I curse and love you Paula Deen

So I'm addicted to watching Paula Deen. She cracks me up and has some really good recipes, usually always loaded with a stick of butter or more.

These cookies will be the curse of me. I LOVE LOVE LOVE them. Made them last week for the first time and it's uber easy peasy. The recipe makes 2 dozen; I ate 18 of them....all within 2 days. I have no self control or willpower when it comes to these cookies. I was strong for 4 days before being summoned to the pantry again to get the ingredients and being forced by my humongous sweet tooth to make them again. So far, my cookie count is at 2 and I just pulled the last few out of the oven.

They are called Chocolate Gooey Butter (of course butter is in the title, it's a Paula Deen recipe) Cookies. I call them Sweet Delicious My Ass is Getting Fatter I Can't Stop Eating Them cookies.
This is before you add more powered sugar to the top of them. And a quick piece of advice, don't get the cookie close to your mouth, inhale to cough or laugh or breathe because you'll choke on powered sugar forcing you to cough until tears are streaming down your face. Then you have to soothe yourself with a few more cookies, like 17. :c)

Off to iron some fabric and make my next project. Cloth Diapers! That's right, cloth diapers and not the ugly old fashioned ones with the yucky plastic covers. Stay tuned for updates on how the diaper production line is going with Peanut running around and Maemae demanding her boob each time I sit down for more than 3 minutes without her.

TTFN ~ Crys

Quick update

We haven't blogged in a while; life has been busy enough to keep me away from the computer and I'm loving it. Peanut, Maemae and I have a good routine down on Mike's work nights and his days off from BOEC are filled with Guild work and play or movie time with Peanut.

Peanut had his 2nd birthday and a birthday party since our last update. Maemae is now 2 months (and a few days) old. Both kiddos are doing very well. We go to a new doctor next week for the 2 year and 2 month check up and we'll find out if she's the doctor we keep or if the search is on again. After my last experience with Maemae's 2 week checkup, this visit can only be better.

Both kiddos are napping and Mike's at work so I have to cut this short.

Valentine's day. I embroidered and appliquéd both their shirts.

Maemae - 2 months
Elliot having his birthday breakfast. He loves to stab his food with his fork, especially scrambled cheesy eggs.

Off to do the dishes and clean up the kitchen. FUN!
TTFN ~Crys

Last day being 1

Peanut had a great last day being 1 year old. He wanted to start it at 6:15 am, but after a diaper change and cuddles and kisses from Mama, he was tucked back into bed and slept until 8:30. Then it was a morning filled with playing, watching a couple shows, dancing, eating and drinking, kissing Clella and bringing book after book to Mama to read only to want a different book after one page.

Time sure flew past. I can clearly remember details from this night 2 years ago, even the ones I'd rather forget. Like barking at Mike he couldn't turn the tv on and to not touch me. And insisting the nurse was wrong and I wasn't having my baby when I was already 75% on the way there. But even with all the stress of Peanut being a preemie and his NICU stay, there's nothing I'd change. To me, he's perfection in a 3 foot tall, 32.5 pound body.

Now for the picture portion of our blog....

To properly eat tuna cassarole: throw fork on the floor, dig in with both hands, make sure to get it in your hair, ear, nose, eyebrow, shirt, pants, and both the chair and booster. And for good luck, throw a little at the cat...it makes her like you more.

Now you see me......

Now you don't. HA, didn't know Peanut was so tricky did ya?!Mini mohawk in the tub.

Maemae looking adorable in her Mama made hat.

Maemae is doing great. She's a awesome booby baby, our scale says she's at 8 lbs 6 oz. Not bad for only 7 weeks old.

TTFN, off to make a birthday cake and watch some adult tv now that Peanut's in bed. And for my dirty bird husband, I'm not talking about porn.

~Crys (and Maemae since she's on the boob as I type.)