Disney/Nickelodeon Themed Food Products

Dear inventor of Disney/Nickelodeon themed food products, You suck! My child does not like your product, not in the least... she's only interested on the outside of the box/can/jar/container! And the only reason I bought said product was so she would quit whiny while I was grocery shopping. Sincerely, Loving Mom.

Ever bought one of these?Only to have your kid to hate it or not eat it at all? Exactly! That's my dilemma! I have no problems with my kid eating healthy, in fact I love it when she makes healthy choices in her eating habits, what I don't like is this type of marketing scam... I think its a ploy to get your kid interested in their product whether they like the food or not. I know for my child its what's on the outside of the can/bag/box or jar that's important to her, even though I've explained 1,000 times that even though its a princess shaped spaghetti-o, it will still taste like a regular old spaghetti-o. Knowing that I get let down and angry because she either doesn't like it or wont eat it every time I buy something like this, I bet your wondering why I still buy it? Because like every mother on planet earth, I try my best to avoid a giant melt down in the grocery store. Its alot easier to cave to .80 cents than to deal with a half hour tantrum... even from a 5 year old. Believe me the tantrums only get worse with age... add whiny little "but mooooooom!"'s to the mix and you've got a whole new kinda appreciation for the toddler years! LOL All in all I just wish they would stop making these products! They are driving me insane! Have any of you bought them for your kids and had the same problem? Or has your kid liked them? If they did like them why?

Random Weekend

Sorry I've been a little MIA for the last few days, I've not been THAT busy I just don't have much to blog about. I just figure why bore you with mundane details right? So here's the cliff notes version. I am loving that we have had such a long weekend, Hubs has been off of work since Thursday! Woohoo! It would have been nice to go some where and enjoy it a little bit more but we'll be doing plenty of that next week when my in-laws arrive on Wednesday.

So far Thursday we spent re-doing the weather stripping on the vette which took about all afternoon. You have to take the door panels of to get to all of it so its kinda a pain in the ass, but with the two of us it wasn't too bad. We went to Chili's so Hubs could get his free Veteran's day meal. I was expecting it to be insane but we only actually ended up waiting about 15 mins... I was shocked, seeing how we live in a military town. I think it was the cheapest meal we've ever eaten as a family, in fact my meal was the most expensive at a whopping $7.99. Even the munchkin just wanted cheese fries! I think our total came to about $12.00 including drinks.

Friday was the corvette club meeting (Hubs is the secretary and web designer, so we usually kinda sorta have to go) and then we went to dinner with the club at El Rancho's... My FAVORITE local Mexican restaurant. Our poor waiter... I don't think he had ever handled a group as big as ours.... in the end he was so confused as to who ordered the chimichanga or the quesodilla. LOL! Followed by a walk around Wal-Mart (not my favorite but it was close) I dunno about you guys but I feel like I HAVE to walk around a bit after I eat... it just hurts if I don't. It feels like everything is just stuck right there in middle of my stomach and will take forever to digest, so I make it a point to walk around somewhere... which is usually a store and leads to impulsive buys like a CUTE new nail polish called Sunset Strip by Hard Candy and looks very fall festive on my pretty little piggies and some hair dye. Yup its been dyed yet again... I don't think I've actually seen my natural color in YEARS like were talking a good 12 years at least. I do know that if I did grow it all out Id probably be waaaaaaay gray, its just in my genes on dad's side. :P So anyway its a dark blond with platinum high lights and the bottom around my nape is black (like it has been dipped in tar) sounds weird but I actually like it.

Saturday was pay day and with no surprise grocery shopping day. We bought the Turkey and the Ham for Thanksgiving. I bought both meats in case the Airman we are having over don't end up liking Turkey there is always Ham. Its no strange thing to me to have both, I grew up that way. My dad is NOT a turkey eater so mom always ended up making both. I have to say I love the commissary, the older retired spouses always crack me up...

As for today its laundry day and Christmas shopping day. I'm probably going to head out and finish up getting stuff for the munchkin. On the list is the Leapster Explorer (that's her big gift this year), Some accessories for her Batcave that she will be getting, The Crayola color dome, and probably one or 2 other random NON GIRLY toys LOL. She is such her mothers daughter.

Hope you all are having a fabulous weekend (hope I didn't bore you too much) and I shall post more soon. I will have another craft project post soon (as I finish it). Its for Thanksgiving so I'm trying to finish it up ASAP. lol. I leave you with a pretty sunset that was taken by me on Thursday at the beach which is about 2 blocks from our house.