Posted in Mommy Adventures, WFMW, tagged kids on June 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The most effective boredom killer around here is that the ‘bore-eee’ automatically gets a job to do- sort of like a forced labor sentence in Siberian Russia (I just finished reading Gulag…which is a whole ‘nother post). I must have a sadistic streak, because I would actually get gleeful when a new daycare child would [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, WFMW, tagged cooking on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One thing that really works for me is to have some ‘Go To’ recipes, that I can turn to when time is short! For me, these are recipes that use pantry ingredients, go together quickly and are popular with my crew. I try to keep the ingredients for these recipes in my pantry/freezer at all [...]
Posted in Mommy Adventures, WFMW, tagged kids on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It would be much easier to shoo the kids out of the kitchen while I’m working in there. All the chores seem to take 15 minutes longer when I have ‘help.’ But if I did, I would miss out on some of the best times we have together. My oldest is my sous-chef, she helps [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, WFMW on May 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One word- couponing! When I read about all the lovely ladies who save oodles of the green stuff by CVS-ing, clipping coupons and doubling them and rake in regular cash with rebates….I think ‘God bless them!’ But I’m not one of them, and there’s a list of reasons why:
1. Too disorganized- I’ve bought the coupon [...]
