The King's Speech

The King's Speech was amazing! I highly recommend it. I am a fan of Colin Firth.

Girl's Night

Tomorrow night I am going out with my friend Becky (that I work with) for a girl's night. Dinner, a movie and a trip to the bookstore. We both love to hang out at the bookstore. We are going to see The King's Speech. I like Colin Firth and Becky is a speech pathologist (currently working as an ESOL teacher) so I think she will like the film even more since it is about a speech problem the king has (as well as other story plots I'm sure).

I am looking forward to a big girl movie and some adult conversation, especially since Alea and I might be home together some next week with another snow and ice storm coming our way.

Snow days 2 and 3

Snow day today and tomorrow. This makes the 2nd and 3rd snow days of the year. Alea and I are spending our days sleeping in and watching movies on download. Good times.

Devil's Food Rollo Candy Cookies

I made these tasty cookies today for us to enjoy. Davin's parents are here this evening and are staying the night to stay home with Alea tomorrow. I have an inservice day and Alea does not have school. Yummy.

I also made an apple crisp and orange rolls along with fridge mashed pototoes and the sirloin and mushroom main dish from last weeks OAMC day.

Pics to follow.

Potato soup pizzazz

Tonight at dinner I realized I forgot to add the salt and pepper to the potato soup, so I added it everyones soup bowl. Alea tasted her soup and said that the salt and pepper "did add that certain pizzazz". My goodness, what a goofy girl! Pics of the soup are below.

Snow day and cookies

Today Alea and I both were blessed with snow days (everyone needs an unexpected day off now and again). Alea was invited to play next door with her BFF and has been there for several hours. I have called and checked in but they are doing wonderful, so I guess they are staying there and playing a while longer.

I did the typical house cleaning that I think most moms do on snow days but then I busted out the cookbooks and made two different batches of cookies. I made chewy chocolate chip cookies and easy sugar cookies. The chocolate chip cookies have oats in them. They look a lot like the cookies I made last week one day after work. The sugar cookies did seem easier than my moms recipe (I'm not sure what the difference is right off the top of my head though) and they seemed more flavorable as well...don't tell my mom!

Yummy! Pics below.

pictures of food

I heard from one of my faithful followers (you know who you are) that the pictures made the cooking blog more exciting, so below you will find the picture of our ravioli that was dinner tonight. I forgot to take the picture until after I had made up our plates but hopefully you get the idea. We also had parmesan knots and corn.