WFMW - Fresh Fruit Salad

So easy a child could do it...oh wait...that's right...my children did do it. Make a fruit salad, that is. When it's warm it's really hard to get motivated to crank up the heat. You know, to actually turn on the oven and cook. That's where salads come in handy. And a really good salad is a fresh fruit salad. There's really not much of a recipe to it. Just what ever fruits you like and some Cool Whip. That's pretty much it. But to help you out I'll list the fruits we use.

Apples, mixed yellow and red for variety, sometimes green.
Bananas
Pineapple, fresh if we can get it
Grapes, again mixed colors for variety; red and green
Strawberries
Blueberries
Sometimes we also put in some mandarin oranges from the can. Not fresh, I know, but they're great tasting.

Just chop up the fruit (the edible parts anyway) mix together with a tub of Cool Whip and it's ready to eat. Oh, yeah and sometimes we add in marshmallows. Just as a little treat.

There you have it - a great, cool, summery treat.

And for more summer recipes go over to We Are THAT Family for this special edition of Works-For-Me Wednesday.


Until next time...

Works-for-me Wednesday - Kool-Aid dyed scarves

Yeah, I know. I haven't posted for a few days.

So here's one. A Works-for-me Wednesday post. Kool-aid dyed silk scarves. I found this on another lady's blog a couple of weeks ago. For the life of me, I can not remember whose it was. So please forgive me if you read this and I didn't give you credit. Whoever it was: Thank you for the idea. Since I couldn't find the blog again I searched it out and found these instructions. I bought the scarves from Dharma Trading Co. I ordered 3 different silk scarves, but the larger ones were the favorites. I've ordered some more since the ones we did turned out so well. Next time, though we might add a little food coloring into the mix. The yellow didn't turn out very bright. It's pretty, but really light.












This is just a few pictures of the scarves we did. We did yellow, red, orange, pink, green, and purple.

Now for more Work-for-me Wednesday posts go over to We Are THAT Family. She's got a great one up about traveling with kids. Boy, do I ever need those tips.



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WFMW - color-coded towels

I've read several of these, but this is the first time I've joined in on this particular carnival.

Works-For-Me-Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family.

What works for me is different color towels and washcloths for everyone. I know that some people can't afford that, and actually I couldn't either. My mom bought them. (Thanks, Mama). Actually, the only towel I bought on here was mine; the light teal one on the bottom right. My hubby's is the dark purple one on the top right and my Grandma sent that one for Christmas. She sent two, and I exchanged it for the other one so we would have different colors. Wait, technically I didn't buy it. Wow, the only towels I've bought are the old ones. They are also hung up in order according to age (except mine). The matching washcloths are kept in a basket on the back of my toilet. But currently there is only one in there (the rest are dirty).





























So, you can see the two towels for my hubby and me (the ones I pointed out before) and the 9 for the children. After only the first or second time of them using their towel they new which one was theirs. They also knew who the others belonged to. It's so easy to know who to call to come pick up their towel when I see it laying on the floor. It has certainly simplified my life.

For more tips on what can work for you, go visit We Are THAT Family, and click on the links. She's also having a giveaway this week.

Until next time...