Ever Had an Oatmeal Sundae?

Me neither. But apparently it's a hit with the younger crowd. My daughter is normally not a picky eater but oatmeal is not really her thing. So the other week, (the Monday we got snowed in a week ago, actually!) I decided to give this a try. I had read on some ladies blog about trying to add sprinkles to food and just being creative and calling it fancy names. So I thought let's see if it works...

Well, I can report SUCCESS! Not only did Miss Grace eat her whole bowl of oatmeal and fresh fruit, but she also asked for the same thing for dinner, and breakfast the next morning. ;)

Here is the secret to my success. I used the following ingredients:

Then we put one of the waffle bowls into a glass bowl, stirred up the instant fruit oatmeal (we used Strawberries & Cream to go with the fresh strawberries.). Sliced up some fresh berries and added them to the bottom of the waffle bowl, added the oatmeal, garnished it with a whole berry and for our finishing piece de resistance we sprinkled it with Valentines day Sprinkles. (Thank You Michaels, probably the best fifty cents I have spent lately, grabbing these puppies after they put their Valentines stuff on SALE at 75% off.)

Anyway, here is the end result, and let me tell you, I had one impressed Toddler. She couldn't get over the fact that the whole thing was for her, and her alone...

She polished it off in a few bites and then showed me how full her tummy was. Well I was one happy Momma that morning, I've been racking my brain for ways to keep her from eating "Lucky Charms" every day. And I can't cook Snowman Pancakes every other morning either...so here is a go to breakfast we'll be serving more often at our house. As a matter of fact it seems to be a crowd pleaser with the banana cream oatmeal and fresh banana slices. Yeah for Quaker Oatmeal and Fresh Fruit. Mom's everywhere rejoice...

Another of these tag things...

I know that I should probably finish the old post about my cruise and the Vegas trip my hubby surprised me with for Valentines, but I just don't have the time or motivation right now. And this is a post I can slap up here and finish, check off my list (I know that you can relate Julie!), and call it done.

So here it goes:

It looks like the “4th photo” tag is making the rounds again, go to the 4th folder in your photos, and post the 4th photo from that folder.
This is what I came up with:I picture of my husband's late wedding ring. Funny how that works. We had it especially made for him by a local jewelry store here in Bellingham called G.B. Heron. They do wonderful work and we loved what we ended up with. We've since misplaced it twice and found it again once, so that means, in real life math terms it's still missing. Not sure when or where this second time happened, but to the day we have no idea where it ended up. What a shame for a one of a kind item. I think I am more upset over his ring than I would be if I lost mine...weird how that goes...

So now I need to tag 4 people. I’m hitting up Julie, Lisa, Megan and Alissa. Have fun, ladies! Can't wait to see some cool photos...

Guess I'm just not a good Blogger...

I know that I should have posted photos of my cruise (January) and my Las Vegas surprise trip, but you know how it is....life gets in the way. I hope to get a few posts in this week so stay tuned, you never know, Hell may just yet freeze over. LOL

Here are some pages I've created recently:

This one is a quickie I did in less than 1/2 hour the other night... Really, it's all scraps and some old photos I had already printed but not used and some letter stickers, (really, really, really old letter sticker; let's just say I'm surprised that they are still sticking to the page! LOL).

This cutie patootie is a Treasury sample I put together from the new Cosmo Cricket "Snorkle" line. Love the colors of this paper line.

I also did a little cleaning and re-arranging in my scrapbook studio. You couldn't tell from looking in the door, but I feel a lot better knowing it's done. I have a new box started for when I happen to come across anything for the fall garage sale at Treasury. I didn't do the Spring one this year as I didn't really have enough to warrant getting a table or even half of one. So in the fall watch for my stuff...

Off to convince Miss Grace that it is indeed her bedtime. Dad and her are watching Planet Earth on TV. Wish me luck!