Ah...the weekend

My top favorite things about this weekend:

DVD. A viewing of In July (funniest moment: the final result of a physics instructor figuring out how fast he has to drive to jump over a small river) on Friday night.

Children's store. A trip to Lots for Tots (children's consignment store): found another baby gate, a set of wooden blocks, one pair of white socks and a hanging toy that fills the missing spot on our bouncy seat.

MMMM....food. A well needed trip to Sam's Club to stock up on supplies. Best find: Cuties California Clementines, clementines that taste better than any other clementine I've ever tasted. I loved to eat these in CA, but haven't found them in Minnesota until yesterday. I've tried other brands over the years, hoping for the taste of a California Cutie....yuck yuck yuck. I am in heaven and will go back and get 20 more pounds.

[pause...clementine break]

Cooking. An afternoon spent in the kitchen..I boiled eggs, made an apple crisp and began my yogurt making experiment.

Homemade yogurt. I decided to make my own yogurt because it seems relatively easy, is cheaper than buying store-bought yogurt, is a food B will be eating soon and is rumored to be very creamy and super sweet (not tart like store-bought yogurt). I followed the directions from Super Baby Food. In a nut shell you 1) heat milk to approx. 185 degrees, 2) cool milk to approx. 115 degrees, 3) add starter (either a packet of bacteria or a couple spoonfuls of yogurt), 4) incubate between 90 and 120 degrees for 4-12 hours. Steps 1-3 were fairly easy, but step 4 proved to be a little more difficult. If I lived in the Middle East or Riverside, CA, I could just put the yogurt mixture outside and wait. But I live in Duluth. So I used my half-gallon Igloo Playmate water jug. I'm not sure how long it really took, as I went to bed after 5 hours of incubation and at 3AM took it out of the cooler. I put it in the fridge and this morning I had my own home-made yogurt. It smelled and tasted like yogurt, so I must have done something right.

Scrabble. A Saturday night game of Scrabble with my husband...a complete game. He won by just a handful of points. Background music: The Lawrence Welk Show

A giggle. I think B giggled on Saturday, but I can't say for sure. I made a tent out of a blanket with both of us underneath it. I started tickling her, and she made some strange laughing noise she hadn't made before. It wasn't a squeal, it wasn't a scream, but more like a chuckle.

The Heater. The heater decided to quit working....on a Sunday...on one of the coldest days of the year. It was only a condensation pressure switch, but it cost $173 to fix.

Overall, a great weekend!