Valentine's Sweet Treat!

Cherry "Tarts"

Ingredients

2 tubes of crescent rounds               1 can of cherry pie filling

 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
 
2. Spray the inside of 2 muffin pans.  I split the two tubes of rolls between two pans for more even baking.
 

3. Pull apart the crescent rounds and drop them into the pan.
 

4.Allow your child to smush the roll down and up the sides of the pan (cup) to make a tart shell.  You may have to press one more time before putting them into the oven.
 

5. Bake for 10 minutes.  When you take them out you'll have to press the centers back down.  Be careful, they're HOT!  Yeah...I burned myself a few times.
 

6. Remove them from the pan and allow them to cool for a minute.  They cool pretty quickly.

 7. Scoop some of the cherry filling into each tart shell.

 

There's no need to let them set up.  The tarts can be enjoyed immediately.  Natalie had a blast making these today.  She did them all by herself!  It was one of her school projects for Valentine's Day.  

*We did them in two batches so the oven wasn't over crowded.

Ho hum...

Nothing much to say today.

I'm waiting for the Fed Ex person to get here with the few sets of clothes I ordered for the girls.  Natalie's got school work to do.  Lesson 100 today.  We have to filter through and pick out the pages her adviser needs and get them ready to mail off.  She's only got 60 lessons left and she's out of Kindergarten! 

Sometime this week or next week, I need to go to the school outside of the base to get student ID numbers for the girls to attend school on base next year.  I'm hoping to do it by the end of this week.  The sooner the better.  I'm excited for them!  I asked Natalie if she wanted to go to school at home again next year or if she wanted to go to school with other kids and she totally ditched me.  She said, "I love you mommy, but I want to go to school".  Well...fine with me!  I'll be just peachy keen with two kids at home instead of four (insert rejected sniffle here)!  What I like best though, is that the school is right outside of my front door.  Literally.  It's at the end of the street.  They're clearing out and building it now!  I love that they'll be wearing uniforms too.  Less chance for bullying.

I've got their appointments for the their physicals set up too.  Allyson isn't going to be happy about that.  I'm pretty sure she has to get shots. :(  Poor baby.  We had to wait for her records to get here from the UK so she couldn't get them sooner.  She's a trooper though.  Last time she had shots she didn't even cry.  Just sat there and whined a little...and gave me this awful pitiful look like "mommy why are you doing this to me?".  It made me want to cry for her.  Natalie...was awful.  She reminded me of my sister when she had to get shots.  (They had to hold Jess down on the floor to get shots.  Literally...two nurses had to hold her down.  Practically sitting on her.  You could hear her scream all over the doctor's office, lol.)  Natalie isn't quite that bad, but she's not happy about it either.  Kae just gives dirty looks.  Those "if looks could kill..." types.   Yeah...she's pretty intense.  One of the nurses in the UK said she was waiting for a kid to walk up to her one day in the store and just kick her in the shins because they remembered her giving them shots...Kae would probably be one of those kids, lol. Melody handles it about as well as any baby does.  Cries until you pick her up and love on her.  Then she commits the nurse's face to memory and goes on about her day!

Anyway, that's about all I can think of.  Right now the only thing on my mind (other than my diet and getting the girls started for school next year) is laundry.  It feels like the mountain never gets any smaller...no matter how much I wash and put away everyday!  Hope everyone has a great day!  It should be pretty nice here today...even though I was rudely awaken by the sound of the wind trying to tear the screens off of my bedroom windows!  It's lovely and sunny outside now!

Looking to the Future

Bryan and I were looking up some programs with the girls last night.  We feel that just because Natalie is home schooled doesn't mean she has to be isolated from the rest of the world.  We only chose to home school her this year because of the ratings of the schools around us.  The program we're using to school her with has higher ratings than any school curriculum in MD.  The Calvert School home school program is great. They send you all of the materials you need for the year and suggest others that could also be used to reinforce a topic.  Anyway... we want to put her into different activities so she can make some friends and be active.  Both her and Allyson are now old enough to join pretty much anything they want.  We showed them a bunch of different things like gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, ballet, competitive cheerleading, and other dance programs.  

Natalie's choice is cheerleading.  Even after we showed her everything else.  We played videos from youTube so she could see what they were like.  She's pretty much got her mind set on cheerleading.  So after we figured out that she wasn't going to be persuaded away from it, we started looking up programs around here.  This is the one we chose.  The Calvert All Stars is a cheer and dance program located in Owings, MD.  It's about 30 minutes from us.  No big deal.  We like the program because they make everyone who signs up sign a code of conduct agreement.  They have no tolerance for bullying and such.  I also like that they have a "no cut" policy.  If the children are willing to put in the effort to learn, they're willing to teach them.  They are also willing to workout a special schedule for the children who are home schooled.  I like that they make the effort.  We won't need anything special for her, but it's still nice to know it's an option.  

Allyson went for a more individualized sport.  She wants to do gymnastics.  She was even practicing her split last night before she went to bed!  So we started searching and found The Chesapeake Gymnastics Club also located in Owings, MD.  What's even better is that both programs are located in the same building.  I won't have to leave either of them alone if they have classes on the same night.  I love it because there is the option of private lessons for Allyson if she decides to take it seriously.

Both of the girls are really excited.  Hopefully they'll be able to sign up and start soon.  We want to take them to let them watch before they make up their minds.  We'll have to schedule a day to do that soon.