Wow! It’s amazing how fast life just sails by, these past
few months while Ron has been in San Diego especially. We are quickly
approaching the start of our fifth month of single parenthood and some days it
feels easy and some days I feel like I have been hit by a bus. We have good days
and we have bad days but we are pushing through.
I’m always looking for new, cheap, and quick things to do
with/for the kids to keep things exciting, browsing Pinterest the other night I
found a recipe for pumpkin play-doh that needed only two ingredients, two cheap
ingredients, so I swung by Winco and picked them up. Large cans of pumpkin
puree and large cans of corn starch, I also dumped some cinnamon in for a
little pumpkin pie smell. It took 1.5 cans of corn starch to one large can of
pumpkin and however much cinnamon you’d like. All you do is mix the two
together until they are play-doh consistency. Bam! Done, it was super easy and
cost all of $3 to make. So I make 9 good size balls put them in ziplock bags
and took them to Ronnie’s classroom the day before thanksgiving break as a
little something fun for the kids to take home and have over the weekend. I
would consider this one of the better days.
We went to my parent’s house for Thanksgiving this year and
I was pretty much no help at all because I worked the night before but, I did
cook the turkey! 20 delicious, juicy, pounds of bird! It was a good turkey if I
do say so myself. It did help that it was free with my $150 grocery purchase earlier
in the week. It was a good dinner and it was nice that my sister and brother-in-law
were able to be there too.
Our tradition of looking at the black Friday ads after
dinner was pretty uneventful this year. There just wasn’t anything that we
really felt like we needed to head out to the store in the cold, wind, and rain
for this year. In fact I was able to order the one thing that I wanted the
night before while I was at work and I will be able to pick it up on Dec 2nd.
Bam! Done no long lines, no getting soaked, no dealing with grouchy grumpy
people. Black Friday win for me.
After dinner we skated out super early to go home and go to
bed. I was crazy exhausted and could hardly stay awake. I think we made it to
6pm before we went to bed and slept till the next morning. I consider it a good
Thanksgiving!
All the play-doh credit goes to Fun at home with the kids! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe.
All the play-doh credit goes to Fun at home with the kids! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe.
