Monday.....was Donut Day, sort of!

Well today Jamie, Ethan and Eliana came over to make donuts from my new cookbook, "Deceptively Simple", they are healthy "good-for-you" recipes with some kind of secret ingredient that kids would not particularly figure out!  

So we decided to make the Donuts, (they had pumpkin and sweet potato in them)  But ours didn't quite turn out like the picture in the book, somehow that is always the case with cookbooks, the finished product never quite looks like the picture!  

Despite them not looking like a donut, or really tasting like a donut, they were quite yummy. More like a flat pumpkin muffin circle!  Funny!  I have a picture comparison below. 

Now, I think I am a pretty good cook, not always adventurous, but can follow a recipe pretty well.  Our biggest downfall, was we didn't have a "donut mold" well, not sure how many kitchens have on of these fancy pans, so we did "free-form" donuts.  They turned out like flat circles, but then we got creative and made Alphabet donuts!  They were pretty cool!

So that is what we did....pretty fun!

Blog improvement!

The old saying goes..." when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade!"

so here goes with my blog....

Today Amanda helped me jazz up my blog....this is an amazing picture she took of the cutest little lemon tree ever that is in the sunroom at my parents house.

It will help bring a little sunshine to my world and hopefully to yours as well! 

Have  a great "SON-day!"

a blog for me

So recently I have read a few blogs.....and was encouraged by my kids to set up a blog.  So here it is...."Thoughts from Me!"

Not sure what I will compile on here, but basically it will be thougths from me that I want to convey to others and ideas that would make for good information to know and read.  

There ya go.....