Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Muffins Recipe

For those of you who wanted the sweet potato muffin recipe: When I made them I was out of eggs so I used 1 Tablespoon flax seed meal with 3 Tablespoons water as a substitute. Happy baking! INGREDIENTS 1 sweet potato 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/4 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup honey 1 (6 ounce) container vanilla yogurt 1/2 cup oatmeal 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup almonds 1 teaspoon cinnamon DIRECTIONS Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 16 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners; set aside. Prick sweet potato several times with a fork and place onto a baking sheet. Bake the sweet potato in the preheated oven until easily pierced with a fork, about 40 minutes. When the potato is cool enough to handle, peel and mash. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, the 1 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Stir in the vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, honey, yogurt, and mashed sweet potato, just until all ingredients are moistened. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups. Blend together the oatmeal, brown sugar, almonds, and the remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a food processor or blender. Sprinkle topping over unbaked muffins. Bake muffins in the preheated oven until golden and the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 12 to 15 minutes.

Second Spring Break

Following the closing of Clara's school for flu prevention, we made a spontaneous trip to Kansas. It seemed like the right time since Damian was still on break (he started his third trimester today) and Mother's Day just around the corner. We played with cousins, friends, dogs and grandmas and grandpa. We (mostly me) shopped at Et Cetera Shop(I made a haul!) We discussed summer plans and ate together. Damian read for pleasure and drank coffee. We played at the park, walked the dog, played dress-up, and prepared a tea party with real tea.

Dinosaur Valley State Park

On Saturday we drove almost 2 hours to Dinosaur Valley State Park near Glen Rose, Texas. We had intended to go last weekend, but Clara was sick with a fever the entire weekend. We knew our time would likely be cut short with thunderstorms, but we went anyway. We spent the morning exploring the perfectly preserved dinosaur track sites. Mostly the tracks are preserved in rock in or along the river that runs through the park. Outside of the park entrance was Dinosaur Land where there were reconstructed life sized dinosaurs. We didn't go through that because of the cost and the fact that it had started to rain. But the kids picked out little souvenirs at the gift shop. Also, we chuckled at the "Creation Evidence Museum" that we passed on the way in. We wondered what was inside. Damian was very curious, but we didn't venture in. The dinosaur tracks were most definitely worth the trip. Clara was quite interested in it all. Ollie mostly enjoyed playing in the mud and water.