Not to be confused with THE big dance in high school, but one of the BIG dances...
My second child will be going to homecoming with his date this weekend. She will be wearing a black and white sundress so we went out and got DS a nice pair of black slacks, black button down shirt, and a tie that has her favorite color in it (ocean blue) and we will get a flower with blue accents for her wrist.
That is, I hope. You see, today, her mother said that she can not go on saturday. Two days from today, because she did not have her grades up. I completely understand the mothers choice, I just wish it wasn't going to possibly effect my family. eek!
I went on facebook and messaged the girl and asked her if she could turn in all her homework that was missing tomorrow, if she could still go on saturday. Her mother said yes, so she was working hard and said that it was all done as of a few minutes ago.
It all comes down to the wire. My son may go to his first official dance with a girl in just under 2 days time. He is getting so big!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Playboy for a teen girl birthday party?
I just finished reading a question from a mother about what others thought, and I wonder what you all think... here's the deal.
Girl is turning 16 years old and wants her theme to be "Playboy" and the cupcakes and cake are going to be the bunny head and the decorations are going to theme around the "playboy theme," do you find this as disturbing as I do, or am I just a prude?
Keep in mind, with 8 kids, I don't get called a "prude" very often.
I don't even really have to go into my thoughts on it, I'll let you banter with me in the comments.
Girl is turning 16 years old and wants her theme to be "Playboy" and the cupcakes and cake are going to be the bunny head and the decorations are going to theme around the "playboy theme," do you find this as disturbing as I do, or am I just a prude?
Keep in mind, with 8 kids, I don't get called a "prude" very often.
I don't even really have to go into my thoughts on it, I'll let you banter with me in the comments.
Breakfast
I did NOT come up with these, but they are too good to not pass on:
You can premake these and then enjoy whenever. :)
NOT" Kellogg's Nutrigrain Bars
Cereal type bars from Duncan Hines Bake Shop in a Box
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
3/4 cup butter
2 and 1/2 cups quick oats
12 ounces preserves or jam (any flavor)
1 T. water
Preheat oven to 375. Melt butter. Combine cake mix and oats in a large bowl; stir in the melted butter until the mixture is crumbly. Measure half of this mixture(about 3 cups) into a greased 13 x9x3 inch pan. Press firmly into pan to cover the bottom. Combine preserves and water; spoon over crumb mixture in pan, and spread evenly. Cover with remaining crumb mixture. Pat firmly to make top even. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes--top should be very light brown. Cool completely before cutting into
bars.
Banana Breakfast Bars
Recipe By : Cookbooks Online
Serving Size : 1
3/4 cup soft butter or margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas
4 cups uncooked regular or quick oats
1/2 cup dried currants -- raisins, prunes or
-- apricots
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Cream together in large bowl, butter and sugar until fluffy, using electric mixer. Add egg, salt, cinnamon and bananas. With spoon, stir in remaining ingredients. Spread smoothly in pan. Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely. Cut into 12 bars. Wrap individually, seal and freeze. Great way to use overripe bananas; makes a very nutritious "on the go" breakfast or snack.
Cheerios Breakfast Bars
Recipe By : Cheerios
Serving Size : 1
1/4 cup margarine
3 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup dry milk
1/4 cup orange-flavored instant breakfast drink
1 cup raisins
3 cups Cheerios®
Butter a 9x9x2" pan. Melt butter & marshmallows over low heat, stirring constantly. Stir in milk, breakfast drink, and peanut butter. Fold in raisins and cereal, stirring until coated. With buttered hands, pat evenly in pan. Cool and cut into squares.
Breakfast Bars1
Recipe By : Cookbooks Online
Serving Size : 1
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 cups cereal -- crushed
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup flour
Mix together and pat into cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cut while warm and spread cream cheese, when cool, on top and make sandwiches out of them.
Breakfast Fruit Bars
Recipe By : Austin American Statesman 9/14/94
Serving Size : 20
1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal
1 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup orange juice
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg -- lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 ounces diced dried mixed fruit
2 tablespoons oats
Combine 1 1/2 cups oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, soda and salt. Combine juice, oil, egg and vanilla and add to dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir in fruit. Spread into a 13x9 inch pan that has been sprayed with no-stick cooking spray. Sprinkle with remaining oats. Bake at 375 for 20-22 minutes or until lightly browned and edges pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely. Cut into bars. Store tightly covered. (Bars may also be frozen in individual bags. Thaw at room temperature or microwave on high for 30 seconds per bar.) Makes 20 bars.
Sugar-Free Breakfast Bars
Recipe By : Cookbooks Online
Serving Size : 1
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1 ounce or more oatmeal
1 teaspoon honey
raisins (optional)
2 tablespoons liquid coffee or water
1 package sugar free nestle quik
1/3 cup powdered milk
Mix and freeze in plastic wrap or foil. May eat as a breakfast or make into small candy bars. Very good substitute for fattening candy bars.
You can premake these and then enjoy whenever. :)
NOT" Kellogg's Nutrigrain Bars
Cereal type bars from Duncan Hines Bake Shop in a Box
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
3/4 cup butter
2 and 1/2 cups quick oats
12 ounces preserves or jam (any flavor)
1 T. water
Preheat oven to 375. Melt butter. Combine cake mix and oats in a large bowl; stir in the melted butter until the mixture is crumbly. Measure half of this mixture(about 3 cups) into a greased 13 x9x3 inch pan. Press firmly into pan to cover the bottom. Combine preserves and water; spoon over crumb mixture in pan, and spread evenly. Cover with remaining crumb mixture. Pat firmly to make top even. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes--top should be very light brown. Cool completely before cutting into
bars.
Banana Breakfast Bars
Recipe By : Cookbooks Online
Serving Size : 1
3/4 cup soft butter or margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas
4 cups uncooked regular or quick oats
1/2 cup dried currants -- raisins, prunes or
-- apricots
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Cream together in large bowl, butter and sugar until fluffy, using electric mixer. Add egg, salt, cinnamon and bananas. With spoon, stir in remaining ingredients. Spread smoothly in pan. Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely. Cut into 12 bars. Wrap individually, seal and freeze. Great way to use overripe bananas; makes a very nutritious "on the go" breakfast or snack.
Cheerios Breakfast Bars
Recipe By : Cheerios
Serving Size : 1
1/4 cup margarine
3 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup dry milk
1/4 cup orange-flavored instant breakfast drink
1 cup raisins
3 cups Cheerios®
Butter a 9x9x2" pan. Melt butter & marshmallows over low heat, stirring constantly. Stir in milk, breakfast drink, and peanut butter. Fold in raisins and cereal, stirring until coated. With buttered hands, pat evenly in pan. Cool and cut into squares.
Breakfast Bars1
Recipe By : Cookbooks Online
Serving Size : 1
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 cups cereal -- crushed
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup flour
Mix together and pat into cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cut while warm and spread cream cheese, when cool, on top and make sandwiches out of them.
Breakfast Fruit Bars
Recipe By : Austin American Statesman 9/14/94
Serving Size : 20
1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal
1 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup orange juice
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg -- lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 ounces diced dried mixed fruit
2 tablespoons oats
Combine 1 1/2 cups oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, soda and salt. Combine juice, oil, egg and vanilla and add to dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir in fruit. Spread into a 13x9 inch pan that has been sprayed with no-stick cooking spray. Sprinkle with remaining oats. Bake at 375 for 20-22 minutes or until lightly browned and edges pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely. Cut into bars. Store tightly covered. (Bars may also be frozen in individual bags. Thaw at room temperature or microwave on high for 30 seconds per bar.) Makes 20 bars.
Sugar-Free Breakfast Bars
Recipe By : Cookbooks Online
Serving Size : 1
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1 ounce or more oatmeal
1 teaspoon honey
raisins (optional)
2 tablespoons liquid coffee or water
1 package sugar free nestle quik
1/3 cup powdered milk
Mix and freeze in plastic wrap or foil. May eat as a breakfast or make into small candy bars. Very good substitute for fattening candy bars.
Menu Ideas
I have no idea what happened to the pretty 2 month menu that I used to have, it was written out on the calendar and there was 2 months of dinners that were all different. You will all have to make due with a smaller run down list of some of the favorites. :) If there is something that you don't know how to make, LMK and I will try and get some time to write up our quick and easy way of making it.
The majority of items that I make are "semi-homemade" due to time constraints, especially since I have a job now, no more home made pasta for this girl. ;)
Lets start with some breakfast ideas:
Day 1: Pancakes
Bacon
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 2: French toast
Sausage
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 3: Eggs
Toast
Corned beef hash
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 4: Waffles
Bacon or sausage
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 5: Biscuits and gravy
Hash browns
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Keep in mind, now that the kids are in school, they don't want to eat at home, they want to eat school breakfast, and I am not home for breakfast anymore, so I get out of many breakfasts now. This WAS the menu for me before though. Most of the breakfast items were easy to do from scratch because you could set up the stuff earlier and then just add the wet ingredients when you were ready. :)
Onward to Lunch ideas, again, the kids eat at school and I am not home for lunch, so I get to cheat now and skip most of the lunches during the week:
Every day will have a fresh fruit and fresh veggie and chocolate rice or chocolate almond milk
Ham subs
Turkey subs
Ravioli
Spag
Mac and cheese
Cream of potato
Chix soup
Veggie soup
Pizza
Copeland pasta (family recipe)
If they don't like lunch that day they may have pbj
We forward on and finally hit the dinner selections that are a favorite in this house:
Dinner
Every meal will have a bread served, veggie, fruit
Meatloaf
Terraki chicken
Taco
Chicken pot pie
Chili
Chix faj
Stuffed pepper
Lemon pepper
Swiss steak
Bbq chix
Swedish meatballs
Quesadilla
Chix parm
Roast
Chix fingers
Spag and meatballs
Kielbasa and beans
Bratwurst
Lasagna
Chix rice bake
Taco salad
Chix kabobs with pineapple
Phili cheese steak
There are no other dinner options, you must fill yourself up with provided dinner and there will be no backup food to choose from.
Everyone can come up with side dishes, I assume, but in case you are out of ideas... BAM... one or two thrown at ya...
Sides:
Fruit salad
Watergate (green fluff)
Trop fruit, starfruit, ugli fruit, strawberries, apples, pears, Mandarin oranges, cherries, peaches.
Carrots baby or brown sugar or reg with butter.
Potatoes... baked, mashed, fried
Salad
Corn. Cream or nibblet or cob
Green beans
Peas
Asparagus
Squash
Celery
The majority of items that I make are "semi-homemade" due to time constraints, especially since I have a job now, no more home made pasta for this girl. ;)
Lets start with some breakfast ideas:
Day 1: Pancakes
Bacon
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 2: French toast
Sausage
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 3: Eggs
Toast
Corned beef hash
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 4: Waffles
Bacon or sausage
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Day 5: Biscuits and gravy
Hash browns
Fresh fruit
Rice or almond milk
Keep in mind, now that the kids are in school, they don't want to eat at home, they want to eat school breakfast, and I am not home for breakfast anymore, so I get out of many breakfasts now. This WAS the menu for me before though. Most of the breakfast items were easy to do from scratch because you could set up the stuff earlier and then just add the wet ingredients when you were ready. :)
Onward to Lunch ideas, again, the kids eat at school and I am not home for lunch, so I get to cheat now and skip most of the lunches during the week:
Every day will have a fresh fruit and fresh veggie and chocolate rice or chocolate almond milk
Ham subs
Turkey subs
Ravioli
Spag
Mac and cheese
Cream of potato
Chix soup
Veggie soup
Pizza
Copeland pasta (family recipe)
If they don't like lunch that day they may have pbj
We forward on and finally hit the dinner selections that are a favorite in this house:
Dinner
Every meal will have a bread served, veggie, fruit
Meatloaf
Terraki chicken
Taco
Chicken pot pie
Chili
Chix faj
Stuffed pepper
Lemon pepper
Swiss steak
Bbq chix
Swedish meatballs
Quesadilla
Chix parm
Roast
Chix fingers
Spag and meatballs
Kielbasa and beans
Bratwurst
Lasagna
Chix rice bake
Taco salad
Chix kabobs with pineapple
Phili cheese steak
There are no other dinner options, you must fill yourself up with provided dinner and there will be no backup food to choose from.
Everyone can come up with side dishes, I assume, but in case you are out of ideas... BAM... one or two thrown at ya...
Sides:
Fruit salad
Watergate (green fluff)
Trop fruit, starfruit, ugli fruit, strawberries, apples, pears, Mandarin oranges, cherries, peaches.
Carrots baby or brown sugar or reg with butter.
Potatoes... baked, mashed, fried
Salad
Corn. Cream or nibblet or cob
Green beans
Peas
Asparagus
Squash
Celery
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