I'm really enjoying getting to know so many of my fellow crew members! This crew ROCKS!!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Focus!
Focus Nanette, FOCUS! I’m currently working on my review of the Travel the World E-Book by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and I’m having a very difficult time focusing. Why you ask? Well, I generally have a hard time staying on task in my normal everyday activities. My mind runs none stops and hops around like a bunny on a trail. But, tonight is a bit more challenging than normal, as my hubby and youngest daughter are watching Transformers. This movie is one of my absolute favorites, so I can’t seem to zone the sounds out of my mind. Within the next few minutes I just may give up for a few hours and go watch the movie with them :- ) I know I really shouldn’t seeing as I’ve been so busy this past week and wasn’t home much over the weekend, therefore I have gotten nothing completed (by the way, all the busyness last week and over the weekend was spent with my family). So anyway… Wish me luck!
LOL, see bunny trails… rather than trying harder to focus on my review or giving in and watching the movie, I’m blogging about my inability to focus! Anyone know a good shrink?! Hahaha!
LOL, see bunny trails… rather than trying harder to focus on my review or giving in and watching the movie, I’m blogging about my inability to focus! Anyone know a good shrink?! Hahaha!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Another Blog Walk...
I was late in posting last weeks blog walk (posted it yesterday), but here is the list of blogs for this week.
Come follow along with me I am :-)
Monday, June 21, 2010
Blog Walk Week 1
Since there are so many crew members aboard The Old Schoolhouse Cruise this year (250, if I remember correctly), something called a Blog Walk has been created for us. The purpose of the Blog Walk is to allow all the TOS Crew Members to get to know one another more through our blogs, as well as to spread the word about our blogs and our reviews. So not to overwhelm us, each week 10 blogs are listed for us to visit, comment on, and follow.
Here are the first 10.
1. Alane Abbett's Reaping a Harvest
2. Alexis Green's Pink & Orange Coffee
3. Alina Neuberger's Live, Laugh, Learn!
4. Amanda Bowen's Mrs. Mandy's Musings
5. Amber Hockman's The Fantastic Five
6. Amber Schoessow's Refined Metals Academy
7. Amy Henn's Just A Moment in Time
8. Angela Greenwell's Providence Farm
9. Angela Richter's My Journey
10. Angie Wright's Petra School
Go check them out and follow along...I did
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Father's Day :-)
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!!
We spent the day at the lake; cruising on the boat and swimming in the water. It was awesome! It would have been perfect if it wasn’t 95+ degrees outside, but thankfully it wasn’t as humid as normal. My hubby can handle the heat and humidity pretty well. Me on the other hand - not so much. It’s ok though, the sun doesn’t like me either. Haha! I say this, because normally I get burnt very badly even with half a bottle of 50 SPF waterproof sunscreen on. Today was different though - I didn’t get burnt at all, not even a little bit. Sadly, one of my daughters did though, and she had just as much sunscreen on as I did… weird. Thankfully being on the boat makes the heat bearable. Well, as long as the boat is moving or you’re in the water. I’m really looking forward to going out again later this week.
Once we got home we cleaned up, ate, and I decided to do some baking :-) I know – baking in this heat?! No worries, I haven’t completely lost my mind. I don’t generally use my oven. I have a convection oven with a rotisserie that I use ALL the time. I can cook/bake all I want and there’s no competition with the air condition! It’s awesome and I love it!! The only drawback is it’s not quite big enough to cook more than two loafs of bread at a time.
Ok, back to the bread… I have 4 loaves of zucchini bread (made with zucchini picked fresh from a friend’s garden early last night). One of the loaves is almost gone already and 2 are cooling. Oh, and I have a loaf of banana bread in the convection now. I did cook a lot of bread, but I heard it freezes well, and I always take some to my family, so none will go to waste. The zucchini bread was such a hit that when my oldest daughter walked in from playing with the neighbor kids, she grabbed a slice and her exact response were, "Wow, mom, this is awesome!" Hahaha, I love it! I love when I create something yummy from scratch and my hubby and daughters love it!
Here are the recipes if anyone would like them... Zucchini Bread and Banana Bread. I did make a few changes to the recipes. For two of the loaves of Zucchini Bread I substituted -
The Banana bread is almost finished. I'll try to remember to added a couple pics later. Now it's movie time with the family - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian My girls have already seen it and they absolutely loved it! Oh boy, my house smells of popcorn! Can you smell it? YUM!!
Have a great night everyone!!
We spent the day at the lake; cruising on the boat and swimming in the water. It was awesome! It would have been perfect if it wasn’t 95+ degrees outside, but thankfully it wasn’t as humid as normal. My hubby can handle the heat and humidity pretty well. Me on the other hand - not so much. It’s ok though, the sun doesn’t like me either. Haha! I say this, because normally I get burnt very badly even with half a bottle of 50 SPF waterproof sunscreen on. Today was different though - I didn’t get burnt at all, not even a little bit. Sadly, one of my daughters did though, and she had just as much sunscreen on as I did… weird. Thankfully being on the boat makes the heat bearable. Well, as long as the boat is moving or you’re in the water. I’m really looking forward to going out again later this week.
Once we got home we cleaned up, ate, and I decided to do some baking :-) I know – baking in this heat?! No worries, I haven’t completely lost my mind. I don’t generally use my oven. I have a convection oven with a rotisserie that I use ALL the time. I can cook/bake all I want and there’s no competition with the air condition! It’s awesome and I love it!! The only drawback is it’s not quite big enough to cook more than two loafs of bread at a time.
Ok, back to the bread… I have 4 loaves of zucchini bread (made with zucchini picked fresh from a friend’s garden early last night). One of the loaves is almost gone already and 2 are cooling. Oh, and I have a loaf of banana bread in the convection now. I did cook a lot of bread, but I heard it freezes well, and I always take some to my family, so none will go to waste. The zucchini bread was such a hit that when my oldest daughter walked in from playing with the neighbor kids, she grabbed a slice and her exact response were, "Wow, mom, this is awesome!" Hahaha, I love it! I love when I create something yummy from scratch and my hubby and daughters love it!
Here are the recipes if anyone would like them... Zucchini Bread and Banana Bread. I did make a few changes to the recipes. For two of the loaves of Zucchini Bread I substituted -
- ½ the all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour
- ½ the sugar with the equivalent to 1 ½ cups Splenda
- omitted the nuts
- cooked at 350 degrees for 40/45 minutes
- drained the shredded zucchini by placing it in a towel and pressing out the access water. This step is important; or the bread will come out too wet. At least that’s what a few of the reviews said :-)
- whole wheat flour rather than all-purpose flour
- Splenda rather than sugar
- I also added 1 cup of water rather than 1/3 cup. The whole wheat flour made the batter very dry and adding the water helped greatly. You could use the 1/3 cup water and not pressed out the access water from the zucchini and it should to good moisture wise. I had already pressed the access water out before I started the 2nd batch of batter.
The Banana bread is almost finished. I'll try to remember to added a couple pics later. Now it's movie time with the family - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian My girls have already seen it and they absolutely loved it! Oh boy, my house smells of popcorn! Can you smell it? YUM!!
Have a great night everyone!!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Practice run :-)
The time is fast approaching and the countdown will soon begin. All TOS Crew Members are required to complete a practice review. We’re able to choose between 2 different items to review and if we really want to, we can choose to review both items. This is the one and ONLY time we get to choose what we want to review. I’ve chosen one so far, but I have until Tuesday to decide if I want to review both. I’m thinking about diving in head first and tackling both. What do you think? Next week we’ll receive the chosen items and due dates will be posted. Then in mid July all the crazy, fun, madness officially begins! I can’t wait to see what God has in store for me and the other 249 crew members!! I’m so excited!! Stay tuned :-)
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