Mealtime Mayhem!

I don't know how it is at your house, but it is getting to the hour of the day that I dread. Dinnertime! So I am avoiding it by blogging. :) Usually we have a dinner menu planned out for the week. We do ask for the kid's input, but then we have to tell them that we can't just eat pizza and hotdogs. So I'll look at the menu to see what's for dinner and most nights I cringe, knowing we'll have a fight on our hands.

(On a side note, Brandon just walked in the room and said, "What do you want to do for dinner?" On the list for dinner tonight, chicken salads. Brandon just said "I didn't buy salad. It wasn't on the grocery list. I said "Are you sure? I thought I put it on the list." He goes to look at the list. Second item: Salad! While he is at the store buying salad, I'll finish my blog...)

I don't know why it is so hard for children to like dinner foods. For example, the other day I set a plate of food in front of Anna. She looked at it and asked if we were having anything else. I said no, this is the food we are having. She proceeded to burst out into TEARS! I really couldn't believe it. I stood there for a second, dumbfounded. This was a new one. I had heard all of the complaints, gagging, moaning over eating the disgusting foods I serve them, but I had never had just plain tears before. Evan, on the other hand, doesn't complain about his food. He rearranges it on his plate, so that we will think he has eaten some. Or he will try to make something so amazing out of it that we will just be so proud of him that we won't try to make him take a bite.











(Brandon just called, "What kind of salad do you want?" "What kind? I don't care, Salad" "Well, they have double carrots, would that be good with chicken in it?" I think about it. "If that's on sale, buy it.")

So as my time runs short and my kids get hungry, I would like to take a survey. On the sidebar over to the right there is a poll. I want to find out if I am the only one in the world, kicking and screaming my way through dinner every night. Or am I one of the average mothers, just doing her best to force healthy, good food into her children.
Ah, just in time. Brandon's home. Time for dinner.

Frog Blog 3

So here I am with my third entry and it too is about our tadpoles. But this will be the last entry about them, except for thier upcoming release. The kids and I have really enjoyed watching these big black blobs turn into something different! So I created a little slideshow to show you the latest. I aslo was told by two people today that I need to allow comments, so I figured out how to do it. I guess I accidentally turned them off. Also, if I add you as a friend and you don't want to be, please let me know and I'll take you off. -P-

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Frog Blog 2

Not every entry will be about the tadpoles. But this is just so neat that I had to add a picture of them now. Three of them now have their arms, too! Wow, this is so cool! -P-

Frog Blog

So, I have given in to peer pressure and decided to start a blog. I've tried before without success, but Brandon is out on a bike ride with all of the kids, so no one will accidentally turn the computer off this time! I've always thought that you had to be a pretty interesting person to be a blogger, but searching the web for examples, I have found you do not. So my first blog will be about our summer science experiment.

We went out to our family's cabin the first weekend in August. My sister and her family were with us, along with my mom and dad. We had such fun together. The kids especially enjoyed catching tadpoles! Then one little comment from my mom, "Why don't you take some home." Kristine and David (sis and BIL) have a pond in there backyard for the little guys to grow up in, so it'd be fine for them. But the cousins couldn't take some home without us keeping some as well. So into soda bottles the little buggers went for the long car ride home. Luckily we had a 10 gallon tank in the backyard used to kill...I mean, house bugs we found in the backyard. So I quickly emptied the poor dead bugs out into the garden and filled the tank with rocks and water, preparing the graves for these poor little tadpoles. We poured the tadpoles into the tank and said goodnight, praying one of the 35 would survive. The next morning the kids rushed out to see them and against all odds, none were dead. So I researched what they ate, started feeding them frozen lettuce and only one has died. The other night we were about to give them a new piece of lettuce when we notticed some of them had grown legs!

I have to admit that I was just as excited as the kids to see this. We have enjoyed feeding the tadpole their lettuce and fish food and can't wait to see what happens next. We're raising tadpoles! Am I the coolest mom or what? Don't answer that!
-Pam-