I want to try "it!"

Last night we had a fantastic enrichment night. It was on ways to use your food storage. It really showed me that you should be learning how to use it, incase you ever have to, and also that it can save you quite a bit of money just on your regular groceries. I think about how many time I have to borrow an egg, or a little sugar, or oil or something, and I think that would be so nice to have some less expensive, less space required, easy to store items so I would never run out.
I also think it will take some time to adjust to the new ways, and also help the old body to get use to the new food. We sampled whole wheat pancakes, taquitos, spanish rice, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, crepes, chili, and angel food cake! It was wonderful, but I was running to the bathroom all night, I am just not use to that much wheat!
I think you could easily do wheat flour, eggs, and milk (in cooking--Sean warned me to not even try to give it to him to drink!) Due to the lunch preparation tips (ie. bagging snacks, making and freezing sandwiches ahead of time etc) I can already tell that I am saving money, and a lot of headache and time! Another thing they demonstrated for us was to make our own mixes ie. cookies, pancakes, instant oatmeal. I am totally going to try this!
First step: organize food storage to see what I have.
Second step: Assemble some recipes to try.
Third step: Hang on to your hats, it may be a crazy ride.
I will keep you posted along the way, and will share any great tips I find. If you have some good tips for me, let me know!

PS--Anne was feeling ill last night, and asked if I would make the angel food cake for her. She brought me everything, and it was really easy. During the presentation Cami said "We had other people bring some stuff, and they are going to tell us about it." So I was sweating it, and sure enough I needed to comment on it! I only did it, because it could be great blog material! Anne, you owe me BIG time!

You better be my friend, or I will beat you up

So today was Emily's first official day of preschool. She is loving it! I drive Emily and Caleb to preschool, and Anne picks up. As I was taking them to school this morning, it was so fun to hear their conversation.

Out of the clear blue Emily says "**** is the meanest girl in the whole world!" I said "Oh, that is not true, she is a nice girl. If you hear people say mean thing you need to say 'that is not true, she is my friend, don't talk that way about her' You guys need to be good friends with everyone! I expect you to be nice today, okay?"

Emily: "But what if they are mean to me and hit me?"

mom: Then you tell them "stop that, I don't like that!"

Emily: "Then I will say, 'You better be my friend, or I will beat you up!"

Somehow, I think I have missed something important as I have taught her!LOL

Inquiring minds want to know: Yes, she did wear her bows today, and yes she pulled them out the moment she walked in the door!