Adam's attempt at baking!

Tonight Adam and I were kind of in a fight so he decided to "surprise" me by baking peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. In the 8 years that I have known him he has NEVER baked once. He found a recipe in one of my cookbooks and some "all-purpose" flour and began cooking. Now Adam didn't know that we have taken Jackson off the GFCF diet but haven't bought regular flour so the "all-purpose" flour he was baking with was a gluten free mix of bean flours. It became obvious that something wasn't right when we started smelling the baking cookies. They smelled like beans. Adam was determined that they would be fine though. He let them cool and then took them off the pan for everyone to enjoy. They completely disintegrated. Don't they look delicious! Needless to say, you can't just take any recipe and make it gluten free. Sorry Adam. Maybe in about 8 years you can try again.

Why I LOVE boys!

The other day, Lucie was pushing me to my limits. Everything I asked her to do, she would protest and throw a tantrum. Finally at about 5:30 that evening I had enough. I had asked her to pick up 2 toys and she flat out told me "no". Needless to say I was furious by that point. My face began to turn red and veins starting puffing out as I started yelling at Lucie to go to her room. I was really losing it and then I turned to hear Jackson say "I'll pick them up Mom." and then, "Mom, you sure look pretty today." I could not stop laughing at that point. At first I couldn't figure out where he got that from and then I remembered that Adam says the same thing the exact same way! That kid listens to everything!