How To Serve Octopus For Lunch

Mmmmm, octopus. Sounds yummy, right?

Well, it is when it's served like this...

A hot dog octopus, with mustard features swimming in a blue ramen sea.  Delish! Well, at least this cute girl thought so.  She especially enjoyed biting the octopus's head off.  Er....sweet girl, right?

As I was searching for Cinco de Mayo crafts and recipes last week I stumbled across this fun blog, Muffin Tin Mom...



I have never heard of muffin tin meals. They are a simple idea.  Basically you make a little meal in (usually) a six-cup muffin tin.  Some people make it even more fun by using bright colored and shaped silicone muffin cups. This seems like a great idea, especially if you have a picky eater. On the Muffin Tin Mom's blog she also shows fun ways to present food sans muffin tin.

So, as I was rumaging around for lunch for my monkeys last week I remembered something I saw and thought I'd give it a shot...

Molly didn't take much time to enjoy the presentation though...

I used to do fun things with food for my oldest when he was younger. But these days managing to just feed all these monkeys, well, that's a major accomplishment! Alright, it's not that bad. Although sometimes it feels like it.

I'm going to try harder to be more fun though, to add more fun to my kid's days.  And lunch is a great time to do it!

This ROCKS! Check out this skirt...

I recently discovered the blog Simple Simon & Company. I found a link for a super cute skirt tutorial on someone else's blog and then when I jumped over to their place, I found a bunch MORE cute skirt tutorials as well as this awesome thing called $5 Fridays, where they see what they can craft for $5. Fun, right?

Well, this week they've been doing a crafty giveaway every day and yesterday we won this rockin' awesome tutu skirt....



Yay! Zoe is THRILLED! Her dad took her brothers over to Tropic today to help his dad with the cows. And she had to miss out on the trip. So, this was a nice surprise this morning! And, by the way, Ryan told the boys he would take them over to Tropic after school. But instead, he woke them up early and said, "April Fools!" And took them this morning, letting them miss school.  ha! I love it. 

One more thing...if you love this skirt (and how could you not? It's so cute, right?) you can find the tutorial Here. And be sure you go over to Simple Simon & Company's blog today and enter into their last giveaway of the week! Good luck!