Recipe share: Apple Spice Dump-It Cake

Ingredients:

1 (18.25 ounce) package spice cake mix
2 (21 ounce) cans apple pie filling
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground allspice
1 tbsp white sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 cup choppped pecans

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Pour the cans of apple pie filling into a 9x13 pan.
In a small bowl, mix together cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and sugar.
Sprinkle spice mixture over pie filling.
Pour the entire box of dry cake mix over apples.
Dot with butter and scatter pecans on top.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour, until cake is brown on top and bubbling on the sides. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.

I made this for my Women's Small Group that is meeting tonight and the house smells so, so, so wonderful. This is apple pie, minus the hard labor. :)

{Recipe courtesy of Allrecipes}

Picture of the day

We had an impromptu photo shoot and the girlies obliged me with the sweetest thing:

The hand-holding.

Completely honest and unstaged.

That's what I love about this age.

Oh, and the tee shirt Emma's wearing says "Best Buds", which I think sums it up best.

{photo taken 03.19.07}

Friday Five

Haven't done one of these in a very, very long time.

Five things:

Five things in my fridge:

• bottled water
• strawberry yogurt
• string cheese
• leftover pizza
• baby food

Five things in my hall closet:

• jackets
• vacuum
• scented candles
• board games
• flute

Five things in my purse/diaper bag:

• baby essentials (just the basics would take up the whole list!)
• cell phone
• Em's immunization papers for kindergarden registration
• tinted lipgloss
• empty skittles wrappers

Five things in my van:

• car seats
• insurance and repair papers
• maps
• first aid kit
• extra blankets

Five things on my current DVR/tivo rotation:

• Monk
• Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller
• Divine Design
• Charlie and Lola
• Little Bear

Well, there ya go-feel free to play along, if you please.

Happy Friday.

:)

Where do I begin?

Why, hello there. :)

Long time no post.

The kids are on the mend finally.

Mama is, too.

Last week I finally went to see my doctor after experiencing the hugest meltdown in my life. What with the kids being pretty much sick back to back since the Christmas holiday, Claire still no sleepy through the night, and then my sil needing daily rides to physical therapy or doctor appointments since being diagnosed with a "seizure disorder"...it was only time before I lost it.

And, boy, did I.

I am now seeing a therapist who is helping me get my life back in working order.

I've set a schedule that I can live with for my *taxi* services so that Claire is finally getting the naps she needs every day.

I have started getting out of the house and taking daily walks with the girlies.

Life is good.

I have to remind myself of that.