Friday Family Movie Night Review: ParaNorman

Every Friday night is movie night at our house.  Pizza and a movie in the living room.  I don't know when or why exactly we came up with this, but we like it (most of the time) and it works.  Tonight we rented ParaNorman, which I thought might be a doable movie, but I was highly disappointed. First of all, with this movie having been rated PG, I thought that it's scariness would be limited to that of, you know, something more like Monsters, Inc. scary.  Boy was I wrong.  Twenty minutes into the movie, we had to turn it…

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Bean and Cheese Quesadillas

Here's another recipe that we had recently.  I found this one at Parents magazine. Ingredients:  1 tablespoon olive oil  1 small onion, finely chopped (we used half of a large one, because that's what we had) 1/2 small green pepper, seeded and chopped (we only had a large one, so I just used half of that) 1 15 ounce can black beans, drained and lightly mashed 1/2 cup lower sodium salsa 1/2 teaspoon chili powder 1 package (10-count) fajita-size flour or whole-wheat tortillas (I made two quesadillas with whole wheat tortillas and one with flour tortillas) 8 ounces reduced-fat pepper Jack cheese, shredded (we didn't have any, so I used 4 ounces of Mexican blend cheese…

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Children’s Book Review: Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep by Maureen Wright

This week, Rapunzel brought home a new book from the school library called Sleep, Big Bear Sleep by Maureen Wright.  I have to say this is probably the best book she's brought home from school. What's even better is that, right now,  the kindergarten class is discussing what animals do in the winter.  In this book, the wind tries and tries and tries to tell Big Bear to go to sleep for the winter, but Big bear just doesn't get it. This book was not only well written, but it was a fun, imaginative story with fantastic illustrations by Will Hillenbrand…

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Loaded Baked Potato and Chicken Casserole

  Let me just start out by saying this is most definitely one of my most favorite dishes...ever!  Oh my goodness I loved it.  And so did Prince Charming and Rapunzel.  I would definitely make it again.  (Just don't eat this if you're on a diet!) This recipe was adapted from  Cook Lisa Cook's Loaded Baked Potato and Buffalo Chicken Casserole.  Since our kids are so picky about their spicy food, I essentially just removed the "buffalo" part.  Here's the recipe: Ingredients: 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 8-10 medium potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes  (I…

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Goals: Week of February 3, 2013

I'm scrambling to write these down, as I spent so much time working with the kids on Valentines and going through my email that now I'm chomping at the bit to get some other things done. Anyway, I haven't posted goals since I closed my last blog, but seeing as I just posted yesterday on goals...I should start sharing them.  So here goes the goals for this week: Spiritual: Complete personal devotions every day Complete devotions with Prince Charming every day Family/Kids: Spend 3 hours this week with each child (this is a lot for me, sadly enough) Do something…

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