pumkin spice is everything nice...

In my attempt to increase the size of my cookbook, each week I make it a point to try at least one new recipe. This morning I made pumpkin spice waffles.

 Oh my goodness they were SOOO good! I had two.  And they aren't small waffles either.  But...I'm breastfeeding so it all works out calorie-wise, right?
The recipe called for 4 Tbs of butter, so I tried out my coconut oil and did half butter half coconut oil.  The recipe said to use melted butter, so after I melted the butter I put in the 2 tbs of coconut oil.  It is solid at room temperature and melts at about 78 degress. So it melted in the butter, but then I added it to the milk/egg/pumpkin mixture and I soon had hard chunks of coconut oil in the bowl and sticking to the side and spoon.  I put some warm water in the sink and put the bowl in that and that seemed to help a little bit. There was still chunks of the coconut oil floating on top, but everything on the sides melted back in. 

So...I guess I won't be substituting coconut oil in where I need melted butter because it just goes to a solid too quickly!
The good news is that there wasn't any coconut flavor in the waffles! And I made my honey whole wheat bread last night and used half butter half coconut oil, and the bread turned out great just like it always does!! Now if only the coconut oil wasn't so expensive...


Yesterday was Valentines Day.  It was my goal all day to have Olivia sit down and color Joel a heart or something.  But that never happened.  When I finally did get the chance to do it, Joel walked in! How sweet he is...flowers and card in hand. And we have been looking for a shelf to put over the computer so we went to Lowes to find a shelf.
I didn't really have anything planned for dinner, so I had started thawing some chili in the sink. Despite double bagging it, somehow the water got into the bag of chili.  So...we stopped by Costco for their chicken alfredo dinner thing. I also figured it would be a good chance to get Joelie a new bluray player since he dropped his on Christmas and broke it.  There was one there that was only $100 after $30 off! Sweet!!
So came home, had some dinner, made brownies, and got the kiddos off to bed.  Great Valentines Day. 

Can I just mention how much I LOVE to be able to say KIDS...plural...more than one...!
And can I also mention how great a sleeper Jeremiah is? 7-8 hours each night at 2 months!! And...when we put him in his crib all swaddled up, he hardly ever cries!! Sometimes we even get smile before he drifts off to sleep. 

As for Olivia....oh how I wish I had a picture from Sunday. I was getting ready for church and she was sitting on the counter playing with my earrings and watching me get ready.  I turned to talk to Joel for seriously A FEW SECONDS, and when I turned around she was holding my open mascara with it streaked all down her cheek.  She had managed to get  a little bit on her eye lashes.  It was so hard not to laugh...and Joel actually had to tell her to stop and explain to her why because I was laughing too hard.  I wanted to take a picture so bad...but I figured that would have totally encouraged her to do it again.