I’m officially declaring a favorite villain: The Whammer from “WordGirl.” He’s totally wham. Yeah! (Also: If you aren’t watching “WordGirl,” you’re missing out.)
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Surrendering to the kids’ culinary wishes
Macaroni and cheese and fish sticks again? Sometimes I feel like we’d be doing just as well to go to McDonald’s every night for dinner. I haven’t talked all that much here about how frequently Rockford is away, but it’s often enough to make it difficult for me to get into the habit of making a real dinner. Poppy isn’t the world’s most adventurous eater (ha!), and it’s just too discouraging to make a meal for three that one person so vehemently won’t eat. Pete’s a good eater, but his five very enthusiastic bites just don’t make up for her meal-time crabbiness. So I make something I know they’ll both eat, and then after they’re in bed I have a tuna fish sandwich or a bowl of oatmeal. Because guess who doesn’t like fish sticks? That’s right: Me. (Unless they’re on a sandwich. Poppy’s food peculiarity has its obvious roots.)
(Note: I know this is a wrong and terrible way to look at things, but some days I am doing my best to hang in there. So. Mac & cheese and fish sticks it is.)
My, that was a downer of a menu-plan intro. I blame the weather. It’s the greyest of greys here today, and stormy to boot.
- Monday: Breakfast for dinner
- This will be eggs, veggie sausages and toast. It’s always a hit, which is why we have it at least one night most weeks.
- Tuesday: Macaroni & cheese
- I was going to make this from scratch, but then Target had the blue box on sale for 90 cents.
- Wednesday: Fish sticks
- We bought a giant bag of fish sticks a few weeks ago. I’m hoping we’re near the bottom of it.
- Thursday: Chicken-apple sausages
- I hope it stops raining by Thursday, because I want to grill these. We’ll have them with Alexia oven fries, which are delicious.
- Friday: Homemade pizza
- I finally made pizza dough for homemade pizzas last week, and they were quite lovely. The pizza dough recipe is here, and I can’t recommend it enough. It takes some time, but it is so easy. Last Friday’s pizzas were pretty standard-issue; I’m thinking I’ll do something different this week. Rockford and I both really like Thai chicken, and I’ve been toying with the idea of a banh mi pizza. I’m just not sure what to do for the sauce. The sauce I make for the sandwiches has mayo and Sriracha in it, but I don’t like the idea of mayo on a pizza. Any ideas?
Only two months behind on the 2010 scrapbook
I haven’t been writing much about scrapbooking lately. But then on Saturday night, I “met” Melanie on Twitter while we were both watching the Mizzou game. I clicked over to her blog and discovered that she’s a scrapbooker, too, and her (very cute) layouts inspired me to do a better job of sharing my own.
(If this is a little discombobulated: I apologize. I just woke up from a nap, and I’m still a little groggy.)
I’ve been leaning toward a more minimalistic style lately; I’m thinking about dropping the background paper altogether for next year’s album. Here’s my most-recent page:
The journaling reads “Poppy requested a ‘pigs in mud’ birthday cake.” See? Even the journaling is minimalistic.
Resources
I need to do a better job keeping track of where I get stuff. Here’s what I used for this page, though, with as much detail as I can remember.