Mini Cheese Cakes

Things have been pretty quiet lately... which I have been trying to welcome it with open arms.  Today I was full of morning energy so after I baked some almond poppyseed muffins, I searched for a cheese cake recipe.

I am notorious for wanting to bake something and always missing ONE ingredient. Boogers! I needed heavy whipping cream. Had none. So I looked up how to MAKE heavy whipping cream. And well.. unless you lived on a farm with cows- you can't make home made heavy whipping cream. Ok so I inventoried again on what I had. I had ready to bake dough, sour cream, cream cheese, eggs and sugar. There HAD to be a recipe with this stuff to make a cheese cake.. Grrrr. I came up empty handed. Then I found one that used chocolate chip cookie dough... and the aerosol whipped cream. HARK! Yes.. I have that! Ok well.. I had sugar cookie dough.

I wanted something bigger than muffins/ cupcakes so I used my mini pie tin. I scooped an ice cream scooper size of cookie dough into each "cup". I rolled it in my hands and flattened. I can not confirm nor deny if I actually licked my hands after that.

Then I took my softened cream cheese and some sugar (that is what that white canister is), put on my whipped attachment and watched it turn into creamy goodness

wheeeeeeeee.. It is so much fun watching this!

Then you open up the Reddi Whip... squirt it in your mouth and squish your face... because its fun... Then squirt in kids mouth.. because that is even funnier.

After your cookies cool - for about 15 minutes and then spoon on the cream cheese mixture.

Then you can go through your pantry to see if you have any decorative SOMETHING... and then find nothing so decide to go ahead and chill it for a few hours and PRAY hubby likes it :)

Mouse Trap and Petri Dish

I have neglected my blogging which is a shame because my head is filled with lots of things to write and share about.

But just for shits and giggles- lets just jump ahead to the issue at hand. I'll give you 2 chances to guess what it is about......

If you guessed MICE... you were correct.

So we moved into a beautiful home (another post for another day) and things have been going great. No big issues.. ok well... Colorado has some big nasty looking spiders that like to show up when you least expect it but other than that- I feel like I am constantly at Disney.

Aww shit- I just realized that funny little pun... Disney... Mouse... UGH.

Hubby and I were down in the office working when our daughter comes rushing through the door- all out of breath- saying something along the lines of " kitchen... mouse... ack.. ewww.. " Ok well since its past bedtime we agreed we would check it out in the morning.

Morning comes to wake me up early with the older kids. Like 5-6am early. Something about that doesn't seem right. So my older son went to open the bottom drawer in the cabinet when I heard him yell. But instead of rushing to his side, I jumped to the other side of the kitchen, laughing with a little bit a fear and asked what happened. When he exclaimed that a mouse jumped up and ran to the back of the drawer.. again I couldn't stop laughing. Oh dear- the look on his face.. priceless!

So hubby played hero and boot-scooted his way to the store to get some traps. Of course before setting them, we played with them to see how sensitive they were. Let's just say, if I was a mouse- I would be dead. So, hubby scoops a little bit of peanut butter and places it on the target thingy on the trap. He places it in a few places under cabinets. Within a few hours we heard a loud pop. Ohhh one little sucker down. Ohhh maybe that was all there was.. maybe our days are saved!!!

The next morning, hubby goes to investigate his good doings. There he found a trap that had TWO little (kind of cute) mice trapped. EWWW. ok. pretty darn talented that he caught 2 in 1 trap. So we cleaned the crap out of our cabinets for second time- thinking for sure our problems were solved.

Then next morning...

Anywho.. laa-da-da... I opened up our silverware drawer where I see a few black spots. Yes mouse droppings. EWWWWW.. WTF?!! you have got to be kidding me. How many more of these creatures are there?? And then mind mind went straight to the movie Ratatouille. Colony they mentioned... Where there was one- there was a colony. Holy freaking GET ME OUT OF here!!! We set more traps with more peanut butter and we quickly learned that the little - once adorable- mice have become smarter than we are and fully ate all the peanut butter from the trap.  Ok sweet hubby- this is not going to work- it's time to get evil.

Once again all the utensils go into a sink full of bleach water and cabinets cleaned... again. This time I packed up all our stuff until I know for sure we are mouse free.

Hubby becomes the hero again and gets some decon. Please Lord, lets this work. I am creeped out and tip toe around the kitchen afraid to touch anything. So now I am trying to calculate how long it will take for the "problem" to go away.

But while I am waiting on that to go away- I get to play nurse maid at home. Too many kids sick.. not enough mommy. 

But thankfully I have not gotten sick- just those annoying headaches that seem to never want to go away. I have wiped so much snot in the last few weeks, I could make a slip and slide out of it. I have been a oil Nazi though and I will continue to do so save any other survivors. Hubby thinks I am a little nuts for using them, but call me crazy- I believe they work.. and if they keep antibiotics away for me- I am ALL for it!

For another does of shits and giggles.. here is one of my fave videos