New Blog

I just started a new blog in effort to document home storage skills.  I'd love to hear your feedback whether good or not so good (just be gentle).

www.storageskills.blogspot.com

I just completed the posts on canning chicken.

What did Leah get?

We were in co-op today and I was in the 3 year old class with Leah.  A couple of the others moms and I were talking and one asked if Leah was my baby.  I said, "yes", and that she just had a birthday.

Leah was in the midst of coloring the "baby Jesus" manger purple and pink.

They asked her what she got for her birthday.  Without missing a beat she looked up and said, "a puppy."

WHAT!!!  My eyes bugged right out of my head.  What is wrong with my daughter?

She got a PURPLE and PINK bike!!!  HELLO!!!  Anyone in there?  We can't even have animals because Sam is so daggum allergic to them.

It was funny though.

Joe and the dinosaur

Joey said the cutest thing today.  The kids and I were traveling north on I-95 on our way to Quaker Valley Foods to pick up 900lbs of chicken.

Joe was staring out the window and caught the view of a big silo-type water tower being built.  Just the skeleton framework was built.

Joey asked, "Hey mom, is that a dinosaur cage?"

I loved it!  How wonderful and imaginative was that.  A dinosaur cage.

Bergin Halloween

      All the little Bergins dressed up for a night of fright.  Cute, cute, cute.

Phillies Parade

The whole family went to the Phillies celebration parade on Friday October 31st.   We chose poorly and took public transportation.  Oh well.  We all stayed safe and came home together.

Waiting for a train that we could actually all fit on.  We were one of the last stops on the train route and by the time the train got to us, it was totally packed.  We eventually smooshed ourselves on one.
                                   Still waiting.
Me and Leah on the train.  Yes, that is a leash on Leah.  Couldn't bear to lose her in a sea of 2 MILLION people.
This is a picture of the police coming in before the actual trucks with the Phillies on them.  The police were everywhere.  I think the fans behaved themselves for the most part.
We were up in the 13th floor of a building right on Broad Street.  This is the building right across from it.  Check out how packed it was.  Amazing really.
This is a picture of Pat Burrell, plays left field, he's in the black coat standing up.
I stuck my camera out the window and took a shot of nearly the whole gang.  Matt Bonacci went with us.  It was nice to have another adult along.
Things I want to do in this life:  Go to a ticker tape parade---check.  That was my favorite part.

               Philly Phanatic doing his thang.
This is a picture showing the rest of the parade route down Broad Street towards the stadiums. I'm still amazed at the amount of people that attended.  This was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime event.  I'm so glad we went together as a family.

My Cookies

I made up a recipe today.  Not something I usually do.  Well, I never exactly measure anything.  But that's different than actually creating something no one has ever created before.  I searched the internet for a recipe to go along with my idea.

Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Pumpkin Cookies

I do have to say, that I find them to be very delightful.  Recipe is below the pictures.

CCCCPC (That looks like I'm from the former Soviet Union)

Pumpkin Cookie Dough

2 1/4 cup flour

3 tsp pumkin pie spice

3//4 cup butter, softened

1 1/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup sugar

2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup canned pumpkin

1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Mix together flour and spice.

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter.

Add both sugars and beat until light and fluffy.

Add Vanilla.

Add eggs one at a time and beat until combined.

Add flour/spice mixture to sugar mixture in three additions.  Alternate with pumpkin in two additions, edning with flour mixture.

Stir in chocolate chips.

Cream Cheese Dough

1 8oz package Cream Cheese

1 egg

1/4-1/2 cup flour

1 tsp vanilla

3 tsp sugar

Cream the cream cheese in mixing bowl.

Add sugar, vanilla and egg.

Add flour slowly until it is the same thickness as the pumpkin cookie dough.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Carefully fold cream cheese dough into pumpkin dough so that there are still thick swirls of the cream cheese through out the pumpkin dough.

Drop spoonfuls of mixed dough onto GREASED cookie sheet.

Bake for 12-15 minutes.  They may still look a bit "wet" on top.  

Remove from cookie sheet and cool.

Leah turns 3

Leah's birthday is October 25th.

This year she got a bike.  Please don't mind the messy house or the boy in the background being a goof.

Leah got a Dora cake.  Gramma Snow and Aunt Sandy came up from Virginia to spend the day with us.