And it's a sweep!!

Simply Made Sunday-Sunny Peanut Butter Chews

Sunny Peanut Butter Chews

1/3 cup peanut butter

3 Tbls. butter

1 bag marshmallows

5 cups Golden Graham cereal

Collect your ingredients and your helpers.
We used a 9x13 cake pan for this---spray lightly with cooking spray
In a large, microwavable dish, put 3 Tbls butter
and 1/3 cup peanut butter.

(Stop the "butter helper" from licking the butter wrapper.)

Added a bag of marshmallows to the butter and peanut butter.

Share marshmallows all around!!

Microwave on high for 1 minute.

Try to stir this......

Continue microwaving this at 30 second intervals until completely melted together.

stir and stir and stir

Pour this mixture into the 5 cups of Golden Graham cereal.

Mix this together---this is pretty hard to do---Mommy had to take over this step.

Try and spread this into pan---it is harder to do than with Rice Krispy treats.

My tip for the day is to butter your hand----

and this makes it very, very easy to press this into the pan.

Another very successful treat--for Simply Made Sunday-In the Kitchen With Mom.

For full disclosure, these were made on Friday---Sundays always seem to be to busy to get kitchen fun accomplished.

Yummy!!!

Check out more "Simply Made Sunday" recipes over here!

Grid Coloring-with link

Whoops!! I see that I somehow posted this without writing anything about it. (remember I have 10 kids and a dog)

Here is the real post.

I discovered some "grid coloring" puzzles for Mark and Grace to work on this week.

These two are at found at Making Learning Fun.

Mark worked on Frankinstien--perfect for the season. Mark especaily enjoys activities like this.
We have just learned about grids in Gracie's map skills book, so this was especially fun for her.
The finished product.
If anyone knows of any other sites that provide this type of "grid art" please let me know!!

Our new puppy-Lady-pictures for Grandpa

Lady at 4 1/2 months old
My Dad wondered about Lady's size.
Here she is compared to my foot.
Lady sleeping near her new best friend, Dudley the guinea pig.
They even have the exact same coloring.

cutie

A hot puppy after a walk outside cooling off.

She walked in, and plopped right down in front of the fan.

Saint Padre Pio--Pray for us!!

"Pray, hope, and don't worry"

Visit Ewtn's Padre Pio site today.

40 Days for Life begins today

Pray, fast and keep a vigil to end abortion!

Visit 40 Days for Life to join in to save the unborn babies.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday---join the fun--you don't have to think!

Welcome to the newest member of the family

Welcome, Lady!!

A four month old beagle......

update to follow,

after I get the kids down off the kitchen table.

Makes My Monday--Autumn in Central New York

great-blue heron

quail

thistle

late purple aster

thistle down

purple loosestrife

osprey nest (in the left of pic)

September cattails

touch-me-not

winterberry

poison ivy

turtlehead

butter and eggs

The countryside in New York Makes My Monday!