Fluffy Pancakes

I haven't cooked anything since Sunday as my son's been ill in the hospital. So since of fridge is at the brink of emptiness due to no shopping trips and food rapidly going rancid, I decided to go with a quick go-to breakfast. Pancakes! My children's 2nd favorite breakfast after Waffles and slightly nudging French Toast.

This recipe is very easy and you can make any variations you want to.

Fluffy Pancakes
1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour (I use unbleached)
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1/2 t of salt, can be course or table salt
2 tablespoons of sugar
2 pinches of cinnamon
1 1/4 cups of milk
1 egg
4 tablespoons of melted unsalted butter

Optional- additional salted butter for pan

Directions:
In a large bowl, sift or stir all dry ingredients together. Make a well in the center then set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine all wet ingredients.

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and DO NOT OVER-STIR! Will result in flat, tough discs! We want fluffy!

Turn burner or griddle on medium heat. If using, add about a teaspoon of butter to a heated skillet/frying pan/griddle. Pour about 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup of pancake batter per pancake. Let cook until bubbles cover the surface of the pancakes. Flip over and cook for about a minute or two and repeat until batter is gone!

Enjoy! A big hit in our house :D

Medical Gamble

My lil man is feeling better!
Originally uploaded by YummySommer

So I thought my eldest son was suffering from a horrible cold last week. Since his condition seemed to get worse, rather than better by Friday, we took him to the Acute Care Clinic as the pediatrician's office is closed by noon on Fridays.

Their diagnosis was fluid in the lungs. Just give him his inhaler and watch his temperature and set up an appointment with the Chief Pediatrician on the following Monday. He seemed to get a little better. Even got up to play a little.

However on Monday on his appointment, the docs diagnosed his condition as a collapsed lung from a severe asthma attack!!! I felt like a horrible mother. I could I not recognized this earlier??? We gave him his inhaler regularly! I felt overwhelmed with guilt, sadness, and feelings of failure.

I went to the hospital after my husband came home, and say him hooked to an O2 machine. Memories of him only minutes old with tubes shoved up his nose, wires coming from every body part came flooding back. It was hard to take.

Since I have 2 other children at home, I could not stay the night with him, which made me feel even worse! I cried the whole walk back to the car. It was nice to come home to many messages from well wishers and other folk praying for my son's speedy recovery. It made me feel so happy and inspired to stay strong.

So the doctors at the KnderKlinik diagnosed his condition as a severe asthma attack and pneumonia! I panicked! But the doctors were very happy with his recovery. The next day, my son was off the O2 machine completely and promised to go home by Friday from the docs. It inspired HIM to stay strong, take his medicine without fighting, and do breathing exercises! I left him with his father that night, and the doctors told his father, who is German, that he is well enough to go home TODAY! I was so elated when I heard the news!!!

Jalen was prescribed all kinds of medication, but it was totally worth it. I told him that he's on his way to nerdom, because every nerd needs an inhaler. But hey, he'll be the cutest nerd ever!

We're planning a big dinner for him with everything he wants! So far it's BBQ chicken, hot dogs, bacon, broccoli, corn, roast potatoes, homemade vanilla ice cream, and cheesecake! I love him so much I am more than happy to slave in the kitchen for him.

While in the hospital, he said he wants to make me proud. Totally brought a tear to my eye. I love my little man. He's so awesome in every way :)

Because I'm worth it!

Ladies, we all can get comfortable in a relationship. I know guys do as well, but I'm talking to the ladies.

In the beginning, you dress to the nines all the time. Always made sure you wore your best lingerie and of course you wore sets. Hair was always done, toes and nails were perfect, etcetera etcetera. Let's just say you never walked around your mate looking a hot mess for a looong while.

So now fast-forward later on in the relationship. He's heard you fart, saw you pick your nose and teeth, saw you first thing in the morning and has caught a whiff of your morning breath a few times. So now you're wearing sweats even when you're not out for a jog, you have hair curlers in your hair for days, basically not the woman you once were.

Ok, maybe that's just me. My husband claims to love me anyway, and find me sexually attractive all the time. But I know he wished I tried a little harder. My over comfortability (whoa, that's a word!) made me, not him feel very uncomfortable with my appearance. As I said in the previous post, I was more concerned with my kitchen than myself. So what's the point of complaining if you're not going to do something about it. So I did.

Recently we got some extra money, and I asked if there was room in the budget for Mommy Time. He said go for it, which I believe in man-language means, " Please do you'll stop complaining to me!"

I didn't do some massive makeover. I just got my hair done--for the first time in YEARS-- and some new clothes. I also got my eyebrows threaded for the first time. Whoever said threading wasn't painful is a LIAR. OMG I was praying for the end. I hope it lasts!!! I'd rather deal with the quick sting of waxing!!!! But if it lasts, I'll endure the pain of threading!

So here is me in my home attire:
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After:
Honestly, I would never buy this normally...or have my hair this color. So that's why I did it :)


I doubt I will be able to keep it up. We'll see...

Sassy Mama- Wannabe!

So, I am way overdue for a new wardrobe. I bought 2 outfits last year after I gave birth to my son and before that I bought fat pants for my fat pregnant ass.

It's all my fault, though. I, of course, would rather spend money on my children's clothes, and to be honest, I do not have much of a choice with them growing like weeds and all. Also, extra money goes to cookbooks, good ingredients- ie going to the fish counter, butchers for meat and special markets- and items for my kitchen. And now that I am into photography, new things for the camera!

So, yeah, my food tastes better and looks better, but I just become more and more plain. It's pretty depressing, but finally yesterday I did something about it. My closet is full of jeans and plain t-shirts. Not much color besides a peach shirt here and a yellow dress there. So while I was shopping on www.hm.de I made sure to buy color, and clothes that I'd normally never go for.

I'm a mother of 3, slim, and not ugly, so I really need to stop frumping myself out. I also have an hair appointment tomorrow. I am too embarrassed to say the last time a professional did my do. So, I'm sort of going through a mini transformation on the outside as well on the inside. I can not wait to show off my new look to everyone. I hope it makes me feel like the sexy woman my husband constantly tells me I am.

Here's some of the things I purchased:

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