Sweet babies and the addiction of the tots

Y'all, look at these babies. These two have the sweetest temperaments, baby Oliver and Lacey. All the kitties adore Lacey and her calm, even temperament. I noticed that when Oliver got in the bed with her, she gave him two kisses/licks on top of his head. I've seen her do the same with Georgie and baby Oscar, two of our other kitties. You won't find a nicer dog or kitty than these two. They're the best of everything, all rolled up in fur jammies. Also, see that bed they're on?? We won't EVER discuss what I paid for it, but just know that it's a brand from Europe (don't start on me, I think we all know that all of my money is spent on the four-leggeds), and it took a long time for Lacey to take to it. She likes her big couch in the living room best, but when she's in my home office, she loves this bed, too. FINALLY. It's the plushest dog bed I've ever seen. No wonder kitty loves it, too.

I'm craving Sonic tots (nothing new there), but it's 5:40 a.m. No worries, I have a bag of tots in my freezer, so I oven-fried them. I'll melt some pepper-jack cheese on them and top them with an over-easy fried egg, heavily salt and pepper all of it, and I'll have my tots. The key to making them taste like Sonic tots on at least some level (Sonic deep-fries their's, but I don't bother with that at home) is to bake them in the oven a tad longer than the package says. I kept them in three minutes longer to get them super browned up and a bit of extra crunch. By the time you add the pepper jack and the over-easy fried egg, that crunch will soften up a tad and it'll be just about right. Like I said, I do heavily salt and pepper this but you don't have to do that. If you have some on hand, pepper gravy drizzled over top of all of it is tasty, too. It's a big breakfast and will keep you filled up for quite a while!

I saw a recipe for a triple chocolate poke cake; it looks super easy. I'm thinking Easter?? Although for Easter, I love a big, fluffy, two-layer coconut cake. It's almost a crime to not have coconut cake at Easter. We'll see what I end up with, but I'm betting coconut will win again. 

That's it for today. Lots to do. Got some of the stuff yesterday for one of two home projects we are starting. I did a tiny splurge on the pulls for the large vanity that we are re-painting, but since we already had the paint for the vanity, I went ahead and got pulls that I knew I'd love for a long time. We are using the remaining Duck's Egg Blue paint that we used on our back door. Should be plenty, and I really don't want it to go to waste, since it was a special-mixed color and those cost a bit more. Here's the pull; it's ceramic and heavy-duty, so it should hold up for a long time. 

I'm going to go eat my super-charged tots now. If I can remember, I'll take a picture because food is life! Blessed Sunday to you, wherever you, whatever your plans.