Month: March 2006

This morning Bob promised Andrew a big breakfast. Of course he had to go up into the attic for just a little while first. As he slipped up into the attic to conduct his science experiment Andrew waited hungrily at the bottom of the pull down ladder.

Around 9:30 I thought I would make something special for Andrew and Bob. I searched for recipes for Monkey Bread. Apparently the rest of the country makes Monkey Bread from refrigerated biscuits. It isn’t anything like the dark brown sweet bread with raisins that Mom used to make. Something in that bread causes gas which we all know is really called “shooting a monkey”.

So I made the biscuit kind by cutting each biscuit into 4 pieces and rolling in cinnamon and sugar, placing in a greased dish and drizzling with a butter, cinnamon, and sugar mixture that I heated until sugar disolved. Then I baked it at 350 for 30 minutes.

Just as it finished baking Bob came down from the attic. He and Andrew enjoyed the monkey bread with scrambled eggs and bacon. David and Eric helped eat the “bread” and there was not a crumb left.

Everyone I talk to today is suffering to some degree with this high pollen count. My eyes are puffy and itchy and my head feels like it’s going to pop.

I checked the local pollen count, it was 10.5 today. I put in the Tucker zip code and found out that it’s 9.5 there, so it must be bad all over the south.

Have you noticed any yellow stuff at your house?

My neighbor Jill usually gives the boys a ride to school in the morning and I pick up in the afternoon. Today I have scouts so I drove this morning. We dropped David off early for Breakfast Club. Then we waited for school to open in the car line. This morning the boys (Sam, 5, Andrew 9, and Frank, 6) asked if we could play Cash Cab while we waited. I got to be the host while they were the lucky people who happened to get into the Cash Cab.

They did a great job racking up money on questions about businesses, newspaper names, capitals, sports, presidents. They only had 2 strikes and were up to $800. Andrew had to use his mobile shout out to call his dad to find out the name of Lakeland’s mayor. Luckily his dad knew the answer earning them an additional $100.00. The car line was starting to move. I warned them that 1 more strike and I would have to kick them out of the Cash Cab. They knew that Mercury was the closest planet to the sun. Now they had $1000.00. They didn’t know which planet was closest to Earth. Fortunately we were right in front of the school when I kicked them out of the Cash Cab. No big winners today.

You can see the real Cash Cab on the Discovery channel.