Sometimes I even surprise myself!!

I took the kids to the movies yesterday for Winter Break.  We saw the Secret World of Arietty.  It was really good and we all liked it.  We loved Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo so we knew we would enjoy it.  I usually try to be thrifty and mke sure we go to the cheap show early in the day.   Each ticket was only $5 and I thought that was pretty reasonable for a day with the kids but of course there was the problem of popcorn.  Usually we share a popcorn and pass it back and forth but it gets to be a pain.  I decided we should just split it up and everyone would have their own from beginning to end.  But how?  I decided that the best way was the simple paper lunch bag.

  I took enough bags for everyone minus 1 and when we got the popcorn we divided it and everyone got to season and butter thier own to their liking.  Simple easy and cheap.  Plus with free refills we couldnt go wrong!  Sometimes I do have good ideas!

Busy being sick

I've been pretty busy....being sick. Not exactly how I like to spend my time but I survived. I had a throat infection and have been so run down there has not been a lot of my usual fun stuff going on. Resting was in order and that is what I got! Now that I'm better I am making up for lost time by baking. Today I made a pound cake and am currently baking beer bread. The pound cake I found the link of pinterest. It's a really easy recipe and although it's still cooling I sampled a small taste and it's so good.

This is where I found the recipe http://m.myrecipes.com/details/searchR.rbml?id=10000001981667.xml&bcat=search&cat=Search%20Result&fl=recipe/two-step-pound-cake-10000001981667

The beer bread I have made before and it's a simple cheap recipe that I found here http://honestfare.com/beer-bread-2/

Looking forward to dinner and dessert with the family tonight. Perfect chilly day food soup,bread and cake. It's a happy night with no more sickness in The house!

My man!

My man, husband, best friend, and honey is probably the best person I know.  He can fix anything, cooks more times in the week than I do, and is the ultimate problem solver. He is a hard worker and provider.  He leads our family in many ways.  He also is the King of skipping work for me.  Seriously the surprise I had today was amazing when I woke up to find him still in bed instead of getting ready to head out the door.  In honor and celebration of my birthday tomorrow he took a 5 day weekend!  WHAT!?  So happy and excited.  There is nothing like a nice quiet breakfast out after we dropped the kids off at school and then walking around forever redesigning out bathroom and takin pictures in Lowes of everything we like and need.  Then just relaxing and talking.  He even loves watching my favorite TV show with me...The Chew. 

It has been a great day and I am looking forward to the rest of this long weekend with him and the kids.  So blessed by this man in my life.