We’re still coming down from the sugar high of Easter. I can’t believe how much candy the boys got, and that was even after we recycled the stuff from the morning hunt and put it in the evening egg hunt. We now have 2 gallon bags of junk that will quickly disappear (and not into little mouthes).

So the boys had school today, and afterward I thought it would be fun to have the kids make butter like I did when I was a little kid. Don’t get me wrong, we were never forced to churn butter each night for the family dinner, but it was a preschool project and my mom was a preschool teacher so we got to do lots of things like that for the experience. So I got the heavy cream and the baby food jars ready and the kids started to shake them. My memory bites, because as I recall we shook and shook and shook that stuff before we actually got butter. This time, the kids shook the jars for about 30 seconds and then said they were done and I didn’t believe it. The boys must be excellent shakers because they made butter in 30 seconds flat!

It was family dinner night with Mary and Alice and I made a Martha Stewart Bean and Polenta Pie (didn’t think anyone would eat it….Levi and Alice LOVED it). It tasted pretty much like a burrito and was something I’d make again. I made sure to buy some bread so the kids could have their homemade butter to spread on it. They were jazzed and it tasted great!