Food porn

Why doesn't the food network just go ahead and call their lineup after about 7:00 food porn? Last night I happened upon a show called "The Best Thing I Ever Ate." This show is surely the thing that will push my husband toward my involuntary committal or admission to an assisted living facility. I was watching the show about sweets and Duff (Ace of Cakes guy) was showing this dessert called CMP - chocolate, marshmallow, peanuts and really if you saw it you'd know why I was sitting semi-comatose muttering "I want to go to there" and drooling while I was huddled up next to an atlas trying to determine just how long it would take me to drive to Baltimore if I were to jump in the car RIGHT THIS MINUTE.

Moving on. We had house guests this weekend, a very good friend of mine and her two year old son. The kiddies had a great time playing and trying to impress each other. The kids are only 3 months apart and when we were pregnant we joked about how we would be setting up an arranged marriage for them. Anyway there's an awesome pool near our house with lots of stuff for smaller children so we planned to go there on Friday and of course it was the one day out of the past 3 months it was threatening to rain here, not actually raining just menacing clouds and thunder but enough to spook the pool officials into closing. So back we trudged on Saturday and found as we entered the pool area that no one was in the pool. Hmmm, that's odd. Then we got the scoop. They found poop in the pool. To be more precise poop in a swim diaper. Ok, how does that happen exactly? Have you ever had a swim diaper fall off your kid? I'm always wrestling with it to rip it off.

How about something that doesn't suck? As I've mentioned, oh about a thousand times, it's hot here (hottest July on record to be more precise). We are always conscious of making sure the little one stays hydrated so we fill sippy cups with ice only to have to deal with the ice melting and the bottle sweating. But this foogo thermos with a straw is perfect. It keeps drinks cold a ridiculously long time, the ice was still in tact a few hours after I put it in, and it doesn't sweat. The straw isn't one that's too tough to drink out of either so if you have a kid who hasn't mastered the straw totally or doesn't want to work that hard, they can totally figure this one out.