Half Baked

With fall comes cooler weather, thicker clothes, and a constant craving of warm, comforting foods. Apparently, we want those comfort foods for a reason.

Fortunately for O, this time of year brings out my inner baker. Since the love of his life (other than frogs), is anything sweet (thank goodness we kept him sugar free for his first year, huh?), he is really enjoying this.

Today we made pumpkin cookies.

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They are super simple,

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Next week we are going to make candy corn rice krispy treats and bread. My goal of this week is to make all of our bread from scratch. We will see if I can resist the temptation of the sliced loaf bread at the grocery store tomorrow...

Turning Leaves

As self employed people, we rarely follow the "rules" of holidays and vacations. When we travel, it normally isn't based on any specific dates, we just take off. Until now. O is in school so we have limits on our time, oh no!

This week was fall break and we took advantage of it by traveling to the mountains of North Georgia. We stayed in a wonderful cabin that came complete with it's own "playground", creek filled with fish, and a pasture full of cows with moos so deep they would cause me to jump out of my skin every single time I heard one. I was a bit jumpy in those woods.

Anyway, we had a great time on this trip. It's so nice to live so close to the mountains. We went to an apple festival, picked apples at an orchard, sifted for gold and gems, attended Oktoberfest, fished, made pumpkin crafts, and rested. A- getaway ( would have been an A=) if not for my skittishness in the woods.


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Greek Out

Yesterday we went to the Greek Festival.