Saturday, July 11, 2009

steel cut oats

For awhile I've been reading about Steel Cut Oats "better than oatmeal" and they are supposed to be super healthy and I'm all about (sometimes) eating foods that are closest to their raw form.



It's super easy and nice to have breakfast ready when you wake up, 1 cup of oats, 5 cups of water, some vanilla and let it cook while you sleep. Yummy!
Okay the truth is I don't know if I'd call it "better than oatmeal, because it is not better than Quaker Oats Peaches and Cream Oatmeal that comes in a box! Ha! But, it is for sure healthier!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
- St. Augustine of Hippo

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Blog Hop!

It was super hard for me to pick a favorite picture! I decided to go with my favorite football picture from last season, since I can hardly wait for this season to start! This is at the Big XII Championship game in Kansas City, it was SO cold! But, so much fun!!



This week, on TUESDAY, 7/7/09, the theme is A FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPH. Post up one of your favorite photographs and a caption that tells the audience about it.

MckLinky Blog Hop

Monday, July 6, 2009

chicken?

Recently, I tried a new restaurant. They had a very large cage in the parking lot.....

I couldn't help but wonder what my *chicken* really was....

Thursday, July 2, 2009

My Favorite....

6 year old boy!


For two years I spent almost every single day with this sweet kid. And, last month I saw him for the first time in over a year!

He is one of the most amazing children I have ever met. He plays the piano like you wouldn't believe, he's gotten even better. His little 4yo self used to play video games with me and then stop and run to the piano to play what we had just heard (he did it with regular songs too). AMAZING!

He just finished kindergarten and he can read anything. He can add and subtract (no big deal) he can multiply and divide and is currently working on long division. AMAZING! We were playing Monopoly (you know the regular kind) and he landed on a Utility and asked me what the rent was, I explained to him that it was four times whatever was on the dice, you multiply the number on the dice by 4 and that's how much and he said without missing a beat "so I owe you $16". AMAZING!

But, not only is he musically gifted and WAY too smart of a kindergartner he's athletic. We were playing catch with a baseball (after he complimented my football throwing skills! bless his little heart I am sure that I will never hear that again, and CERTAINLY not from a male!) let me tell you that he threw that baseball so hard we had to implement the bounce once rule (it had to bounce once before I could catch it) because I thought he'd broken my finger. It turns out he is quite the little baseball player, he skipped t-ball all together and went straight to pitching machine (they even put him on the mound a few times) he only struck out 3 times and was at bat like 41 times? (they assure me that is AMAZING) and he was the only kid to catch a fly ball for an out in the WHOLE season and he was playing with kids two years older than him! He is Amazing!

He is the sweetest little guy and I miss being able to hang out with him, while I was there we did all the things we used to love to do and he started planning for when I came back over. Sadly, it won't be anytime in the near future. He is one amazing kid and I am excited to see who he becomes!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009