Random

~ Scooter is Hoot of the Week this week. This is where the selected child gets a whole week full of fun things for them. Today we were supposed to turn in a poster but have yet to make it, Tuesday he takes his favorite book to school and reads it to the class, Wednesday the whole class writes him letters, Thursday is a special show and tell day, and Friday is special treat day. He has requested that I make a Mario themed treat for his entire class. I think I will make cupcakes that are iced in red with white spots and green with white spots and make them look like mushrooms. I have a few other ideas in mind that I might do too. We shall see.

~ Well after a good long month we finally said good-bye to our celery plant. It looked great last week and then all of a sudden it started looking pitiful until it just died. Not real sure why but it was a super fun experiment. I have a few other experiments that I want to try out too, maybe on the next free day the kids are out of school.

~I am cheating a bit this week and allowing some premade, processed foods in our home. I am too overwhelmed to spend my days in the kitchen right now so goldfish, juice boxes, chips and lunch meat will be part of our meals / snacks this week.  I did spend Saturday in the kitchen making cinnamon rolls, bread, soup, ketchup, and pizza rolls.

~ BTW the recipe for homemade ketchup I had was super easy but tasted nothing like ketchup. I think I can tweak it a little and it taste better though. If it works out I will be super excited to have a sugar free (high fructose corn syrup free) ketchup as our base for BBQ sauce and simply for dipping.

~We have been eating like this for about a month now and we feel tons better. I ate fast food Friday and I really didn't think I was going to be able to finish it. It tasted horrible to me. Our taste pallate has changed and things taste saltier, sweeter and just plain "fake" now. I made pizza rolls for lunch on Saturday and to save time I used premade crescent rolls and premade pizza sauce. It was nowhere near as good as the ones I made with those ingredients being homemade. That was the eye opener for me. There really is a huge difference between premade processed food and true homemade "real foods".

~ Not much going on here, so not much to blog about. Tim was out of town all last week so I am trying to regroup from not having him around last week, to help out.