Turkey Pancakes!

Two Thanksgivings ago I had to get thru my first holiday without my boy with me.  It worked out that he was going to be with his father that year, so I just had him for the morning.  I knew it would be just as hard for him, with all the changes he had recently been thru, so I wanted to try to make our morning special.  I made a big breakfast with all his favorite things and surprised him with this little guy!

It's pretty simple to make.  I use an electric skillet and found that it cooks pancakes so evenly that you can make shapes pretty easily.  The body has cocoa powder mixed in to make a chocolate pancake. The feathers are a mixture of multi colored mini pancakes (just added food coloring to the batter) and cut strawberries.  The legs are bacon pieces and the eyes are chocolate chips.  Easy!

This was a HUGE hit, even for a 9 year old boy.  He still talks about it to this day and, at 11,  is super excited to see what kind of pancakes he'll be getting tomorrow.  I have some ideas... :)

Update - this year was pretty good too! Cornucopia pancakes:

long time no post!

I may have forgotten all about this little blog for the last few months! I just work and make plans,  work and make plans.  I'd have so much more free time if I didn't love to make plans! So anyways, I'm back and here's a few things worth mentioning before I change the primary direction of this little blog that only myself and 2 others see! My life in a nutshell:

1) Starting over is a part of life and is necessary - this includes diets and workout plans.  Basically, I'm not beating myself up anymore for starting over all the time.  It's not such a bad thing. (side note - new plan starts 11/26)

2) I am capable of so much more than I give myself credit for.

3) I really believe that when you start doing things you love and make yourself happy,  everything falls right into place.

OK - so quickly, new plan goals are to work out everyday (doing something,  anything) and run at least 2 times a week.  I'm pretty proud that I've been running the last few weeks with a friend. Outside, at 6am,  in the cold.  That's a pretty huge deal for me.  We take it a  little at a time, but I don't stop and I'm pretty happy about that. Also,  I feel really good afterwards.  I like that too. I'm all signed up for my first 5 k next year - plenty of time to get better and reach that goal.  

Next  - I freakin LOVE Pinterest.  But aside from that,  I love all these people who blog and have awesome ideas.  So I'm going to write some of mine down too.  Here goes... :)