the 'bread'

you either love it or you hate it...
not the bread itself, no one could actually hate this bread...
but the tradition of the bread is what you love or lothe...
or like me, I love the bread enough to tolerate the origins of it.
it's called Amish Friendship Bread
but I've had friends call it the 'Friend Hater Bread'

you know the stuff...
a friend gives you a weird
gooey,
goopy,
lumpy looking bag of 'starter'
along with a crinkled xeroxed paper
with directions like

surviving

here are some tips I  have for
...surviving the Horrible Nasty....

and by Horrible Nasty I mean the plague that my family had this week...

I remember a veteran mom at MOPS passing on some sick tips when the girl child was about a year old.
I had no idea how helpful one of those tips would be...
I'm sure I gleaned more than one piece of wisdom from her,
but there is one thing that I always hear in my head when the girl child gets sick
*Ponytail!
yep, that's been huge, if you  have a girl with hair that might fall in her face when she's throwing up, put her hair in a ponytail!

and now here are some tips that I have picked up over the years in the trenches!
      really, my kids are vomiters 
     (not a word, but I'm thinking it should be!), 
     I've served a few tours in the nasty trenches of bile 
     (yep, I just said that!)


1.  Ponytail or bobby-pins (I've used the bobby-pins for the boy child and his thick locks);  really one of the worst things is getting vomit in your hair.

pintrest Menu

January 2012=nacho's and breakfast for dinner...

yep...I know better...

   but I went into the month with no menu

....I made a menu...

tentatively ....

once...

in my head...

while in the grocery story ...

mid way thru the month...

yeah, that didn't work...

shocking, I know...

so, I'm doing my pintrest menu for February

(if you don't know about pintrest ask me and I'll help you...

if you need an invite to pintrest ask me and I'll invite you)

here is my 'yum' board in pintrest

and the recipes I'm putting on our menu for the next 2 weeks

PF Changs Chicken Lettuce Wraps