*Exchangers-Come and join us for the QOTD & Chat w/us* Part 2-Our New Thread

[mommytotwo]

We grill all year long as well, and even grilled tonight.

We make different things, marinated in different sauces.

Chicken, beef, shrimp, vegetable and shrimp kabobs, eggplant...... I enjoy foods that are grilled.


When we go on picnics, it depends, but sometimes we put together bentos or puchase them. It is a box lunch that has rice or rice balls along with other items. So you get an assortment of different things.

 

[mommytotwo]

What are your favorite songs from the 80s and 90s?

 

[Kirby]

I honestly couldn't tell you. They all run together after awhile. Wait a minute, didn't Thriller come out in the 80's? Well then, that one would definately be a favorite. If you were to show me a list, then I could pick them out but to name them off the top of my head.......

 

[Pooh67_68]

I wouldn't say they were favorites but i used to listen to

Duran Duran
Wham
Madonna
Michael Jackson

My sister always had the radio on, i could take it or leave it.

 

[mommytotwo]

St.Patricks Day is coming up, do you have any plans?

 

[Pooh67_68]

No.

 

[mommytotwo]

My daughter is having a sleepover since it is Spring Break. Two or three of her friends will be coming, so with 4 or 5 kids in the house, it will be noisy. I will make green cupcakes, lime sherbert punch if I can find just lime sherbert sold seperatly, make corned beef and cabbage with potatoes, and carrots, and have a few other things that are St.Patrick's Day to do with the kids.

If anyone has any kids activity ideas, let me know. Sadly, they do not sell gold chocolate coins here .

 

[BELLEDOZER]

We don't celebrate it, but other do here. Ideas green Koolaid, put a few drops of food colouring into a vanilla milkshake, and call it a shamrock shake, It works well when you've got the concentrated food colouring gels, as you use alot less dye to get the vibrancy ofcolour. Bob for Green apples. Put some green food colouring into a vanilla cake to make a green cake. And use the food colouring to make green icing. Add some shamrock sprinkles and there you go.

 

[Kirby]

No plans except to wear green that day.

 

[BELLEDOZER]

I thought that you guys would get a chuckle out of this. My DS soon to be 8 tomorrow asked for a vanilla birthday cake with blue icing. So I made him a blue vanilla cake using my fav gel dye's that's an eye bleed blue, and added some sprinkles to the cake to make it a "sparkly" cake. He's rather annoyed with me at the moment, but it's what he asked for. I'm adding dark blue icing, orange writing and a simple firetruck ornament to it once it cools. Have a great day everyone!

 

[mommytotwo]

I thought that you guys would get a chuckle out of this. My DS soon to be 8 tomorrow asked for a vanilla birthday cake with blue icing. So I made him a blue vanilla cake using my fav gel dye's that's an eye bleed blue, and added some sprinkles to the cake to make it a "sparkly" cake. He's rather annoyed with me at the moment, but it's what he asked for. I'm adding dark blue icing, orange writing and a simple firetruck ornament to it once it cools. Have a great day everyone!

Hope your son has a very Happy Birthday!!!

 

[mommytotwo]

My daughter came home today saying that her reading class is having an end of the sememster celebration tomorrow. Their teacher said that they are able to bring something in if they wish, but no candy. So there are two parts to the QOTD.


*If your school aged child came home to you, and asked them to make you something based upon what you currently have in your house, what would you make for them to bring to school?

*As a child, did your parents bake homemade goodies for you?


-I asked my daughter, what if I didn't bake, and she said that she would be sad and that by me knowing how to bake, I thought her how, and she gets to experience the joy of baking.

 

[Kirby]

Cake mix cookies.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I don't do a lot of baking except at Christmas so usually don't have a lot on hand. However right now I have a boxed coffee cake mix, the ingredients for cut out cookies and boxes of jell-o (of course i would need to make a quick run to the store for Knox gelatin to make jigglers.)

 

[BELLEDOZER]

I usually have basic ingred's on hand to bake, but I find that with all the allergies in the schools these days, that I have to ask the teacher what the kids are allergic to in order to work around them. It's a royal pain, so I personally would be inclined to give my kids fruit, such as an orange or an apple to give to their classmates.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I usually have basic ingred's on hand to bake, but I find that with all the allergies in the schools these days, that I have to ask the teacher what the kids are allergic to in order to work around them. It's a royal pain, so I personally would be inclined to give my kids fruit, such as an orange or an apple to give to their classmates.

I was reading a food allergy thread on the community board and a person said that her daughter is allergic to apples, so even fruits may not work.

 

[BELLEDOZER]

My kids school calls junk food Mean Munchies, and tries to curb it in. We are an allergy family, and I've got the worst of the bunch with sugar and protien. Today is DS's 8th birthday, so rather than taking food to celebrate his birthday at the school, I bought puzzles, pencils and a few other treats individ packaged to give to his classmates. I figure it's cheaper than having a birthday party for him, and can get him a nice gift instead that he wants. I would personally check with your daughter's teacher to see what allergies she has in her class so that you can work around them. It sucks having allergies, but like everyone who has them, you have to learn to adapt your eating around them to avoid getting a reaction (and I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to the sugar allergy).

 

[mommytotwo]

Do you scrapbook or make cards? Are you a crafty person?

 

[Kirby]

No scrapbooking or card making. I used to be a crafty person but not so much any more.

 

[kristina87]

I have tons of scrapbooking stuff, mostly things I've saved from vacations and stickers/patterns that go along with whatever that vacation was, but I have yet to finish a scrapbook! I am a crafty person if I know exactly what I want to make or do, but it takes me forever to decide on all the details which then frustrates me so I don't do things very often anyore! When I was little I made things all the time though.