Bear sized….

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A couple of weeks ago on the way home from work MDP called and asked if I need anything and I told him yes that I needed honey. He got to the store and text me what size. I wrote back “bear sized”. “Bear sized” he questioned. “Yep, bear sized” “That’s not a size” “It is for honey” Didn’t hear from him for a few. He called and said I am staring and four different sizes of bears. What size? I being annoying said “bear size”. I told him it was his choice. He brought back a gigantic bear filled with honey. I only needed 3 TBSP. :P He now randomly buys me small bear sized bottles of honey for no reason other than the thinks he is being funny, which in a way he is. But I now have a lot of honey. I decided to do a take on cornbread. I love sweet corn in desserts…sweet corn ice cream is pretty much my favorite flavor of all time. So I went searching for a cupcake version. I found one and messed with it a little and came up with something I … [Read more...]

Occupational hazzards…

Try as college might, there is no real prep for teaching, until well, you teach. I think this is true for most jobs, but really you just can’t plan for things. Who knew I would ever have to deal with a kid stabbing another kid with a protractor and peeing on him (no, this didn’t happen on my watch, I just had to be the one to deal with it). Or how about turning on the lights after watching a movie only to find some 8th grade boys mouth on some 8th grade girl’s breast? Again, not on my watch…but that became legend at our school and the reason why we always watched movies with at least one light on….and I got to choose who you sat next to. Or how about a parent/teacher conference where the mom is drunk and had no teeth, wearing purple spandex, 4-inch red heels, and a black lace see-through bra? I know the bra is see- through because that was the only top she was wearing. Oddly enough, the kid was not doing well in school. But to her credit, she did show up to every … [Read more...]

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