Because paint and kids is a brilliant idea.... if you love to clean up messes.

I'm that mom that sits on Pinterest and says "Yes! We will do this awesomely awesome craft today! And it will look just as awesome as it does on Pinterest because that's ALWAYS how it goes..."
.....Right.

So, just like any other day, we dove in head first with out planning or really preparing (at all) to make salt dough hand prints and ornaments. (Recipe taken from here: http://www.irocksowhat.com/2012/11/salt-dough-ornaments.html) 

This actually went fairly well. I tweaked the recipe some to make more dough but I honestly can't tell you exactly what I did (more flour? more water? less salt?) but it worked... good enough for us. 
The kids had a lot of fun doing hand prints (and complaining about how hard I had to push their hands in to actually get a print) and even made some awesome upside down snowmen and a .... dragon apparently. 
We baked these at 250* for about 2 hours. Here was the end product;

After we finished the salt dough creations, we moved on to stick projects. Yes, this was another (failed) Pinterest idea. Our plan was to get sticks from the yard, paint them, and make trees and sleds out of them. We accomplished the picking up sticks and painting part. But then it was lunch time, and paint was spilled all over the entire table along with water and a trail of paint and water drops led to the bathroom.

But here are a few snap shots of the fun :)

All in all it was a fun day and it kept us busy enough to help the time pass while daddy is at work. Later tonight we will be painting our salt dough ornaments and hot gluing our sticks together. Will post photos of the completed product tomorrow :)

Also, since so many ask.... Tonight's dinner is Mexican Lasagna:

1/2 box Oven ready lasagna noodles
1 jar salsa
1 can corn drained
1 can refried beans uncooked
1 can black beans drained and rinsed
1/2 lbs ground beef (my kids don't like beef much)
Spray dish and the layer as follows:
salsanoodles
refried beanscorn
black beansground beef
cheese
salsaREPEAT!
I literally used whatever I had available in the cabinet at the time. It's the last few days before we get paid so we tend to get creative. 
Preheat oven to 350* and cook covered for approx. 45min or until cheese is bubbly and noodles cooked.

Have a great day everyone! Thanks for stopping by!


<3 Aymee