King Arthur & the Birthday Princess

Good Morning to you all on this very rainy day. I am thankful it is raining, though, as upstate New York is getting snow! Not us; just rain. Long Island usually has good weather patterns~~not too hot in the Summer and not too cold in the Winter and some snow but not mega snow. This year we really got hit with the cold and the snow.

Caitlin celebrated her birthday on March 28th and her class had a celebration as well. My Mom, she's seated in the rocker in the classroom picture, came to sing Happy Birthday as well in her class. It was a great day. She enjoyed her cupcakes and Scooby Doo fruit snacks! What a birthday Princess.

Yesterday my son came home from school with a bag of items from the King Arthur Flour Company. This was such a wonderful thing. King Arthur Flour Company visited his school and demonstrated how to make bread! The program is called "Life Skills Bread Baking Program" and King Arthur visits schools across the nation showing kids how to bake bread from scratch! They even went that extra mile and provided a 2lb bag of unbleached flour, 2lb whole wheat flour, yeast, and a dough scraper along with directions and a booklet to make your own at home! I thought it was so great because I feel that home economics have been so underestimated in recent years. I just heard that several schools in NJ were dropping their home ec classes and replacing them with even more technology classes and the students (thank goodness) were protesting it. There is room and a need for both! I take my hat off to King Arthur for being so generous with their time and money. Anyway, my son, who has always liked to cook and has cooked with me since he's three years old, wants to bake the bread on Sunday. He said he learned how to braid it, too! He's gonna be a great husband someday!

I got some great sunflower seeds the other day. I'm gonna start them in the house and hopefully they grow big and tall! I love them! I'm sure my birds will too!