Oversweet strawberry jam...

So I made strawberry jam 2 weeks ago, so what to do with it... CUPCAKES!!! I used my basic vanilla cupcakes, uses only half the sugar and added a half cup (one container) of my homemade strawberry/rhubarb jam. I didn't want to make a batch of buttecream, so thought about using whipped cream,argh, the whipped cream is past it's prime. So it'll hae to topped with Dream Whip once the cupcakes are cooled.
Pre-cooking...


Here's the after...


And the done!

Monster Princess and her daycamp experience...

So Monday went well, dropped her off without too much of a hitch. (makes me really wish I had the camera every day...)




Tuesday, repeat of the previous day. Things went fine except I tried to walk her to camp... a little on the heavy side.



Now comes Wednesday, she's been coughing for a few days, so we decided to leave her at home and should she be better, drop her off at lunch. HUGE mistake. I brought her to the gym at lunch time, she sat down with her lunchbox while I went to sign her in. I then heard a child crying, turn around, it's Miss C. She dropped her sandwich container (open) on the floor. I pick up the sandwich, the camp counselor says the floor's just been cleaned, we dust the sandwich, wash the carrots and sit her back down. Nope, she's still crying and just won't stop. So after 20 mins, back in the car.

Then comes Thursday, me to Princess "which outfit do you want to wear" Princess's reply "I don't wanna go to camp, I'll miss you too much..." so on and so forth... blah, blah, blah. I manage to bring her to camp, but she cries and cries and cries that she'll miss me and blah, blah, blah. So after 25 mins of this routine, I've had enough, back in the car I have to get to work. BUT daddy-dearest won't hear of the naughty little Princess's crying, so he drops her right back at the gym where the crying starts again, but daddy-dearest won't take her back, he's got the Prince to worry about.

Thursday evening, me to Princess "What kind of sandwich do you want for your lunch tomorrow"; Princess to me "I don't wanna go to camp tomorrow, I wanna stay with you" sigh.

So this morning, the kids are all happy to be in bed while I walked to work. At leas the week is coming to an end.

Some pictural update

My oh-so enthousiastic soccer player

My bug catcher


Swimming lessons in the rain (mr. f. can be seen in the middle of the picture)

2 livres en moins!!!

Je ne sais pas si c'est la marche ou si c'est le fait que je relaxe sur le blender, mais j'ai 2 trous de plus à ma ceinture et 2 livres en moins sur la balance... je ne m'ennerverais tout de même pas trop vite. Un jour à la fois.

A little on the absent side

Well, what better then a long week-end to stay away from the computer. What strange weather we had too. I will put a picture of a rainbow since it was sunny and rainy all week-end long. Tata for now.

Camp fire delicacy!

Ouf, la marche...

Ce n'est pas toujours facile de se motiver... Hier j'ai pris l'autobus, le ciel était gris et les nuages menaçant. Par contre, j'aurais dû marcher.

Donc je me suis repris ce matin et j'ai marché. J'ai même réussi à couper mon temps de marche de 10 minutes, la marche qui m'a pris 50 minutes ce mardi m'a donc pris un gros 40 minutes ce matin. Par contre, mon corps souffrait et mon coeur se débattait, mais j'ai tenu bon et je suis arrivé au bureau en un seul morceau.

C'est le temps de me prendre en main...

bon, ca suffit. Je dois absolument faire plus attention et mieux manger, faire plus de sport... donc, a partir d'aujourd'hui, je recommence a prendre note de ce que je mange et ce que je fais comme sport. Zut, demain on lunch au sushi... Hum... vais-je etre raisonable.

Bon, en tout cas je fais marcher pour le troisieme jour consecutif. Une bonne marche de 45 mins incluant une bonne grosse cote.

Swim class!

Swim classes are finally started! That proves only one thing, summer is truly here, with the unbreathable humid air, nothing feels better then hitting the pool

Bugs and flowers

Yesterday we went to the country so here are some ladybugs pictures as well as a bumblebee.

Some last day of school pictures

Mr. F. giving 2 thumps up to the last day of school.
Miss C before heading into class for her last day of school.

What happens to cupcakes in the trunk?

well, the soccer ball was hungry so it fed on the 4 remaining cupcakes!

School's out for summer...

So my kids love Alice, good thing they don't know the song lyrics yet! Will be posting last day of school pictures once they are uploaded to the pc.

Am bringing cupcakes to school, hope the kids like 'em, I forgot to put the egg whites in. The beated egg whites are basically the secret to the recipe :o

Going to the Cirque du Soleil tonight, well, this afternoon as our tix are for the 4p.m. show.

Bunny is doing better, she's not so nervous / mean anymore. We trimmed her claws yesterday.

Why did we bother installing a pool in the yard? Ever since we set up the pool, it's only been warm twice... argh

what a day...

Today was the last gymnastic's class for the kids, yeah! Now I need to get a gift for Miss C's teacher. I found out it was Miss C's teacher's bday yesterday, sadly, I don't have any time to bake cupcakes :( Had I known yesterday, I would have been able to. Sucks.

I'm also preparing mentaly what I'll get for the teachers gifts.

Here is a pic from a year ago.

One year ago today - in pictures

Charlotte was ending her first semester at gymnastics. She loved it so much, she's now doing 6 hours a week.

Ooops, cheesecake misshap

Gee weez, first attempt at making individual cheesecakes. Well, the recipe came with a warning of a a small indepdation in the middle, well, yep, I've got cratters. Now removing the cheesecakes from the mold was another silly thing. Let's see how good the cheesecakes will be once they've all cooled. 2 of them are lost to a mush, but still adable.

Smooooothie

Here's my current fave smoothie recipe. I still don't have a blender, so I have to make it using the small Braun hand-held blender.

1 cup frozen raspberries
1 cup frozen cherrie
2 bananas
1 cup soy milk
1 cup vanilla yogourt
1/3 cup cream cheese
1 tbls maple syrup

YUM!!! Protein, calcium, fruit. Perfect breakfast. I've tried it with bran, but yuck, gotta get my cereal products somewhere else.

Cranking up the ice cream machine

Me and Miss C made some scrumptious chocolate ice cream, sadly, she and her big B don't like it as it's too chocolatey. I will need to go to Little Italy to get me some more vanilla beans.

On another note, still not done organizing my scrap corner. I'm a procastinator.

Weight and exercise...

I sooooo need to lose weight. Geez, I do my best to eat better, I have been bringing lunch to work every day this week. I go for my daily morning walk, but that probably isn't enough. It's only 20-25 mins.

I tried to get up early to catch up on my exercises, but it's just getting too difficult to get up before 5:30 a.m.

I've started taking the kiddies to the pool, but that is hardly exercise at all since we stick to the shallow side of the pool

Cupcakes!!!

Ok, I need to take pics of the darn things I make...

Why can't I stop eating them?

Today was teddy's bday!

My daughter absolutely had to have a cake for her bear and her dog. She claimed loud and clear it was their bday!

So we baked a batch of cherry/chocolate chip cupcakes. Yum.

Also, today was backwards day. She wore her pants and her shirt backwards.