Happy Leap Day!!  What are you doing with your extra day?  Yeah, nothing different here, lol.  Late posting, so let’s go!!  Enjoy your week!!

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
The first week of March, and snow 3 days out of the week.

WHAT’S FEEDING MY BOOK ADDICTION:
Nothing to report at the moment 😯

 
LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

WHAT’S ON THE TV:
Blindspot is back tonight!! I see a new season of the Voice starts as well, I might start that again. Have to catch up on Castle and The Good Wife.

 
RECIPE I HAVE TRIED:
OK, so a couple of weeks ago, I posted a recipe from the internet called Healthy Cookies. O.M.G. So not good!! As I was making these, I’m like there isn’t any eggs in these, but I’ve made cookies before without eggs, no flour, only oatmeal. Yeah…total fail. These were horrible, and such a waste of time and ingredients. That is the problem with getting stuff on the internet, obviously something was missing from this recipe, but people tend to just post things without proofreading…which. drives. Me. Crazy. I know there are times a typo slips past the eagle eye, but this seems like there was something really missing. *Deep breath* ok…done with rant 🙂

But…I did try these and they were delicious!!

Pull-Apart Ham & Cheese Sliders

Makes 9

INGREDIENTS
1 package Hawaiian sweet rolls, sheet of 12 rolls left intact (not pulled apart)
8 slices deli ham
4 slices Swiss cheese
9 pickle slices (optional)
¼ cup (½ stick) unsalted butter, melted
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

PREPARATION
1. Preheat the oven to 350° F.

2. Remove 3 buns on one end and cut the remaining 3×3 sheet of sweet rolls in half lengthwise. Arrange the bottom half into a square baking pan. Layer evenly with ham slices, then Swiss cheese, then pickles (optional). Cover with the top half of the sweet rolls.

3. In a small bowl, combine the melted butter and mustard, stirring until evenly mixed. Pour the butter mixture all over the top of the sandwiches. Bake for 20 minutes until the sweet rolls are golden brown and cheese is melted. Cut into individual sandwiches.

 
I did mine a little different, because I’m not a mustard kinda gal, so I replaced it with Miracle Whip. Very yummy.

FAVORITE VIDEO FROM THE WEB:
I would love one of these in our little backyard nook. This made me think of the fairies that hang out over in the Northwoods 😉

FROM THE CAMERA:
My daughter did a photo shoot on one of the warm days with one of her friends. The shadows are so cool in this pic.

QUOTES:

Happy Monday Morning!!  We are off from school today, so I get to spend my day doing a bunch of other stuff, lol.  We had a beautiful snowy Sunday.  Not a lot of accumulation, but the snow fell consistently all afternoon and evening, at least it is something.

Linking-up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

 
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

WHAT’S FEEDING MY BOOK ADDICTION:
Know Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez. This is the second book in the Far North series, tagged as A New Zealand Enemies to Lovers Romance. I enjoyed the interaction between the two main characters. Savannah is an actress, who was kicked off a movie set and replaced by a younger actress. She flees to her holiday hideaway house in Bounty Bay to get away from the media, and to lose a few pounds and get back in shape to prepare for an audition of a lifetime in LA. When she arrives at her home, she finds Glen, a friend of her cousins, and a lawyer who is there to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer. Being the lawyer that he is, he has a tenant agreement initiated by her cousin, that he refuses to break, therefore, leaving Savannah unwelcome in her own home. The tension between these two stubborn people is fun. For some reason, this little exchange made me laugh:

At least he’d finished laughing his butt off at her expense.
“Need a hand?”
Not unless he chopped it off and let her use it to slap his face. But she hadn’t been nominated for a Golden Globe for nothing.

LOL CHUCKLES, AND GIGGLES:

WHAT’S ON THE TV:
Kid’s Baking Challenge
The Good Wife
Castle

 
RECIPE I WANT TO TRY:
These look really easy, delicious and healthy. I wonder how strong the banana flavor is in them. Worth a try, can’t go wrong with chocolate chip cookies!!

Healthy cookies

3 Mashed Bananas (ripe)
1/3 c Applesauce
2 c oats
1/4 c Almond Milk
1/2 c Raisins or dark chocolate chips (I would use the chips) 
1 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp Cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350. Bake for 15-20 minutes! Yummy!

 
NOT SO HELPFUL TIP:
Recently I posted about cleaning an iron with salt. Yeah…it didn’t work, and I think I broke my iron. 😐 There has to be a way to prevent it, or clean it easily, one day I’ll find it!!

FROM THE CAMERA:
So the boys and I had fun making our ice marbles. Even as cold as it was, it took a couple of days for them to completely freeze.

This blue one turned out really cool, you can see the frozen bubbles inside of it.

Since we didn’t have a lot of snow, they were mostly sitting on the ground, so there are some flat spots.  It would be best if you could let them freeze in a pile of snow, because they would keep their shape better.

We also picked some of them up too soon, and all the water came out of the bottom, but it made a really cool ice bowl, it looks like it is etched too.  So we made some colorful ice cubes to fill the bowl.

 
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