Monthly Archives: June 2010

My Very Berry Rice Krispies Treats recipe won the challenge!

Food and Drink, New posts

The winning Rice Krispies Treats recipe!

Rice Krispies Treats recipe challenge winner

I just found out that my Very Berry Rice Krispies Treats recipe won the Fourth of July Rice Krispies™ Recipe Box Challenge!!
9 other awesome bloggers submitted their own Rice Krispies Treats recipes and I am honored to have won the challenge.  All of the recipes looked delicious and we all put a lot of work into this challenge.

You can see the 9 other Rice Krispies Treats recipes submitted by the 9 other participating bloggers on TheMotherhood.com here.

My Very Berry Rice Krispies Treats recipe will be featured on the RiceKrispies.com website in a couple of weeks!!

Thanks to everyone who voted for my recipe.  You can see the two other Rice Krispies Treats recipes I came up with but didn’t submit for the challenge, here as well as the rules of the challenge.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
YAY!!

Very Berry Rice Krispies Treats recipe and instructions:

  • Make Rice Krispies Treats as usual
    • Melt 3 tablespoons butter in large pan on medium heat
    • Mix marshmallows in and stir constantly until completely melted
    • Remove from heat
    • Stir in 6 cups Rice Krispies
    • Separate Rice Krispies Treats mix into two 13×9 inch pans to make two thin layers
  • Refrigerate for 30 minutes to an hour – not necessary, but keeps the sorbet from melting quickly
  • Cut Rice Krispies Treats with star shaped cookie cutter and put stars on wax paper
  • Coat 1/2 of the Rice Krispies Treats stars with raspberry sorbet (substitute with your favorite flavor, ice cream, or frozen yogurt)
  • Place a star on top of the sorbet covered Rice Krispies Treats stars
  • Top with Cool Whip, strawberries, and blueberries
  • Garnish the plate with fresh fruit and serve

Madelyn’s swimming like a fish in the lake!

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I am so relieved that Madelyn is actually swimming now.  She’s 4 years old and has been taking swim lessons at Aqua Tots in Woodstock, GA for about a year now.  You can tell now that she’s very confident in the water. I used to be very nervous when we would swim in the lake when we vacation in Florida (no alligators!), but now I’m more relaxed knowing that Madelyn can come back to the surface if she goes under and she can swim a good distance if needed… and just for fun.
I used to not let her more than 2 feet away from me and it was very hard for me to let her go in the lake or pool without ‘swimmies’ on but at Aqua Tots they don’t allow the kids to use ‘swimmies’ so they learn not to rely on them I guess. Anyway.. check out this video of Madelyn, my little fishy.

Madelyn’s new hair clips from.. the Lake Eola Farmer’s Market

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We went to the Lake Eola Farmer’s Market today and within 10 minutes I bought something and it wasn’t fruit!  Tutu Girls Bowtique’s colorful booth was filled with adorable toddler hair clips, headbands, and even baby shoes… and the prices are great!

Butterfly hair clip from Tu Tu Girls Bowtique in Orlando

Next time you’re at the Farmer’s Market stop by the Tutu Girls Bowtique booth and I’m sure you’ll find a couple of hair clips and boutique bows for your little girl.

Here are a few more photos from our visit to Lake Eola Farmer’s Market today

Lake Eola, Orlando Florida

You can browse the Tutu Girls Bowtique website, however, the selection on their website is very limited and doesn’t show half of the selection they had at the Farmer’s Market today.

You can also follow Tutu Girls Bowtique on Facebook here.

Disclosure: I did not receive compensation for this post in any way.

Orlando Farmer’s Market & more places we might go while in Orlando this week

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Orlando Farmer's Market at Lake Eola Park

On one of our last vacations to Orlando we visited the Orlando Farmer’s Market.  I don’t remember what we went there looking for.. we were on a mission, but instead we found beautiful caterpillars housed in simple yet pretty clear cases, available for purchase.  No, not to eat.  Anyway, my son (10 years old) had to have one and lucky for him his Grandma thought he needed a caterpillar too.  So, he got a caterpillar from the Orlando Farmer’s Market and despite the fact that it didn’t live to turn into a butterfly (it lived a few weeks), buying that caterpillar gave me just enough experience at the Orlando Farmer’s Market to remember it as a fun place to go with the kids.  There’s so much to look at including the lake that it sits on.   I don’t like vegetables so I don’t stop at the fresh vegetable tables, but I love to stop and look at the orchids, fruit, and the arts & crafts.

I grew up in Orlando, in Longwood to be exact, and I had never heard of a Farmer’s Market until we moved to Atlanta when I was older. But now, Farmer’s Markets in Orlando are the only one’s I go to and it’s not that often.  I’ve been twice.    I’m not sure if we’ll go to the Orlando Farmer’s Market today but it sounds like something fun to do.  I have to pass it by my husband, the kids, and my Dad with whom we’re staying this week and see if they want to go.

The Orlando Farmer’s Market is at beautiful Lake Eola Park and shoppers will find everything from flowers, to face fainting to, fresh fruits & vegetables, pastries, fresh bread, beer & wine.  Sounds like a great day to me!

You can learn more about the Orlando Farmer’s Market on their website here.

Orlando Farmer’s Market Hours: Every Sunday from 10 am – 4 pm.

Do you think that going to a Farmer’s Market is a fun family activity or a ‘shopping experience’?  What other Farmer’s Markets are in or around Orlando?  Tell us and we’ll feature it on the Orlando Edition.

Tend-a-Tot, a true all-in-one’r’.. diaper bag, chair cover, cart cover.. and 3 more

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Tend-a-Tot

Contest ends July 6th

I’ve heard the phrase all-in-one a million times.  You have too right?  Well, the TEND-A-TOT™ is really really an all-in-one product for moms.  OK, so it doesn’t warm your baby’s food but it provides 6 essential functions that every moms uses (or wants to use!) every day.

TEND-A-TOT™, a product for infants through 3+ years old, has these 6 functions:

  • Diaper bag
  • Seat/chair cover
  • Child carrier
  • Shopping cart cover
  • Stroller cover – Converts an umbrella stroller into a comfortable stroller eliminating the need for an expensive, plush stroller.
  • Changing pad and coordinating bib
  • and a matching clutch purse!

You can watch a TEND-A-TOT™ demo video here.  If you’re not a visual learner like me and prefer paper instructions you will find them on the web site.  The instructions are 2 pages long but I see them as not ‘complicated’ but really good, detailed instructions.  For a product that has so many functions and is really great at each one, I expect detailed instructions!  After you transform the TEND-A-TOT™ a few times, you can toss the instructions in your recycling bin and be declared a Tend-a-Tot pro!

Tend a Tot 6-in-1

What about washing the TEND-A-TOT™ you ask?
 Products in the Premiere Line can be machine washed and can tumble-dry on low.  Urban and Elite Lines are dry clean only.

This is truly a one of a kind product that was created with busy moms in mind.  Moms can pick from lots of fabrics

TEND-A-TOT™ is available in many different colors/styles and ranges in price from $199 – $299.  The one you see here is the P1050 style and can be found on their catalog page here.  This style is sold out but there are 9 pages of styles/fabrics to browse on the Tend-a-Tot website.

GIVEAWAY!

We are giving away the very Tend-a-Tot you see me wearing in the top photograph!
To enter, leave a comment below telling me what the most useful function of the Tend-a-Tot would be to you and/or what you love about the Tend-a-Tot.
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