It's a Party and I'm Thinking, "Muffins!"

I don't know 'bout you, but I've got myself a case of the Spring Feev-ahs!  I mean, I just cannot focus on the humdrum of lessons and learning when there is sunshine outside with flowers and other such spring happenings waiting to be enthusiastically greeted!  So yesterday, this Good, good Momma was a Bad, bad Teacher: Instead of reading and 'rithmetic, we whipped up some  of these simple muffins and got our tails outta Dodge!

Banana-Chocolate Chip-Walnut Muffins to Go!

~makes 2 dozen

3-cups Whole Wheat Pastry flour

1-cup sugar

3-teaspoons baking powder

1/2-teaspoon salt

2-cups mashed ripe banana

2-eggs

1/2-cup unsalted butter, melted

1/2-cup cultured buttermilk

1-cup chocolate mini-chips

1-cup walnuts, chopped

*Mix dry ingredients together.  Mix wet ingredients together.  Stir dry into wet, and then stir in chocolate chips and nuts.  Divide batter into muffin tins, and bake at 350* until golden, about 30 minutes.  Cool, pack and high-tail it out!

Party on, y'all!

Have you shimmied over to the Ultimate Blog Party yet?5 Minutes for Moms is hosting this virtual extravaganza for peeps like us to mingle, network, or just vie for prizes galore.Hey, we're partying like Co-eds every hour of every day, until the end of the week.And, you don't have to dress up for this one either: Hair in curlers, old slippers on your ashy feet?  No problem!
Don't forget about the hundreds of prizes up for grabs and my very own giveaway right here beneath your nose.Rock on!

Who Likes a Party? I Know I Do!!

Hey y'all, it's Ultimate Blog Party time!!

My name's Laura and I'm a beauty school dropout.  Not really--more like an English major gone bad, very bad indeed.  

I'm not your typical stay-at-home momma, although I stay at home with four kiddos, ages 4-11, and home-school and bake and buy all things organic and in bulk and reuse and recycle and attempt all things handmade--minus the denim jumpers--all while my husb'd slaves under the burning sun to bring home the bacon, and turkey bacon at that. 

But, seriously, I am soooo different.  I was a Marine once--that alone should count for something, right?!

Oh! Here's something new: My heart is to share all I have with those in need.

Everyone needs cookies, right?!

No?

Okay, I've got it!!

My kids are Charlotte Mason scholars!!
Kind of.
And I'm really passionate about old, out-of-print and now free-domain books.
Too weird??
Obviously, I'm not as unique as I wanna be.  I'm just like you--wanting the very best for my family and desiring to find the very best way to serve it to them each and every blessed day we have on this earth together.  Life is such a ride, one in which I'm holding on for dear life whilst trying to admire the view peripherally, and my blog is the only chance I have for remembering a stitch of the trip in twenty years when my kids try and stuff me in a nursing home.
Welcome, soldier.  Be, like, totally at ease.
And, if I be so fortunate to win a prize at this fab party, here are my prefs:
#20--Not one, but 5 bars of goat's milk soap, from Goat Milk Stuff, to soothe my babe's eczema
INTL #41--A $35 gift certificate to The Vintage Pearl ((I've blogged about her cool wares before))!!
USC #47--A $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com, offered by Just Say These Wordsfor books, of course!!
But, if someone special snags my choices, I'm all about #19, 21, 22, 26, 55, 68, 89, 91, 106, 109, 113, 118, 123.
Now, go and get your party on!!
I think I'll slip a little something wild into my green tea this morning just for kicks.