This is just sad

I mistakenly found myself on the U.K.'s Starbucks website this morning and found, much to my chagrin, that the Brits have several Starbucks beverages that they have not seen fit to share with us. The Dark Cherry Mocha? The Toffee Nut Latte? Hazelnut Mocha? Anyone else having the urge to ring in Thanksgiving in Britain?

Another tip

I love passing along other people's blogs. It makes me look like I'm blogging without any of the actual work. I look like a genius, without actually being one. In case you want me to prove it, my most misspelled word is genius. Nope, not kidding. I like to spell it genious. What did we do before spell check saved us from looking like the idiots we are?

Anyway, here is my latest discovery. This woman did a collection of healthy crockpot recipes! A la my attempt about a year and a half ago. Where I got a whopping zero recipes. I'm clearly bursting at the seams with my bloggy popularity. So since this woman (I checked and her name is actually Lindsay - see I am a good blogger) actually has some street cred, here's a link to her crockpot collection. I made her crockpot enchiladas last night with great success and I'm about to try roasting a chicken in the crockpot today.

Are you talking to me?

Periodically, I get a kick out of checking my Analytics stats. Not often, you see, because I have to come to terms with the fact that I am 1.4% less popular today than I was yesterday. That fact is right there in red numbers with a great big red downward arrow. Makes me feel unloved. Insufficient. So upsasad. That's Elise's word for sad and upset. Then I check the words people used to find my blog and the world is just funny again. So here's to all you who found my weird little blog in a weird way:

1. What a very gloomy day :( - I'm totally not kidding. Firstly, someone googled that. Secondly, they actually put the little sad face. Seriously!!! Anyway. Dear Gloomy Gus, I'm sorry you are feeling badly about the way the day is going. Here's a smiley face to cheer you :)
2. Candy bar in a cup - Mmmm. I love me some Starbucks.
3. Candy bar + love is sweet - I don't really know what that means, but I'm inclined to say that I wholeheartedly subscribe to your theory.
4. Eggciting eggsperiment - Wow, the only thing dorkier than me including that in a blog is you googling it. Or is it the other way around?
5. God loves me more than husband - I think this is turning into Dear Abby. Dear Googler. God does love you more that your husband does. Which is pretty awesome since even the most awesome husbands can be crummy sometimes. And God on his crummiest day is pretty awesome. However, God does not love you more than he loves your husband. If you believe me, you are awesome. If you don't, you're crummy.
   
6. Granola recipe kentucky kate - I had no idea I posted a granola recipe. Cool, I'll have to go look for it!
7. I love my candy - I feel you. I really do. Perhaps we should together read a book on gluttony. While we finish off the Halloween candy.
8. It's not meant to last - Agreed. Especially if we keep gobbling up the candy like we are.
9. Pickle factory in Kentucky - Anyone want to go on a field trip to a pickle factory? Rumor has it there's one in Kentucky.

Mr. Bear

Aunt Abbie brought the girls two bears yesterday. Two Jewish bears to be exact. Which doesn't make a lot of sense since we aren't Jewish by birth or faith, but whatever. I think Abbie got them from a friend of hers who is a Messianic Jew. I keep telling her she needs to settle down and marry a nice Jewish boy.

Anyway, both girls are loving their bears. However, Mr. Bear is a little on the whiny and picky side. Just this morning, he whined about not having enough covers (with a blanket that was 50 times his size) and having a tag stuck to his bottom. It's a hard knock life. And yeah, Elise did her own hair this morning. Why ever do you ask?

Christmas madness

We're thoroughly settling into the season around here. Eric and I spent an hour of some rare and precious kid-free time on Saturday shopping for wrapping paper, ribbon, tap and tags. I've made no secret of the fact that I love Christmas and I am thrilled to report that my insane love of the holiday is apparently genetic. Elise has been asking for several days if we can put up the tree. Of course, when we told her that yesterday was the day, we failed to warn her just how long it takes us to put up a tree. I had to take pliers and strip the tree of the last of those stupid broken pre-lit strings that came with the tree. Unfortunately, Eric doesn't like me to use words like crap, stupid, crud, stupid, frikkin, stupid and a few other less savory words in front of the kids. Let me tell you, it made the process much more difficult. So I stuck with "stinky lights." The kids were a little confused, but repeated the phrase anyway.

Elise and Evie took turns getting into the pliers, hiding Eric's glasses in the laundry, trying to find spare bulbs and generally making a nuisance of themselves until they were banished to their room while we finished.

However, the finished product was quite lovely and we've spent the morning enjoying it.


Couldn't you just get addicted to that face? I am, and it's even more kissable than it looks.




Cinnamon toast for breakfast. Lends itself to having every last crumb licked up. You have to love a toast where the main topping is pure sugar.

From the mouths of babes

Tonight at dinner, Evie suddenly said, "Honey? I tired." Wonder who she got that from.

Some deals and steals

In case any of you haven't hit up your local Kroger yet, there are some pretty cool deals this week. My favorite tonight was on General Mills Cereals. If you buy four, you get four dollars off, on top of the sale price. I came away with Multigrain Cheerios, Quaker Oat Squares and Total Cereal for $1.50/box, which is a pretty unbeatable price.

And since I plug it every year... Amazon.com. Love it. Just ordered all of the kids Christmas presents without leaving the house and without paying for shipping. Now if I can just get everyone else to tell me what they want for Christmas! Never mind. You are all getting gift cards to Hobby Lobby. Which I know you will hate and you can give back to me.