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Baby Bee Buttermilk Bath
2 cups dry (powdered) milk (nonfat or whole)
1 cup dry (powdered) buttermilk (nonfat or whole)
1/2 teaspoon Baby Bee Buttermilk Type Fragrance Oil

Milk baths are some of the most marked-up products ever. Burt’s Bees is $16. This is exactly like Burt’s Bees – just milk and fragrance.

If you use nonfat milk, your skin won’t be oily afterward. But if you use wholefat milk, you will get the natural moisturizing power. It’s all up to your skin type.

If you can’t find buttermilk powder at the regular grocery store, you can definitely find it at a health food store. Whole Foods carries Bob’s Red Mill products, and they have powdered buttermilk.

People with lactose intolerance or milk allergies shouldn’t try this recipe. If mixture is too oily, try 1/4 cup of Natrasorb to soak up the oil.

[Idea modified from theperfumereport.com]

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We woke up to a winter wonderland this morning. Of course, Syna wanted to go out immediately in the morning. So we did! The snow was the perfect consistency for a snowman, and we built one right off the bat.

However, the heavy snow is not ideal for shoveling. But we actually got it all done – before it iced over! That’s a first.

Syna got the snowball maker going. It makes perfectly spherical snowballs easily – a snow day must.

I filled the bird feeder and spread some seed under some low hanging branches. The birds came right away for some sustenance. Hey, make some Bird Seed Ornaments for the season.

It started getting a bit wet, so we all came in to the house. I love our home in the winter. With the fireplace, Christmas tree and windows to enjoy the winter scenes it’s the coziest place to be snowbound.

While looking out the window behind our couch in the family room, Syna exclaimed, “Look at that snowman looking in the window; he’s watching us like a crow.”

Oh, and a snow day pleasure: the plow just came by and packed a huge pile of snow at the end of our cleared driveway. Grrrr…

Crayon craft, originally uploaded by hlkljgk.

our family craft of the day

we melted pieces of broken crayons in a double boiler (which was just a pot of boiling water with a pyrex measuring cup seated in it) and poured the melted wax into star shaped candy molds.

we melted different colors together to get the swirls (not so great) and we layered colors for the rainbow effect.

super easy and fun. a great way to use up those broken crayons. :)

For dinner tonight:

• Fall Salad
• New England Clam Chowder
  (for a vegetarian version see Vegetarian New England “Clam” Chowder. Or use the original recipe and just substitute the clams with the arame from the vegetarian recipe and add oyster mushrooms for the texture.)
• Homemade Quick Rolls with Homemade All-Purpose Herbed Butter
• Grandma’s Apple and Honey Muffins* with Homemade Whipped Honey Butter

*The muffin recipe is from a great book we picked up at the library, The Beeman:


It’s an easy and healthy recipe with only flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, whole wheat or bran cereal flakes (we use whole grain with flax), apple, raisins, egg or Ener G Foods Egg Replacer, milk, oil & honey.

Syna’s Featured on EPA Earth Day Site!, originally uploaded by hlkljgk.

EPA Earth Day Photo Project

Hi.P.A., originally uploaded by hlkljgk.

mmmm…

"Get high on hops, hops and more hops with this vivacious vibration of vernal vitality!"

hI.P.A. is a highly hopped India Pale Ale and the Spring SeasonAle. A medium-bodied beer with a fresh and fruitful nose of vernal vitality. It begins and ends with a big hop bite that is itself forever balanced on the brink by a steady rhythm of malt. Dry-hopped for extra quenching in the face of heat and beat, it’s an ideal accompaniment to chilling out, turning inward or sailing onward through the music of the night toward the dawn of the mind. It’s the liquid way to say be here now lest you never come this way again.

About our Label Artist:
Stanley Mouse is widely heralded and otherwise internationally acclaimed for his iconographic concert posters for venues like the Fillmore Auditoriums and the Winterland Ballroom as well as his classic album covers for the Grateful Dead and other bands, Stanley Mouse is the man Bill Graham said ‘put the face on rock and roll music.’ Learn more at Mouse Studios.
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lily pads and yam yums :), originally uploaded by hlkljgk.

tonite’s dinner

yam yums recipe

(definitely suggest this as a dipping sauce – at least for the adults :)

the lily pads are essentially small spinach pancakes.

got the ideas from Sesame Street Silly Snacks Cookbook

I have found that with my 3 year old daughter just renaming some foods with silly substitutes or cutting the "usuals" into cute shape will get her interested and eating some different foods.

she asks for these daily.