Chocolate Chip Cookies

I had to share my chocolate chip cookies.  Today was a momentous day!  My cookies were made with two of our very own chicken's eggs (both from Sweetie) and the flour that I ground from wheat berries with our hand grinder!  The flour was a little coarser than white flour...I probably should have ground it twice.  But because it was coarse I only had to put in 2 cups instead of 2 1/4 cups and it was a little grainy.  But overall a very exciting day!  (Yes, I hear how silly I sound but it's the little things in life, really...)  Oh yeah, and I also used my new Pampered Chef Stoneware to bake them.  Love it! 

Early Mornings

Phew!  It has been a long time since I've posted anything.  It seems as though I'm only motivated to keep up a blog when I have end of year activities to plan for and masters classes to take...so mostly my title should be "procrastinator" instead of "blogger."  Much has happened and I hope to write about a few of the more exciting things in the next few days but this morning I'd like to just give myself a shout out.  I know, I know, singing your own praises is sooo not flattering but I am excited about something!  My neighbor and I went for a jalk this morning!  (For those of you who aren't fluent in Felicity that is a jog/walk...my husband hates this term BTW.)  We decided to run the canal banks which was perfect and beautiful and peaceful and just what I needed...except for the getting up at 6:00 thing.  Hey, this is supposed to be my summer vacation!  No alarms, please!  So while my family was snoring I was sweating but the post-jalk me has all sorts of energy and is optomistic that this summer might just be the summer I get in shape.  What?  You say the summer is half over? Okay, so maybe this summer will be the summer I start to get in shape.  Oh yeah, I have a picture to prove it!

Now the only thing I need is an arm band for my phone.  In an effort to save money, I use my super cool Vortex phone's Pandora app instead of an iPod.  Do they even make arm bands for phones??