What Were They Thinking?

The other day I was browsing the toy isle in our local super store. I spotted something I thought my daughter would like as she is a huge animal lover. It was Barbie with a dog. So cute, I thought but as I inspected further it was not what I expected. There was also a dog bowl and a pooper scooper. In the dog bowl were what I thought were dog biscuits and I guess they were but then they were also used as poop.

So you feed the biscuit to the dog and then you push the tail down and it comes out of the dog's tooshie. Then you use the pooper scooper and.....put it back in the bowl??? YUCK! I already have a miniature pinscher that mistakes dog droppings for food. I don't need a toy dog in the house that eats it's own poop too!

Hearing Loss

I received a phone call from the school nurse today. She informed me that my 5 yr old daughter did not do well on her anual hearing test that they do at school. they repeated the hearing test 3 times, 3 different days with the same result. My daughter is not hearing low frequency.
Tomorrow I will call to make her an appointment with an audiologist. There is deafness and hearing loss in the family, so the possibility of having a child with some hearing issues is not a surprise. The timing however is. I didn't expect another health issue to pop up in the family before the end of the year. All we can do is roll with the punches and deal with it.

Jane's Vegetarian Burritos

My family's conversion to vegetarianism is getting easier. Last night I made a vegetarian meal that my teenage sons devoured. I haven't gotten many rave reviews from my 17 year old son on the vegetarian meals but he loved this one.

Black Bean and Spinach Burritos
However, if kids have an aversion to the words "beans" and "spinach" then just call them vegetarian burritos.

2 cans of black beans
1 can of corn
1 cup salsa (homemade or jarred)
2 tsp. cumin or 1 pkg. taco seasoning
1 pkg frozen chopped spinach thawed and drained

I mashed 1 can of the beans up and then mixed everything in a skillet on medium heat. Cooked until heated through and mixed well.
Have topping you want available. Grated cheese, onions, lettuce, taco sauce ect...wrap in tortillas and enjoy.
*If you like sour cream in your burritos, a healthier option is non fat plain yogurt. You'd be surprised how good of a replacement that is to sour cream.
This recipe would work fine for hard of soft tacos too.

A New Husband

My husband Jim shaved his long scruffy beard off and cut his hair the other day. The change is so drastic I just had to share a couple of snapshots taken in my kitchen.
Before and After - taken 1 day apart.