Lazy Day

I was seriously considering skipping blogging today, but, you know I am just so proud of myself for blogging regularly that now I can't.

Today I did the morning routines and then homeschool. And had a nice surprise in that The Rock came home for lunch - he NEVER does this but was in the area. In an ideal world he would just stay home all day. I never get tired of him - well, not much. LOL

The Wild Child made her second batch of cupcakes all by herself today!!!! So proud. She beats her batter by hand the 450 strokes the box says to. She counts them outloud. (I don't let her use the Kitchen Aid alone yet, and I mislaid both my hand mixers. I put them somewhere and since I don't use them (much) I can't recall where.) Then she felt a need for colored sprinkles and all we had on hand was green and red sugar, so I showed her how to color sugar (sugar with a drop of food coloring or two if you are making an non primariy color and then you stir like heck till the color is even ) and you would have thought I taught her the greatest mystery of the universe. Knowing that (at least for this day) your offspring thinks you are superwoman is awesome!

Besides that today is kind of a mellow do nothing day. I have been surfing the net, reading other blogs (am taking a news holiday today, we'll see if I can make it through without watching Nancy Grace later) and performing beauty rituals. I gave myself a facial and touched up my hair color. I am a goddess!

Dinner is something on the grill (chicken breasts) and probably veggies in foil. And a salad. I guess we are officially into summer eating. Which makes means a lot of the recipes I am discovering in the old cookbooks won't get made for a while.

Here's the recipe for our house blend ice tea. Everyone loves this and it is tasty without sugar - even big sugar lovers like The Rock like it. Although one could add sugar. Take four bags of Tazo Passion tea and one family sized bag of Luzianne (you could use four regular Luzianne's or Lipton works I suppose, but, for some reason I am a Luzianne girl for iced tea). Pour your boiling water over it, let it steep till it looks done and then put in a 2 quart pitcher and add cold water to fill the picture. Don't ask me why I use half boiled water and then add cold. My mom has always done this and the tea tastes great. We add the ice to the glass when I pour it.