Eliana over here Joelle over here
It's fall!
It's finally feeling like fall around here, so after a chilly morning playing in the backyard, we enjoyed some quick & easy apple "cider"
Autumn Apple Juice
(all measurements very approximate - I just eyeballed it)
In large microwaveable container, stir together:
4 cups Apple juice
1/2 tsp cinnamon (or a small piece of stick cinnamon)
1/2 tsp allspice
2 cloves (or 1/4 tsp ground cloves)
1/8 tsp ground cardamom
Microwave for 1 minute, then stir. Keep going in 1-minute increments until hot enough ( I think I only did 2 or 3 minutes, because the kids don't like it too hot.
For our girls, I poured it through a strainer lined with a paper towel, so the spices weren't floating in their cups.
Yummy!
Lucia's birthday
Lucia turned 1 on Aug 31. We did celebrate with cake, and managed to get a couple pictures.
(Our rechargeable batteries for the camera would only hold enough charge for a handful of pictures, and they would lose all power after about 10 minutes. Sorry for the lack of pictures. It took a month before I finally got some new ones. We should be back in action now :) )
