Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

It's muffin tin time!

I decided I needed to get rid of some fruit before it goes bad so it was a fruit snack day.
As I was getting some in the muffin cups, I realized it was looking a lot like a rainbow so I went with that. Zack was happy to have so much fruit at one time but he was even happier to realize it was like a rainbow.
We have Red grapes, Orange slices, Yellow bananas, Green kiwi, Blueberries, and strawberry yogurt with a drop of food coloring to make it violet.

Stop on over at Muffin Tin Mom to see what other moms are doing for their little ones. Since there is no theme for this week I am excited to see what ideas all the other moms come up with. There are some very creative moms out there in blog land.

I want a do over...

You know you are not having a good day when the dozen eggs you picked up at the store do not all make it home intact. You then have to clean off everything that was in the bag with those eggs.

You know you are not having a good day when you tell your precious little boy to stay out of the red dirt because he has on one of the few pair of pants that fit him, you turn around for less than a minute and he is covered in red dirt! For those of you who don't live near red dirt, once that stuff gets in your clothes they become rags because you can not get them clean!

You know you are not having a good day when you loosen the cap on your tea then decide to shake it up because there is sediment on the bottom!

You know you are not having a good day when you give your child a slice of cheese as a snack and you forgot to take that plastic off. You look down to see him struggling to take a bite.

I know it is too late to start the day over but is to early to ask the question "Is it bed time yet?"

Sneaky Little Leprechaun ~ Updated

This morning has been a little weird to say the least. Some time in the middle of the night a sneaky little Leprechaun snuck into our house and did some crazy things.

The first thing was noticed by Zack. There was a paper shamrock in the middle of his bedroom floor. There was another at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom of the stairs, then a few leading down the hall, into the kitchen, around the pantry, into the dining room and they stopped on Zacks chair at the dining room table. There was gold on that chair too. Can you believe the Leprechaun left gold wrapped chocolate sitting in a pile on Zacks chair? Yeah, I can not believe it either!
Shortly after opening said candy, Zack asked for a cup of milk. Much to the surprise of everyone, we noticed our milk was GREEN. What did that sneaky Leprechaun do? How did he turn our milk green?
I made pancakes and eggs this morning for breakfast and somehow they turned green too! Zack was loving it. When I opened up his yogurt it started turning green as I put the spoon in so of course we had to stir it up and see what would happen. Sure enough that turned green too!

I just do not know what this day is going to bring but I sure hope it is a lucky one.

Update: That sneaky little leprechaun did it again! When I took the wraps out of the refrigerator they were green. So we had green quesadillas for lunch. Zack was thrilled they were cut into the shape of shamrocks.


Oh and Zack helped me put the ingredients into the bread maker for our rolls at dinner time. We just knew they would be nice and white but somehow the dough turned green so I guess we will be having green rolls at dinner time to go along with our corned beef. I just don't know how much more of all this we are going to be able to deal with.

Happy Saint Patricks Day!

Muffin Tin Monday.

Today is Monday, that means Zack gets his muffin tin meal that he has been looking forward to. We talked about it a few days ago and he helped decide what green foods were going to put in his tin this week. Green or St. Patty's day is the theme of the week.


We opted for cucumbers, a green salad with a splash of cheese, green Goldfish crackers, kiwi, green apples (caramel sauce is hiding underneath) and m&ms. There is also a lime jello with pineapple and lemon-lime koolaid.

What you don't see if the dipping bowl of ketchup off to the side, no meal would be complete without it :( He has never has kiwi before but now I know he loves it.

If you like what you see, go on over here to check out what other moms are putting into their muffin tins.

I do plan on doing a lot of green food on Wednesday as well so I am glad there are tons of options for green foods.

Bad Mom

I have failed as a coach.

Kris and I are very competitive toward each other. When we are playing a game of anything we trash talk to each other. It is all done in fun.

While playing soccer with Zack the other day I jokingly said "you're going down." Yeah, it came back to haunt me yesterday while we were out back playing soccer again. He set the ball down and prepared himself to kick, he looked up at me and said "Mom, watch out cause you are going down!"

I know it is not good sportsmanship so I guess I need to watch what I say and teach him to be a good sport should he ever play on a team.

Bad Mom!

Note to self: Watch what you say to your son, no matter if you are clowning around or not.