Food Tag!

Holly tagged me with this food meme.
Here's the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 food facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them)
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

1. I only eat my food one thing at a time. I don't mix my foods and I usually save my favorite food for last to eat.

2. I don't like to cook. I don't enjoy it at all. I don't like to spend my money on food, I don't like to mess up my kitchen with dirty dishes, and I don't like to put effort into something that no one likes anyways.

3. I need my mom's magic food wand. You know, the one where you look in the cupboards and they are a bare and then 30 minutes later the table is filled with something yummy, healthy and completely homemade.

4. Could someone please tell me where I could buy Willy Wonka's gum that has all the meals in it. That would simplify my life and my kids would be sure to eat it!

5. I like cold cereal for breakfast, lunch is a weird meal for me cuz I never know what to fix, and then dinner is our main meal, except I don't like to cook all the side dishes that go with the main dish because remember, I have lots of excuses. I don't like to cook, mix my foods, do dishes or waste money on food. So we'll sit down to the table and I'll be all proud of my one pan of food and Hubby will say, "Is this it? Where's the bread, the vegetables or the salad?" Ummmm, on someone else's table? On Sunday I was home with sick kids though so I made Holly's yummy meatballs and gravy with real mashed potatoes, a jello and I even put banana's in it, corn and I made brownies from a box. My family was so shocked and happy, I may be able to stay home from church every week now and I may be able to get away with lame meals for a few days this week!

I really was not born to be Holly Homemaker! {Sorry Holly Homemaker, maybe you can teach me.}

Okay, now I tag everyone who ate today! Tell me 5 food facts about you!

Cindy tagged me a while ago. I'm a little slow in getting this one done!

ABC's of me:
A- Attached or single: Definitely attached
B- Best Friend: Hubby! I've never been too good at having close friends.
C-Cake or Pie: Depends. I don't like Cherry or Apple Pie at all. My favorite part of the cake is the ice cream and cream cheese frosting minus the cake.
D- Day of Choice: I like Thursday! It means we are past Wednesday and almost to Friday!
E- Essential Item: My All Natural Chapstick! And my computer!
F- Favorite Color: Yellow-It makes me happy, Red or White-my favorite colors to wear, and Black is my current fad color.
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Red Swedish Fish! Actually gummi foods hurt my teeth.
H- Hometown: Rupert
I- Indulgence(s): Sleeping!
J- January or July: July! I love picnics and watermelon and parades and fireworks and family reunions and camping and no school!
K- Kids: Zachary-12, Jusytn-10, Shaelynne-8, Alexys-6, Kathryn-3 and Henry-1!
L- Life is incomplete without: True Love and Good Friendships
M- Marriage Date: September 24, 1994
N- Number of Siblings: 10; 7 girls and 3 boys and I'm #1! (Ha! Ha!)
O- Oranges or Apples: Niether really, Apples only if they are peeled, Oranges only if they are juicy and sweet! I love fresh ripe peaches and pears and WATERMELON!!!
P- Phobias or Fears: Buttons! YUCK!
Q- Quotes(s: I love anything that speaks directly to me. Some of my current favorites are on my sidebar.
R- Reason To Smile: My husband and my kids. Other people's naughty kids, and my SIL Julie.
S- Season: I honestly love each of the seasons. I love Spring because of the newness of life in color and sound. I love Summer because it's a time for being outdoors. I love Fall because of the smells and colors of harvest and I love Winter because of the holiday seasons and the idea of peace on earth under a blanket of snow.
T- Tag: EVERYONE! Anyone who wants to play!
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I ran into a glass panel at college going a hundred miles an hour (close anyways) I missed the door. My face print was permanent in the glass and my one front tooth is now fake.
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: Ummm...I like meat more than vegetables? This one sounds so MEAN!
W- Worst Habit: Just one? Okay, I talk too much. AND I either overthink things or forget to think about things all together.
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: What kind of answer does this one want? I don't remember ever having an x-ray and I have only had ultrasounds when I was pregnant so I guess ultrasounds. I love seeing my babies for the first time.
Y- Your Favorite Food: I love pasta!
Z: Zodiac: Virgo

Now it's your turn!

Gifts full of love

S likes to give gifts to people. Because she doesn't have the money to buy things, she makes things. She has made little things, that we have no idea what they are, out of whatever scraps she can find around the house. She always writes letters and cards to us. She has a bead kit and she makes jewelry for her friends all the time. For Valentine's Day she decorated my house in signs that she had made and covered them with suckers and other random things she could find. She made homemade Valentine Cards for every one and hung them around the kitchen as decorations. She had recieved a package of Necca candy from a friend at school so she divided it up and included them in her little cards she had made. She gives everything she can to everyone. A is starting to get old enough that she wants to give things also. It's fun for S to have a partner in her gift giving.

So for H's birthday yesterday, the two of them disappeared after school to try to come up with an idea that they could give to him for his birthday. They came to me with a couple of ideas that we scratched due to not appropriate for a baby or lack of time or supplies. Finally, they came up with the perfect gift. Unfortunately, the older boys are clueless and tactless about these little homemade gifts, Hubby tries to appreciate them but most of the time he's clueless also, and K and H are just too little to get it yet. So for now, they are just entertaining for me. And I love it!

So, here's my girls, giving their little homemade gift of love to their baby brother on his 1st birthday.



These are the moments that are truely priceless to me!

Out-Smarted

Yesterday, I had some time to kill so I decided to browse Target. Not the best idea since I can never get out of there without buying something.

Last summer I tried to be smart and buy swimsuits on sale. By the time they went on sale, there was absolutely nothing left to choose from except a couple of really ugly two-piece suits. Not worth the stress, so this year I bought early and not on sale but one- piece and very cute. When we got home, I realized I had bought K a 2T. I figured it would fit okay but I wanted to take it back for a 3T and maybe get more use out of it. The other girls were trying on their new suits and K asked if she could try on hers. I told her she could but not to take the tags off because we were going to return it for a bigger size. She said that she didn't want to take this suit back. This was the one that she wanted.

A few minutes later I found her suit in a wad on the bathroom floor. I asked her to come and pick it up and put it back in the bag so we could return it in a few minutes. She said "Nope. I'm keeping this one. See. I pooped in it."

WHAT?

Sure enough! We will be keeping the 2T!

One Year Later....

Today my baby turns 1....

American Idol-David Archuleta

Even if you're not an American Idol fan, this kid is very good and he's very likeable. He's got my vote this week!

Geek Mom 101

Okay, so let me start off with, not only was my lunch idea bright but in my opinion it was simply brilliant.

My kids are in a charter school and they do not have a cafeteria so there is no hot lunch program available. That means sack lunches everyday. When the weather is good they eat outside on the lawn and when the weather is bad they eat in their classrooms while the grounds teacher reads to them. Since there is only one class per grade and only 250 kids total in the school, the kids are all very close friends and they spend alot of time together. I have 3 in this school. My kids want go-gurts, Capri sun drinks, fruit cups, fruit roll-ups, and IF I was really cool I would let them take lunchables. Sadly, I'm not so cool but I have tried to buy some of these things when they are on sale. The problem I am running into is, if I don't pack them what they want, they either don't eat, they barter the unwanted stuff for more desirable, less healthy foods like Twinkies or donuts, or their friends will just bring extra goodies to share because they feel sorry for my kids pathetic lunches. Very nice friends, but not okay with me. Each week I end up spending a ridiculous amount of money on their cold lunches. I would really prefer they just take last nights left overs but that would be really damaging for their fragile self-esteems.

So, this last weekend when I went shopping, much to the panic and dismay of my poor starving children, I bought some small containers and small refillable juice boxes at Target and then bought bulk yogurt, canned fruit (lots of different kinds even), pudding, and jello so they can fill the little containers with whatever they want. I bought lots of cans of 100% concentrated juice so they can make a pitcher at night and fill up their little bottles with good juice not sugary punch, and Hubby has been drying some jerky and fruit for them as well to put in their lunches.

Honestly, nothing bright in this idea at all. And I'm sure that any of you would or are doing the same things with your children's cold lunches. I didn't mean to leave you all in suspense. It was the reaction from the kids at school that struck me as funny. Because I'm trying things that are more home made, I'm thought of as the "weird" mom. My poor kids. (I wonder what other bright ideas I have had that have been the topic of discussion among the lunch buddies.)

Each day when the kids get home from school the first thing they tell me about is how their lunches went over with the other kids and what things are totally not cool to do again. The thing that makes them the happiest is when they don't stand out from the other kids. They just want to blend in. I had no idea cold lunch would be such a social event. I thought my idea was sort of like the real deal. It could be worse. I could make them eat really healthy embarrassing stuff.

So, since we are on this subject, what things do you put in your children's cold lunches. We are half way through the school year and our lunches are starting to become boring.