Water Well

 This is one of the water well foot pumps in our neighborhood. The kids wanted to try it one day when we were out on one of our neighborhood walks. It reminded me of a stair stepper exercise machine. All of the buckets around belong to the other people that were there to collect water. There are may who don't have running water in their homes.

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French Toast

 

As part of Aubrie's home school she has been working on Home Economics.

AKA - Help mom around the house.

Here she is with her fake smile for the picture. :-) 

On this morning she was helping me to make french toast.

I have also been teaching her to peel carrots, use a microwave, and toaster.

She is such a good little mommy's helper. 

Here is the French Toast Recipe 

(I sometimes add a drop of vanilla or nutmeg to the mixture.)

Hint: 

If the bread seems a little soggy after cooking it then you 

can toast it first before putting it into the egg/milk mixture.

I also put the oven on low heat and put the cooked 

french toast on a cookie sheet in the oven to keep them warm.

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Turkey Day !!!

Today is Thanksgiving Day and what Thanksgiving is complete without a Turkey. Well, you may wonder what this American Mom of 4 little ones did today?


Well since the hubby is traveling and I am alone on this holiday... awww poor me... not really. :-) This is what we did.

We went on a Turkey Hunt.

And We Found One !!!

Okay so it really wasn't that hard. We knew of someone in the neighborhood that had some turkeys, so we just went to their house. Of, course we had to make it more exciting for the kids. They had their binoculars, and a big bag to put the turkey in in case they let us buy one.

Ryan took his plastic 1980's model Nintendo gun that we found at the market here. Here are some pictures.

Ayden was pretty unsure of this huge Gobbling Turkey.

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