Other October Holidays

October 24 was National Food Day. We ate leftovers. It was also World Kangaroo Day. Jet and I hopped like kangaroos.

October 25 was Greasy Food Day. It was also World Pasta Day. We ate kind of greasy pasta.

October 26 was Mother-in-Law Day. I wished several people Happy Mother-in-Law Day including my mother-in-law. I love her. It was also National Pumpkin Day. I know several people who carved pumpkins that day.

October 27 was National Black Cat Day. I often see black cats running around our neighborhood. Murphy's Law says on Black Cat Day, I wouldn't see one. At the end of the day, Jeremy reminded me that the neighbors had a glow in the dark black cat skeleton decoration. That worked for celebrating.

October 28 was the Anniversary of when the Statue of Liberty was dedicated and it was also Matt Smith's birthday so I really wanted to watch The Angels Take Manhattan (which has both the Statue of Liberty and Matt Smith) while working on a Halloween costume but that's an episode of Doctor Who we don't have. So I watched Daleks in Manhattan which also has the Statue of Liberty in it. For dinner we had fish sticks and vanilla pudding in honor of Matt Smith's Doctor. We didn't have enough fish sticks so I pulled some curry chicken from the freezer and cooked up some rice. #shelfcooking

It was also National Chocolate Day so Lucky made woo-woo for us. 

 

Even More September Catching Up

September 12 was Hug and High Five Day. Some of the teachers at the elementary school were giving high fives as students were leaving. Lucky made sure to give his dad a hug and "high five" when his dad came home from work. 

 

September 12 was also National Video Games Day. I remembered to wear my Mario shirt this time. Woohoo. I went shopping and the gal helping me to check out remarked on my shirt so I told her it was National Video Games Day. She was very happy to find that out because it gave her an excuse to play later. 

I never got to play video games that day but the kids did.

 

September 12 was also Chocolate Milkshake Day. We made woo-woo.

That evening was Lucky's elementary school Fall Festival. He volunteered to help out since he is on the student council. He got to run a booth during the second half of the festival and got to play and eat earlier. And being the sweet boy that he is, he shared his cotton candy with me.

 

September 13 was International Chocolate Day and National Peanut Day. You know what that means. Parfaits! 

 

It was also Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day. I asked the kids to take care of dinner. 

 

It was National Day of Service. I helped tie quilts and took some time to do other service that day. 
Jet had Primary Program practice then got pizza afterward. 

The next day was the Primary Program and he did a pretty good job this year. He sang some of the songs and stayed in his seat when he was supposed to and stood when he was supposed to for the most part. When it was his turn to say his part, he said it so quickly that it was unintelligible but that's okay. Still cute.

After church, Lucky came to choir with me then we decided to walk home together. I walked. Lucky somewhat walked, somewhat ran. Cute kid.

 

September 15 was Agatha Christie's birthday. Nichole and I discussed it because you know she's into mystery writing. 

 

September 16 was Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day. We had cinnamon toast with raisins on top for those that preferred it.

 

September 17 was Monte Cristo Day so of course we had Monte Cristo Sandwiches. We love celebrating that holiday that way. 

 

September 18 was National Cheeseburger Day. I didn't make cheeseburgers but I took some ground turkey and made stroganoff to go along with sauteed zucchini from our garden. And toast because toast is popular around here, especially with homemade bread.

I Do Like to Celebrate With Food

November 15 was Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. Leftovers!

It was also Raisin Bran Cereal Day. Raisin Bran!

November 16 was Fast Food Day. Fast food type food we can make from home!

November 18 was Apple Cider Day. This was not on our calendar but someone told Six Sisters' Stuff about it which is where I learned about it so it is now on the calendar for every year after this. Apple Cider!

More Food

September 10 was National TV Dinner Day. There wasn't room in the freezer for actual TV dinners so we brainstormed what kinds of food you might find in a TV dinner and decided on some we could fix ourselves. So our homemade TV dinner consisted of ham, frozen corn, creamy mac and cheese, and for dessert we were going to have brownies but we were given a pie that we needed to eat up so we had some of that.

Then as a family we ate our dinner in front of the TV. We watched the movie, Emma, the version with Gwyneth Paltrow. TV and dinner. We celebrated.

September 12 was National Chocolate Milkshake Day. We had woo-woo. Yumm yumm.

At home, Jr. made cookies for a food class assignment. He had to get pictures of him measuring and send it to his teacher. Then when they were all made, he shared the cookies with us. Aww. Such a nice boy.

So that's been some of what we've done with food lately.

Kids Make Dinner: Take 2

We had a little more success the second time the kids were assigned dinner. I didn't do anything this time (besides take care of Jet. That's a lot of work itself). The older kids helped the younger kids and Jeremy also helped. He cut up watermelon which Jr. then decided to use as a side dish. Here's what we ate:

Lucky wanted BBQ chicken pizza without onions. I love that he specified that. Nichole made dinner rolls. But of course, she couldn't just make dinner rolls. If you give Nichole a medium... she will sculpt the dough into various shapes then after they are baked, she will put butter on them and sprinkle them with cinnamon/sugar.

Jr. as you know contributed watermelon but also helped a lot with the pizza. For dessert, Jr. Jr. wanted woo-woo (milkshake) so Jeremy helped him make it.
Great job, kids (and Jeremy). Keep up the good work.

Valentine's Day 2017

While menu planning for Valentine's Day, I asked my family members what foods they love and thought it might be nice to have some of those for Valentine's Day.  So we had orange chicken and rice.  We had pizza and hot dogs.  We had apples and we had Woo-woo.
Before dinner, we took the kids to a new playground near the Orem Library.  Lucky fell asleep in the car, so I stayed with him and read a book while Jeremy took the other kids to play.

Even earlier in the day, Jeremy helped out in Jr.'s class for his Valentine party.  He brought balloon bows and arrows and a balloon target for the kids to shoot at.  The target reminded me of Captain America's shield so we had a good laugh after I saw that he was also wearing an Ironman shirt.  My sweetheart is the Avengers.  Captain America (shield), Hawkeye (bows and arrows), and Ironman (shirt) all in one.

We had some good family time this Valentine's Day.  During dinner, Jeremy and I told the kids some stories of past Valentine's Days when we were dating and when we were married.  It was a lot of fun with my family today.  I love them all.

Proof That They Do Work

Yesterday morning, I informed the children that in order to watch "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," they had to help me clean the kitchen.  It started off slowly with some whining and "poor me"s.  But after a while we got on a roll and the kids got to working really hard.  I did, too. 

It was interesting to see how they found things they wanted to do, not just what I assigned them to do.  Jr. Jr. especially would see someone working on something and decide he wanted to do that, too.  It was good.
So of course they earned "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and to celebrate International Chocolate Day and National Peanut Day, both on September 13, Jeremy made us some peanut butter chocolate woo-woo during a break in the movie.

Because there was room on our nice clean counter next to our nice clean microwave.
Woo Woo!