Wasn't so good at Blogging...let's change that!

So....attempt # 2. There have been some changes around the house. I had a career change, 2 of the 3 kids started at new schools, and a couple new seasons of sports were started.

I have been trying to make our goodies instead of buying them. I feel good knowing that i am putting time into making something sweet and "special" for my family.  A couple of weeks ago, I made miniature apple pies. They were de-lish! I changed it a little, just by eliminating the caramel. They took time to make (more time than the standard chocolate chip cookies), but judging by the amount of time that they disappeared (about 1.5 days) I would say that the time I put into them was well worth it!

The picture on the originators post is much, much better. Just looking at this picture makes me want to make them again, yummy! I figured since I had the trusty old camera out to take a picture of the mini pies, I thought I would play around a little and snap a couple pictures of the lemon used! I admit (shamelessly) that I do not purchase fresh lemons (or limes) often so when I cut this one and it was sitting on the cutting board, I thought, hmmm....wouldn't that be a good subject to play around with using my camera!

See that little seed...it's almost like it was a prop!

We also made some treats for the youngest for school, Thanksgiving day treats! She wanted to put Hershey kisses on top of pretzels, melt them and then add an M&M. I have never made these before, so I just assumed that the time they spent in the oven didn't matter. I was wrong! Did you know that you can burn chocolate?!?!?! I didn't. I'm not sure if it is all chocolate or just Hershey kisses, but when we tried to push them down with the M&Ms, the top just broke off. So, being the mom that I am that thinks quickly on my feet, I melted down some chocolate melts and splattered the chocolate across the chocolate. There were none that came back home (and she is still in Elementary school, so what they look like doesn't really matter all too much) so I assume they went over well.  

On the knitting front....I have quite a few projects on the needles. I started the sock yarn blanket back in January.  It's a little slow going, so I decided to do the same pattern but with different yarn (Caron Simply Soft) on size 8 needles. I have an awful lot of blue yarn left over from baby sweaters lately, so I decided to make this blanket out of the shades of blue (along with white, grays, black, cream, and brown). This project is moving much quicker than the sock yarn blanket, even though the sock yarn blanket is going to be MUCH more interesting and beautiful!  I have a deep hatred for blues, though you wouldn't be able to tell by the amount of blue yarn in my stash! The photo below was taken a couple days after this blanket was started. I will try really, really, really hard to snap pictures of this as it progresses, as well as the sock yarn blanket (I promise), as well as the other 19 million projects I have started!

Today was a BIG BIG day...More about that later....and this post has become pretty long. So, in the mean time, enjoy the photos of the scrumptious food, go check out the blogs linked in this post, and enjoy what is left of your weekend!