Zelda Muffins

February 20 was National Muffin Day. We made muffins.

February 21 was the 40th Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda. Some family members played Zelda games. We didn't do anything big to celebrate the 40th like we did with the 35th. 

What we did do was Jeremy, Jet, and I went for a walk at Farmington Bay and got to see some birds. 

February 23 was National Rationalization Day and it was National Banana Bread Day. I rationalized making banana bread and I did.

 

February 25 was National Chili Day and National Toast Day so I made chili and we toasted bread and had chili on toast. 

Catching Up February 2025 part 2 (more like 3 because my Valentine post fit in with the catching up)

February 17 was President's Day. Jet helped me with the flag picture that day.

It was also National Cabbage Day. I made egg rolls one of the days around that holiday.

 

February 18 was Pluto Day. I watched one of the many episodes of Psych where Gus said, "You heard about Pluto?" The subtitles had it wrong, though.

 

February 19 was Chocolate Mint Day. I had another Peppermint Patty.

February 20 was National Muffin Day. For dinner we had... muffins again. We made all eggless muffins again. Cornbread muffins, blueberry muffins, and raisin bran muffins.

 

February 21 was the Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. The kids requested Deku Scrub Cheeseball, which I made. Because Nichole is the one who usually sculpts the cheeseballs nowadays, some of the boys were surprised to learn that I was the one who made the original Deku Scrub Cheeseball way back in 2017. Jet helped put the bay leaves on top.

Jet and I haven't had a chance to do as much baking together as we used to. When we do get the chance it's so nice. I've missed it.

He helped me grind wheat one day, which was nice. My big helper. 

Jet also enjoyed making tracks in the snow (when we had snow. We've finally made it to Spring but I'm still blogging about Winter).

Speaking of snow, a few of us made the trek to the Snow Goose Festival in Delta this year. It was so foggy at first that we couldn't even look for the geese in the fields and when we got to the reservoir, we couldn't see anything there, either.

We entertained ourselves while we waited for the fog to lift.

Finally the fog lifted and just like last year, we found out that the geese had landed on the other side of the reservoir. Except that this year they were so far out, we couldn't get a good look or good pictures.

We did get to see a few fly in from time to time but we've had more exciting years. Oh well.

 

The day after the Snow Goose Festival was National Banana Bread Day, February 23, so we had some banana bread Pop Tarts.

It was also National Rationalization Day so Jeremy made something he'd been wanting to make for a long time- bangers and mash. 

That night was a multi-stake fireside with Camille N. Johnson, the Relief Society General President in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A couple friends and I walked to the building where it was being held. I did not get a good picture. There's a better picture of us when we had banana splits back in January.

Bad picture aside, the fireside was really good. I appreciated the things Sister Johnson shared with us. One of the things she shared was that every morning she has her own personal devotional with President Nelson, prophet and president of the Church. She will put on a talk that he has given in the past and will listen to that while she's getting ready. After that, so many sisters in our stake, including me, took that same challenge and started listening to President Nelson every day. It was talked about when we gathered together for the Worldwide Relief Society Devotional and Testimony Meeting a few weeks later. I went with my ministering sisters.

 

February 24 was Tortilla Chip Day so we had tortillas and dip of course.

 

Jeremy's birthday was in February. Jet wanted to put the candles on the cake so he decided how many of each color and placed them. What a sweetie.

Rationalizing Not Taking Pictures (with some pictures thrown in)

February 23 was National Rationalization Day which is why I can rationalize not taking pictures on that day, even though the kids had chili and toast for National Chili Day and National Toast Day. I didn't have chili and toast. I went to a Relief Society dinner and had Cafe Rio food instead.

I can also rationalize not having pictures for other days. February 26 was For Pete's Sake Day. I used that phrase.

February 27 was International Polar Bear Day and National Pokemon Day. I told my son to clean up his Pokemon figures and we watched some Pokemon type videos. I learned some polar bear facts from Hogle Zoo Instagram page and we watched an episode of The Mysterious Benedict Society (which has a polar bear illustration in the opening credits).

And while I'm in the mood for rationalizing, here are some pictures I took on different days.

We've been having a real Winter. The kids had another actual snow day, which just means nowadays that they do school online at home instead of having a day off. The kids and I decided to go to the library that evening and since the red car was parked behind the van, we had to clean snow off both vehicles in order to get the van out of the driveway. Luckily it was flat surfaces all the way to the library. 

We spent maybe an hour at the library but by the time we got back to the van, it had to have snow cleared off it again.

We celebrated Jeremy's birthday.

Panda!

March 16 was Everything You Do Is Right Day. Just like with National Rationalization Day, certain things you DO NOT rationalize. But pie and ice cream for breakfast? Sure.

It was also National Panda Day so Jet and I read, "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?" He had fun with that since he loves the book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" so much.

Being Sick Makes Catchup Stink

Being sick stinks. 

I was doing so well blogging in January. Then February wasn't so bad, either. Then I got sick. Blaaaaaah. Stinks. So now I've got to do all that catching up again. Whine. Whine. Whine. Complain complain complain. Sigh.

Well, now that I have that out of the way, let me tell you about some of the ways we've been celebrating. 

February 21 was the Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda. Nichole drew a Zelda comic (If you give that girl a medium...).

People may or may not have played video games.

I already blogged about 2-22-22.

 

February 23 was National Rationalization Day. I didn't take any pictures. Ha.

February 24 was National Chili Day and National Tortilla Chip Day.

That's it for this installment of catching up after sickness. Blaah.

Some Holidays From Last Week

Monday, February 22, was Cook a Sweet Potato Day. I made sweet potato fries. Lucky decided that they looked like Ood tentacles (see Doctor Who) so he went with it.

Tuesday, February 23, was National Rationalization Day. There was definitely rationalizing going on. I rationalized making banana muffins for National Banana Bread Day. Jet loves bananas and apparently banana muffins as well. He devoured the one or two I gave him and then when he saw I put one on my plate for myself, he begged for that one, too. Sigh. I did eventually get one for myself.

Wednesday, February 24, was National Tortilla Chip Day. With dinner we had chips and salsa.

Friday, February 26, was For Pete's Sake Day. Yes, that phrase was most definitely uttered.

Sunday, February 28, was Public Sleeping Day. I won't mention how many people slept during online church. To be honest, some of us have been getting our February sicknesses, so that's a good excuse for sleeping. We did a good job at skipping the bad stuff in December (some Winters are really bad) so we're having some little illnesses now (not as bad as December usually is). So it was a blessing to still be able to "go" to church even while sick. I've enjoyed the not getting as sick thing this Winter.

I signed up and attended some RootsTech stuff about Family History so February 28, Tartar Sauce Day, I also told my family a story from my childhood about tartar sauce. I did so as we ate salmon burgers with... you guessed it... tartar sauce. Speaking of family history and RootsTech, I needed a profile picture for it so I took these two pictures and decided to use one of them. Guess which one I used. 

Yeah, I ended up choosing more conservative over what I would have used on Facebook or something. But you get the benefit of seeing both of my choices.

Hungarian Pirates or Pirate Cube?

May 19 was the anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, which we all know was invented by a Hungarian.
What better way to celebrate than to eat Hungarian food, twist Rubik's Cubes, and watch... The Pirates of Penzance?
The kids once again got creative with rationalizing movie watching. Jeremy made us rokott krumpli and the kids wanted to watch that movie so here's what we eventually came up with.
Originally it was that Hungary is a European country and so is England where Penzance is located. Meh. Too much of a stretch for me. However, May 19 was May Ray Day and the pirates wanted to may-ray the major general's daughters. The pirates could also be described as devils and there may be food and cake served at the wedding. May 19 was also Devil's Food Cake Day.

We saved devil's food cake for a later date, though, to celebrate my birthday along with homemade alfredo pizza. Mmmm. Craveworthy.

Like with Jeremy's birthday, Lucky made me a present of a LEGO character. This time it was Guybrush Threepwood doing his Guybrush Threepwood dance. What a sweetie.