Bake Off!

Today was a rainy day, so we decided to do a bake-off. If you can't go to the beach, you may as well eat sweets all day. Sweat pants are much more forgiving than bathing suits.

C made this:

B made this:

K made this:

Then we invited over the grandparents and Auntie KK to be the judges. C's cake won! Very dense chocolate and somehow we managed the conversion chart from french to english. B and K tied for second. Being the "mom", I would have somehow made them all tie, but those grandfathers can be brutally honest!

All in all, a delicious ending to the day!

Clouds

My interest in clouds came in 5th grade when we had a unit on weather. I remember learning the names of them and thinking they were the coolest things. Well the Cape has had some incredible cloud cover in the past week, some containing rain, some not. Here are a few clouds captured with my camera.





This last one contained quite a bit of rain and thunder and lightening! But it does look like a silver lining, doesn't it?

Wedding #9

Living the American Dream

We are taking a break this morning from "showing C, our french student, everything American in 3 weeks" and teaching her the blessed activity of hanging out in one's pjs and doing nothing. I am feeling a little guilty because I should be doing something, but trying to post and catch up on a few blogs was a little more important. Let's just call it my job and pretend I get paid for keeping you all amused.

C is a very sweet girl and always asking me if she can help. I think her parents gave her the notion that she was to be Cinderella in my home. Not true! Although having Cindi for a few weeks wouldn't be bad either. Anyway, we have gone to 2 days of my brother's bike ride, the beach a few times,

mini golfing,

go cart riding, Pizza Hut,

ice-cream, Water Wizz on a cold, cloudy day,

Target, the mall, Dunkin Donuts and Burger King. She has learned how to eat a meal in the car on the go, she has learned about donuts and thinks they are delicious and learned the same about bagels, and I am pretty sure she has a good grasp that my family is crazy. Poor girl. I really do wonder what is going on in her head.

I do know that at her house, the family sits down to a meal together and discusses books. I took 6 kids, (C and her sister I{she is staying with another family in Chatham}, my 2 girls and my 2 nephews) to WaterWizz, Friendly's, and Target. The main theme of discussion was pretty much anything that had to do with bodily excrements and bodily noises.

So, yes, now that I think about it, a day of rest is probably good for all. I have to gear up for the next 2 weeks of "how to live like an American".

Lick Cancer

As I had mentioned before, my brother rode in the Pan Mass Challenge this weekend. That is riding a bike from Sturbridge Mass. to Provincetown, Mass. It was 192 miles over 2 days. His team of about 35 men and women was called Lick Cancer and their symbol was a Rolling Stones tongue.

He raised over $7500 for Dana Farber Hospital, therefore getting to wear the special "heavy hitter" pants on day one. He rocks and I just wanted everyone to know how proud of him I am!
Yay, Tommy!!

Catching Up.

It's time to catch up on a few blog things. For instance awards! Yippee, KathyLikesPink and BecauseWendiSaysSo both gave me this great award.

It is a reminder to be an organ donor. Thank girls! I think if anyone is happening by my blog on a hot summer's day and would like it, then please take it. It is an important cause!

I was also tagged to do 2 memes. One was so long ago, I forgot. OOops. But Scargosun tagged me today, so I haven't forgotten it yet and will therefore get right to it.

Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

1. I just finished Jess Riley's 1st book called Driving Sideways. Ironically enough it is about organ donation. See how I tied that in to the award? Pure genius I tell you. It is fantastic and a great story!

2. Like Jen over at Scargosun, I too despise fruit and chocolate together unless we are talking about chocolate and banana. Especially if we are talking about chocolate and bananas in a crepe......mmmmmmmmyummy!

3. I have a french student here for 3 weeks. Today I learned that waffle in french is gouffe and in France they don't have maple syrup.

4. According to my friend Elizabeth, who just was visiting me, I was not honest and open enough in my 100 things posting. I guess I was suppose to write about how generous and giving I am . Yeah, like I am going to write about that :)

5. I have a beautiful picture of sunflowers on my desktop right now.

6. I am really scared of scary movies. I cannot be in the same room if one is on tv and my DH is watching it.

7. I could probably recite to you the entire movie of 16 Candles. I am kind of annoying to watch it with, because I say all the lines before the actors. Of course I crack myself up!

So, who to tag..... If you so desire
Wonderful World of Weiners she will come up with some beauties I am sure.
KathyLikesPink when she gets back from her vacation.
FromTalbotstoTarget when she gets out of her pool long enough.
BecauseWendiSaidSo because I say so.
WinePlz because everybody needs some wine.
Caution600 because she is smart and funny.

OK, I can count, that was only 6, the 7th is up for grabs. Anyone, anyone, Bueller, Beuller??

C My New Daughter

My new 14 yr old daughter, C, has arrived from France! She is so sweet and happy despite a long day of traveling. She is ours to show the best of America to for 3 weeks. Hopefully it won't take her luggage 3 weeks to get here from Amsterdam. Good to know that foreign countries lose luggage just like we do. I am sure I will have more about the adventures of C on Cape Cod, but for now the poor thing needs some sleep! Bon nuit! (That's good night).