Tied Dyed Pancakes

Ever since my children were little I have done fun things with food coloring. When they were little it used to amaze them with my ability to make cakes and pancakes of all different colors. I would have them tell me a color that they liked and then I would make a double layered round white cake except for the cake wouldn't be white. I would add food coloring to the batter to make each layer the color of their choice. The kids would be excited to eat the cake after dinner because they picked the color. It took them a few years to figure out how I was doing this. They used to believe Mommy was magical and could turn cakes into all kinds of colors. There were many times when we ate cake where one layer was purple another orange and the frosting was green.

On Sundays when I have time I make tied dyed pancakes. I put a few drops of food coloring in a small bowl with the pancake batter and I swirl the food coloring around causing a tied dyed look. My kids love these pancakes! In their words..."No one makes pancakes like my mom." I love making these. The first time my son's best friend spent the night I made these pancakes. His mom called me the next day to ask me how I made the pancakes they ate that morning. Her son couldn't stop talking about them. Yesterday he spent the night again. This morning as I was making the pancakes he came up to me and said that he loves my pancakes. I laughed and asked him if I make the best pancakes ever. He shrugged his shoulders and very politely said " I don't know. They are just pancakes but yours are colorful and that's what makes them so good." I couldn't help but laugh when he walked away. My pancakes may not be anything special in regards to taste but I win hands down when it comes to appearance.  

My Tied Dyed Pancakes

2012 New Year Resolutions

During the new year I am going to get all my things together for my own center and try to present it to someone who will help me with the money that I need to open my own center.

I am going to continue to work for the next six months for my current employer to fulfill my contract with them; I will try my very best to not get so upset I walk out before my contract ends.

I am going to not let everything and everyone get to me.

I am going to be less stressed.

I am not going to get upset as often.

I am going to try to spend more time with my children and husband.

School is out....not for the summer

Oh how I wish it was summer already. There are so many things I would love to be doing right now. Instead I am sitting at my desk trying to come up with things to do because there are things I should be doing but don't want to do them. I am between sememsters right now so there is not school work to keep my extra busy. This is going to sound strange and I can't believe that I am about to type this but I enjoy school. Sure it sucks sometimes; the teacher is boring, the teacher is to difficult, you have a hard time understanding the subject, the subject is uninteresting, parking is a pain, there is a lot of homework but overall I enjoy school. I enjoy learning new things, I enjoy the challenge of trying to accomplish the school work in my already hetic schedule, and I'm at a loss for words on why else I like school.

There really is no reason I am writing this. At the begining of the last semster I decided to give this blogging thing a try and now that the sememster is over I realized that I kinda of enjoyed it so I felt the need to write a little on the blog. Didn't really have a topic in mind...just wanted to write a few words.

I feel better now so I guess I will go and start working on the few things that I have been avoiding.