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Muffin Tin Monday- Hopping You Had a Wonderful Easter

April 25, 2011 By Deirdre

I hope you had a wonderful Easter. Today’s tin hoppingly filled with bunnies. JDaniel had bunny cheese toast along with turkey, mango, banana slices and pickles on bunny picks. Half of a dyed egg also made it into this tin.

The picks came from a game the Muffin Tin Mom mentioned was available at Dollar Tree. We have never tried picks before and JDaniel really enjoyed them.

I had hoped to use the picks to convince JDaniel to eat turkey sandwich meat again. He has had turkey sandwiches for lunch for months and loved them. He has decided turkey is not good. He has decied most meat is not good. JDaniel has alwasy been a hearty eater of almost everything I give him. I hope this is just a stage.

Did your children go through a stage where they stopped liking certain foods?

Happy Easter!

April 24, 2011 By Deirdre

JDaniel and I created this tissue box flower box and flowers for our Easter table. We had such an enjoyable time gluing the center on the flowers and displaying them on and around the box.

I hope that wherever you are breaking bread and rejoicing in Christ’s resurrection this year that you are surrounded by joy and peace.

If that is not where you are, I hope that you will find the joy and peace you seek in the coming year!

Better Than Aladdin’s Wishes

April 21, 2011 By Deirdre

One evening as the day drew to an end a mother sat with her son on his bed telling him an ancient tale about a boy named Aladdin.

“Aladdin,” she said to him, “was a young boy who was sent to search for a magic lamp in a dark and eerie cave. Once he found the lamp he realized that the man who had taken him to the cave was going to take the lovely jeweled lamp away from him. Aladdin knew that this special lamp maybe magic and he wanted the magic for himself so, he found a way to keep the lamp for himself.”

“Was it magic?” asked his mom.

“It was magic. Aladdin discovered that it contained a genie while trying to clean the lamp. In a puff of smoke the genie was released from the lamp,” his mother replied.

“What did the genie want?” the boy wanted to know.

“The genie was grateful to be free from the lamp and gave the boy three wishes. He could ask for anything and it would be his,” his mother told him.

“What did he wish for?” the boy asked.

“First he wished for food to eat. He and his mother didn’t have a lot of food. Next he wished gold plates and they were sold by his mom to get money for their family. Finally he wished to be with the one he would love and he married a wonderful princess,” his mom answered.

“I’m not tired. Can I have one more story?” the boy asked looking up at his mother with hopeful eyes.

“Yes, I have an even better story about someone who gave people more than three wishes that would be gone in a short time,” the mother said wrapping her arms around her son to cuddle him close.

“What was his name?” the boy wanted to know.

“We call him God. Remember how we pray to him at meal times and in the morning to start the day?” the mother asked him.

“Yes, we have to thank him for the things he is doing in our day and we can ask him for things too,” the boy responded.

“Well, God has told us in the Bible that we can ask him for things whenever we need them. He didn’t say that we could only ask for three wishes like Aladdin did,” the mother explained.

“He doesn’t answer every prayer the way we want him to the way the genie did,” the boy said adamantly.

“No, he doesn’t answer every prayer the way we want him to, but he does hear our prayers,” he mother answered slowing leaning her son back until his head hit the pillow.

“Thank goodness! If God were like the genie in Aladdin, we might end up with things that we wouldn’t want in a short time or things that we would want to change later. God seems to know what we need and when we need it,” the mother stated pulling the blue blanket her son favored up to his slowing dropping chin.

“Right now I think God thinks it would be best if I got a puppy,” the boy announced.

“Let’s pray about it,” his mother said slowing standing up and walking to the door of her son’s room silently praising God that a puppy hadn’t just appeared at the foot of her son’s bed.

This post is linked to Mrs. Matlocks’ Alphabe Thursday. It is “A” week.

Muffin Tin Monday- Alternative to an Easter Basket

April 18, 2011 By Deirdre

JDaniel loves sweets. He would love to wake up to an Easter basket filled with sugary treats next Sunday. He would probably do a happy dance around the kitchen.

Instead of filling his basket with sugar I am going to try an alternative idea. The plan is to give them this bunny shaped deviled egg tray of eggs with healthy snacks. (Least you protest he must have something sweet. He will also be getting a small chocolate bunny from my mom along with a Curious George DVD, and a small plastic bunny game.)

I found a bunch of health organic snacks at Whole Foods to fill his eggs with. I found Honey and Chocolate Grahams from Annie’s Home Grown, Annie’s Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks, and Barabara’s Oatmeal Snackables in animal shapes, and an organic fruit strip (not pictured in the tray).

The bunny shaped products and the oatmeal cookies are so cute and delicious. My husband and I tested them out.

I know there are some of you reading this that are wondering why I didn’t choose to put all these wonderful items into an Easter basket. Well, JDaniel’s Easter basket is shaped like a plush basketball and it plays music. He got it from my mom last year and he really freaks out if the music accidently starts playing. He will love have this basket alternative.

Oh! Please think about joining the that The Activity Mom and I was hosting this week. Here is the box JDaniel and I put together for an activity we are doing for this Friday’s Read.Explore.Learn post.