Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
******************************** This has NOT been a tought week for Eli. He has NOT been {almost} hurt more than a few times this week. More than one of those times was NOT my fault! I did NOT almost knock him unconscious with the refrigerator door! It did NOT go a little like this:

Me: "Eli, let's get your juice cup."

Eli: "Jooo"

THUMP

I did NOT have an almost half hour battle with Henry over 7 butter beans! He did NOT refuse to eat them, and I did NOT refuse to let him get up from the table without at least trying to eat them. My children are always compliant and never refuse to eat yummy and healthy vegetables!

I did NOT decided to buy some cute Easter candy to try and fill my cookie jar up. I did NOT buy two bags of M&M's thinking that should be plenty for decorations and to snack on too. I did NOT realize that it is going to take way more than two bags to fill up my {apparently much larger than I thought it was} cookie jar!

I did NOT get a new lens for my camera this week! I am NOT SUPER excited about it, but that does NOT mean that I need a new camera bag to hold all my stuff! I have NOT found two bags HERE and HERE that I really like. Now I DON'T just have to talk myself into picking just one and buying it!

Never an Empty Cookie Jar

Every time I walk by and see my cookie jar looking like this: I feel a little sad for it!

Shouldn't a cookie jar always have cookies in it! I mean, that is it's job:)

So whenever my cookie jar is empty, I just have to make something to fill it up with! This time I tried my hand at an old favorite that my mom used to make.

Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup milk
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 cups quick cooking oats

Mix the sugar, cocoa, milk, margarine, and salt together in a pot. Bring it to a rolling boil and let it boil for about 2 minutes {some recipes say 1 minute, but wait until the end of the post to see why I say 2 instead}.

Stir in the peanut butter and vanilla until mixed well. Then mix in the oats.

Drop the mixture by heaping tablespoons onto wax paper or aluminum foil.
Make sure to scrape the pot clean, because you don't want to waste any of this yumminess!
After the cookies have cooled and set, you are ready to fill up that empty cookie jar.
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Unfortunately, my cookie jar still looks like this:
In my impatience, I only boiled the sugar/cocoa mixture for a little over a minute. So instead of beautiful No Bake cookies, I still have an empty cookie jar...and a big pile of choco-goo {that tasted great anyway}!

I will be trying this recipe again soon, so my poor cookie jar won't be empty for long:)

Hop

I took these SUPER cute Valentine's decorations:

Which you may remember from this post.

And changed them up for Easter!

I used some SUPER cute napkins that I bought at Target.

I cut the napkin into squares.

Then used spray adhesive to attach the napkin squares to card stock.

I used my Cricut to cut out the word HOP.

Then I used a glue stick to attach the letters to the squares.

I painted a scrap piece of wood that Jason had in the yard.

Then I got a little assistance measure and attaching nails to the board.

I hung each of the frames on the board.

And ended up with this cute HOP sign!

I know it is a little early, but I am trying to get into the Spring/Easter spirit!

Do you have any spring decorations out yet?

I am linking up with Tip Junkie's Tip Me Tuesday! Go check out all the SUPER cute tips on Tip Junkie:)

Wordless Wednesday: The (Eli) Patient

Coffee?

A new coffee shop opened in our community about a month ago.

Everyone I talk to raves about it and how much they LOVE the place.

I have been twice, and basically I'm unimpressed! The employees/owners didn't seem all that nice and the drink that I ordered was just so-so.*******************************

So I have a question for you...

What do you do when everyone is in LOVE with something, someplace, or someone and you just DON'T see it?!?

Do you assumed that maybe it was just an off day and give it another shot?

Or do you trust your initial judgement and not waste any more of your time?

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I know I am just talking about a small little coffee shop...but this could apply to a new fashion trend, a new acquaintance, or even a new blog that you found!

I haven't made up my mind about the little coffee shop just yet, but I'm hoping that maybe some of you can share some pearls of wisdom with me on what to do:)