Peace77
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Post by Peace77 on Jan 2, 2014 17:50:42 GMT -5
What if you tape down a disposable drop cloth, plastic shower curtain liner or an old vinyl table cloth to the floor? Then no worries about the mess on the kitchen carpet.
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milee
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Post by milee on Jan 2, 2014 17:54:34 GMT -5
Maybe as the kids get older I won't feel this way any more, but my general thought is that I do not understand why in the Hell we don't design houses with drains in the floors of all kitchens and bathrooms. Instead of having those central vacuums, we could have central power washers and the kitchen and bathrooms each have their own nozzle to hook up to.
Oh, I just realized why they don't do this... because we'd all be tempted to try power washing our children.
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Peace77
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Post by Peace77 on Jan 2, 2014 18:09:29 GMT -5
Well, one time at the children's hospital, I saw the nurse put the toddler and high chair in the bathtub while he fed himself spaghetti with his hands. After dinner, hosed the kid and high chair down.
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teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on Jan 3, 2014 11:19:44 GMT -5
DS5 is dying to make ninjabread men (got the set of cutters for Xmas) - he's been trying to convince me for days (I had to work ). Since we're both home, today is the day. A few weeks before Xmas my mom invited ALL the grandkids to her house to make gingerbread houses. God love her, it was bedlam, but the kids loved it. She pre-made the houses (one per family) and royal icing, we brought the candy to decorate and pooled it. Some of my sibs micro-managed their kids effort, some left them to their own devices (until we saw that they had covered one side of the house completely w/ candy, and the other sides were blank), I helped DS5 w/ his house when he asked, and gave a bit of advice he didn't ask for, and DS4 helped his 8yo "only child" cousin w/ her house (my older kids weren't home yet). Mom did "her" house on the other side of the kitchen, away from the bedlam. I mixed up a batch of cut-out cookie dough sometime before Xmas, and once the older kids came home from base/college they helped DS5 cut out the cookies and frost them one day while I was at work.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 11:33:03 GMT -5
I just made cookies with DS since we're all home due to the snow. He did NOT like that I wouldn't let him eat the dough and he cried when I put them in the oven. Yup, he's my son, alright....
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geenamercile
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Post by geenamercile on Jan 3, 2014 11:35:05 GMT -5
I think the worst part of baking/cooking with kids, in MY house, is that there's carpet in the damn kitchen. So flour and egg messes are, um, not fun to clean up. To put it mildly. I keep saying the carpet is coming up. Maybe one day it actually will! WTF
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geenamercile
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Post by geenamercile on Jan 3, 2014 11:43:00 GMT -5
We do cakes more then cookies. We also leave the mess for DH to clean up. But some of the cakes..... well they have fun decorating them. Cake pops with differnt dips is another favorite here. That way everyone can decorate their own cake pop and there is no worries about someone doing it wrong. We also normally have another 3-5 neighborhood kids from the age range of 4-11 coming over to help.
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