Category Archives: Kids

April Fools Day 2014 – Mixed Up Crazy Lunch

I hadn’t planned on doing an April Fools lunch for the kids this year however just before bed (night before April Fools) my 14 yr old SON asked if I was going to do a “fun lunch”. I told him NO you are too old and I am getting too old for this ๐Ÿ˜‰ However…

April Fool’s Day 2013 – Grilled Cheese Peas & Carrots for Dessert

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April Fool’s Day was alot of fun and so very easy. I almost didn’t do anything for the day since Easter was just 24 hours before. However I couldn’t stand it and decided to go ahead with the plans I had originally wanted to do. This did not take me long at all and I…

Brownie & Caramel Milk Shake

It’s summer time in full force here in Central Florida. HOT HOT HOT!! Shakes and Ice cream and Popsicle are a must to keeping cool The kids wanted something different for dessert the other night. I just blurted out- brownie milk shake??ย  They gave me this look– WHAT??? So I had them help me make…

Apple of our eye – Teacher Appreciation 2011

Isn’t that cute? We just got done making 101 of them!! That is ALOT. We volunteered to make one for the entire staff at our children’s school for the theme “apple” for that day. I can’t wait for them to get them tomorrow. You start off with the basic rice cereal treat recipe. 10 oz…

Rice Treat Bunny Pops

We watch alot of TLC shows- and watching cake shows, they use rice treats all the time to form almost any shape. So we decided to take our rice treats today and make bunny heads. It was so easy. You need to do it when your rice treats are warm to the touch but not…

Kiss of Cherries Chocolate Cake by Kyle North

My son made this last week. He wanted to be featured on Mom & Dad’s blog. I promised him this week we would feature his amazing cake. It was SOOOO DELICIOUS! It is for the Chocolate lover! If you do not love Chocolate- this is not for you (And you are weird… just kidding) He…

Driving Miss Peeps – Easter Treat

Was playing in the kitchen with the kiddlets tonight and came up with this fun Peeps driving with the top down. ๐Ÿ™‚ The rabbit Peeps are a lot of fun. I have notice they are harder to find than the birds. I am not sure. Maybe because the rabbits are so adorable!! We had lots…

Our April Fool’s Day Lunch 2011

I have been so excited for tonight to get here so I can start pranking my kids and setting up!! I made their lunch tonight. For many reasons, but mostly so I could blog and share with everyone. I made a change from my last post about the worm in the apple. I realized my…

Dirt for Dessert – Earth Day Treat

For our dessert tonight- we had the infamous dirt and worms.ย  All kinds of ways to do this dessert, I just chose to put them in glass tumblers with some gummy worms. But in case you have never seen this– Ingredients- 1 bag of Oreo cookies Bag of candy worms Chocolate pudding prepared according to…

Happy Earth Day 2010

We went all out and had a Earth Day party with the kids. ๐Ÿ™‚ย  Decorated the house with earth stuff etc. One of the fun things we did was boil eggs, and make them look like planet Earth. Then we stood them up using the top of a soda or water bottle cap. They stood…

Brooke’s Purple Shake

My 5 year old daughter knows that red and blue make purple. She will even request this purple shake over chocolate! Any way we can get more fruits in her diet– I say WHY NOT! She is on a shake kick. If she could- she would drink this every night for dessert. She asked us…

Grilled Cheese for Dessert

Did you know April is National Grilled Cheese month?? If you didn’t… now you do! That is what we had for our dessert tonight. Grilled Cheese. Everyone we told gave us this crazy look and said “What??” It was quite tasty and the kids loved it. Something very different and that makes it fun! It…

Leprechaun Ale – It is Magically Delicious

YUP! My kids were beyond thrilled for this today! Way easy and a big hit with the family! My sister gave me this recipe so I have to say a BIG THANK YOU! I think we will do this every year!! Ingredients- Lime Sherbet Ginger Ale Green Sugar Lime Similar to adding salt to a…

Jack-o-lantern Cake Pops

First before I go into how we did our batch I want to give credit where it is due. This is not a new idea… we created ours after seeing them at the Bakerella site. She is amazing. We have made these twice so far. And each time we learn something new. The 2nd time…

Homemade Play Dough

This was very easy to make. My son needed to make a double batch of blue, single batch of green and white for a project they are doing at school. Of course the project is due tomorrow and it is 11:00pm when we started making it.ย  So I advise to do this at a more…

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