3/7/15 - Day 66 - Blossoming

I took the camera out today with the intention of capturing the pink flowers blossoming and perhaps the bees buzzing around them as I like to every March.  But, Nathan's face is too irresistible to not take a snap or two of him.

3/6/15 - Day 65 - Finding My Marbles

For some reason, we have been finding lots of marbles here and there in our favorite scootering spot in our complex. Here's today's surprise find.

3-5-15 - Day 64 - Missing Picture

Because I'm actually writing this on December 28th, I have no idea what happened on this day.  I don't know if somehow I took the photo with a strange camera and just don't remember it....or what. So, for now...here's a placeholder blog entry in case a photo shows up.

3/4/15 - Day 63 - Clarified Butter

Rich is still on this crazy Whole 30 diet, which means that though I mock him for it I also want to support him in it and try to make things as easy as possible for him.  So, because dairy is completely out of the question, traditional butter is not allowed.  This can make things a bit boring.  However, though butter is off limits, if you remove the milk solids from the butter and use just the fat, you're good to go.  I'd been wanting to try to make clarified butter for quite some time, so Rich's ridiculous and arbitrary dietary restrictions of this month have given me the push I needed to give it a shot. I'm so glad it did. Making clarified butter is fun, and easy, and cooking with clarified butter is amazing!

And because a picture of clarified butter cooling isn't very exciting, I give you my cooking partner, ever by my side and probably pulling on my pants leg each step of the way is James.  King of..."I wanna see!". 

3/3/15 - Day 62 - Rotator Painter

Today's art class was so fun! We pulled out the rotator painter and had so much fun experimenting with different ways to apply the paint. We ended up with some pretty fun prints!

3/2/15 - Day 61 - Puppets

The boys playing with puppets these days.  I bought this little pink monster puppet for my school, but the kids love him so much (well, the character Daddy created for him) that he never made it to work.  The boys spend a fun morning playing with the puppets with their Daddy.

3/1/15 - Day 60 - Harp

I was looking for inexpensive dulcimers for my classroom recently and harps kept popping up in my search.  I got it in my head that I wanted to have a harp.  Well, harps are really expensive, at least good harps are, but I did manage to find that there are some really inexpensively made harps on the market.  Now, pretty much all harpists will tell you they are garbage, and they're probably correct, but it has allowed me to own and fiddle around with a little lap harp.  This little guy is only 12 strings, but it's fun to play.  I've quickly learned that there's not much you can do with a 12 string harp, but I still like it.