The Day The Kid Stopped Breathing In My Primary Class

I enjoy writing and I enjoy my sister in law. She moved away and its one of those things where you don't realize what you had in a friendship until its gone.

But it is fun to have this blog together even though its only us who reads it for now. One day surely we will be famous public speakers together who tag team marvelously on stage and make billions of dollars from our witty repartee.

Since we can write about anything we want in this blog together my first post on this blog will be about what happened today in my primary class. If Jami and I would have had Sunday dinner together tonight I would have told her and her family this story.

It's a big exciting story so hold on to your butts.

Today at church the primary kids had all just gotten a basic disc shaped piece of hard candy from the music leader as they left sharing time to go to class. Of course we thought nothing of it until one of the little boys sitting next to me (I was on discipline duty this week sitting in the half circle with the kids trying to keep them quiet and respectful for my team teacher to teach) started to choke on it.

I wasn't sure at first if he was choking, but when his eyes started to bug out and he began to look more panicked and more scared I was definitely (well 70%) sure he was choking. I pulled the trashcan over to us and was in mental super slow mode as I'm watching the poor boy struggle and not know what to do. Of course the Heimlich maneuver scenes from movies and television are all playing in my head in pieces as I pat the boy on the back and encourage him to "get it out" (seems like dumb advice now, because of course that is what he was trying to do already but that's what I said).

Even though it was just seconds passing that he was choking on my watch it seemed like hours and it seemed like my best recourse would be to run screaming for "HEEEELLLLLP" through the halls of the church. I turned to my team teacher and said, "JoAn I think he's choking, do you think he's choking??!?" She thank heavens knew better how to get it out and did some fancy moves and SPITUU-EE he got the lodged candy into the garbage can.

Since JoAn had just finished saving our students life I figured it was only fair if I helped him cleanup his face by donating some of my baby wipes to the cause. A trip to the bathroom later and the kid was good as new!

A good learning experience for me. Telling the story to several CPR certified members of my family I now know how to more helpfully deal with the same situation should it ever occur again.

I'm grateful for a cool headed team teacher. I'm grateful that I didn't end up running through the halls of church screaming HEEEELLLP!!!!! I'm grateful for angels who sit in CTR 5 primary classes and help teachers dislodge candy so no one has any serious trouble in class.

I have included a very handsome picture of my sons in their church jackets from today because I have no video footage of the actual choking incident (thank heavens because I'm sure it would have been me running in circles in the background screaming "is he choking do you think he's choking?" while JoAn saved the town).

Congratulations you've reached the end of my story,
Kamarah

 

Secret Family Recipe

My husband is a very relaxed, go with the flow kind of guy.  Whatever I make, he'll eat.  He's very laid back which is what I need. Every once in a while he'll pick something he wants. This weekend, he picked Texas Sheet Cake. When he was growing up when they had birthday's him and his seven brothers would always ask Grandma Bushman to make Texas Sheet Cake.  She was the queen of Texas Sheet Cake.  Nobody to this day can make Grandmas Sheet Cake.  But I attempt it and something is always wrong.  But its still edible.  I think he secretly wants something to go wrong so that it is the one thing his Grandma still has for herself.  Any who, this time around, something went wrong with the frosting.  I don't think I cooked it long enough.  So make sure you cook it enough.


Texas Sheet Cake
2 Cups Sugar
2 Cups Four
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Water
2 Cubes Margarine
4 Tbls Cocoa
1/2 cup Sour Cream
2 Eggs
1 tsp Baking Soda

Preheat oven to 375. Boil water, margarine and cocoa.  Add sugar, flour and salt. Mix well.  Add sour cream, eggs and baking soda. Mix until well combined. Pour into a greased and floured (or sprayed) cookie sheet.  Bake for 20-25 minutes.* Until a toothpick comes out clean.--Immediately frost.

***Don't over bake or you'll have a dry cake.  Mine baked for just shy of 20 minutes.

While cake is baking, mix the frosting so it's ready when the cake comes out.

Frosting
2 Cubes Margarine
6 Tbls Evaporated milk
4 Tbls Cocoa
1 box powder sugar (about 4 cups)
1 Cup Chopped Pecans
1 tsp vanilla

Boil margarine, milk and cocoa for 1 minute.  Add sugar, nuts and vanilla.  Pour/spread on warm cake.
Like I said before, make sure you boil on a full rolling boil for one minute.

So yummy.  I love this cake and I love even more the significance it has to the hubs.  Maybe one day I'll perfect it like Grandma.

The Best Book!!

So, I'm in a book group. I know, cliché.  Who has time to read?!  When it comes to my book group the better question is: Who has time for anything else?  I get so lost in my books that the house is neglected, the children are barely hanging on and dinner is almost all but forgotten.  It's a real sore spot with my husband-me and my books.  My all time favorite book came from a book group.  Its a funny story actually. Each month a different member of the group picks the book.  One month, one of the ladies picked a book and by page three I was having to put it down.  It was, in three pages, filled with outrageous swear words and lesbian love scenes.  Needless to say, she ended up changing her pick for that month.  The next time it was her turn we were all a bit nervous.  The book she picked turned out to be AHH-MAZING.  The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.  By far my favorite book.  I'm not great with reviews so I'm cutting and pasting from a different website.

Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.

(www.goodreads.com/book/show/3407877)

This is not a book that you can go back and read your favorite part.  There are too many plots and characters that are being followed all at once.  There are twists and turns and it is just so good!! Definitely read this book!!

New Blog Intro

This Blog is about being creative.   I love cooking, and baking and reading and my family.  I have six kids, but I am very much NOT.  I need a creative outlet.  I have ideas in my head and desires to create things, But I just don't know how to go about it.  My sister in law(who is my partner in crime for this blog) brought to my attention that the Kitchen is my canvas.  I spend a lot of my time in the kitchen making dinner or treats.  I love to pretend I'm a pioneer and make homemade things.  Like bagels, pita bread and tortillas.
This Blog is a mixture of all things.  From favorite reads, to favorite recipes, to anything else that we feel would be fun. My main hope for this blog is that you all aren't bored. I'm not eloquent  in my words, I like to think I'm funny in real life, but I don't project that well in words.