Coming back from my appointment this morning Moira and I were both craving donuts - which I realize isn’t a craving, more a “state of being” for me. But when we cut trans fats, we made donuts a very rare treat and with a house closing in less than 3 weeks, I didn’t want to spent the money either. Yes, I know, it’s just a couple dollars but IT ADDS UP and it’s the principle of the thing.

SO we came home and made cinnamon rolls! Haha, those are MUCH healthier, right? But we used real butter (no trans fats) and “organic” brown sugar someone gave us, so the marketing people would call these “healthy cinnamon rolls.”

Here is the recipe we used but we did it by hand, the bread maker is out in the garage and I was too lazy to go get it. Yes… I realize how odd that sounds, too lazy to get it so we made it by hand? I’m just use to doing bread by hand now.

The kids just helped me roll them out (note to self, do not leave Bennett unattended for even a split second with a table of cinnamon rolls being made - after I started spreading the butter on the dough, he took the rolling pin to it to help roll some more.)

I’m struck again by how much better I am feeling because I just made cinnamon rolls with four kids! AND fed them lunch, did a lesson with Christopher and my kitchen is clean! (Clean being relative, but it’s really pretty clean thanks to Jenny’s visit when she cleaned and my resolution to keep it that way while Kit’s at work - he cleans when he comes home, trying to make that less necessary by cleaning myself. )

It feels good to have energy again.

SO, kids, now it’s storytime and NAPS for toddlers and quite time for you big kids. Then I promised you hot chocolate (though the snow is melting) and cinnamon rolls.

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