Oh wait, there are six little pumpkins. Drat, I should have used the witch chocolate instead! 😉 A crazy morning again. I need to either get more sleep so I wake up ready to go and stop dragging the first 30 minutes, or find some way to streamline the morning routine. Since sleeping isn’t always […]
Another Halloween bento today. Yesterdays was a big hit, although he only nibbled a little of the cucumber. PB & J Monster with cheese and grape eyes, crunching jicama skulls and bones, with a little jelly “blood”. Black and green grapes, pepperoni and pasta bats flitting around. Time taken: 20 minutes all this morning (jicama […]
Speaking of open ended art, I’ve been pretty frustrated at the complete lack of open endedness or ANY artisitc self expression at Kidlet’s school. At least in my son’s class. I’m not sure if that’s standard, or just his teacher. She’s been teaching 20 some odd years, but she taught second grade until last year.  […]
The theme for this week’s Open Ended Art project was simply “black and white”. Once again I wanted to go with the spirit of the challenge and provide only materials to him, without any specific project in mind, and without assisting or correcting in any way. He is old enough that it works.  When he was […]
Today is a late start day. You’d think since we didn’t have to show up until 10 instead of 8am that I would be less rushed. No such luck! Baby L was up really really early and I ended up lightly dozing (that’s not the best word for it, I’m fully aware of whats going […]
  This week’s food network chef cooking challenge features Brian Boitano. Yes, that Brian Boitano. I watched it once and thought the food he was cooking sounded repulsive (It was a bacon themed day, how he made bacon sound bad, I don’t know, but he did!). So it was with some apprehension that I browsed […]
I’ve been promising pictures of my obsession for a while. Picks and cutters are my worst offences. I have a fair amount of mayo cups and soy sauce bottles, mostly purchased before I actually started packing Kidlet meals. Once I realized how little use those would get for us right now, I stopped picking those […]
The shot on this one isn’t great. I took a couple others, but I’ve been having problems with my camera for a while. Either it ends up off center (even though it looked centered when I took it, even in the preview window thingy after it was taken), or else half the photo ends up […]
I think (hope) that this week will be a little bit calmer. It would almost have to be, wouldn’t it? ;) I’ve got a dentist appointment this morning (grr, I need a filling replaced), and Friday night is “Fall Fun Night”, but I haven’t committed to doing anything for that. the middle of the week […]
My week was beastly busy. I’m still not recovered and its Sunday night! Let’s just say that I didn’t stick well to plan last week and leave it at that. =0    Monday:  Quick Crescent Taco Bake, Black Beans & Corn Salad, Green Salad Tuesday: Coq Au Vin-Guine from Brian Boitano for the Food […]
