Home for the hurricane

  I am a young mother of 3 boys who has been stuck in her house for 48 hours thanks to Tropical Storm Isaac. While browsing through some of my girlfriend's blogs I found the most fabulous blog of all time, Dixie Delight. Now, I am NO WHERE near as creative, crafty, cool, or any other c adjective as this Southern Belle BUT.....I wanna be! 

  I decided to start this blog to hold myself accountable to showing my children that I do think of them more often than they realize even though I am now back at work. (I teach 3rd grade at a private school that my 2 older boys now attend.) I live in Miami, Florida, and not many women are "crafty" and do things on their own. Miami is known as a city that requires little talent b/c you can outsource ANYTHING and pretty much everyone down here does. However, I want to do it a little different in my house. So here's my attempt to live dixie!

 Tonight for dinner I made a shark dinner! I dyed the whole wheat noodles with blue food coloring. Cut the whole wheat baguette to appear to have a bite and spaghetti sauce for the blood affect.

 Organic whole wheat tortilla with Swiss cheese, avocado, turkey and mayo. Complimented by carrots, cantaloupe, grapes and organic chocolate milk.

 This is my hubs. He will KILL me for posting this! BUT I wanted to note that he got the "I am special" plate with pancakes spelling out DADDY. When he sat down he asked where was the N b/c his name is ANDY! Yeah, I guess he has a difficult time reading!

 My middle child SAM.

 My oldest BEN. 

The name pancakes were a BIG hit! The shark spaghetti lacked flavor so I added more spaghetti per the boys request.