Cooking and Falling Squirrels

 HALLOWEEN!!!Over the summer, ( I know, a long time ago) when I got home from camp I saw a little cat crate in there yard which isn't usually there. Then my sister got home with our neighbors. My sister asked me if I had looked in the crate and I told her no. Then, we all crowded around it and there was a baby squirrel so young it hadn't even opened it's eyes yet. It was so cute! We put a hot water bottle underneath it so it would stay warm. We also fed it with a little medicine dropper. Today is Halloween! I am not a big dressing up person so my costume is just a simple black vampire cape even though I am not going to be a vampire.  I have baked and cooked a lot since I have recently blogged. I have pictures of the baby squirrel, apple pie, beef and vegetable stir fry's. They all came out really good but I especially liked the stir fry. I also made lemon meringue pie with my friend one day. We made 8 miniature ones. They were good but the crust was a little bit uncooked. I have also been working on crocheting a blanket for my cousins about to be born baby. I couldn't include a picture though.

Catch Up

I have not blogged in what seems like forever. I am going to fill whoever reads this in on what has happened most recently to what has happened  last month.
 We recently had just come back from Nantucket visiting our Dad's Uncle which we do each year but I will talk about that later. We had finished unpacking and were giving some gifts to our neighbors when our newest neighbors on our street came running down the street and told us that there was an adorable lost puppy that was on Main st. We all rushed down and it was the cutest puppy ever. We followed it all around asking people if they knew whose puppy it was. Finally someone called the police station and thankfully someone had just filed a report for a missing dog. The police station then called the lady and told her where her dog was. They pulled up in a red car and the lady picked up her dog and was so happy she found her dog. So was the dog whose name was Mandy. That was about half and hour. It was a lot of fun following the dog. 
      Now back to Nantucket, we usually always visit each year. We also see our second cousins. One is four an a half the other is three. They are both very cute. We spend a lot of time playing with them and taking bike rides. We bike up to a lot of places but every year we bike to a dock and feed the turtles. We figured this out a couple years ago. We were taking a bike ride one year and we stopped by the dock to see what everyone was doing. Feeding turtles!!! Everyone there had tied a string around a raw chicken bone and was dangling it in the water where there were huge turtles that were taking some of the meat off of the chicken bones. Some folks who were leaving gave us some of their chicken bones so we got to try it. We have done it ever since. This year was the same. 
      I love to bake! My mom is trying to get me to enjoy cooking more so I can make dinner but not yet. Any how, My sister and her friend went to our bookstore and bought a book called Hello Cupcake! It has a lot of amazing recipes on how to make amazing cupcakes. In the end they decided to make the garden cupcakes. I baked the cupcakes and they decorated them. They looked very cool in the end. My favorite vegetable on the cupcakes was the peas. They looked awesome. They made them from candy clay. They looked fantastic in the end and were hard to eat.
      Paella is a Spanish dish with lots of seafood in it like, clams, mussels, and other sea foods along with the spices and the vegetables. This is a dish that my Dad and I made. This was our second time. The last time we used about 3 different recipes and followed the measurements and some of the instructions. This year we couldn't find our main recipe so we winged it more this time and added clam broth to it. We cooked it over the grill like last time although this time we were serving it to guests. It was good. I liked them both the same. We cooked it in a paella pan. Its always a ton of fun pulling the foil off of it and seeing how it came out and a little bit scary cause your hoping it won't be a complete failure. We got worried in the end thinking that we didn't put in enough rice so there would be to much liquid and the rice wouldn't absorb it. But it all worked out in the end. Pictures are below.
p.s. this is my longest post in my life.

Yarn Bombing

National Yarn Bombing day was a while ago but here are some pictures that my mom took. My mom decided to help cover a sculpture with yarn crocheted. She got a color, which was green and had to make a big piece for a side. It's pretty cool. I did a tiny green piece to. Tomorrow we have 1/2 a day left of school and then it is summer. My friend is coming over after school and then we are going to sleep in a tent in the yard. Should be fun.

Books

I have just recently finished 2 books. One for a book group and one that I chose myself. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Jacobson. Number the Stars is a great book. It is placed in a time when the German troops are relocating all of the Jews. So the Johansens take in a friend and hide them from the Germans. Though this book is a short read I really liked reading it with a book group. Small as an Elephant  is a really good book. One day, Jack wakes up and realizes his mother is gone and has left him. This is not the first time this has happened but the car is gone and so is all of her stuff. Then you learn all about where Jack goes hoping to find his mother. These are both really good books though short.

 

Poetry

What I Want The World To Know About Me

by Sadie

I am blue,

the color of the sky and ocean.

I am a dog,

sniffing,curious about everything.

I am your brown fleece,

soft, fuzzy, warm.

I am the sound of the piano,

notes fast, slow, drifting from room to room.

I am the kitchen,

I am the room that you come to,

to bake pies,cakes,cupcakes,cookies.

I am the smell,

that wafts through the house,

The smell of baking chocolate chip cookies.

I am the striped couch,

that you sink into with a book.

I am the person who bakes,

desserts for different occasions.

I am the slippery piece of pasta,

you slurp into your mouth

and the piece of pasta twisted in your bowl.

I am the bright shining sun,

blazing high above with warmth and energy.

I am the memory of you and your dad making paella,

with spices, clams,and other ingredients.

I am the repeating dream,

the dream where you can fly,

without anything helping you,

through the clouds.

This is a poem I wrote in class for a poetry picinic that we had in school.

We taught our parents how to write poetry and shared some of the poems that we had written. This is one of my favorite ones that I wrote.

Florida and Other Weird Stuff.

Sorry it took so long to write. I have been busy. We had a lot of fun in Florida. I baked whoopie pies and an apple pie although there was so much butter in it so we had to cut down on that and the crust was a pain in the butt to make. The whoopie pies were really good though, chocolate whoopie pies with peppermint filling. Yum! We also saw The Hunger Games while we were there. On one of our last couple days we decided to go for an airboat ride. There were headphones that we put on so we could hear the driver speaking since the fan in the back was really loud. We saw a lot of  alligators in the water and on land. Some of them were really big!
We went swimming in their pool everyday. Our grandparents own a golf cart and we always like to go for rides and we get to drive it. Well, we kind of had an accident. My mom and Zhi had just gotten back from the ride and mom was letting Zhi pull in and he went in kind of fast so when my mom tried to step on the brake she accidentally hit the gas and they went right into the door. (Did I mention Zhi was sitting on  mom’s lap?)This was very scary for all of us. Me and Grammy were in the kitchen making the apple pie so we saw the door swing open and all of these pieces of the wall falling. Surprisingly though the golf cart was not hurt except for the little plastic thing that goes over the lights in the front. The part the golf cart really damaged was the door and the door frame. It had cracked. From then on or should I say the rest of the vacation was “ out of order”. That was probably the one thing that we will never forget from that trip. Random thing that has nothing to do with Florida is that we did paper mache in class and we got to take them home to day so there is also a picture of the Ermine Weasel that I did but looks like a cat. Also, I know the face is messed up so yeah. Oh, I forgot to tell you that we saw the cutest ducklings ever! Sorry the pictures are all jumbled! :(

       

Flordia!

I am going to be going to Florida today after school! I am very excited. I am going to be visiting my grandparents. I will take pictures and post them on the blog.Basically all we do there is bake,swim, and drive the golf cart crazily.It should be lot's of fun. We are going to be getting there at midnight and then driving 2 hours to there house. Oh well.

New York Pictures

New York was AWESOME!!! We went to the High Line, the Lion King, Lincoln Center, Lego Store, Disney store, Chocolate Store/ factory.It was a lot of fun. The Lion King was a big highlight. The costumes were great and the songs were amazing too. We went to the Lego Store mainly for my younger brother. I have to admit that it was better then I thought it would be. They had this dragon that was made all out of Lego's. They also had other interesting things that were made completely out of Lego's. The Disney store was also fun and it had these projectors that were projecting on trees and it made these flowers and leaves show up on the trees. Lincoln center was also neat. It had these staircases of grass that was on top of a roof! It also had a this statue in this water thing where you can throw money in. The chocolate store/factory was also fun and we each got a sweet. I got a chocolate croissant. Yumm!We had a really good trip.

Long Day/ New York

Yesterday since my sister made it to states we all had to go to Fryburg which is an hour and a half from here. We stayed basically the whole day and there were 4 races. Girls skate and classic race and boys skate and classic. Then we stayed for the awards. It was a very long day. Then we had 3 families over and our neighbor to celebrate the race and stuff like that. Now for the New York thing we are going to be going soon and meeting up with my moms brothers family and going to see the lion king which we got the CD for so we could listen to all of the music. It is going to be very fun I am going to take pictures and post them so you can see stuff. I think it is going to be very fun. My sister is getting her braces on Wednesday and we are leaving on Thursday. Well that's all for now.

Testing!

Yahoo!!! I have finally figured out how you add and image to your blog. My sister is getting her braces in about a week. My brothers birthday is tomorrow and so is valentines day. It is going to be very busy. I also have flute and communications as well as skiing after school and homework and obviously my brothers birthday. Talk about crazy. We are going to make moon cakes over break. Yummy!!!

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Cooking and Piano

My piano recital went great. But.. I did mess up. My mom said that nobody noticed except for me but I still can't believe that I messed up on that. For cooking on Saturday we made Beef Bourguignon from the barefoot contessa cookbook. We used fillet mignon. Expensive or something my mom says. It was very good. We all liked it except my sister didn't really like the beef (she's not a meat lover). What I didn't really like in the dish was the pearl onions and the carrots which I had to chop diagonally to make it look fancier. Everything else wansn't bad. We also had some rice with the dish and we poured the sauce over it and it was really good. On Sunday I made Honey Apple Torte. It was so good. Everyone loved it. It was also really easy to make. I think that I will make 2 of them and then put frosting on it and then it could be kind of like a cake. Anyway, just wanted to tell you. Have to go and make zucchini bread!

This Week and Weekend

So happy that it's the weekend! I had skiing on Friday and I felt as if I really improved. And on Thursday I had a band concert. It went really well. After that we had ice cream! (yummy!) Today we are going to go skiing.Me and my sister have a piano recital on Sunday and after that we are going to a super bowl party. I might watch a little. I really don't see what's so exciting about football but whatever. People can think what they think. I hope I don't mess up at the piano recital.

Little Things.

Does anybody know how you insert a picture? I don't. I the button to do it I just can't get the picture on the thing. I really need to finish my homework and practice piano but I really don't feel like it. I am reading 2 books right now. Uglies and Inkdeath. Both great books so far. I am reading Uglies with a mother daughter group. We picked it out at a bookstore. I personally think that right now a lot of books have been about vampires, and rebelling and society's. Or people that are in charge of you. Well, I really need to go and finish my homework even though I don't want to do it.

Crazy Cooking

I had piano lessons tonight. That went fine. This however didn't. Mom was trying a new recipe from her barefoot contessa cookbook (she got for christmas). Some kind of tomato soup. Well, you had to put it in the blender and she turned it on and it all came squirting out all over the kitchen. Big mess! Then she blended it one more time and guess what? More came out. Definetly not as big as the last one though thankfully. I would definetly rate the soup a 7. I also need to mention that I made a cake from that cookbook and in the frosting it had 1 pound of butter! It was crazy. But the cake was very good. I have to go and do HW. (home work) We are doing reports in school and mine is on modern refrigeration. Interestiong topic.

WET!

I just had skiing and there was barely any snow. It was really hard to ski because there were so many patches of grass. People were going down this little what you might say miniature river. It was really fun. I fell a couple of times and got wet. I am still wet. I really need to take a shower. I really hope this blog is not boring. I have a lot of free time so I am able to blog a lot more often then my sister. We don't have any homework tonight. We get to assign our own homework for ourselves. Well I have to go and run that crazy dog of ours.

Forgot

Last night I realized I forgot to say so much. I have a dog. He is a puppy. He is the naughtiest puppy in the world. I play the flute. I have the best band teacher in the world!! My favorite colors are purple, blue, and green.
My sister is going to get her braces in February and I can't wait to tease her. Normal thing for a sister to want to do. Right? I also like to crochet. I am starting a new blanket because I didn't like the colors in the old one. I am still not very familiar with dragging pictures in but eventually I'll get the hang of it. In my family we do celebrate Chinese new Year so we will be having dumplings. From trader Joe's.

About... Me

I love to read, bake, and play with our neighbors, and a lot more then I can think of at this moment. Lately as an after school sport I am nordic skiing. It's pretty fun. I have an
older sister an a younger brother and 2 parents. In this blog ( that maybe nobody will read) I will be taking about my baking and my books and my life. I have never blogged before and I apoligize right away if this blog gets boring. I have just finished reading a book called Matched by Ally Condie.
I would say that it is a very good book. I would reccomend it. My mom is reading it right now too. She reads it so often that my nook's battery power ran out. So I guess it is a good book.