Ten on Ten: once a month, on the tenth, taking a photo an hour for ten consecutive hours.

Lately Nathan has been doing this. He’s crying over something and he wants me and not Alan. It’s so sad. He actually pokes at Alan crying, I don’t want you, I don’t want you!

Lately I’ve really been embracing Instagram. It’s a lovely way to share little bits of our day. Tonight this is what we were doing.

With news of a super moon about I thought I’d try taking moon pictures. Alan drove us around for a bit and we pulled over and I started taking shots.

Then…my camera died. The battery. I do that too frequently, not recharging my battery.

Anyone else try moon pictures? Mine always come out so disappointing. My 135mm kit lens doesn’t zoom close enough. We went home and charged my battery for a bit and then I tried using the old lens that came with Em, a film camera lens. It’s a 200mm lens. Hmmmm…is it bad that I put a old film lens on my digital camera?

Still not close enough. Look at the nice moon picture Joe took.

I have a whole bunch of pictures to go through from last week. And if you looked at some of my instagram photos you’d know why. Here are some of my favorites:

We were in Hawaii!! Semi-normal posting to resume…eventually.

Once in a rare while, we wake up in the morning to find doughnuts on the kitchen counter. A doughnut fairy brings them. It’s magical. Here’s a picture of him, the doughnut fairy.

Ok…the doughnut fairy is Alan. Sometimes he gets home late from work and the doughnut store is open so he’ll swing by and pick some up. And quite obviously that isn’t a picture of Alan. Nathan had posed his toy just so and it was funny so I snapped a picture.

And are these the doughnuts from the store? No. They are from the other doughnut fairy in the house. Me! I made them. I’ve never ventured into making fried doughnuts. One of these days I will have to try. But fried sounds complicated with either shortening or lard or yeast and rising or I don’t know what else. So, these are baked. They don’t taste like fried doughnuts though. They are basically like cake baked into doughnut shape, it’s simpler and faster than frying though.

I’ve made them with semi-sweet, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate chips. The kids like them any old way because it’s CHOCOLATE! But I like them like this, with dark chocolate chips.

This is the recipe I use for baked doughnuts. Most of the times I halve the glaze recipe though. I’m stingy with my chocolate chips and I don’t mind splotchy glazed doughnuts. Neither do the kids.

Nathan’s favorite part of a doughnut? The sprinkles. See what I’m left with?

He sits there and tries to pick the sprinkles off.

Nathan loves sprinkles. He’d eat sprinkles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if he could. Isabelle is a little pickier though. She only likes the ants type of sprinkles. But for Nathan they’re not only yummy but fun! How are sprinkles fun? Why sprinkling of course. Nathan likes sprinkling his doughnuts himself. But of course that is how I end up with sprinkles in strange places. Like over my butter.

I think that was the last time I let him sprinkle them himself. It’s weird trying to pick sprinkles out of your butter. And then it’s even weirder when you don’t pick the sprinkles out and then cook pasta and it’s funny sprinkled colors.