You never know what they will say!

A fellow "mommie" shared this story about her 5 year old son. I got a good chuckle!

On Tuesday night my son spent the night at my moms. We'll my mom spent a while on the phone with her mother, my grandma, talking about a serial killer. This morning, He was eating his Cocoa Pebbles and told my mom she needed to hide the cereal, she asked him why and he said "So the serial killer doesn't get it!".

The Purple Cow

We made an afternoon trip up to Ridgeway, VA to have some pizza and ice cream at The Purple Cow. Of course we had to wander around the zoo to feed the animals.

When is it OK...

for kids to run around naked?
I have read a few things on this subject in the past couple of weeks from a variety of sources. The most recent is this one:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31939730/ns/today-the_new_york_times/

The little domestic goddess

helped make deviled eggs and brownies today. She absolutely loves to help in the kitchen. The first thing she always says is, "I'll get the eggs!" no matter what we are making. She loves to crack eggs. Today she had fun peeling the hard boiled eggs. I had to fight her from eating them. She likes hard boiled, deviled, egg salad, scrambled...you name it. She likes eggs.

Going to see Makaela

My friend's daughter is moving to Virgina to live with her day for her Senior year of High School. This has brought much grief for my friend, my daughter, and myself. We are going to miss her so much! For 3 days all I have heard is I want to go see Makaela before she leaves. She is moving far, far away and I won't get to see her for a long time. Well, we finally get there today with the going away basket that Cerdwin had packed with some goodies for Makaela. It was like pulling teeth to get her to take pics or even give Makaela a hug. We are going to miss Makaela so much, but we hope she does well with her move.

Twist on one of the Kraft recipes

The recipe was for south-of-the-border chicken and pasta skillet. I didn't have any chicken thawed, but had some ground beef. So this is how it goes:

2 cups medium-size pasta, uncooked
1 lb. ground beef browned
2 cups salsa
12 oz. canned corn
4 oz. (1⁄2 of 8-oz. pkg.) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, cubed
1 cup Kraft Mexican Style Finely Shredded Four Cheese, divided

Cook pasta as directed on package.
meanwhile, brown ground beef in large nonstick skillet.
Add salsa, corn, cream cheese; simmer on medium-low heat 6 min. or until corn is heated through and cream cheese is melted, stirring ocasionally.
Drain pasta; add to skillet with half the shredded cheese. Simmer 3 min. or until heated through. Top with remaining shredded cheese; cover. Remove from heat; let stand 5 min. or until cheese is melted.

The original recipe called for 1/4 tsp. of ground cumin. I am not found of that spice, so I omitted it. Also I didn't have any frozen corn so I used canned.

This was absolutely awesome!!!!!

Bee Sting

AAAGGGHHH! I was stung by a red wasp yesterday as I was getting mail from the mailbox. That thing nailed me but good! My hand is still extremely swollen and the itch has set in. I think that is the first time I have ever been stung by a wasp that was alive. I have stepped on a few dead ones. The pain has subsided some, but it hurt so bad all day yesterday that it felt like it was broken. The pharmacist at CVS told me to just take some Benadryl and put ice on it. There must be a better solution!

Mommy how do you...

get a penny out of someone's tummy? That is our question of the morning!
Why? Did you swallow a penny?
No.
Then why did you ask that question?
I did swallow a penny.
When?
While you were sleeping.
I don't know how you get a penny out of your tummy.
Well, think about it!

OK...she is breathing ok and we are going to get something drink and eat to be sure she can swallow with no problems. If that goes well, I think I will hold off on calling the doctor's office. I know they would probably just send us for X-rays to determine where the penny is and just wait for it to pass.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Cerdwin and I saw Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs on Friday afternoon with Grandma and cousin Cameron. The Grand Theatre - University Parkway in Winston-Salem is a great theatre for the kids. We loved the movie and of course Cerdwin had to have popcorn and Care Bear Gummies!

Big Bang Boom Party Band

We had a blast hanging out with some DanRiverMommies and their kids at the Walkertown Library to see Big Bang Boom's free concert. Nothing like seeing a bunch of toddlers - 2nd graders jamming out in the mosh pit!
The AC wasn't working in the library so they provided ice pops for the kiddos.

About Big Bang Boom Band:
Big Bang Boom is a pop/rock music group from Greensboro. After 20 years touring clubs and playing parties, Chuck Folds (younger brother of Ben Folds) and Steve Willard decided to expand their horizons and play for parents who have had enough of Barney, The Wiggles, and Kidz Bop. They have since been joined by drummer Eddie Walker. Big Bang Boom is kids music with a pop sensibility, really aimed more at being something that parents enjoy and feel good about letting thier kids listen to....DON'T PASS THIS OVER JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE KIDS!!!

Big Bang Boom is also designed to give parents an alternative birthday party option. There is some good quality children’s music being recorded these days. You can catch it on any kid-friendly TV stations, but you can rarely see it live, and now you can.

Big Bang Boom plays some children’s favorites as well as their own original songs for kids. So check ‘em out, bring your young rockers to a show- or have them perform at any event where kids are ready to be kids!

Chuck Folds currently plays bass in Rubberband (http://www.myspace.com/rubberbandentertainment), a popular east coast private party band. Steve Williard plays guitar and sings with Rubberband, and when he isn’t playing other people’s music he writes his own style of rock n’ pop. If you are interesting in hearing any of that, check out Chuck Folds Five (http://www.myspace.com/chuckfoldsfive).

First family trip to the drive-in

We decided at the last minute to go see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at Bright Leaf Drive-In in Mt. Airy. Awesome sound & visual effects. It was so cool sitting in the back of the van with the surround sound.

UP was the 2nd feature. It was a really cute movie. Probably even better in 3-D.

This was the first time either Jason or I had been to the drive-in in 30+ years. Cerdwin's first trip and she was like a worm on hot coals. We took her lawn chair, but not one for either of us. We weren't exactly comfy sitting in the back of the van but it was OK. Next time we will take some chairs. We turned the van around and sat up front to watch UP.

It was a really late night/early morning. We didn't get home until about 3am. Jason & Cerdwin are both still snoozing at 12:15. We had a fun night though!

Eye Exam Today

Going for an eye exam this morning. Past time for some new contacts. I am so tired of wearing my glasses all the time.

How to not pay full price on a new video game

Advice from another mommy...I haven't tried this yet.

Most video game stores also sell used video games. How do they get these games? Trade ins that gamers bring in towards newer games.

DH is a HUGE gamer, and we have a $$ saving system.
This is what we do...
I find game lots on ebay, if I think the lot is cheap enough..I have DH research the trade in values of each game. If the lot (plus shipping to me) is worth it, we bid. If we win, we keep the games we want then use the other ones toward games coming out.

Also if we run across video games at yard/garage sales, we do a quick evaluation of those games and if they are no more than $5 a piece we buy the games. Then use for trade in credits.

We know for a fact that almost ANY sports games does not have more than a dollar trade in value. So we tend to avoid buying those. Also, only trade in games for newer systems. Ie: xbox360, PS3, Wiis, Nintendo DS and PSPs. DH says they still have some PS2 games with value. Not so much for the original xbox.

DH also tries for the pre-orders to get the give aways that come with the games. We then sell them on ebay as they become collectors items.

We do not normally buy pre-owned games unless they are less than $10 a piece and there is a sale of some kind like Buy 2 get 1 Free. We also would rather bid low on ebay for pre-owned. People tend to beat a game in a day or get stuck with a game they did not like after all and sell on auction sites in hopes to recover some of their losses as trade in value is too low. New games cannot be returned for full price once opened.

Hope this helps you and Happy gaming!