Keeping up appearances

Happy Wednesday!!!

Actually, today has been less than stellar. But I'm determined to get through it in one piece. I haven't posted on my blog in a few days - and for very good reasons: a) I have been baking up a storm; and b) I am completely addicted to Pinterest.

Specifics of reason a) I have been baking up a storm: I baked TWO date squares from Martha Stewart's recipe and didn't have time to take a picture because they were gobbled up by my family. But they were delicious. Trust me. I also baked a carrot cake from a recipe that a friend gave me. Her secret family recipe. Oh. My. Gosh. I can't even begin to describe how good it is. And sadly, I can't give you the recipe. I also baked some pretty decent chocolate chip muffins, not unlike those at Tim Hortons. 

As for my little addiction...I can't seem to get enough of Pinterest. I think because of the snowy, cold weather and the lack of getting anything accomplished during a day (except maybe feeding my little I) I was feeling a little uninspired. And totally unmotivated. So, I decided to try pinterest. And now, I have found a zillion things that I love. Or want to make. Or want to buy. Or places I want to live. But the reality is, I think I need a little break from it. Because I have still not accomplished ANYTHING...but now I have a zillion more inspired projects to complete. :)

Buried

So, I think in my last post, I mentioned to you that K was staying home because of the L.I.C.E situation at her daycare. Yep. She's still home.
And I think she's bored with me. Which is fine, because she's 3. And because the weather has been ATROCIOUS since she has been here. First we got 30cm of snow over two days. Then the temperature dropped to -38C (with the windchill). Then it warmed up for 1 day. And snowed again. And then freezing rain. And then more snow. And then just regular rain. And then the temperature dropped to -29C.
So, we've mostly been hanging out at home.
Yesterday, I decided that we needed to get out. So we went to the Solutions store. I bought some containers for various things - flour, sugar, powdered milk, coconut. All things that I have had all along, but usually stay in bags. It must be that I am going a bit stir crazy, but I can't seem to just close the cupboard and not worry about the chaos that is behind it.
So, yesterday, I completely organized (alphabetically, no less) my spice cupboard. And I composted tons of old nuts, seeds, and spices that had been lost at the back of the cupboard.
I added labels to everything from Mabel's Labels, who I love for labelling anything and everything.
The other thing I did this week, inspired completely by the 40 loaves challenge that Elise Blaha is doing, I borrowed my dad's bread maker, and made lemon poppy seed loaf. It was ok. Not as good as starbucks, but something that can be improved. I'm not even sure that I like the texture of the bread maker bread. I might try the same recipe in the oven.
Today's objective....get K to learn to spell her name. All 8 letters.