Something New

I am sure that I am not alone in the emotions I am about to express.  I guess I feel like life kind of cycles.  In many different ways.  But there are certain times when I feel completely unmotivated.  Not depressed, sad or angry.  Just like I don't have a good reason to do anything.  At these times it is the hardest to keep dinner on the table and chores accomplished in the home (something that I am not the best at anyway with 4 kids).  

So I have decided that I want to set one day a week where I try something new.  Whether it be a new meal recipe, dessert, craft, way to clean, etc.  I have over 2000 pins on pinterest and I love the idea of the pins, but I don't feel like they behoove me in anyway because I never use them.  I spend all this time perusing through the fantastic ideas of others through pinterest and it leaves me with little spare time to try new things of my own.  It is kind of fun and exciting to step outside yourself and do things a little differently every once in a while.  Hopefully it will help a little with this slump I've been in lately.  Then I want to photograph it and blog about it.  Hopefully it will help me to be more consistent in posting.  I will try a new thing one of the first 3 days of the week and post about it one of the last 3 days.

Since the kids were out of school this last week for spring break, I tried a couple of new things.  I wanted them to have some fun, but it is not completely warm enough to go running through the sprinklers just yet.  So I found this project where you tape two pieces of plastic sheeting together with duct tape and fill it with water.  So it ends up looking like a water bladder you would see for the old-school water-beds.  How fun that they can jump and roll around on it and not have to get wet.  Here is the original link to where I saw this.
http://gokidyourself.com/2012/03/giant-squishy-sensory-bag.html

Well I must have got some really crappy sheeting, because our bag lasted all of about 5 minutes.  It started leaking so I made everyone get off of it, determined to fix it so they could continue to play.  I needed some of the water to dry up so I could tape the leak and so we waited... Well the next day it was rainy.  Then most of the water had leaked out of some unseen hole and all was lost.  What a waste of money.  But we had fun doing it and it was a good idea.  

I also tried won ton tacos.  My kids have always liked taco's (we have them regularly- taco Tuesdays).  So I decided to change it up a little.  It was fun and all the kids ate them.  I'm still not sure they liked them any better than regular tacos, but I think they enjoyed something a little different.  Here is the link for the won ton tacos.
http://amazingpinterestworld.blogspot.com/2012/10/mini-tacos.html     
Definitely something I would recommend trying.  Pretty tasty! Alrighty then so now we have a new "segment" on my blog on whether I recommend it or not.  And this is my fist post for that! Wish me luck.  Let me know what kinds of new things you have tried and how they have turned out.  Let me know if there is something you think I should try for sure.  Pictures will follow soon.

Peace