Possible topping ideas for Gingerbread Waffles

Gingerbread Waffles:

1 cup flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 Tablesppon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cloves
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 and 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup molasses
1.) Mix all ingredients and cook in your favorite waffle maker!

A much better food photo :)

I love him. Never a dull moment in the house! Can you see why? (he was "saving the dip" for later...on his face. Gross? Yep. But absolutely funny?oh yes :) )
I should really offer a prize to the person who can guess what the mysterious burnt dinner is (or was) :).....many have asked..so...(drumroll please............)

THAI CHICKEN. Now, if you're close to my family at all you might be asking, wait didn't her sister have a beautiful picture of thai chicken posted on her site that she recently made? :) Yes, she did. If you're interested you may want to ask her for help in making it instead of me! :)
Actually, I used my big crockpot (which was too big on this occasion) for the chicken......and it cooked too long....so there you have it.
I'm really not that bad of a cook :). I think I need a new photo post to redeem myself. (check later on today)

Today I wandered the aisles of the crazy mixed up land of Walmart for over an hour....they're re-doing the store and not even the employees know where things are located! Did you know you can buy fruit roll ups that have tattoos for your tongue? I bought dear husband some :). They have batman and joker on them!
Friday we had our regular "Class Meeting" which involves complimenting one another and talking about problems from the week, etc. (you didn't know I was part counselor too?). One of the boys, during compliment said, "I want to compliment Mrs. Torbett because she's pretty." The whole class lost it...but I thought it was sweet :)
We did an egg drop Friday for fun and the kiddos looooved it! I have a good class. Haven't wanted to admit it yet for fear they'll turn to little monsters. But really-they have such unique personalities.

Dinner anyone? :)

Needless to say....dinner didn't turn out quite like I expected tonight. This is what I came home to find in the crock pot. Yummm....... :) no, we didn't eat it!
School is going well...for both of us. I've been working a LOT this week...and Brett's been studying and working a lot. My class is personality-filled this year...but such sweet kids, really.
It is good to be Mrs. Torbett (which the kids have almost caught on to now).
Love.

The merged styles of Mr. and Mrs. Brett Torbett

Kind of a dark phto...but this is our dining room/Brett's work area :)
This is my desk/work area

Bookshelf in living room. A little country, anyone?
Love "ya'll" :)
P.S.-Can you tell I'm supposed to be grading papers?! Two blog posts in one night!

New Classroom!! School started today......my day as Mrs. Torbett went very well... :) More stories later.

My new students are coming soon! So far, I have experienced a calm about this year I don't think I ever felt at all last year. Things have been extremely busy and pretty non-stop as far as school goes.....but I've been pretty excited about this year.

I ordered a lot of books for the classroom (books are really my passion).....only a few have arrived in the mail so far, but there is one in particular I am impressed with, Museum ABC. They also have Museum 1-2-3 and Museum Shapes as well. The ABC book goes through the alphabet and on one side of the page will say something like "Y is for yellow"........the other page will then have famous paintings with the color yellow. These books are done by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
My classroom is finished, and I have received several compliments of people saying it has a calm, relaxing feel...wonderful! One of my other co-teachers really rubbed off on me this year and I am pretty organized. Of course 28 students can do a lot of damage to that. We'll see :)
Brett has started grad.school so he has been pretty busy between that and work. I have been learning to be a good wife by cooking and helping more with things around the house so he can study and work on projects. We're doing well. :)
Goodnight.