Early morning cranberry streusel muffins

This morning, like all the mornings for the last 3 or 4 weeks, started at 5:50 when S woke up.  Put a pacifier in his little mouth and went to bed until 6:20 when I finally had to get up because James had put O in our bed and she was touching me on the arm and face.  I don't like to be touched on the face when I'm trying to sleep!  Anyway, my children have decided that if they sleep until 6:30 they are sleeping in and missing out on some fun play time.  I, personally, don't think it's fun to play until about 10 but I can't convince them of this.  And today they wanted to eat breakfast at 6:35.  So by 7:15 I had changed two poopy diapers, ate breakfast, cleaned up, ran the dishwasher and had a load of wash going.  O then said, "Mommy, I'm sleepy."  I'm thinking "yeah, you woke up too early... again"  but just said "well, go lay down then."  And this is what I saw in the front room a few minutes later....

They look sleepy, don't they??

So I decided we were going to have to have a snack this morning and it was a good day to make cranberry streusel muffins.  Here's all the ingredients ready to go..

O stirring the streusel part

As O was stirring I looked over and S had stolen a piece of cranberry from the bowl!  He didn't look too guilty!

Thankfully I hadn't added the egg and milk before a cranberry was stolen!

O decided she needed some cranberries too but she was going to "drink" them.

O putting the papers in, S still eating...

All done!(yes, I put a kitchen towel behind them so you couldn't see my messy counter!)

Eating!  O keep calling the cupcake paper her "basket."

They were pretty good.  A little dry.  I should have left the whole cup of cranberry sauce in that I put in by accident instead of taking out 1/2 cup.  And I cooked them a little long... shorter than what the recipe said but my oven is doing strange things so I'll blame that. :)  If you want the recipe go here.

I'll try to post some pictures from this weekend soon.  We had a fun time in Wichita with family!