October catch-up

The first time the temperature dropped below 70 a few weeks ago, the girls started turning on Christmas music.  It just wore me out.  We haven't really purchased any new material for a few years.  Sufjan has been my favorite since the day we purchased him, and I am surprised at myself, but I'm even growing tired of "My sister's bangs, she cut them herself..." and all his other fun stuff.

So I went a shoppin' and found These Guys  The Pentatonix

Let me know if you all have any other Christmas albums I should love.

I'm snacking on some date-sweetened, unsulphured molasses, fresh-grated, spicy ginger cookies.  I combined a couple of different recipes so that I didn't have to use a whole half container of precious almond butter and $12 worth of coconut flour.

Here's my concoction:

1/2 cup almond butter
1 cup dried dates
3 T unsulphered molasses
2 eggs
2 tsp freshly grated ginger root
1/4 cup coconut flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ginger
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp sea salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Pour boiling water over bowl of dried dates.  Allow them to sit for about 7 minutes to soften.  Then drain and put them in the food processor until they resemble mush.
Mix all wet ingredients, and dry in gradients separately.  Combine them.  Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto a parchment paper prepared cookie sheet.  Bake about 8-10 minutes.

I love the spiciness of the fresh ginger.  Some recipes actually call for a pinch of pepper.  Eeee.  Too scary.

We went to Redbud Valley for the first time a couple of weekends ago.  It was so fun! Tulsa people, check it out. Caves and such.

Mama Manoli texts me pictures regularly, so I always get to see what the girls are up to.

Museum

Looks like they're dipping chorros in chocolate here.

Fish lips and wedge booties. :)

Then we celebrated Lola's birthday, and made glued yarn globes around balloons.

It was such a mess, and only slightly stressful.  Two days of drying, and we have awesome globes.  I am NOT throwing them away.  They're hanging in the playroom now.

Lola hides behind her donut.

Our finished decor.

The day after.  Playing with all the new birthday presents.

Well, that's what's been going on here.  Tomorrow I get to bring home my finished painting.  This one is larger than all the others, so it took me 8 weeks or so.  I am so anxious to hang it on my wall.  And I'll start a "head".  Whose head should I paint?