Simply Jaimie

COUSIN SLEEPOVER Friday night sleepover at Nanny and Pops house means one thing . . . . . . . . . . . .  Saturday Morning Pancakes!! The kids love having Pops make their pancakes look like Mickey Mouse : ) Click below for my favourite pancake recipe Martha Stewart easy basic pancake recipe

Hannah finally promoted to a big girl bed! I know you probably thinking that is a BIG bed for a two and a half year old, and I agree. :) I had no intention of buying a bunk bed, but I fell in love with it! I did manage to hold of buying it until I spoke to Aaron, and together we decided this was the bed for Hannah.  Hannah loves it too!  Especially the ladder. . .  I do keep the ladder in the guest room so she can't climb on the top bunk. At night, Hannah snuggles with her Daddy Doll : ) Aaron does the bed time routine when he is home. I know he is going to LOVE laying on the bed with Hannah, reading books.  I will point out that Hannah did pick out the bedding. It wasn't my favourite but she loves it. click here for the link to the bunk bed click her for the link to the bedding 

Book Thirty Five : Blood Promise by Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy Book Four) click here to read my review on book one click here to read my review on book two click here to read my review on book three There was a Strigoi there, tall and imposing, having sneaked up while I was distracted.  "No. . . ."  I wasn't sure if I said the word or thought it. It didn't matter. The only thing that mattered just then was what my eyes saw before me. Or, rather, what my eyes thought they saw. Because surely, surely, I had to be imagining this. It couldn't be real. Not after all this time. Dimitri. My stake was ready. All I had to do was keep swinging to make the kill. I had momentum on my side. . . But I couldn't. I just needed a few more seconds, a few seconds to drink him in before I killed him. And that's when he spoke. "Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent. . . . it was just colder. "You forgot ...

Yay!! We are getting so close to the end of this deploymnet!  Aaron : Aaron is doing well. His fingers are healing nicely, and he is back doing whatever it is he does. He has been working some long days but it keeps him busy.   Jaimie and Hannah : We are doing great! I recently hit this stupid wall, and I could not get my head around it. I felt like we were so close to the end but still so far away. I am so happy that I finally got over that hurdle. I am now just so excited!! Hannah and I are keeping busy with Mummy and Me Swim. She loves it! Hannah is quite independent and was yelling at me to let her go. . . .  yeah not gonna happen. I get asked a lot of questions that I thought would be nice to answer here : 1. When does Aaron get back? I have no idea.  I think the closer to homecoming the more details we get. I have heard rumors but until he is stepping of the bus, at Pendleton, I don't believe them. 2. Are you invited family and fri...

Book thirty one, thirty three, and thirty four : Sweet Evil, Sweet Peril, and Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins “You told some human kid?" I coughed, buying time. "He's Neph, too." Jonathan LaGrey went rigid and his ruddy cheeks paled. I squirmed as his eyes bored into mine. "Which one's his father?" he asked through clenched teeth. "Richard Rowe. I guess you'd know him as Pharzuph." Oh, boy. He wasn't pale anymore. "You came across the country-" "Shhh!" I warned him as people looked over. He lowered his voice to a shouted whisper. "-with the son of the Duke of Lust?!" Embrace the Forbidden What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels. Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within...

hahaha I love this quote! I'm gonna try harder to love the crap out of everything!!

Book Twenty Five : Dare You To by Katie McGarry “I hold the bottle out into the rain and watch as the steady flow slowly fills it. When there is enough, enough that Beth can clearly see, I close the bottle and hand it to her. She raises a skeptical eyebrow, but accepts the bottle. "It's our rain Beth." Her head barely shakes to show her confusion while I rub the back of my neck and search for my courage. "I told you I loved you in this rain and when you doubt my words, I want you to look at this bottle.”  If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one g...

Kiel and Carla came to visit Hannah and I, so we took them strawberry picking! I wasn't too sure how it was going to be; however, Hannah, Carla, and I had a blast. Not only did we pick some pretty incredible strawberries, we also ate a ton! These strawberries were so juicy and delicious! I had been wanted to make some jam for a long time. Now I had plenty of strawberries : ) click here for my freezer strawberry jam recipe

After picking some delicious strawberries, it was time to make some freezer strawberry jam! I used the recipe that comes in the pectin box Pulse your strawberries until you get the consistency you like.  I like a mixture of big and small chucks. Then measure out two cups of strawberries. In a large bowl add four cups of granulated sugar and two tablespoons of lemon juice. (or one fresh lemon) Pour in your strawberries and stir, stir, stir. You want to stir until the sugar is dissolved. My cute assistant and I stirred our mixture for about ten minutes. I purchased liquid pectin.  The recipe calls for one packet to be added. After everything was mix together, I let it sit for three minutes. Label your jars. Don't forget the date! Fill your freezer safe jars with your jam mixture.  Making sure you leave a quarter to half an inch at the top for the jam to expand. (I boiled the tops of my jar to ensur...

Book Twenty nine, thirty, and thirty two : Of Poseidon, Of Triton, and Of Neptune by Anna Banks The Syrena Legacy  Galen is the prince of the Syrena, sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. Emma is on vacation at the beach. When she runs into Galen—literally, ouch!—both teens sense a connection. But it will take several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, for Galen to be convinced of Emma's gifts. Now, if he can only convince Emma that she holds the key to his kingdom... First, these are some of the most beautiful book covers. Ok, moving on, I had seen Of Poseidon at my local bookstore but was not intrigued enough to spend twenty dollars for it. When I saw it on book outlet for around six dollars, I immediately ordered it. I found the story to be really easy to read. I enjoyed the "mermaid" aspect of it (I know they aren't really mermaids.) There was some dramatic plot twists but nothing too crazy. Of Posei...

Book Twenty : What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick "Is there a problem, dear boy? You look overheated." Cass shoves his hair back again - leaving a bigger smudge of dirt, sighs, "It's nothing." Pause. "Ma'am." Mrs E. studies us, the faintest of smiles on her face. But in the end, all she says is, "I would love some ice tea, Gwen. Why don't you get some for - " she pauses. "Jose," I say, just as Cass reminds her of his actual name. "Maybe Jose should carry around his own water bottle," I add, "like the rest of the maintenance crew. Then he wouldn't need waiting on." "Jose dumped his water bottle on his head about two hous ago - it's ninety - five today, no sea breeze, in case you hadn't noticed, Maria." Gwen Castle's Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her Nantucket-esque island this summer. He's a rich kid from ...

Book Twenty One - How to Love by Katie Cotugno "I can't," I shoot back, but even as the words come out I can hear my voice to start to break. I don't want to cry-crying now is going to make me look crazy, is going to undermine everything I'm trying to say - but I can't help it. I'm so hugely tired of carrying all of this inside of me, all my guilt and anger and loneliness. I can't do it anymore. It's too much.  Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he's never seemed to notice that Reena even exists until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated-and pregnant-Reena behind.  After: Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena's gotten used to bei...