It's Friday! Plus we (I) have fall break next week... then it's balloon festival in Natchez. Here's a few things from this week.
These Fudge Bars. I found the recipe on Instagram and they turned out good. My brown sugar was kind of clumping, and honestly the clumps of brown sugar in the oatmeal cookie mixture were divine. The fudge topping is so so so good. I was basically racing Elliot to eat any. Between the two of us we finished the pan in less than a week. I'll share the recipe below, but I won't save it to my recipes since it isn't mine. It's from @cookingwithkira.ia on IG.
Makes a 9x13
Ingredients:
3/4 c butter
1 3/4 c flour
1 1/2 c oatmeal
1 c dark brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 can sweetened condensed milk
12 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
2 tbsp butter
Directions:
1. Combine butter, flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, vanilla, and bakig soda. Mix with a fork until crumbly.
2. Reserve 1 cup of the mixture and set it aside.
3. Press the remaining mixture into a greased 9x13 pan.
4. In a small saucepan, combine condensed milk, 2 tbsp butter, and chocoalte chips. Stir until completely melted.
5. Spread chocoalte mixture over the oat mix in the pan.
6. Sprinkle over reserved oat mixture, clumping some of it in your hands as you go to make bigger brumbles. Press it in.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
School and flu season is upon us people, if you aren't using nasal iodine you need to get on it. When I'm consistent I find I don't catch what is going around. When I get lazy and tell myself I won't catch the colds... I have caught it all by the end of the week.
I just use one spray in each nostril in the evening when I'm done being around crowds.
It's homecoming week at the kid's school, so Thursday during the parade the staff hands out water. Thank goodness this year someone had the idea to let us ride in side by sides! Our school doesn't have a band or any walkers for the parade, so last year's police escost ran through the parade at 30 miles an hour.
We started running instead of walking, got way behind, attempted to jump onto another float, and eventually gave up any walking and rode a float all the way back.
So this year was riding, thank goodness, and we only half needed it. The police escort actually went at parade speed. Then we got really lucky and ran into another school's parade and that slowed us down even more. Add that on top of the nice weather, and you couldn't ask for better.
Tis rolling season. Or as Elliot calls it, paper-toweling.
Now that Harrison is getting older we have been needing a way for them to contact us if we let him stay at home for a few minutes while we run errands. Both of us are totally against devices and phones, hashtag 90's childhood. The kids only have a gaming system that isn't on the internet and they can only play games that Jeremy buys or allows the rating.
All that to say we landed on a Tin Can landline. I'm honestly in love. You can even set who is allowed to call and who they are allowed to call. It doesn't hurt that it is also cheaper per month than any other phone out there. Trust me, my first thought was landline again, but that is nuts what they want per month.
Do youself a favor and get an affagato from Jet Coffee in Lafayette. We went one afternoon, so I didn't want caffeine, but the girl working the window made me so happy when she said they could do it as decaf. It's also Elliot approved, but that child has been trying to drink coffee since he was a baby.
