Mystery Ingredients

I made banana muffins the other day. The kids love them. Rarely does a batch even last until the next morning.
C was happily munching away on one, when he found a lump of banana.
"Mommy," he says, "Is this a booger?"
Number 1: No
Number 2: Why are you still eating it?
Number 3: Gross

Best Playdough Recipe

Want to be the coolest mommy ever? Then do I have the stuff for you...homemade play-dough. Who knew?

Since we have entered monsoon season, its been a battle to think of new things to keep the boys entertained. I cancelled the cable a few weeks ago so we could 'spend more time outside and enjoy the summer'. (Guess how well that plan worked out?! Lol, its basically been raining ever since.) So, I decided to try my hand at some play-dough. We have the store bought stuff, but there's nothing quite like homemade. I found a fabulous recipe, and I thought I'd share. It was so much easier than I originally thought, and it only took about 5 minutes per batch. So far we've been using it for almost two weeks and its exactly as it was the day I made it...aside from the fact that C's ration went from 3 bright colors, to 1 muddy blob. Either way, it keeps them entertained for HOURS, which is great :)

Enjoy

You will need:

1 cup white flour

1/4 cup salt

2 Tbsp Cream of Tartar

1 Tbsp Oil

1 cup water

Method

Mix together all the ingredients and heat over medium low heat stirring constantly. After about 3-5 minutes the dough will come together to form a ball that looks something like this:

Mmmmm, looks yummy, no?

At this point, remove from the heat and knead the dough for another 3-5 minues. I've also seen versions thatsay to add the food coloring at the kneading stage, which I suppose would work well if you wanted a few different colors from the same batch.

And TAH DAH! You are officially cool. How cool you ask? So cool that, as K put it, "Other kids might say their Mom is the best, but no, YOU are the BESTEST MOM in the WHOLE WORLD."

Store it in an air tight container (I keep it in the fridge) and you are good to go!

Back to Blogspot

Exactly a year ago today I abandoned my blogspot blog to check out Wordpress. Well, I'm back to blogger. Wordpress is really limited in what you can do with the appearance of your site, and since I like to change the look quite often, I decided to go back to Blogger. Yay!!

All Aboard

Can you guess what our favorite thing is around our household? I keep waiting for that day to come when K decides that "trains are for babies". But so far that has not been the case. Thomas still reigns supreme here and K has passed that love along to his little brother.

"I'm a conductor" C proudly announced to me and James this morning. He then ran off to grab his Thomas hat and set up a train, complete with passengers cars and some mighty cute passengers.

I just love all this imaginative play!!