Baked French Toast with Praline Topping

This is so yummy!

It came from hubby. He

doesn't like to cook. I had found it

odd that he would have such a recipe.

We had this last Friday for supper to

change things up a bit.



Baked French Toast

1 large loaf French bread

8 large eggs

2 cup half and half

1/2 cup milk

3 T sugar

1 t vanilla

1/4 t cinnamon

1/4 t nutmeg

Slice bread into 1" slices and place upright in a buttered 9x13 pan.

Combine all other ingredients and beat until blended but not bubbly.

Pour over bread, making sure liquid gets between slices.

Cover and refrigerate overnight. In AM drain excess liquid.

* I didn't drain excess and it

turned out fine.

Praline Topping

1 c butter, softened

1 c brown sugar

1 c chopped pecans

1 T light corn syrup

1/2 t cinnamon

1/2 t nutmeg

Mix together. Spread evenly over bread. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes

or until center pieces are done. If top gets too dark cover with foil.

Enjoy!

Winter Bubbles

One of the cartoons had bubbles on.

Ding!

I remembered something.

One of the hairdressers on Saturday

had said if you blow bubbles in

negative degree weather that

bubbles crystallize.

I HAD to try it!

I hopped onto a local channel's website

to check the tempature to see if

conditions were ripe.

Current Conditions

South Bend Regional Airport, IN (KSBN)

Last Updated on Feb 10, 9:54 am EST



Weather: Clear

Temperature: -3 F (-19 C)

Relative Humidity: 77%

Wind: From the South-southwest at 12 MPH

Barometric Pressure: 30.16" (1021.33 mb)

Dewpoint: -8 F (-22 C)

Heat Index: NA

Windchill: -21 F (-29.44 C)

Visibility: 10 miles

Well I just wanted to know the temp. I dont know how relevant

the rest of it is.

It was amazing. Something that would seem so obvious though.

Water would freeze at such a tempature.

With that small amount of water it would

freeze quickly.

It was - cool!

They seemed to linger in the air longer than they would in warmer

weather.

The bubbles seemed to float forever. They have went across the street

and floated above some neighbors homes.



There are some there. You can BARELY see them, but they are

there.

I went back to our local channel. They were talking about keeping bundled

up in this weather. And there is a wind advisory until noon.

This had taken place out my side door.

No shoes.

No coat.

Toddler holding door open for me.

Im such a good example!

Cabin Fever!

I came to the conclusion that we have cabin fever.

It may...

just may have something to do with

all that white stuff in the

picture.

I don't mind it.

I'm not going to complain about it.

And yes, that pile of snow is taller than my little G.

Today we had a playdate for groundhog day. A belated

play date. Monday we had a play date as well.

It takes some work to get them out the door to do things when it is cold.

More so when there is a minus 3 (that is with the wind chill).

I planned for us to leave earlier than the planned

play date so we could get some library books.

I try to get to the library every

2 weeks or so. 

This happened to be prefect timing for us. It was a great opportunity for her

to run off some energy.

Afterwards we went to Chic-Fil-A to get some chic chic.

The mose awesome (that's right, I said awesome) part

is that she has been down for a nap for

about 2 1/2 hours. She did that often before she shared a

room with her sister. Hopefully she

will be well rested.

While little G was sleeping Miss J had the run of the place. Yesterday

she was very. unhappy. I took a little time to work

on my Home Organizing notebook. (I will post more about 

that later).

Then it was quite. 

When you have kids you know quite equals not good. I took a peak 

to where Miss J was. I seen her put something in her mouth 

as she usually does. Something did not 

add up though. It didn't look 

right. Oh - well thats because it

was poop!! EWW!!!

It came out the back of her diaper. 

Apparently she did some investigation work. LOL 

I took her to the kitchen where there are hard surfaces 

that clean easy. I had to strip her down.

Prior to doing so I had to clean her hands. 

Then I moved to her back. 

It was on her and me at this point. It

was u-g-l-y. 

By the time it was all cleaned up she was in a new diaper and slippers.

Bunny slippers to be exact.

Today is their laundry day. It happened to be sitting in the hall so it

can go to get washed. She is in her pj's from this morning. 

Let's say she is in a much better mood. 

Perhaps I should have given - 

No ...second thought prunes would have been

way way bad! 

She was cranky on Tuesday, so apparently

that fixed her issue.

I was blessed to have her fall asleep in my

arms!

Isn't that the best part of

being a mom!

Check out how we made the best of a ever
so cold winter day here.