MammyKat's comments

Hey Moms... What's On Your Christmas Wish List? - Blog Entry

12 Dec 2008 04:02 PM

Michele, so far utter bedlam is on our list. Aaarrgghh! Run the kids around to school, sports, activities, Laundry. Xmas shopping. Mom, are we decorating the tree? Are we getting a tree? What about lights, Mom, when are you gonna put them up? Where's the Charlie Brown dvd? Mom, Jimmy at lunch said "sex." Go to work. Meals. Laundry. Lunches. Snacks. Laundry. Homework. Clean the house (ha! Yeah, sure!). The toilet is stopped up.

Repeat all of the above.

Aaarrgh!

thanks for your tolerance, had to vent!

Thanksgiving Recipes: Soda Pop Turkey - Blog Entry

20 Nov 2008 03:00 PM

That looks totally cool - I have never heard of this! But it does sound like something the kids will eat once they know the name.

Me, I am a vegetarian for about one month cause I need to drop about 20 pounds, down 7 so far. I became veggie to lose the weight as I love steaks and burgers. I will however eat turkey on Thanksgiving - not as much explaining to do.

Anyway back to Thanksgiving, last year our own and three other families cooked 3 turkeys - one conventional in the oven, one in a deep fryer and one on a rotisserie (mine). I am biased but the rotisserie one was great! Put lots of rosemary sprigs and other herbs into cheesecloth and put inside turkey. On outside of Turkey rub honey and olive oil, then more herbs which will stick, then light and do rotisserie if you have one over the bbq for about 90 to 120 minutes - this will depend on how hot the flame, how close to the flame, etc. We did get a rotisserie a coupla years back and well worth it.

So anyway thanks for the soda-pop turkey recipe we will try it.

Charity and the Preschooler - Blog Entry

07 Oct 2008 03:48 PM

Well written. In regards to this, we are following something my sister used to do. What my sister did when the kids are old enough to understand is for a few years, after Thanksgiving, when holiday fever has taken hold, is, [1] she got a couple of their old toys, [2] she gave them some work to do around the house for which she paid them, [3] went to a store and had them purchase Hot Wheels or a game from that store, then [4] drove to low-income neighborhoods to show her children that there are kids out there with no toys or very few toys; then [5] they went to a charity drop-off and donated the toys. Sorta time-consuming, but seems to make an impression.

Halloween Candy-Yours, Mine, Ours - Blog Entry

07 Oct 2008 03:32 PM

Well at first as newer parents, let them have a few, said we'd monitor them and have them put the rest away in a place we knew about. But then we would find stashes of candy around the house like squirrels were living there, and we knew that method didn't work. So we put the candy in bags with their names on them and stash them ourselves and use them as dessert for the next week or two or until the kids are tired of the candy. We also have a "share with your sibling and parents" policy and now it is voluntary.

Insect Repellent and Young Children - Blog Entry

07 Oct 2008 03:05 PM

Thanks for this info, good tips, there.

Five Little Grocery Shopping Tricks: Hide and Seek - Blog Entry

07 Oct 2008 03:01 PM

I have heard, and it makes sense, that if you stick to the outer perimeter of the grocery store you'll get the healthiest and freshest food - eggs, produce, dairy, cheese; whereas the processed, junk and boxed food is in the middle aisles. So we try to stick to that idea if we can. Local farmers markets is a good idea too, and people there seem to be smiling a lot.

Halloween and Young Children: Trick or Treat? - Blog Entry

26 Sep 2008 02:03 PM

The child's mind - always a beautiful mystery. Oldest used to cry when someone sang "Rockaby Baby," we don't know why. For Halloween we like funny costumes like crayons, dogs or silly pirates. Once we did hilarious costume of a princess with clown shoes on. Anyway, the youngest kids get scared over Halloween noises and some of the creepier costumes that are very graphic. They get the shivers over black and white movies on tv - for some reason anything on the tube in B&W they relate to scary movies, so we have trouble getting them to watch even 'Casablanca' or the beginning of the Wizard of Oz! Gotta go.