here's hoping

Mack and cheese was reading the blog....and commented, "If you don't update it, no one is going to read it."  Well for the whole two or three of you that read it and actually comment, thank you because you always inspire me.  as for the blog, it is therapeutic and cathartic and cleansing .....oh...you get the picture....well then.....

We are now working out int he real world....

and when I say we, I actually mean mackdaddyx7...I get the joy of staying home and trying to adjust to doing it all on my own....again...but with mobile babies....that are discovering cabinets and drawers and each other....

Such a joy and a laugh a minute.....but holy whip...such a dang lot of work!  I have to admit that I had it easy having mrmcd out of work for a year when we had the twins.  I wassssss sssssspoiled!  There was an other pair of hands, and someone there when I needed to sneak away...and I do mean sneak!!  Cleaning was split between two of us...

HA!  Caught you.......had to make sure you were paying attention...housework being split up?!

Now that is funny stuff!  I don't care who you are!  (A little humor for the huz!)

So here I sit, with one mctwin chewing on her bro's toes and the other gnawing on the wood bench.....and I sit here and blog.  Remember it is good for the soul.

I have a list a mile long like the rest of you.....but this is way more important....even my significant other could tell.  So when he comes home and no one vacced or scrubbed the shower or unloaded the dishwasher....he will have to know that he gave me permission to BLOG!

Cuz after all...I NEED permission.  Maybe when the kids are out of school I will have more time...

Oh did I just fall off to dreamland...

...nope.....in a short blogbreak, I have sorted and put in a load of laundry, made my bed, put two babies back to bed...and one has to be nursed to sleep...and yes it is nine am...and they are down for naps, does that tell you how early we get up? and gotten cereal for another said child and turned on cartoons...which I am sorry to report...I watched......not a good thing....sponge bob square pants was parodying being a mother while his cohort went to work and came home and plopped on the couch to watch tv....

maybe I better turn it off.....after I blog.....

Life is good.....and we are starting to look for that farm!

Only we have to go a ways out to actually get said farm within our budget.

Budget, what budget?

We have found a farm house on farm land....I want it, I want it BAD!

But I am trying  not to get emotionally invested....the kids already are and have all said that they would gladly move there....yes, they all agreed...to move to a small town..where they know no one....

so here is hoping in the next few weeks that we can get it all together and it works out if it is meant to be.....

so please...send  a few petitions heavenward for us....I only have a few weeks till it will be too late for a garden..and the lambs will be too big, and....

am I putting the horse before the cart...

well I have been known to do that.....












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A slap of reality

I am here and alive.....I may even be kickin!!!

Life is crazy as we all know it...Mr. Mackdaddy has found the horse he was lookin for

aka...he found a job. Wahoo!  The title is bigger then the pay, but a job is a job in this market and one in his field!

Which leads me to this...I don't have enough time in the day to blog! I know, I know.  No excuses, but seriously.....

I chase around two littlest of littles along with their four year old brother, try to keep the house in some kind of order...

(as we speak/type right now...they are pulling out all the papers and crayons from the kids coloring box....)

pick up and drop off kiddos to school, soccer practice, activities, help with homework, visit the doctor and dentist....more times then I would like to think of, try to cook, clean and look like I know what I am doing....and now that  mackdaddy has decided that he must work to support our little family (hahaha)  it's just me and the kiddos....

seriously, aunties that had more then seven bambinos.....how did you make it look so easy?!!

Anyways...I am here...and once my house is back in order from the family trip we took .......to Maui....(a whole other story!!!)  I will get back to this here bloggin......

just wanted to let you know...if you cared....

later gators!!

Biatchy Mood Altering Cupcakes

I made bread...and cupcakes....lots of cupcakes....I needed therapy!

I have to admit that I have written and started several posts......but alas....they met the delete button....

they were just too sad, negative, moany and moody and should I say biatchy.....

NO...you say.....ME........biatchy.....NEVER......(do you hear my husband hysterically laughing...ya...I thought I did too!)

But we all know I eat my stress so why not my eat my moodiness?  I agree!

The bread was oh so yummy...I can report that Mr McDonald and his lovely wife ate a whole loaf with homemade strawberry freezer jam!  Lunch, baby, lunch! Ya'll know you could do the same....am I right?  Am I right?  You know I am right!

And the cupcakes were for Sissa's basketball banquet...I am not normally a cupcake kinda girl...don't get me wrong....I eat them....but my go to thing is cookies of any kind...'cept the raisin kind.....I'll take trifle or peach crisp or margarita pie or brownies or.....oh you get the point....

But since this is a pot luck garden variety dinner...I am making cupcakes....but I decided to make them special....and oh so gooooooddd!!!  Actually I am on my second batch...the first chocolate ones...well they had their little tasty  tidbit sink to the bottom....so we are at it again...with peanut butter this time...I think we have a winner!

I will post this biatchy mood altering recipe, because.....it is delish..and that is what I do...

I make the world a better place by making you and everyone else eat!  Eat! EAT!

Now....I hope you read my disclaimer.....I didn't say I would help you stay on your diet or tone up your thighs....nope...not me.....I will however, try to make it healthy...and still taste good.....now healthy to me...still includes bitter and cream....unhealthy means....preservatives and additives that you cannot even pronounce.

....we interrupt this show.....

So after hurrying to post this, decorate the cupcakes and make a casserole...and attend the banquet.....all on time.....I had to leave the post.

I know, i know....priorities!

The cupcakes were a hit, exact words were: "Mrs McDonald, these are the bomb!"

I will take what I can get!

Congrats to sissa...she was the bomb!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Surprise Cupcakes

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1-3/4 cups and 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2-1/2 cups and 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1-1/2 cups milk
• 24 miniature peanut butter cups

1. In a large mixing bowl, cream the shortening, peanut butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk.
2. Fill paper-lined muffin cups with 1/4 cup of batter. Press a peanut butter cup into the center of each until top edge is even with batter. Bake at 350 degrees F for 22-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted on an angle toward the center of the cupcakes comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. 

I also made them with chocolate batter!  Sooooo good!

Chocolate Frosting recipe

1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup cocoa
3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Whip butter, stir in cocoa powder. Alternately add in powdered sugar and milk, beating on medium speed. To desired consistency, add more milk if needed.  Stir in Vanilla.

Eat and enjoy....your mood will soon be grinning and the world will be a better place....even if the man about a horse hasn't come callin yet.......

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