Today's "To Do" List

I've got to write it down somewhere, so why not here...

Grocery Store- Cereal, Fruit Snacks, Granola Bars (great sale, obviously)
Walmart- Jonathan's school lists, Milk
Boy Scout Store- uniform numbers (red:1 & 7, green:3-1's, 1-7, shoulder loops for J)
Sew on Numbers
Charge camera Batteries
Take Nolan to Rocky Mountain to find outside back entrance
Take Nolan to find Bus Stop
Finish Unpacking
Laundry
Court of Honor
Check Backpacks
Set Alarm Clocks
Wells Fargo to see if Rent Check will Clear (yet...)
Contemplate "Bonding Session" with Deadbeats

An Abbott & Costello Moment

Yesterday I had a surreal experience that I am still shaking my head over. I was in Walmart buying yogurt. I had with me 2 coupons that said ".75 off ANY brand of yogurt." It was good on a 32 oz container or on 4 individual units. I've used this coupon in Walmart several times without and issue, but not yesterday. So I was back in the dairy department and picked up 8 Yoplait cups (because I wanted to use both coupons). Here's where I made my mistake. I went to the self-checkout. Coupons are accepted there and I've used them there before without a problem. I scanned all my stuff. I hit "coupons". I scanned the coupons and got an error message that told me to set the coupons aside and an employee would be over to help me. This nice little lady came over, looked at the coupons, and said she needed to get her supervisor to look at them. The supervisor (who was over the automotive department) came over and looked at the ".75 off ANY brand of yogurt." coupons and told me that they weren't valid on Yoplait yogurt; they had to be used on "ANY" brand of yogurt. I told him, exactly, the coupon said "ANY brand" so I was using it on Yoplait. He said "No, it doesn't say 'Yoplait', it says "ANY" brand and it was only good on "ANY" brand. Again, I told him I understood and that "ANY brand" included Yoplait. He continued to insist that the coupon was only valid for "ANY" brand and that did not include Yoplait, and therefore could not be used on Yoplait. I could see that this moron wasn't getting it and that this was a pointless argument, so I told him, "fine, give me back my coupons, remove the Yoplait from my bill, and I'd go somewhere else. And I did.

So You Think You Can Dance?

Miles is a dancer. He keeps the beat pretty well too!

Miles Says "Flag"

One of Miles' words is "flag". He has is own special way of saying "flag", but he always says "flag" this way (I told you his vocabulary is only comprehensible by his parents!). We love the "ch" at the end!

Baking Adventure

Today's high was only in the 70's and I decided it was a baking day! I needed to use up some zucchini that Bona gave us and I had about a dozen bananas waiting in the freezer to be made into banana bread. I figured that I'd use up all the produce and freeze the end results for treats for when it's too hot to bake. I made 3.5 chocolate zucchini cakes (yummy!), then I started on the banana bread. I have a love/hate relationship with bananas. I love bananas before they are completely ripe... yellow-y with no brown spots and green still on the ends, and a firm texture. I hate the smell of a ripe banana and won't eat one that smells banana-y. I also will only eat bananas as plain bananas... I don't like anything with banana in it. That being said, I don't like banana bread, but Nolan and Dan do (and that's why I was making it)! I also hate anything squishy (it's a texture thing... I don't like to eat or touch "squishy"). Back to the banana bread... I took the bananas out of the freezer and set them on the counter to defrost. It didn't take long before I was grossed out at how squishy defrosted bananas are, but I was a big girl and continued with the banana bread project. I cut off the top of a banana, and to my horror, when held upside down and gentle squeezed, the banana oozed out of the peel and into the bowl I had sitting out. I was not expecting this and it completely caught me off guard. I know it sounds dramatic, but the smell of ripe banana assalted my nose. The squishy banana overwhelmed my senses. The next thing I knew, I was dry-heaving over my sink. I was not expecting defrosted over-ripe bananas to be this way. "Mind over matter" I told myself and pressed on. Eight loaves of banana bread later, my project was done!

Jonathan was kind enough to video the "extraction of the frozen banana into the bowl" for everyone. Yuck!

My Helper

Miles loves it when I empty the dishwasher. He wants to be in on the action. Sometime he even "helps".

Aunt Amy Loves Miles

She brought Miles home a present from her work. I had to take them away from him at bedtime tonight!