Garlic and Sundried Tomato French Bread

 

I was cooking dinner and went to the freezer and was flabbergasted when I found NO TEXAS TOAST! If you know me and how much my kids love that stuff you would be just as appalled as I was. 

What' s a mom to do?

I had to figure out how to spruce up some .99 cent french bread I got on sale at the bakery.  Luckily, I had some sun dried tomatoes in the fridge left over from another recipe and I always have garlic (thanks to being married to an Italian man). 

I sliced the french bread and laid it flat on a cookie sheet.  then I took some butter and spread that on the tops of the bread, added some chopped up garlic and sun dried tomatoes and drizzled it all with extra virgin olive oil.  I broiled it to a golden brown and it was a hit.  

(sorry i have no 'after' pictures do to quick consumption of the end product):)

 

 

Spruce up your popcorn

For a treat I like to add little sweets to my kid's popcorn.  It's especially fun on friday night movie nights:)
I give everyone their own dixie cup of popcorn.  You can really choose from almost anything to top your popcorn with.
peanuts
marshmallows
M & M's
gummy bears
swedish fish
chocolate chips
skittles
raisins
yogurt covered raisins
dried cranberries

On this night I picked gummy bears, yogurt covered raisins, and mini marshmallows for our popcorn toppings.  It's just a way to change things up once in awhile.

Home Made Ball Pit

(please disregard my son's wounded forehead.  He fell off off his scooter the day before)

Since the weather has been beautiful lately, we've been practically living outside.  So, on this one day that it rained, it seemed like my kiddos had cabin fever worse than ever. 
I decided to pull out an oldy, but goodie that my ingenious husband thought of years ago. 
I took our old small baby pool that we bought from the dollar general store and blew it up.  We have about 4 bags of ball pit balls so I emptied a couple of bags into the pool and made our own ball pit.

Super easy and for some reason the fun lasted all day.  It worked out great and made my day lots more manageable.  (I only had to keep the puppy away from trying to chew holes in it:).