WWYD?

There comes a time in a mom's life when she has to let her kid do something not too bright and let the cards fall where they may. My oldest son, Joshua, and his dad love their spicy food. I often jokingly say I'm going to start making the exact same thing for meals everyday because they always put Tobasco sauce on everything anyway. All their food tastes the same!

Joshua came across a pepper called the Ghost Pepper. He's watched some rib cracking videos on You Tube about fools who ate this pepper. He wanted to try it. I hesitated in letting him. The people in the videos were in PAIN! Should a mom allow her flesh and blood child to do something like that? On purpose?

Well, I did and I laughed just as hysterically at him as I did at the videos. You want to know how smart he is? He's going to do it again with some friends tomorrow. Where did he get these brains from anyhow?

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A picture's worth a thousand words

We were on a road trip recently and one of the stranger things we saw was on the return trip home. It was a little rainy so the pictures aren't as clear as I wanted. Well, that and we were going 70 miles an hour. What do you think?

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PIZZA! Finally!

Since we've moved out to the country, I rarely find it worth the gas to drive for take out pizza except in dire circumstances. The kids all still want pizza for Friday night dinner as often as possible though!  I tweaked a bread machine recipe for the dough and we all love the result!

1 1/2 cups warm water

1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour

1 cup bread flour

1 tablespoon yeast

1 1/2 teaspoons sugar

This makes enough dough for two 16 inch (give or take) pizzas. So, of course, I have to make two batches of dough. Roll the dough into a pizza shape.

Top with your favorite toppings. We like cheese, pepperoni (nitrate free of course), mushrooms, spinach and feta cheese. Some of us are pickier than others.

There! Doesn't that look good!

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Link up!

Deep questions with Elijah

Don't you just love the age when kids start asking deep questions?  You know they're really starting to think about things.

We were in the car earlier and Elijah calls from the back, "Mom?" I could tell it was going to be a serious question. "How do they make Monster Trucks?"  See, I told you it was serious!

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What is he doing?

Micah has started something strange. I'm not sure where he came up with the idea or why he's doing it. See that cute little chubby hand up by his chin? He's holding his shirt tag! He checks all his shirts now for the tag and walks around holding it all day. He's become one handed and so far, hasn't found it frustrating enough to stop holding the tag. 

Isn't he funny! (You don't see the dirty floor, right? Yeah, me neither!)

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Another one bites the dust

I really thought we were through with this stuff. It's been a week for goodness sake! See, same chair, different kid and that age thing still holds. Keeping my fingers crossed that maybe NOW we're finished. 

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A look at the chicken coop

We call this the "Chick Mahal."  Bret, being an architect, couldn't just make a coop. Noooooo  This coop came with 3 dimensional plans done up on a computer program.

I'm kind of partial to the color red, but apparently all paint isn't made the same. After careful selection (ok, an hour of looking) of just the right farm color of red, I took the card to the paint counter. The helpful guy told me he could only get that tint with the really expensive paint. (That's not exactly the way he said it, but that's what he meant.) I looked at him and said "Really? This is for a chicken coop. Can't you get close?"  I think he did pretty darn good, don't you?

The girls seem to like it ok! They're really starting to give a good amount of eggs and we're oh so thankful for that! Having chickens is something I never knew I loved!

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