So I usually tell a different story when I do Way Back Wednesdays but this is one that always makes me happy and many of my teacher friends in Arizona are headed back into the trenches this week and so I thought I might remind them of some of the great things about teaching. This is originally from August 30th, 2008. This is a great recipe and perfect for an after school snack to go with your homework. Obviously there has to be a good side to teaching, for if there wasn't, no one would do it. There are many great moments in teaching. Many of those moments you will never know about, and that's the hard part. So often it is years later after you were that child's teacher that you realize the impact that you made on that child. And it usually never the kid you would have thought. Case in point. I had a student when I taught 6th grade. Her older brother was in 8th grade and struggling something horrible in science. At the time the science teacher was what one might call technical(you … [Read more...]
Time is on my side…
Yeah, I know, Rice Krispie Treats again…but come on, look at them, how could I not? Plus I am addressing the “I never have time to cook”. Which I call BS on. I think if you like to do anything; you will find time for it. Why not just say I don’t really like to do that. I don’t like to run, I just tell people, I don’t like to run…I don’t say I don’t have time to run. And my friends who all say they never have time seem to be the people who love to scrapbook. Which fine, scrapbook away. But that takes time, a lot of time, and money. And well, no offense to scrapbookers of the world, but people would rather eat cookies than sit on your couch and thumb through your family vacation to the Grand Canyon complete with matching stickers. Scrapbooking and photo albums is todays version of slide shows from when I was a kid, and most people are too polite enough (funny that can be polite then, no other times) and suffer through them. Even with making the cookie dough truffles, … [Read more...]
Air…it’s what’s for dinner…
So I was supposed to have a little medical thing done this week and the idea of cooking after that sounded no fun at all. So as usual, what is more fun than Funfetti? I had seen cake batter Krispie Treats over on my blog crush and figured if any time ever I deserved then was now. :) I had been putting make them off for a very good reason, like Lay’s potato chips, I can’t eat just one. Or four for that matter. Krispie Treats are my kryptonite for sure. It’s because they are a negative food. You know how nutritionist tell you some foods have a negative calorie effect, that by the time your body process them that you burned more calories than you ate? For the record I think that is a load of crap and just an evil way to try and make you eat certain foods. :P I think Rice Krispie Treats are like that for me. Except the negative effect that they have on me is that after eating 8 of them, it’s feels like I ate none of them. And so I want to eat more. They are like eating … [Read more...]
