Cinnamon Rolls from Canned Biscuits

August 23rd, 2007

my honey came up with this recipe the other day.

 oh. my.

yummy.  if you’re a health nut just stop reading right here – you’ll freak out just reading about it!  the more of everything, the better tasting!

start with generic biscuits

                                                                     cut them spirally 

unroll them

butter them – the best way i found is just to scoop and smear!

sugar them

cinnamon them

roll ‘em back up (i also smear them around in all the left over sugar and cinnamon that’s on the cutting board after i roll them up, the more the better, i say!), spray your baking pan, set ‘em in there, and bake them about 25 degrees less than the package calls for and for about 10 minutes more than it calls for (but you’ll have to check this – because i don’t ever pay attention to the time, i just check ‘em!)

while they’re baking…

for your icing - take about 3 tablespoons butter and mix with about 2 cups powdered sugar.  this is gonna take a bunch of stirring.  it will eventually look like icing.  you may have to add more of either or both to get it to the right consistency (again, i don’t pay a lot of attention to the measurements, i just add stuff.)  also, we love to add cream cheese (melt it a little before stirring into your icing).

when the rolls are done, drizzle your icing over them and serve hot!

Learning To Subtract

August 21st, 2007

i wish this was my idea.  it actually came out of my singapore math workbook for my oldest.  i drew the rabbit on an envelope the boys colored the rabbit.  then i drew the carrots on my oldest’s card and he numbered them.  on my 4 year old’s i wrote the numbers and drew the carrots – way cute – i didn’t upload those pics, though!  they cut the cards and the envelope flap off.  and then we slid the carrots into the envelope (the rabbit’s mouth) while saying the subtracting math problems.  we all loved it!  this math series is awesome!

    

4 carrots

4 carrots minus the 1 the rabbit ate equals 3

4 carrots minus the 2 he ate equals 2

4 carrots minus the 3 he ate equals 1

Fire Station Field Trip

August 10th, 2007

awesome! 

last year when my oldest went to public school oh so briefly we pulled him out the week they were having fire prevention awareness week.  he never got his hat or coloring book.  ah, the parental guilt.  guilt no more.  i think i may have made up for it. 

if you call your nearest station and make an appointment they LOVE kids and parents to take a tour.  so cool.  we got to see where they eat dinner (oh, how i want their over-sized table!).  the firefighters came down the pole for us.  we were there for them leaving for an actual rescue.  and we learned SO much.  like we have a bomb squad in little rock, who knew?  the kids practiced how to make a 911 call with a recorded operator.  he taught them how to climb out a window.  and that kids often sleep through smoke detectors (mine do – i routinely burn dinner after their bedtime) but for about $10 they have recordable smoke detectors that you can call their name and tell them what to do (it alternates the voice with the typical alarm).  amazing how your sheep know your voice.  we’ll be getting one of them. 

living the good life and sugar and spice met us in little rock for our field trip.  with 1 extra friend thrown in the mix we had a total of 4 adults (my hubby went with us!) and 12 kids!