Amy J. Bennett

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Weekend Recap and Snow Day

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Weekend

So I finally set down my ruler and pencil and have given the floor plans a break.  No floor plan pictures today! I think we’ve done all we can and we’re just going to have to wait until the snow melts enough for someone to get over and look at the house.

We had a low key weekend this weekend.  I had to work on and off through the weekend on a conversion we’ve been working on for six months.  It went smoothly and it feels good to have it out of the way.  Other than getting out to the mall, the grocery store, church and Sunday dinner, we were at home doing stuff like laundry, cleaning, cooking and exercising.  Yes!  Exercising!  I bought a few new workout DVDs with my Swagbucks and Opinion Output rewards at Amazon.  I’m not committing to any exercise goals but I have been trying to do some type of something in the evenings.  How’s that for noncommittal?

Snow Day

As for today, I’m sure you’ve heard that we are getting 4-6” of snow dumped on us as we speak.  It’s beautiful, but really, a pain.  The kids are home basically going back and forth between 2 rooms.  Scott is sleeping from working this weekend so they’re having to be quiet.  I work from home so snow is not stopping me from having to work today.  And to top it off, Scott has been called in for two additional 12 hour shifts this week, totaling 7 days straight working.  So now he actually has to be out in this mess working all the wrecks out there.    Yay us!  So, besides the snow cream, I’m really not jumping for joy over this snow.  If I didn’t have to work then it might be a different story.  But no.  I hate to be a buzzkill but keeping it real!

On a high note, I did make some very yummy French toast this morning.  I’ve never been good at French toast but I think it’s because I never used French bread.  I took a note from my mom’s friend that cooks it when we visit in Pennsylvania and bought a loaf at the store yesterday and then followed these instructions.  Enjoy!

 

I’ll leave you with a sure-to-be-famous “Amy story”.  I have many in my past. 

Last night the girls and I were trying to switch from Wii Sports to the Wii Fit DVD.  I put the Wii Fit DVD in the Wii but it wasn’t recognizing it so I tried to eject it so I could clean it. Nothing!  I went online and then followed all the online recommendations for ejecting one.  I put out a complaint/plea on Twitter about what to do.  Best I could tell, I was going to have to get it sent back to Nintendo to get fixed.  It was REALLY stuck though.  I could even get another DVD in the Wii and get it to eject that but the Wii Fit was lodged somewhere that couldn’t get out.  Well.  This morning I told Scott about it hoping that he would have some magic fix.  Turns out he did.  He hit the eject on the PS3…right where I had put in the Wii Fit DVD.  Fail, Amy, fail.

Oh wait, in other big news today, Lexi lost her front tooth.  She now looks like a legit kindergartner.

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OK, now my blog has been down so long that I have a few snow pictures.  Girls eating snow and then jumping on the trampoline with 4” of snow:

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  1. I take GREAT exception to that french toast video! I’m a french toast connoisseur – I’m not even kidding. 1) No salt in the mixture. Just stick with milk, eggs, cinnamon and vanilla (although allspice could be yummy). Also, in the wintertime we substitute milk with eggnog. 2) No baking. If you make sure your pan is hot enough, you can get “crispy” french toast without waiting for it to bake. 3) Consider adding a shot or two of rum to the batter for even more flavor. 4) Do NOT put syrup on french toast. That’s disgusting. Syrup is for pancakes. Powdered sugar is for french toast. 5) Day old challah bread is OUTSTANDING for french toast.

    Even better – for perfect french toast mix eggnog, rum, vanilla, eggs and cinnamon in the bowl. Soak the challah bread. Put on hot buttered griddle. As one side cooks, sprinkle sugar in the raw (not the fine sugar, but the coarse sugar) on the other side, then flip. If you use sugar in the raw on one side, you don’t even need to use ANY kind of topping on the french toast because the eggnog, rum, cinnamon, vanilla and raw sugar all combine for PERFECT FLAVOR.

    And that, my friend, is perfect french toast.
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    • I take great exception to no syrup! Gotta have my syrup 🙂 I also read about the egg nog but I think it might be gone from the stores already 🙁

      Sugar in the raw also sounds great!

      Thanks for the tips 🙂

    • Ok I haven’t watched the video yet but I am so going to try that Sugar in the Raw thing. And I wish I hadn’t read this midway through my 3-day detox diet that I’m doing! That sounds so delicious!!!

      I usually make mine the first way you suggested – milk, eggs, cinnamon, vanilla. I even made it with egg whites the other day and it actually turned out well.