American Breakfast

Hi everyone. It's Wednesday evening. Just thought I'd write about my day quick. I've had a good day, so I need to focus on that (i.e. new years resolutions) and write about it! Since today is Wednesday the kids' school is just in the morning, and the 2 little ones don't go usually. So Ines went to school in the morning and I stayed home and played with Tiphaine and Matthieu. Actually we were playing on Google Earth and I showed them my home (well, 1223 3rd St) and they loved seeing it go ALL THE WAY over the ocean across the U.S....and VOILA...there was the Snake River and Normal Hill Cemetary and Harris Field stadium....that was fun to look at. I forgot about it actually. After getting them dressed for the day we went to their 'gym'...they always have fun climbing all the equiptment and doing the obstacles, usually while I hold Matt's hand so he can cross the balance beam. Towards the end of gym I was sitting on a big bouncy cushion thing, next to a wall, and Matt was sitting on my lap....well I THOUGHT there was more cusion behind me and pulled back Matt to play with him and have him go over my head...sure enough there was nothing behind me except a big space between me and the concrete wall....needless to say both Matt and I fell back, feet over our heads....I think he was a little freaked out, but we were fine. Haha. When I sat up I saw the cute gym guy laughing at us.....OOPS! I did my best to make it look like it was on purpose.

After getting Ines at school we dropped off some mail and I took a box of clothes to the homeless shelter box, then came home. I was in a cooking mood so I wanted to do something different for them (usually we play Restaurant on Wednesdays). So I looked through the cupboard and found Pancake mix that they make 'crepes' with....VOILA! Pancakes and eggs----American breakfast for a French lunch! I had fun making it...I think breakfast (at this moment in time, or at least right before I came here) is my favorite meal to make, and I'm pretty good at it. Thanks to my DAD pancakes are a favorite and he makes the best ones...and I come close to 2nd. And eggs, well those are simple---scrambled, DUH! The batter was a bit thin compared to what I'm used to, but that's because it was more like for crepes, and didn't call for eggs in the batter. But they tasted YUMMY, and obviously I ate lunch with the kids. Instead of syrup, we had options of butter, sugar, jam, and Nutella. The kids treated the pancakes just like crepes so they had butter and sugar sprinkled on top. I just had butter. And ketchup with my eggs. I was surprised because it's the first time they DIDN'T EAT KETCHUP (they eat it with everything...i.e. pasta, rice) but didn't have it with their eggs. And Tiphaine, who usually complains about eating an omelette, LOVED my eggs...all 3 kids ate everything on their plates, and each had 2 pancakes. I was pleased with my idea. There was a small plate leftover so I left it for Virginie. She seemed happy that I came up with a new menu for the kids!
Before getting off work for the afternoon I sat down at the piano and realized it can record a melody (because it's like a piano keyboard...) so I recorded 1/2 of "Heart and Soul" so that I can now play the duet at the same time...it's fun! Everyone was laughing and thought that was really cool I could do that. Virginie's grandfather was there and was quite impressed. Haha.

After getting off work I took a power nap and then put on warm clothes and ventured out for an aerobic walk down the hill and back up....a 25 minute jaunt in the chill air. It was perfect. And yesterday I got my heart rate up with my aerobics class, so I'm doing better! When I came home I continued with dancing to "I Got My Mind Set On You" (SAID!) by George Harrison, along with some pilates and dumbbells to funky and upbeat music.....I'm sure I looked like a fool but I have to do SOMETHING to semi-workout without having a gym to go to. And the cold weather isn't easy, but as long as it's about 50 degrees at least and not raining, I HAVE to make myself get out there!

Okay, now I'm off to make some dinner and watch another episode of Prison Break!
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