This weeks activity and recipe

The other night Morgan decided he was going to make barbecue chicken wraps. Now being gluten free, he figured he would wrap the chicken in lettuce. As he is cooking the chicken, he pulls out a jar of barbecue sauce. As he is pulling it out, I said you realize that barbecue sauce is loaded with sugar and not good sugar. Of course he didn't believe me and looked at the label sure enough to find high fructose corn syrup and sugar in the ingredients. Thinking off the top of my head I knew we had worchester sauce, mustard, and ketchup. I don't know why those ingredients stuck in my head but for what ever reason they did and we began to experiment. We made our own barbecue sauce and loved it. It was a little sweet but really good in a weird way. The girls absolutely loved it.

Recipe

Barbecue Sauce
Mix equal parts ketchup and truvia/sugar free syrup blend. Add a couple of splashes of worchester sauce and some dry mustard, salt and pepper.

I have seen recipes that call for vinegar which would balance the sweetness a little but we didn't have any.  We were also saying that it would be good with a little hot sauce to spice it up. However the above recipe was great and the kids loved it!


After such a dry winter that did not consist of many sled rides and snowmen building because of the lack of snow, we have had a very very wet last couple of weeks. Rain isn't as much as snow but still can be fun to play in. It seems like singing in the rain is just something that has to be done when you are a kid. It is also so much fun to splash around. We have found that the perfect time to play in the rain is right before bath time. We can go outside get wet and cold and then come in to a nice warm bath. On days that I let my boundaries down a bit, we may even play in the mud!

Activity of the Day

Play in the rain! We carry umbrellas, jump from puddle to puddle while singing rain songs. There is something unresistible about a big old puddle when you are a kid. You just have to jump in it!