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Getting Real With Food, Pt. 6: Breaking Down the Budget

June 19, 2008 by Laura 15 Comments

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Previously in this series, I talked about how I have finally come around to understanding that spending money on food…good, wholesome, real food…is important, necessary and right. If you didn’t read that post, you might want to start there!

For my family of six, I spend around $500 a month. (This amount does not include non-food household items.)

My husband (who hasn’t gained a pound in our almost 14 years of marriage) eats enough for three grown men. His job is physically demanding, plus he often plays soccer or goes jogging. The guy can eat. And…

My four sons take after their daddy. They can put away some serious food. I have decided that as soon as they’re old enough, they must take a job to support their eating habits. What in the world am I gonna do when they’re all teenagers at once? :)

So let me tell you what our $500/month goes to…

We bought a half a cow this year (which actuallydoesn’t appear to be enough to last the year..). It is a locally raised cow, fed only grass…woohoo! It cost us $725, which breaks down to $61 a month for beef.

This year we also bought a grass fed lamb from this same farmer, costing us $160, or $13/month. (If you haven’t eaten lamb before…OH MY GOODNESS…you need to! It has become our favorite meat ever. YUM!)

I buy large whole free range chickens from another local farmer that we trust…and spend approximately $17 per month.

We buy our milk from friends who have a wonderful milk cow. (Ah, we love that milk cow!). We buy an average of six gallons a week at $4/gallon. (This is a GREAT price for organic, grass fed, hormone free, incredible milk.)

Our eggs we buy from some other friends who have free range chickens (remember this?!). We go through at least three dozen a week at $1.50/dozen. (I think that’s also a GREAT price for what we’re getting!)

Okay, so lets put some of this together here…

Meat from farmers total per month: $91
Milk, 24 gallons/month: $96
Eggs, 12 dozen/month: $18
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Total on meat, milk and eggs/month: $205

Next, the bulk of my groceries are purchased from Azure Standard food co-op…which is where I order my grains (wheat, oats, rice), rapadura (dehydrated cane sugar juice), sea salt, some fresh produce, tuna, frozen fruits and veggies, and some other stuff I can’t think of right now. :) I spend anywhere from $100-$250/month depending on how many large items I’m out of that month.

The remaining amount I spend at the grocery store buying fresh fruits and veggies. (And occasionally Smart Chicken brand chicken breasts when they are REALLY on sale.)

And, if you remember seeing my pantry and freezers, you know I also have a big garden, so I do a lot of canning and freezing in the fall. That stocks us up for the year on tomato products, green beans, corn, peaches, pears and applesauce. We also try to grow enough potatoes to last us for several months. (And I take advantage of any extra fruits and veggies anyone else has an abundance of to offer!)

Do you know all the yummy meals I can put together for my family with all of this great REAL and wholesome food? I LOVE it!

Next in this Getting Real With Food series, I’ll offer some suggestions for where to start if you’re looking to begin a healthier eating style. You CAN do it!!

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So Many Strawberries…So Little Time

June 19, 2008 by Laura 5 Comments

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You may remember me mentioning that I’m getting ready to host a family reunion this weekend. AND that we opened our Shaved Ice business this week.

Between those two events…I’ve felt a bit CRAZY this week. (My poor children…) ;)

So, you might imagine what I felt when a friend of mine called a couple of days ago to tell me that their strawberry patch had WAY more strawberries than they could ever eat. She told me they were ready to be picked again, and that I could come anytime.

My to-do list is as long as my leg…but I COULD NOT pass up the chance to have as many organic fresh strawberries as I could pick. So yesterday morning the boys and I put on our strawberry pickin’ gear and away we went.

I forgot to take the camera with me so that I could take a picture of my happy strawberry pickers….but allow me to tell you how much FUN it was to walk into that awesome patch filled with so many strawberries you could stand in one place and pick for 10 minutes because there are so many strawberries in one spot.

My favorite part of the strawberry day was when Matt came home…and I told him that we’d been eating a lot of the strawberries we’d picked, but that we tried to save him just a few. Then he walked into the kitchen to see this:

Hehe…

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Healthy Treat For Today: Whole Wheat Cinnamon Rolls

June 17, 2008 by Laura 285 Comments

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I’ve been baking all my life (give or take). I can bake in my sleep. I can bake along with the best of ’em.

But I have had the hardest time coming up with a good cinnamon roll.

I’ve tried many different recipes and they always end up being too bready, too heavy, too doughy or too dry.

I just about gave up, figuring I must have the incurable CRBD (Cinnamon Roll Baking Disorder)….

But I tried just one more time.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. Must be because I also suffer from GGDS (Good Grief Duh Syndrome) and sometimes have a hard time seeing the obvious.

It finally occured to me that since my homemade soft pretzels are so, so good…maybe that dough recipe would make a good cinnamon roll. And BOY was I right! Yumm-eee.

It was one proud day when I finally made a good cinnamon roll. And the fact that it was made with whole wheat and honey was an added bonus! Healthy and delicous…what a deal!

So, just in case you also have CRBD (see above to remind yourself what that is if you have GGDS and can’t remember)…here’s the recipe that finally worked for me!

Whole Wheat Cinnamon RollsYum

1 cup water
2 Tablespoons yeast
2 teaspoons honey
2 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup honey
4 teaspoons sea salt
8 cups whole wheat flour

Ingredients for the “innerds” of your cinnamon rolls:

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup rapadura or sucanat (dehydrated cane sugar juice) (you can use white sugar if you want)
1/2 Tablespoon ground cinnamon

Melt your butter and set it aside. Mix together the rapadura and cinnamon in a bowl.

Ooey-Gooey Frosting

1/4 cup butter
3 Tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 cups powdered sugar to make the consistency you like

Melt butter. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla, milk and powdered sugar. Whisk together until smooth.

Okay, here’s how to make the dough…

In a large bowl, mix 1 cup very warm water, 2 T. yeast and 2 t. honey. Stir this together and kind of mush the yeast around. Let this sit for a few minutes while you do the next step.

Melt a stick of butter in a large saucepan. Add 1/2 cup honey, 4 t. salt and 2 1/2 cups of milk. Heat this to 120 degrees.

Pour milk mixture into yeast mixture and stir. Stir in 8 cups of flour, 2 cups at a time. (add more if you need it)

Knead the dough for 5-10 minutes. Plop it into a bowl, cover it and let it rise for 1-1 1/2 hours.

After dough is nice and fat, punch it down and knead out all it’s bubbles. Cut the dough in half, setting one half aside.

On a well floured surface, roll dough into a nice big rectangle, about 1/4 inch thick.

Use a pastry brush to spread 1/2 of the melted butter all over the rectangle. Sprinkle 1/2 of the rapadura/cinnamon mixture all over the butter.

Roll up the dough.

Cut into thin slices, about 1/2 inch thick.

Place rolls side by side on baking pan.

Repeat process with other 1/2 of dough.

Allow dough to rise about 30 minutes.

Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown at 350 degrees.

Allow rolls to cool a bit, then drizzle lots and lots of ooey-gooey frosting all over them.

Happy cinnamon roll baking!! Be sure to look through the “Natural Sugar Treats” section of my blog for more great recipes like this one…using great wholesome ingredients to make great treats!
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Gratituesday: The Grand Opening

June 16, 2008 by Laura 15 Comments

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Well…after having to work out several kinks and having to push our opening date back a couple of times…we finally opened our Shaved Ice stand on Monday!

My stomach was a little bit in knots as the time approached for us to meet with the health inspector to get our food license. But, indeed we are now licensed and open for business!!

Here…check out our set up:

Here’s a nice view of the concession trailer we bought:

We’re excited…and exhausted…and we’re open for business! Now we’re working hard to get the word out by running all over town handing out “Buy one get one free” coupons.

This Gratituesday, I’m so thankful that after all of our hard work and dreaming and praying…we now have launched our new business. What a fun adventure!
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We’d all love to hear about what you’re grateful for too! Write about it on your blog, then come link up with us here! Or, leave a comment letting us know what you’re grateful for!

God is good!

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Where in the World Do I Start?

June 16, 2008 by Laura 6 Comments

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Here’s a quick tip for any of you who have ever had so many things going on at one time that you thought your head would pop off. And then you look around at your house and see messes in every room and feel complete frustration thinking that you’ll never get it all under control…and you don’t even know where to start if you could ever start…

I was sorta feeling this way today. (sorta?)

But as soon as I had a free minute…I went and cleaned my kitchen.

In my opinion…it’s the best place to start. When my kitchen is a wreck…I feel completely like a wreck. If the kitchen is clean…everything overall feels so much better.

I don’t have time to get to the rest of the house right now…but I started with the kitchen. And I feel like I’m regaining my focus…and I feel much calmer now.

You’ve gotta love a clean kitchen! :)

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To Answer Some of Your Questions…

June 16, 2008 by Laura 8 Comments

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You’ve all been so encouraging as I write my posts about healthy eating…and all the other homemaking and parenting and random stuff I blog about! I love your comments and emails…KEEP THEM COMING!

I’ve received lots and lots of questions from you, and just so ya know, I’ll try to answer all of them. If it’s a question about healthy eating, I’ll try to answer it somewhere within my Getting Real With Food series. Thanks for being patient with me.

If you asked a question a long time ago about something else and I still haven’t responded….ask again. Sometimes (most of the time) I don’t even call my kids by the right name. I KNOW I’ve surely failed to respond to some of your questions. (“A-Jus-El-Mal-Asa”…I have to go through all of them, just so that I can go back to the one I started with in the first place.) (It’s a good thing we don’t have pets too.)

So before I lose track of these two questions from my last post about the farmer’s market, I’ll answer them now. :)

Here are the pictures I showed you of what I made last Thursday…

First question…

Can you tell us what the other foods are? I think I see pretzels? what else?!?!?! Also, can you tell us/show us how you package these goodies for the market?

Last week I made two batches of pretzels, one recipe of cinnamon rolls (which made five pans of eight), one batch of flourless peanut butter cookies, one batch of giant chocolate chip cookies, a pan of chocolate chip brownies, three loaves of applesauce bread, a double batch of white flour tortillas and a double batch of whole wheat tortillas. (The whole wheat tortillas turned out ugly this time…so we kept them for ourselves!)

I packaged the pretzels in five bags of five, and the rest I packaged individually so people could buy one at a time or several at once. The cinnamon rolls I slid carefully onto a paper plate then put tons of ooey gooey frosting on them and covered them with a baggie. I cut the brownies into 12 large squares and wrapped them in plastic wrap. I wrapped the giant cookies and the applesauce bread in plastic wrap also. I put the peanut butter cookies six to a plate and covered them with plastic wrap. The tortillas went into baggies in sets of eight.

We came home with only seven pretzels (I took 47…not bad!), and a few odds and ends of cookies and such. The cinnamon rolls sold out fast! (Must’ve been the ooey-gooey frosting!) I was surprised that there wasn’t much interest in the applesauce bread. (What, they only want the unhealthy stuff?!) Matt suggested I take samples because if people tasted it…they would WANT it!! (He’s so sweet!) I’ll try applesauce bread one more week and if it doesn’t go well, I won’t make it anymore. (For the farmer’s market that is. I’ll SO keep making it for us!)

Next question…

The food looks fantastic! How do you find time to do all that baking with four kids? I’d love some pointers. I really enjoy baking.I would love to sell some baked goods at our local farmers market:)

If I say, “I don’t know how I do it. I’ve decided that I must be insane.” would that be discouraging? ;)

My insanity aside, I LOVE baking and I’m pretty fast in the kitchen. I have established a bit of a farmer’s market baking system that has worked pretty well so far.

First…the chocolate chip cookies freeze very well so I make them on another day when I have time and freeze them. Done. Also, I think the applesauce bread is moister and tastier on day two, so I bake it on Wednesday night before bed.

I then make sure my kitchen is clean and my ingredients are ready for a baking marathon on Thursday…

I get up early and get my first round of pretzels mixed up. While they are rising, I get the chocolate chip brownies in the oven. While they bake, I do some dishes and mix up the peanut butter cookies. As soon as the brownies come out, the cookies go in.

Then, I mix up, roll out and cook the tortillas.

By then the prezel dough is big and fat and lovely…so I start shaping and baking those. While those bake, I mix up the cinnamon rolls to rise. While they rise…I rest a while. (What a good idea.)

Once I get the cinnamon rolls ready and rising, I mix up my next batch of pretzels (I find that if I mix up a double batch at once, they just don’t do as well…that’s why I do two separate batches).

I bake my cinnamon rolls while the prezels rise…and I work on my mountain of dishes. And package up the food that is cooled enough.

After the cinnamon rolls come out of the oven, I begin shaping and baking the last round of pretzels.

When I’m done with that and the cinnamon rolls have cooled, I frost them. And then I’m done. Shew!

Where are the kids during all of this? I have no idea. Just kidding. Sort of.

No really, they are asleep for the first few hours of it, and that’s when I get a ton of it out of the way. Then they get up and eat breakfast (okay, we did cereal last week…and might just have to do that every Thursday this summer unless I make something ahead of time!). After breakfast, they just play…and I think they get dressed eventually too.

Last week, my very sweet friend Jenny called while I was baking and asked if Elias and Malachi could come over and play with her kids for the afternoon. She came and picked them up and everything. She’s awesome! The boys loved it and it made me feel less like I was neglecting anyone.

For the most part, my kids are pretty good at playing together during these times that I’m baking my brains out (well, that doesn’t sound very tasty, does it?). Or sometimes they come help me…or sometimes I’ll put them on another job doing something else. They actually really get excited about farmer’s market day…and the hardest part for them is that I’m baking all these really yummy things and not letting them eat ANY of it. The nerve.

Now…I wouldn’t want to do it everyday, because it does wear me out…and I don’t get to spend good down time with the kids…but once a week for a few weeks during the summer is good. And if I haven’t mentioned it before…I do love to bake.

Note to self about this upcoming Thursday: Remember to eat. Good grief, I never forget to eat…but I totally forgot until about 2 pm last Thursday when I said to Matt, “Wow, I’m really starting to feel light headed.” Duh. Eating food is usually a helpful way to keep yourself upright.

I’m gonna try to remember that this week. :)

Any more questions?!

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Menu For the Week

June 15, 2008 by Laura 10 Comments

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We made all of Daddy’s favorites for Father’s Day. It was great…and we were stuffed. :)

As you read through the rest of my menu, you might notice how many salads we’re having. It’s because I HAVE FRESH LETTUCE AND SPINACH COMING OUT MY EARS!!! (Want some?) It’s so awesome!

Sunday, June 15
Biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, scrambled eggs
Leg-O-Lamb, mashed potatoes and gravy, roasted carrots, chocolate peanut butter pie
Who needs dinner after all of that?

Monday, June 16
Whole wheat pancakes
Taco salad, pineapple orange slushie cups
Italian roast wraps, tossed salad

Tuesday, June 17
Yogurt with strawberries and blueberries
Peanut butter and jelly on biscuits, grapes, carrot sticks
Spaghetti, tossed salad, corn

Wednesday, June 18
Strawberry and peach slushies (with fresh spinach hidden inside…I promise you can’t even tell!)
Grilled chicken strips, mashed potato pancakes, peas
Chicken enchiladas (already prepared and in my freezer!), tossed salad (what a surprise)

Thursday, June 19
Breakfast Cookies
Quesadillas, cottage cheese and peaches
Farmer’s Market…pack some snacks

Thursday night, many of my relatives come into town for a family reunion!! The rest of our menu will tell you what we’re eating together!

Friday, June 20
Whole wheat waffles, scrambled eggs, sausage
Picnic in the park
Chicken fajitas, spanish rice, tossed salad, chocolate chip cookies

Saturday, June 21
Applesauce bread, fruit, juice
Ultimate nacho bar
BBQ at our cousin’s house

I’ve got a pretty busy week ahead of me, getting ready to sell baked goods at our Farmer’s Market and getting ready for our Family Reunion! I’m super excited though and have LISTS like crazy to help keep me organized!!

On my blogging list for the week…

In my “Getting Real With Food” series, I’ll share more about eating healthy on a budget (I’ll give you the break down on what we spend our food money on). Also, I MUST share with you my whole wheat cinnamon roll recipe. They are SO YUMMY!

Visit Organizing Junkie for more menu planning ideas. For sure, because of my hectic week…having my menu planned is even more important than it usually is! (It is not pretty to watch me try to prepare food without a plan.) :)

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A Few Pictures For You

June 13, 2008 by Laura 4 Comments

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After showing you this picture…you know I just couldn’t let it rest. I HAD to show you the after shots too. (So you could sleep better at night knowing that I don’t live in that kind of chaos…usually.) :)

Oh, and in the interest of explaining myself and giving you all excuses for why that guest room got so messy…here are a few of my disclaimers:

In the winter, that room gets REALLLLLLY cold. If we have guests, they stay in our other guest room. So, I rarely go in there during the winter, except to throw something in there to put away later and then run back to the fireplace. That happens for months, until the room then looks like this.

Also, the matress got flopped over recently because the boys saw it in there and immediately flopped it over so that they could enjoy some sumo wrestling and etcetera. ‘Nough said.

And, all of my HeavenlyHomemakers business stuff is in there, and again, in the winter I just go quickly grab what I need, thaw it out and ship it. Everything sort of gets scattered in that process but I’m too cold to care. (It is so weird to talk about fireplaces and being cold now that it is NOT cold.)

Okay, need more excuses? Because I can give you more…

Nah, let’s just get on to the pictures.

Again, here’s the before picture (like you needed to see THIS again…)

And after spending a couple of hours re-arranging and re-organizing…

Now don’t you feel refreshed and feel like you can sleep better now?! (I’m sure Char is sleeping better in there than she would have otherwise!)

While I’m showing you pictures of how busy I’ve been…here are some pictures of most of my baking for the Farmer’s Market yesterday. I spent the entire day baking…and it was a BLAST!! I LOVE TO BAKE!

After I baked these cinnamon rolls…I slathered them with frosting. I had five pans, and they all sold EASILY! Everything else sold well too…and we had a super fun time.

Now, I just need to recover and get geared up for next week!! Whew!

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Getting Real With Food, Pt. 5 Our Food Budget

June 12, 2008 by Laura 26 Comments

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When I told my friend Anne a few weeks ago that I was going to start this “Getting Real With Food” series, one of the first things out of her mouth was that I needed to be sure and tell you how much money we make and how in the world we eat the way we do.

Because isn’t that the biggest dilima? We all want to eat healthy food…but healthy food is expensive. Many of us think we can’t afford to eat healthy.

I won’t come right out and tell you how much we earn…but I will tell you that we meet the income guidelines to qualify for WIC (which we don’t use) and medicaid for the kids. The maximum income for a family of six to qualify for these services is somewhere around $51K…and we don’t come close to touching that. Okay…so now you know.

I share that with you so that when I tell you more about my view point on spending money on food…you don’t just assume that we’re rolling in dough and don’t have to care or think about what we spend on food. FAR from it, I promise.

I believe there is a big mis-conception about spending money on food. All the time I hear, “We just can’t afford to eat healthy.” If I wanted to pull out the “we can’t afford to eat healthy” card…I could. And I used to. And I struggled like crazy to come to the place in my thinking that I am today….that spending money on real and wholesome food is important and neccesary.

Let me share my Food Budget/Healthy Eating Journey with you…

When our first two boys were babies, we lived in Colorado Springs where there were a great variety of grocery stores…many of which doubled coupons. I thus became the “Coupon Queen”. (Ask any of my relatives…I was famous…or…something like that.) I spent $100 a month on groceries and got TONS of stuff for free all the time. I had a blast with my “hobby” and I loved it.

After our third son was born, we moved to Nebraska. There are no stores that double coupons here…and I was really sad. I still used coupons and did rebates and saved a lot of money on groceries. I probably at that time was keeping my budget to around $175 a month. We ate anything I could get for cheap or free, and nothing that I couldn’t. My mind set was about saving money, and although I did feed my family fruits and veggies and very little candy or junk food…I didn’t give much thought to eating healthy. I was all about spending as little as possible on groceries.

When our fourth son, Malachi, was born in 2004, some of my friends started reading and learning about a healthier style of eating. When Malachi was only two months old, he developed horrible eczema. I was ready to put him on whatever drugs my doctor offered me because a good mama does whatever her doctor says, right? My friends then started telling me about some of their diet changes that might help Malachi and about the ill effects some of the drugs being offered would have on him.

Thus began my quest and struggle to change our eating habits.

We began changing our whole lifestyle really. I was completely on board to change the way we ate and to start focusing on eating real food. Healthy food. Making up my mind about that was easy.

However, wrapping my brain around the changes in my food budget were actually very painful for me. That might sound a little silly…but I had been the “Coupon Queen” for years. I had been the amazing money saving shopper. The one who could feed her family for less than $200 a month. That was a big part of who I was.

Now I had to learn how to actually spend money on food. (And not only on food, but on detergent and soap and shampoo and bathroom cleaner, as I began to learn about harmful chemicals and such. I only had coupons for the toxic kinds. Hmph.)

During this time too, my boys were of course growing and beginning to eat more. My two healthy eating friends were constantly having to remind me of the value of feeding my family well and that it was okay to spend money on good food. And gradually it began to sink in.

I now recognize that it is the FOOD that is meant to NOURISH OUR BODIES that we’re talking about here. This is not a splurge or a luxury. It’s not cable TV or fancy clothes. It’s food. We should not compromise on the single most important thing that has the power to make our bodies healthy or unhealthy.

I get that now. I have come full circle. I have gone from working very hard to spend little to nothing on groceries…to questioning a food’s nutritional value if it doesn’t cost very much. Funny.

Now, I spend around $500 a month on food. Sometimes a bit more. This is for my family of six. Five out of the six are male. Five out of the six eat like there’s no tomorrow. Five out of the six love asking the question, “What else can I have to eat?” (It’s a good thing one out of the six loves to cook!)

I think that the $500 a month I spend is actually pretty impressive for what we eat. We eat real food. I know other families who spend more than that amount on processed foods.

My family is proof that eating well on a limited budget can be done. You have to eat. You need to eat well. You need to.

I’ll break down our food budget for you next time and tell you what specifically we spend our food money on. Stay tuned! And be sure to leave any specific questions about this in the comments! It’s fun getting real about food with you!

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Learning to be a Happy Loser

June 10, 2008 by Laura 16 Comments

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Remember how I told you that we love playing card games around here…especially in the summer time?

Well…you know when you play a game with your kids…someone’s gonna lose. It’s how a game works. There are winners and there are losers.

(And I’m SO NOT gonna let my kids win just to save their sweet little hearts from being broken. I’m ~~way too competitive~~ much more interested in teaching them about real life.)

So, here’s what we’ve found that really works for us!

If you are the loser of the game…you get to stand up and do the “I Lost the Game Dance.” Bust out some moves. Break dance if you want. You’re the one who lost. You’re the one who’s earned the privilege of doing the loser dance. None of the rest of us winners get to do it. We have to just sit there on our boring little bottoms with our big pile of winning cards and watch you have fun doing your version of the “Loser Dance”.

I’m telling you…this system has been a perfect way to take away the sadness of losing a card or board game. Instead of being sad, as soon as a game ends, the loser hops right up and start “showing us what they’re made of”. Then we all have a nice round of giggles together before we re-shuffle and start another game.

(Don’t you dare even ask what it looks like when Mama is the loser. I don’t-got-much in the way of “moves”. Bless my heart.)

Oh yeah…and if we’re playing “Old Maid”…the one who ends up losing with the Old Maid card at the end has to do their Loser Dance in Granny Style. With an old maid look on their face …and a walking stick…and arthritis. It’s beautiful.

Alright, we’re getting ready to play Go Fish. I’d better go stretch out.

;)

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