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 (this is how her pictures always look..We have to tell her to look at us) Funny girl! Today while Brayden was getting a molar pulled. The nice dental hygenist took Lyndee to the other room to help wiggle her bottom teeth. She was successful. Her adult teeth were growing in back of these baby ones. I am glad to see them go and she was happy to have them out. Now Brayden...well. that is another story.

Yes, I feel that I should accept it this week. Over last week, I got the flu and then I lost my voice. Good think I had my student teacher take over my class this week and last. Monday the kids and I went to the dentist. Brayden has three different visits for cavities. Thank you birth family for giving my child who brushes, flosses,and flourides his teeth every day the worst teeth. He had three cavities, one really bad. I am not sure why they schedule him so far out to fix it. Fast forward two nights. Brayden says to me, "my gums hurt." I respond, "you will be okay, just go to bed. You brushed your teeth and gums too hard again." I wished that I could have given him some Tylenol but I didn't and had him go to bed. He woke up the next morning with a face that resembled one-sided chipmunk. I felt so terrible and still do. I called the dentist and the prescribed some Zithromax to help fight any infection. The swelling has gone but he has alot of pain. I have given...

Someone here got a hold of my camera. Not Lyndee but Brayden. Now I understand why he asked if I looked at the pictures on my camera. Sneaky little guy. This recipe caught my eye yesterday "float"ing around the internet. So I made a point to buy rootbeer concentrate at the store. These cookies aren't too bad. They are not too rootbeery in taste. They taste pretty good with the glaze. Without the glaze, they are kind of blah. I would make them again cause Lyndee and Brayden liked them. Root Beer Float Cookies Got this from a book called 101 Gourmet Cookies 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 cup butter, room temperature 1/4 cup milk 2 eggs 2 Tablespoons root beer concentrate or extract 4 cups flour pinch of salt 1 teaspoon baking soda Cream together sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add milk, eggs, and root beer extract. Stir to combine. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Refrigerate dough for one hour until firm, then roll into one inch ...

Got this recipe out of Taste of Home diet cookbook. I made a small adjustment. The original recipe called for cranberries. I did make but it was bland maybe because it was diet and there was no sugar, but I fixed that by using some stevia drops that I use for my cucumber snack. See bottom of recipe for the raspberries that I used. 2 cups plus 2 T flour, divided 1 cup quick cooking oats 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup butter melted 1 pkg (8oz) reduced-fat cream cheese 1 can (14 oz) fat free sweetened condensed milk 4 egg whites 1 teas vanilla extract 1 can (16 oz) whole berry cranberry sauce 2 T cornstarch Liquid stevia drops (optional) In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, oats, brown sugar, and butter. Mix until crumbly. Press 2 and 1/2 cups of the crumb mixgure into a greased 13 by 9 baking dish. Bake at 250 for 10 minutes. In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in the milk, egg whites, vanilla, (add 16 drops of stevia) and remaining flour. Spoon over prepared crus...

Here is all that aftermath of two Valentine's parties.... Can you tell she had a cupcake at one of her parties? I think the afterschool person should have told her that she had all that on her face. She isn't one, ya know.

We were being a little wacky while trying to get Brayden's homework done over the weekend. See that crazy boy!  And that one! And they were not enhanced by the computer.

Clay brought me some flowers on Friday. Yes, I was very surprised. I didn't think he was going to do anything for V-day. After being married for 14 years, at times I don't care about all that kind of stuff. I just want to be appreciated every day not just on the special days. It was a nice way to end the week though. We all went out for dinner on Friday night. Then we had to stop and buy Lyndee a new coat because her 14.99 Cal ranch special was a piece of crap and the zipper broke. Oh well! Good thing the coats at Fred Meyer were 60% off of half price. We bought her a nice coat for 8 bucks. Wished they had a bigger size but we will need to buy again next year. Then afterwards, we walked by the baked goods and were very tempted by all the sweets and we let kids pick out some yumminess.