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Egg & Sausage Muffins

I’ve been following lurking around the RocksInMyDryer blog for a little while now and have been thoroughly enjoying her “Works for Me Wednesday” posts.  She usually has it open to everyone to post their own links for whatever topic she’s designated and I wind up spending a few minutes hours following all the links to great posts.  

So, this week’s topic was 5-ingredient recipes.  My kind of cooking!  Needless to say, I’ve spent lots of time perusing everyone’s creative ideas and have bookmarked several to try out.

The first recipe I tried was for Egg & Sausage Muffins at ISpeakBeanish. They turned out great!!  I added some cheese (hello – I AM a cheese-aholic!) and then I blended up some fresh yellow squash and zucchini to “hide” inside the egg mixture that you pour over the sausage. You couldn’t even taste the veggies (thank goodness, otherwise my family wouldn’t have eaten them) and the two oldest kiddos LOVED them.  We had plenty leftover for breakfast the next day and I’m about to freeze the rest to have on hand for whenever Shawn needs a quick breakfast to go with his morning coffee.

So, slide on over to ISpeakBeanish for her great recipe (she’s a Houston local, y’all!!) or to RocksInMyDryer for more ideas for dinner tonight and enjoy.  Oh, and then you have to tell me which one YOU did and how it turned out so I can be sure to add it to my list! :)

Baby’s Smile and Your Brain

You know the magical moment…  

The one where you gasp, your heart completely melts, and you’re filled with more joy than you ever thought a human could feel…  

The moment when your baby first smiles at you.

Well, apparently, some super-smart people at Baylor College of Medicine decided to find out exactly what that smile does to a mom.

Here’s what they say:

They found that when the mothers saw their own infants’ faces, key areas of the brain associated with reward lit up during the scans.

“These are areas that have been activated in other experiments associated with drug addiction,” said Strathearn. “It may be that seeing your own baby’s smiling face is like a ‘natural high’”.

Read more about their findings here…  Much can be gleaned from reaction to baby’s smile

What I love is that scientists are just confirming what all mothers around the world already know.  There’s nothing better than your baby’s smile!

My Ice Cream Personality

So here’s the other quiz I promised you. This one asks you questions about your ice cream preferences and comes up with your personality from those answers. Be sure to click the link below to find out your ice cream pesonality and then share it with the rest of us in the comments below.

Here are my results…

Your Ice Cream Personality:

You like to think of yourself as a fairly modest person. And it’s true that you don’t talk yourself up… but you’re also pretty happy with who you are.   You are incredibly cautious. You rather miss out on something than make a mistake. No one would ever call you wild… but they would call you responsible. You are a somewhat open minded person, but deep down you’re fairly conservative. You don’t like trying new things very much. And if you do find something new you like, you stick with it. You are a natural multitasker. You feel alive when you’re doing more than one thing at a time. You can be a big dramatic and over the top sometimes. You are bold in every way

Cow Appreciation Day

I just drove through Chick-Fil-A (this is at least a once-a-week occurrence at our house) and in our bag of yummy food there was a cute little coupon.  It says, “Dress like me, git free chikin” and there’s a picture of a cow dressed up in a cow costume.  (Yes.  I said that right.)

Apparently Chic-Fil-A has named July 11th, this year’s “Cow Appreciation Day”.  And if you wear a cow costume to their fine restaurant on that day, you’ll get a free meal.

Now, I’m all about bargains and getting things for free and what-not, but I’m not so sure I’m ready to dress up like a cow for it.  But, for those of you who would, YOU GO, GIRL (or boy)!  :)

I’ll just have to remember to allocate a little extra time to get through the lines on that day since I’m sure they’ll be packed with cows…

What about you?  Will you be one of those cool people that dresses up, or a dork like me that doesn’t?  :P

Wordless Wednesday: Our other ‘child’, Riley-the-Dog