life lately.

Beet soup.  Pear juice. Rice something that tastes amazing and makes me really excited that I'm not having potatoes again.  

Yeah we have potatoes a lot.  A lot = daily. 

Fav chocolate that I've found. If anyone wants me to bring them home something yummy you better start bribing me. 

This little one was in the hallway crying for her mother because she didn't wanna go to class.  Without speaking her language, 20 minutes later I got her to this blissful state.  I'm awesome.  And yes she has short bangs in the middle because she cut them.  She's awesome, too.

Attempting to learn Russia while we're here. And Lithuania.  It's a whole big mess.

Pizza night was exciting enough to document with a photo.

They made bubbles in class and used pipe cleaners for the tool.  

People give us boxes of chocolate all the time as gifts.  I kinda like it.

Pumpkin Muffins

Tis the season that I can't control my urge for Pumpkin Muffins...and I have yet to find a recipe that beats this one.  So moist!  And chocolatey!  I balanced out my guilt of eating all 24 myself by reducing the amount of sugar to 1 cup instead of 2.   I didn't miss that 1 cup at all so if you feel adventurous....reduce the sugar even more.  Or try no sugar at all (then tell me how they turned out please and thank you).   Thank you mama for the recipe.  You've got all the best ones! 

Pumpkin Muffins:

Beat 5 eggs

Add:

1 cup oil

16 oz. pumpkin puree

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp baking soda

2- 3oz packages of instant vanilla pudding

Mix until creamy.

Add:

dark chocolate chips to taste (I use the whole bag.  Yep that's right. The whole bag. Back up off me) 

Bake @ 350 in a greased or lined muffin tin for 30 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Yields 24 muffins.

I found out that each muffin is packing almost 250 calories.  That would have been nice to know before I destroyed the whole batch by myself...in a matter of days.  But they're just too good to ignore when they're sitting there on my counter begging to eaten.  Don't say I didn't warn ya.