Ten and A Half

We don't really acknowledge half birthdays or anything.  It's just with the beginning of a new school year I've been thinking about this age. Filling out all those forms I'm amazed at what grades I'm writing in.  5th and 8th.  Really?  Really.  Not really just this age but all ages and how they are just rolling by.  How time just rolls out its red carpet and we make our way along.  How it's good to be led by our brothers and yet also have our own time and place to reflect ourselves.  I can't get Joni Mitchell out of my head.  The Circle Game spins round and round in my head.

Ten and a half. Vegetarian.  Eli likes cooking some of his own meals.  I have pictures of him cooking this one sans shirt.  Actually kind of looking sort of bachelor like.  Thought I wouldn't put it on the blog though.  That's a fresh cucumber from our garden that Eli displayed so nicely.  Aquabats are one of his favorite bands right now.  Magic is all the rage with all ages.  In our house the players ages range from 7 to 23.  And incidentally, they all play with the same intensity and focus.  Eli says about that comment, "Well, sort of.  The 7 year old, maybe not so much." 

Waffles Walk

Waffles and a walk in the woods.  Not ordinary waffles.  The kind with eggs and milk.  My kids are pushing me to new endeavors in cooking.  So these are vegan waffles.  We substituted eggs with flaxseed and water and milk with coconut milk.  They were good and better with a good helping of syrup and applesauce on top.  Eli didn't think so.  He thought they tasted like warmed up cardboard.  He's going vegetarian not vegan.  I'll have to make a different batch for him.  That was our first jar of canned applesauce that we had opened.  Yummy.  So, we have a vegan, a newly proclaimed vegetarian, a girl whose not eating sugar and then the old omnivores.  We're doing some experimenting lets say.  Emily also made peanut butter cookies sweetened with bananas.  I deemed them Breakfast Cookies.  I wonder whose going to eat all these sweet sugary sweets we have around?