It's been a while since I have been able to cull together my weeks via Instagram.  It is almost to the point of becoming flashback Friday instead.  So instead of starting where I left off, I am jumping right back in with where we are right now.  Hopefully I will catch up.  Or not...

 New Warby Parker's in the house.
So good for those of us with no vision insurance.  
Plus they give a pair of glasses to someone in need for every pair purchased.  Can't argue with that.

100 yummy days of school.


Professional catnapper.
He can sleep anywhere. 
For 18 short minutes.

hi.

Big things are happening in the land of the Supertones.
New website, which is pretty rad if I may say.
Huge big new things.
Stay tuned 3.9.12

The catnapper is also a little viper.
Attacking anything he can get his tiny quick hands on.
Coffee drinking is super tricky these days.
Coffee drinking is super NECESSARY these days.
Catnapper.

 Thank you Cat in the Hat for crazy hat day.
Thank you Little Bird for your crazy cute hats.

What seems like yesterday, but was actually years ago, Halley was a flower girl in our dear friend's wedding.  Now her little flower girl shoes fit her littlest sister.  Sigh...

She is sunshine.  All the time.
These faces?  Excitement over beans.  Yep.  Black beans. 
NO RICE.  Not a grain.  Don't you dare.
But give her beans, you will get sunshine.
What is it with my kids and beans?

Palm trees and snow.
NBD.
That's just life down in Southern California.

Catnapper.
Caught in the act.
Again.
Eighteen minutes.

The American Girl catalog is a great learning tool.
As in, imagine how fun it is trying to explain that this tent that fits TWO DOLLS, costs more than our actual tent that fits SIX HUMANS.
*For full disclosure, our human tent was purchased via Craigslist and smells like wet dogs and fifty gallons of Febreze.  Which is a story for another day.
**Speaking of Febreze... those commercials where they put blindfolded people in super gross "good smelling" rooms??? They creep me out and make me not want to buy Febreze, just for the sheer trauma that the poor people had to endure when they took off their blindfolds.  Ewwwww times ewwww times a million.

Catnapper.
In a mood.
Maybe because of ALL THE CATNAPPING!!!!

This season has felt like an unrelenting attack of the tiny ugly germs.
It's been hard.
But we carry on.
One flu/cold/flu/cold/flu at a time.

Surefire way to keep my sweets-free Lent season going strong, and fulfill my need to stress bake when it is yet another pets heads are falling off sort of day (week.  month.)?
Neon food coloring.
Temptation level zero for this food coloring hating girl.
Yes.

Catnapper.
Take three.
Eighteen minutes.

My kids are drama and won't drink anything bubbly, which throws any hope of fighting the tiny ugly germs with Emergen-c out the window.  That was, until Jess, the genius, showed me that they can go straight into smoothies.  HELLO???  Why did that never occur to me?  Smoothies made in a Ninja.  Which I STINKING ADORE.  Get one.  You will wonder why you ever wasted a single dollar on a crummy blender before.  Then you will ask it to be your boyfriend.  

Each week Jeannett hosts Insta-Friday.
This week she is asking us to do a little more.
Collect food.
A tiny simple, meaningful thing.
Join me.
How can we not?

life rearranged


Que dramatico, no?

But really, truly, maybe it is foolish pinning, maybe it is user error, maybe it is a whole bunch of different things...

Sadly, there have been some MAJOR Pinterest fails up in this house.

My new motto is:

Never judge a recipe by it's pretty pictures.

Herein lies the problem:
Yummy recipes with ugly photos will most likely not get pinned.

Yucky recipes with lovely photos will get pinned and repinned over and over.
But when someone tries it, it fails them, they go so far as to unpin it, the other repins stay.
The yucky/ pretty recipe crouches, waiting to make kids cry, husbands sad, and potluck dish bringers embarrassed.

What is a girl who loves pretty pictures AND yummy food to do?

I'm not all for leaving comments below the fails.  It's just not my thing.  Maybe it is a great recipe.  Maybe I just have weird tastes.  Maybe I made a fatal error while preparing it.

However, I am for all for having a board specifically reserved for Pinterest successes.
Will you join me?
Save the world from pretty/ yucky food?

Although it's pretty funny when your kid says "maybe you should unpin this, mom."

I love how Jessica from Keeping up with the Johnson's hosts a Pinterest Test Kitchen linky, where you can share your fails or successes.  I'm thinking that Mississippi Sin is on the menu stat.  Yummmmmm.





P.S.  While in the throes of a sugar fast, logging into Pinterest is TOTAL TORTURE.
I have to avert my eyes.