show all the family photos. I’m hoping to get one of those electronic picture frames that you load pictures on and have that resting on my entry-way table.
As for those two adorable little girls, they’re still picture perfect in my eyes. I just wish they hadn’t grown up so quickly. Thankfully, I have all those pictures on my walls to remind me of what the early days were like and I look forward to completely filling all the empty spots with my granddaughters.