Mome reads Mommy, My daughter's way to spell it when she was younger... It stuck. My son calls me Mome... just like it looks. I now sign all my notes to them "Love, Mome". It's our inside secret and makes them smile. I always want them to smile.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Pinterest. Love. #2 Sliders.

I. Love. Pinterest.

I'm sharing the results and reactions of all the stuff were making, spread across my 3 blogs to put them in relevant spots.  If you haven't yet found Pinterest, I'll warn you, It's addicting.  Now go check for yourself.

Hamburger Sliders

This recipe was super easy.  We modified it to meet our tastes and it was delicious.  This would be great for the big game this weekend or any tailgating parties.

What You'll Need:
2 lbs hamburger
2 dozen rolls (we used Kings Hawaiian, for the sweetness)
6 slices of cheese
Favorite seasonings




 Season meat and press into a 9x13 pan.  Bake at 425 for 25 minutes.


Take out of oven (there will be some shrinkage) and cover with 6 slices of your favorite cheese) It only takes a few minutes for the cheese to melt.  While you're waiting you can slice the rolls.  No need to separate them all, just cut the tops off.  I left them in bunches of 6.


With a spatula, cut hamburger into 24 squares and place on buns.


Put tops back on and serve.


We had ours with baked beans, corn on the cob and sweet potato fries.


Since there are only 3 of us, and this recipe makes 24, I just slid the extra 12 right back into the roll package.  I had intended to freeze them for a later date but they were so melt-in-your-mouth yummy that they became the after school snack for the next few days.


Credit:
The original recipe can be found at Smockity Frocks.  She uses dehydrated onions and adds pickles.

Pinterest. Love. #1

I'm in love with Pinterest, and not in just a voyeur kind of way.  We are actually making some of the recipes and playing with our hair like we never have before.  As I complete different pins, I'll share the results so you can be just as addicted.  No one needs to go through this alone.

Hair
Puddin Pop has super straight hair.  She gets it from me.  It used to have beautiful curls, but they got fewer and fewer with each haircut.  She's not super fond of having it brushed, either, but her desire for beauty is super-ceding the fear of tangled pain so we've gotten very experimental.

We saw a pin for overnight styling and just had to try it.

You start of with wet hair and section it.  We did it in 8 sections but you can do more or less based on amount of waviness desired, and patience of yourself and child.

You twirl each section until it starts to coil.  Complete coil and rubber-band so it will stay.  Ours looked like this...

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Then you just sleep on it.  Depending on thickness of hair and how long it normally takes to dry, you could also spritz it instead of doing it straight out of the tub to insure it would be dry in time for school the next morning.

One of our sections came on done during the night but we just comprimised with a curling iron on that section.  The rest was just taken out of the bands and fluffed by running our fingers through the curls.

The end result was this...





Beautiful Waves that stayed all day.

Credit:
The original Pin came from Perfect Locks.

What pins have you accomplished?

Saturday, January 14, 2012

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Before you get rid of that Train Table, Read This.

If you have a little boy, you more than likely have trains.  You may even be fortunate enough to have a train table for him to play on.  Or your little girl may love trains.  Either way, this may be helpful.

My son LOVED anything with wheels.  Cars, Trucks, and Trains always made him light up.  A friend of mine was getting rid of her sons' train table as she felt they had outgrown it.  I bet she's banging her head against the wall right now.  I purchased it as a reasonable price and gave it to our son for his 2nd (or 3rd) Christmas.  He spent hours setting up his new train track and rolling the trains through all the loops.  He eventually moved away from trains and it sat unused in our den.

It later got recycled as a platform (with plywood on top) for a 75 gallon fish tank that Handsome had in his room.  This is what you end up with when the State Fair goldfish dies and you have a husband who doesn't understand what moderation is.

Moving on...

When the Fish tank became boring and too much work, the fish were sold and the tank removed.  Now we had an almost 8 year old with a train table in his room.  I can hear you gasp.  He was quite mortified too.  We had talked about removing it and then I had an even better idea.  It happens every once in a while.

What do little boys (and girls too) transition into after trains, cars and trucks?  You know what I'm talking about.  Those colored blocks that hurt like a son-of-a-gun when stepped on barefoot.  Yep.  Legos.  We have tons and tons of Legos.  How do we contain them all?  What about those super deep drawers that pull out from either side on the train table?

And so it was done.

One of the drawers with random pieces.




This is the scene Handsome is currently working on.  He loves to free-build and set up "attack" scenes.

He will disappear for an hour or more at a time and just add to his creations.  All his Legos are in his room.  He can leave them set up for later or take it down and start over.

Best part?

Can't remember the last time I stepped on a Lego piece.  That'll make you smile if it's ever happened to you.