does it REALLY do that

we all love ideas that take not so simple tasks & makes them simple

come on that's why we're all drawn to infomercials...
and the junk products they sell

not only something that simplifies something,
but also does it for little or no cost!

so I'm starting a new series of posts called

...does it REALLY do that....

I know, I know such an original title!

anyways...now with pintrest fever hitting the world lots of new cooking/cleaning/gardening tips have gone viral without many people actually trying them...just pinning them...

so I'm going to start testing them...

my first test...

the shredded chicken test.

have you seen this on pintrest...or even just heard rumor that it's true?

that you can shred your cooked chicken with your kitchen aid (or other stand mixer)?

this is the thing...
they (not sure who they are) say that you can put cooked chicken breast into your kitchen aid...
turn it on...
and then within minutes had shredded chicken...
not chopped chicken like you get with a food processor...
not the claw-hand you get after hand shredding with 2 forks and your hands...
but like honest-to-goodness shredded chicken...

I heard it...
thought, "that's crazy amazing...it can't work!"
I pinned it...
thought, "that'd be crazy amazing IF it worked!"
...
and then YES, I tested it...

 one cook chicken breast in my kitchen aid with regular blade/paddle thingy

 dumped in a package of taco seasoning and onion soup mix
(side note...best seasoning combo E.V.E.R!)

 after 30 seconds...sorta chunky looking

 and at 1 minute...seriously 1 minute!!!  shredded chicken

BLOG Edit...this was on medium speed

it is CRAZY AMAZING!  

By Golly...YES it does!

have you heard any crazy time saving cooking/cleaning/gardening tip 

or pinned any

and you've said to yourself

let me know I may test it out for you!

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.

Them

I'm fighting a war...

a war against...

them

this is my life right now...

'kill one and two take it's place'

they've been found in the living room 

     we don't eat in the living room

the master bedroom 

     no eating there

the office 

     occasional eating there

the bathroom 

     the opposite of eating there

the dining room eat-in-kitchen floor and wall 

     yes we eat in there...

     and yes there was applesauce on the wall, no comment

the entry way 

     no eating

the hallway 

     no eating

the laundry room/garage/clothes hamper...icky...

     no eating

the linen closet 

     seriously...GIVE ME A BREAK!

this means WAR...

I'm armed with the best I could find

and I'm given' them all I got...

I really can't take much more of this...

I'm going to end up with PTSD....

every little tickle on my skin and I flinch

oh...and bonus...

home with a sick girl...

so ants and sick kid and rain equals one stir crazy mom!

silver lining...my linen closet got the clean-out-purge-organization it needed!

BLOG UPDATE:  so it is to be my lot in life...my cross to bear (or is it bare?)...that as long as we live in this house I will be battling a war with ants...but do not fear...Terro-liquid ant baits are the best...you might see some scout ants, place a Terro ant bait in their path...then the grosses-of-all-grossness happens and you will have hundreds...no thousands...maybe millions of ants...they will form a little army to take back as much Terro to their nest as possible...do not fear...do not spray them with Raid although it is so tempting...just hold up in your happy place rocking back and forth and wait...they are taking the bait back to their nest and it will kill them there!!