muffins, muffins everywhere

So today was a muffiny kind of day, and this is the most perfect, most easiest, most all day yummiest muffin recipe ever!

Morning Muffins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup fresh blueberries

Directions

1. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add milk, egg, and butter; mix until ingredients are moistened, do not over beat. Stir in fresh fruit. Spoon batter into twelve greased muffin cups.
2. Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for about 20 to 25 minutes, or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Serve warm.               

These muffins are so good, and such fast cooking you can make them on even a hot morning and the oven will be off before the sun really hits! And best of all any kind of berry works, we use blueberries (which theses are) raspberries, and blackberries, though I'm sure there are more that would be just fine, marionberries for example would be awesome...

This year's summer in the northwest seemed to take forever to come, it rained April, May, and July with single shiny days scattered about, but August has been our month to shine, it has been sunny and warm for weeks on end and I am actually happy to say today it's raining. Our yard needed a good natural bath and the birds that inhabit our big front yard tree seem to be having lots of fun. 

Finnley's shiner! Guess how she got that??? Iain and a baseball! I love it, how "Leave it to Beaver" is a baseball to the eye!

The lazy days of summer are so drifty, playtime starts early and ends late, and the times to eat all seem to run together. There is no mistaking the tan lines and extreme tiredness on the faces of my kids, and my extreme desire for them to sleep in every morning. My last 2 weeks with my husband home have been very speedy, racing by and making school loom large and near. This year is my 1st year with both children in school, Iain will be in pre-school 3 mornings a week, and Finn a full time 1st grader, all I keep thinking is "all this time what am I going to do???" Then I remember, oh, right the things i put off this summer, like painting the bathrooms, and my bedroom, oh, and those curtains I wanted to make. Oh, right and Finn wants to re-do her room too, the sewing the crocheting, the re-organizing, yep, my list is getting quite long. Hmm but summer is still here for 2 more weeks, I suppose the list can wait...