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Wordless Wednesday: Spicie Foodie's Apple Chai Muffins

I ordered Spicie Foodie's Cookbook, "Epiphany of the Spices" from Lulu last month and received my copy last week. Just in time as I ready to do my weekly menu plan. This gorgeous cookbook is full of flavorful, healthy, delicious, foods for the soul! So happy to have received my copy.

Yesterday after doing a bit of shopping in the freezing, "ig'nant" cold, I couldn't have picked a better time to make her Apple Chai Muffins with Chai glaze. These slight sweet, popping with flavor, and bit "spicie" were a big hit with my whole family!  And I enjoyed the first muffin while my little ones slept with a warm cup of black tea (i added some of the chai cream cheese glaze to it, mmmmmmm!).

Wordless Wednesday: Mommy's Mind is in the Gutter

I love Pinterest. We've done a lot of crafts I've found on there. One was homemade playdoh. It's so fun and easy! And the kids play with it for hours leaving me toooooooo clean for hours. At least peacefully! Anywho, while I was resting, my children were making  "croissants" with their playdoh (lil foodies). So they start showing me their masterpieces. All of the sudden I hear my daughter shriek, "Mommy Mommy, look what I made!!!"

It's supposed to be a tower. What did you think it was? Don't lie :) 

 How can I not document this. I love being a mom.

 Have a great day all!!!

Wordless Wednesday- No no no no! Merry Christmas, though!

The children had a chat with Santa last weekend. One was uber excited, the other uber reluctant, and the other wanted no parts of it.

My daughter never lets me down!


a smile!


ok i'll smile, just don't touch me again; i'm still a bit freaked out by this. deal?



my son loved Santa and wifey!!!


My holiday baking prep is in full speed! I can not wait to share and read about everyone's holiday!! Thanks for stopping by! And happy holidays!

Sorta Wordless Wednesday- It's Autumn, y'all!

I love Autumn, it's my favorite time of the year. The clean-ish crisp air, the beautiful auburn leaves, the chilly breezes, wearing jackets again (well we were wearing coats this summer, but let's not get into that we're talking about fall!), pumpkins, sweet potatoes,  women walking around in cleavage revealing dirndls and men in leather overalls, beer and wine fests and a shit load of orange stuff! I freaking love this time of year! We have 3 birthdays in this house from Sept-Nov, we have Halloween where the children work.....erm go trick or treating so mommy and daddy can pig out on their hard earned candy, and my favorite holiday THANKSGIVING! The last few autumns we had some hard times, but for whatever reason, we never let it get us down. From September to December 31st I am pretty much happy most of the time. Anyway, this is supposed to be wordless Wednesday. Please forgive me, I don't have my dSLR right now, this summer along with a bunch of other electronics in my house, it suddenly stopped working. So we're working on that, in the meantime, check out our fall decor. It's not really looking like autumn outside, so be bought it in, plus I am not creative enough to go out and make  real sticks and leaves looks nice.

 I should be posting more regularly! I have so much to share. I may do a Deployment Sunday so I can share stories and photos from our eventful 6 months without the husband. The children and I traveled all over Germany so look out for that :)


OK I'll shut-up!

Starting School is a sign Fall's a'coming! My son started Kindergarten at the DOD school here. He is so ecstatic. His father is German and he is fluent in the language, but he didn't like the German kindergarten he went to. He complained that no one spoke English, I told him that you can speak German and we live in Germany! Oh, well. He is a lot happier in the Elementary school on base and he has a little girlfriend. She'd always give him hugs which he "hated" and now he loves her to chase and she's his 'favorite' best friend. So sweet. Anywho, here's his first day off the bus.

It's not really looking like Fall yet....yeah I know today is the first day. But we've been buying autumn stuff for the house since August when they were first on display. I have issues. I really freaking love Fall.

 Yes a Mass (beer glass) is totally fall decor :) Who am I fooling, it's there year around- #lazy.

We used to keep a pumpkin outside our door, but every year someone steals it after Halloween. I was thinking about putting some kind of firecrackers inside and they'd get a bit surprise, but I think keeping it inside would result in significantly less jail time. :D

This is from the parade preceding the Wine fest in my town. We didn't go because we had other plans and the days following it was rainy and cold. I have photos from when I went last year on this blog:)

Blocked street! Yeah, lets go the other way.

I hope to post more frequently soon. Thank you for reading! Next up, check out my fall recipes! I've only been blogging little over a year so it's not totally overwhelming. A lot of sweet potatoes, though! Tschuess!!!

Wordless Wednesday: Slurp!

Can you tell she really loved the soup?

Wordless Wednesday: Mama's Little Helper

Curly Sous (chef)
My daughter loves to help in the kitchen. From cooking, to setting the table to even washing the dishes! I love my little curly sous :) Here she's stirring pasta for her and her brothers' lunch.

Wordless Wednesday- My Sleepy Town

Took a walk today with just me and my 1 year-old around  my town. Though I felt a bit under the weather, I thought a nice walk is a great to sweat the cold away! There's so much more about my sleepy town to discover, and will share whenever I can! Here's some photos from the walk today


One of many fruit stands. Red currants looking nice.

There's no shortage of bakeries here


 Someone's in denial

 mmm


Gorgeous Flowers




Love the butchers and produce markets. Here's 2 of my favorites
Butchers


Organic Produce



My Fave Bakery!


The only way to travel in the summer

Coming Clean

Coming Clean, originally uploaded by YummySommer.

We tried....

(Wordless Wednesday)

Wordless Wednesday

Run, Amara, run!, originally uploaded by YummySommer.

Run, baby, run!