PORKS, OF COURSE!

Elijah is still obsessed with all things nature and history.  He still watches National Geographic, Discovery Channel, the History channel and Animal Planet like they are all that is on but I am just fine with that.  His new thing is to find random facts then tell us all as if he has THE most important thing to say.

A few weeks ago he comes running down the hallway screaming my name.  Of course, I run to him since he was screaming as though he lost a limb and this is the mini fact convo we had:

Elijah, "Mom, did you know that makeup is made of 50% pork oil?"

Moi, "No!  Did you know mascara is made of bat poop?" 

I won!  He was grossed out and speechless!  Not really sure if mine was fact or myth but frankly I don't care since I am a mascara addict and will continue the use even if it means I am obsessed with rubbing bat poop all over my eyelashes!

Then......

Elijah went to his friend's house the other day.  Elijah decides he is going to "freak out" Mindy, his friend's mom, and shares his little fact.

Elijah, "Did you know the makeup you wear is 50% pork oil?

Mindy, "No, I didn't know that but do you know where pork oil comes from?"

Elijah, "Of course..... PORKS!"

NOW in my sons defense....he doesn't eat "pork" remember so he doesn't realize pork is from pigs!  I am surprised he didn't answer with chicken!  EVERY meat is chicken in my boys' worlds!  If I make beef, pork chops, roast or ribs and called them by their actual names, then my kiddos would turn their little noses and say they don't like it.  Soooooo when Elijah was little I just renamed ALL meat to chicken.  My kids could be eating country style boneless pork ribs and say, "Oooo momma these chicken ribs are good!"  If I said I was making "country style boneless pork ribs" it would be a war to get them to try them so I only make chicken pork chops etc....wink*wink* 

Oh how I love my funny fact finder boy!

ATWT ~ I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE DAY.....

I NEVER thought I would see the day when Hubs would willingly cook!!

He is a PBJ maker extraordinaire,

a professional nuker

and an "I burned the hot dogs on purpose" eater.

He has cooked two "meals" in our 8 1/2 years together neither of which was edible. One meal was...well it was supposed to be 'lil smokies; however, we had a lack of BBQ sauce so he just cooked them in water with some ketchup. *gag*gag* Bad is putting it nicely. One other time I was sick and he brought me breakfast in bed. I thought it was the sweetest thing ever so I have kept it a secret from him to this day that I had to flush the breakfast down our toilet to keep from barfing. I love pancakes and could eat them daily but his homemade pancakes can't even be called pancakes but rubber circles. He still doesn't know so let's not tell him because it was a very sweet gesture. I am thankful that it never repeated though!

Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend Chai stopped by and wanted to cook out with us. We made hot dogs and hamburgers when low and behold I eye Hubs.......

.....slicing a potato to make fried potatoes!

WHAT!

I think I may have been in shock for a moment or two

THEN I grabbed the camera!!

They were pretty good considering he NEVER EVER cooks besides the fact it was totally HOT that he was cooking!!

For more A Thousand Words Thursday posts, click below

SMALL TALK SIX!

6 breakfast foods that you love or hate

LOVE.....

1. I. LOVE. PANCAKES! I can eat pancakes for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Slap on some butter, Griffin's syrup and powdered sugar (breakfast of sugar addicts) and I am in my own little heaven. I love 'em! I often make them for dinner since the whole family loves them too!
2. Scrambled eggs with a little cheese, ham, tabasco and peppers ~ I make an awesome little concoction!
3. Hashbrowns or fried potatoes (Geez I don't know why I am fat!)
4. Cereal ~ Honeycombs, Frosted Flakes, Cheerios, Captain Crunch with berries or Special K Chocolate
5. Bacon ~ extra crispy
6. Blueberry muffins and lets not forget doughnuts

Truthfully though Special K cereal bars and a banana are all I normally get for breakfast if I eat breakfast at all!

Hate.....

1. Grits ~ gag*gag*gag*gag*vomit
2. Oatmeal ~ ANY flavor! I have tried this so many times wanting to like them but I just can't eat them. I am a texture girl and the texture makes me gag no matter how many ways I try to cook them!
3. Cocoa Wheaties ~ my Mom loves these but I think they are merely glorified dirt
4. Biscuits and gravy ~ I love the biscuits but I hate gravy
5. Bran muffins
6. Hmm.....I can't even think of another breakfast food!
   

WRITER'S WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY

Time once again for Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop Wednesday

Being that I am deciding last minute to go ahead with this post, I chose the easy way out and am listing my "Five Most Recent Favorite Things". Here we go:

#1

In my quest to become environmentally friendly as mentioned before and mainly to please a certain 7 yr old nagger nature lover, I began recycling when I noticed just how many plastic bags accumulate at our house. WOW!

Also while being an idiot and opening my big fat mouth starting a recycling program at his elementary school, I learned that sometime in the near future Wally World will no longer offer bags. WHAT? you ask. YEP, you heard it hear folks. Just like Aldi's you will have to pay for your bags or bring your own! Sad but honestly I think it will be a good thing.....maybe they can roll back some more prices once they are paying for bags! Yeah right! SO I decided to start buying bags periodically now!

Although the Aldi's bag is large compared to most of the cloth shopping bags and they have a great slogan ~ It's all about saving green! (earth and money if you didn't catch on!), I think they are too big. They get really heavy once they are full.

Wow I am really making this longer than necessary....too bad!

I took Elijah to Toys 'r Us because he had some birthday "change in his pocket goin' chang a lang a lang" and well I love to shop when I found these

little cutie patootie shopping bags! Aren't they cute! You wanna know what makes them even cuter........they are normally $1.49 to $1.99 and I got those little boogers for FIFTY CENTS a piece! So what did I do......I bought like 6 of them. Could've kicked myself the next day when I went to get some more and found out it was just a one day special offer! Next...

#2

Palmolive pure + clear

Sparkling fresh scent

This stuff smells so good! I rarely use dish soap but I am finding myself looking for things I can clean it with just so the wonderful smell fills the room. Sadly I am not lying! I find myself squirting it all over the sink just to rub around and clean even though it might be clean! Hey if I am doing that then it must smell good!

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT hand wash dishes! Wet food is repulsive to me and if left sitting it will make me gag so every dish goes straight into the dishwasher. I hate it and only do it when ABSOLUTELY necessary......about once a month....well honestly if that! Telling you this because I do not know how it really stacks up to other dish washing detergents but it smells good so who really cares, right!

#3

My homemade cleaner!

Smells alright ~ fresh

Zay helps me clean because he is just weird like that and he says, "oohh Momma it smells dood!"

Super douper cheap

Cleans everything although I don't use it on glass or mirrors because the oils in it leaves streaks

I got this little bottle at Wally World for 99cents but it looks amazingly just like an empty water bottle with a squirter dealie and yes that is a technical homemade cleaner maker term there so don't feel bad if you don't what a "squirter dealie" is ~ it will all come in time!

I got the guts of the recipe from The Toby Show but I tweaked it and experimented with it until I got what I wanted. You can find my recipe here.

#4

I won't lie and say I love this book because I haven't actually opened it yet......hold on I am laughing at myself

..........still laughing.........

ok.....so I haven't opened it but the mere thought of sneaking vegetables to unsuspecting children sounds like fun to me so I am going to try it someday soon! I'll let you know what I think!

#5

By far my most favorite recent thing is

Hubs new 14 day avg blood sugar is 192 ~way down from his 60-90 day AVERAGE of 443! Did you see that.... his AVERAGE was 443 so that means he got into the upper 600s! Wow! But thanks to his amazingly smart, loving wife who nagged him for 3 months that she knew he had diabetes, he finally gave in and got checked only to find out his amazingly smart, loving wife was right yet AGAIN! Not trying to take credit here at all folks...........well maybe just a small pat on the back! Yes he still has some in the upper 200s but it is occasional tests like this

AND THIS

that are bringing my baby's life and glucose back down to normalville.....as normal as it can be in our household anyway!

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back for Friday High Five!

To see more Writer's Workshop Wednesday posts go on over and visit Mama Kat plus she is really good for a laugh. Oh wait, you ALL need to watch her What's in my purse? video! Too cute!

For more of MY Writer's Workshop Wednesday posts go here!

COOKIES FOR SANTA

I started a new tradition this year...making and decorating cookies for Santa. I thought this would be a new tradition but after our first try I am not so sure. We had fun but it was rather chaotic and I don't do good with chaos.

Elijah's snowman cookie which he added a Santa hat to because "Santa will think that is funny"!

Isaiah's ornament cookie. The first picture shows his true ornery self!

I survived and the kids had fun so I guess it was a good time!

COOKING CULLOMS

To keep Isaiah occupied while he is "starving" I have been having him "help" me more at dinnertime. I am posting b/c this was the first time to wear the new aprons that I bought for the boys and I LOVE them. You just wipe them off! I got them from Let's Explore after I became addicted to her craftiness in her blog ~ thank you! I pull out the new aprons and Isaiah says, "Oh Momma is it for ME! Thank you! I WUV my new apron so much!! Let's took!"

LIGHTLY brush olive oil on the dough!

Let's all ignore the knife and sharp pizza slicer within his reach!! I know I know BUT I am RIGHT THERE!!

Concentrating on the LIGHTLY part of the instructions since he tore the first pizza dough in several places!!

CULLOM COOKING HOUR WITH ELIJAH CULLOM

Elijah likes to be the host of the Cullom Cooking hour. The Cullom Cooking Hour was a show that Elijah created by asking me ten thousand questions each evening while I cook dinner. Tonight he really wanted to help like he usually does but he wanted to cut veggies for our pasta salad. I finally let him cut the "trees" aka broccoli. I still think he is too young to be using a knife but it was just cutting the end of the stalk so I let him "help".

I found a new kid size apron that came with a hat but somehow I lost the hat before anyone got to wear it. It's crazy how think just disappear literally....like pacifiers when the baby is screaming its head off or how you always have leftover socks without a match. Things that make you go..hmmmm! Are you singing?! Your welcome! My point of this story is it is our fun little time together and he cracks me up so I wanted to take some pictures. Imagine that, I know!! He was cutting at first but then I wanted a full shot with the apron and he said, "Wait Mom let me grab a bowl and a spoon to pretend I am stirring!" I let him get situated and didn't realize how funny it was until I looked at the pictures and realized he was hard at work pretending to stir his food in a colandar just over the kitchen floor like it wouldn't spill out! Goofy boy! Of course he doesn't understand why I think it is funny but it JUST IS! I love my kids!