The Mom Song

Purple Garlic Mash Potatoes

I just wanted to share with you all our purple garlic mash potatoes we had for Thanksgiving with my family. Yes, the potatoes are actually purple... they're supposed to be more of a blue color, but for whatever reason they turned out purple. My Mom works for the WSU experiment station in Prosser, and one of the doctors is trying to make red, white and blue chips! It was a little freaky because they were so purple, but at least they tasted good!

Top Ten Signs You've Been Home Alone With the Kids for Too Long

By Linda Sultan

10. You wait for your child to nap so you can play with Barbie all by yourself.

9. You begin cutting your own meat into tiny little pieces.

8. Big Bird’s new bow tie

gives him a handsome, debonair look you never noticed before.

7. You call your mother and tell her all you’re friends are busy, you have nobody to play with and you’re bored.

6. When you finally sit down with your new novel, you start to read it aloud.

5. You long to watch a TV show NOT brought to you by a letter of the alphabet.

4. There’s an ad for shoes across from an ad for diapers and the diaper ad gets your attention.

3. You don’t mind being sticky.

2. You can’t remember the last time you were alone in the bathroom.

and the number one sign you’ve been home alone with the kids for way too long

1. You wish your mother lived with you.

Pumpkin Floss

Last night we went outside and started carving our pumpkins. Once we got to the gross part of gutting our pumpkins Dan told Jacob that the stringy pumpkin guts were dental floss. Jacob loves to floss his teeth, so listening to his Dad he started putting the stringy pumpkin guts through is mouth like he does when he gets dental floss! I thought it was pretty gross and told him to stop! Of course his Dad said that it was fine, and encouraged Jacob to continue flossing his teeth. Unfortunately, Jacob wasn't happy just flossing with the pumpkin guts. Jacob started spooning out the guts and eating them! I decided to lighten up...and just let my baby have fun no matter how much he was covering himself in pumpkin. We kept asking him if the pumpkin guts tasted good...he kept replying YEAH...num! It was so sweet to watch this child that God has blessed me with exploring his pumpkin. I told myself this is his first pumpkin, I will never see him at this age again eating pumpkin and making messes! I found myself not just enjoying the minutes that passed by, but loving every moment and so very thankful for the memories that we made!