Friends Helping Friends

September 19 was International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Often we'll do pirate themed food but we didn't this year. Instead my friend, Stephanie, and I got together to make a meal. I supplied ingredients for making an Instant Pot dish, my go to honey garlic chicken from sixsistersstuff.com because she wasn't as familiar with using the Instant Pot as I am so I wanted to teach her. She supplied ingredients for making cauliflower rice. 

So we each learned a new recipe, had great bonding time together, and each went away with a meal for our families.

 

I did celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day by putting on some Monkey Island music.

 

September 19 was also Slimey the Worm's Birthday. This is how Jr. celebrated when I reminded him who Slimey the Worm was. 

Jr.: Oh, I love trash. I love you, Mom.

Then he realized what he said and corrected himself.

Jr.: AND I love you, Mom. AND I love you.

 

September 20 was Pepperoni Pizza Day, String Cheese Day, and Fried Rice Day. We didn't have string cheese but had shredded mozzarella cheese (string cheese is usually made of mozzarella cheese) which we put in the pizza crust. For the fried rice, I threw together whatever stuff in it. We had lots of frozen corn that needed to be used, etc. #shelftember

Do you remember... the 21st night of September? I went around singing that song that day.

Quadruple Celebration Again

Like last year, we were able to celebrate four holidays in one meal on September 20. National Pepperoni Pizza Day, National String Cheese Day, National Fried Rice Day, and National Punch Day.

We had pepperoni pizza with string cheese baked into the crust. We had more of the fried rice from our pirate dinner the night before. We also had "jitter juice" made with Sprite, Tiki Punch, sherbet, and sprinkles. It was what Lucky's teacher gave the students in his class one time to help them with jitters at the beginning of the school year (with Hawaiian Punch, but we had Tiki Punch). Perfect for National Punch Day.

 

That day was also National Care for Kids Day. We didn't incorporate that into our dinner, but Jet and I went down to the Provo Library to get him another prize for reading. 

After we left the library, we just kept driving... all the way to Bridal Veil Falls to go for a walk and get some exercise. Love that bonding time with my littlest. He sort of posed for pictures this time.

He also went around saying, "Hi, waterfatl. How are you today?" And that's not a typo. He really calls it "waterfatl." So cute.