Recipe!

Mmm mmm good.

Cream puff! From scratch.

-----you will need---
-1/2 cup water
-1/4 cup butter
-1/2 cup all purpose flour
-2 large eggs

Preheat the oven to 425º or for a convection oven, put on 400º

1. Measure water and butter into a heavy sauce pan; being to boil

2. Add flour all at once; stir mixture vigorously until dough leaves sides of pan.

3. Remove dough from heat. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.  Dough should be glossy and stiff enough to hold its shape.

4. Drop dough into six mounds onto a parchment paper covered baking sheet.

5. Bake puffs until they have doubled in size,  about 20 minutes.

6. Reduce heat to 350º F and continue baking puffs until they are crisp and golden brown,  about 10 to 15 minutes.

7. Turn off heat and remove puffs from oven; make small slits with a sharp knife in the sides of the cream puffs so steam will escape.

8. Return puffs to oven for 10 minutes.

9. Remove them from oven and allow them to cool I'm a place that is free from drafts.

10. Fill with extra thick pudding of your choice. Frost if desired or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Property of lees summit district cook book. :)

-baking machine sarah

School.

You know what has me confused? Why people make it such a big deal that we graduate high school. After high school we gotta go to more school to make more out of our life.
   Is it like a check point? If it is, we should celebrate elementary to middle school and middle school to high school too. 
    Aren't those important too?
Well the way I feel about school is that I don't think people should celebrate high school graduation so much. I mean some of us have a few more years to go. The others that aren't going to college are gonna end up in a dead end job and they are going to eventually end up wishing they went to college. So what is it that we are really celebrating?
   A lot of you have good reasons why. I wanna hear em! Convince me.

-bound for college sarah

Myself.

Look, I know this is supposed to be a blog about just whatever. Today I want to shed a little light on myself. Not all about me, but what's been going on through my mind. My mom.
     My mom is completly sensitive. Shes so sensitive that you can say what you really want to say because it would crush her. Right now she is on a custody battle for my brother. She has kinda had a rollar coaster of emotions. Losing my brother and when he is at our house, he is bored so she feels like she is the boring one and dad is the fun one.....which is kinda true.
     A while back she was suicidal and had to be in a hospital for it. Ever since then I have been terrified that if I ever hurt her feelings, she will think about ending her life again.
   Its like I can't ever be mad at her because she will go overboard.
    Right now, we had a fight. Sorta. She talked to me and acting like it was my fault when it wasn't. I got mad and when I left my house to go to my sisters, she was apparently crying.
   I'm worried. I really am. My brother went to a friends so what if she might think about killing herself again. She's at home by herself.
     I don't feel bad. At all. Not in the least. I am a person. I am aloud to get mad. I am aloud to not want to fix everything right after it happens. This just isn't fair. Why do I have to have the overly sensitive mom.
  If she wasn't sensitive, I'd tell her everything bothering me. I'd tell her that she's lazy. All she does is sleep and play on the computer. I'd tell her she is a terrible mom.
    Sure she gives us love and all that but she doesnt cook. And she works and when she gets home, she either sleeps or plays on the computer. And she doesnt have a discipline bone in her body. When we get in trouble, she yells and then that's it. No grounding and no punishment.
    If she has a punishment, she doesn't stay to it. She will just cut it short. Or whatever.
  She seriously makes me mad. I don't know what to do! I wish someone actually read this to give me some advice. :/

-troubled sarah