Ma What's For Dinner?

Four years ago I was unbelievably lucky to welcome into the world this bundle of joy.

I can’t believe that Brady is four years old.

Now any of you who follow along know all about Brady.  He’s my middle child, the one who has what I like to refer to as Second Child Syndrome.  He’s the one I can always count on to be right in the middle of the melee.

He’s stubborn…he’s persistent… he’s smart as all get out…and he’s as funny as they come.

We’re having a BBQ for Brady this weekend, it’s sure to be a blast.  And in true Ma, What’s For Dinner fashion I’ll get you all the details on food and recipes next week.

In the meantime, Happy Birthday baby boy.  My one and only Brady…

Today is also my first official Friday Follow.  I’ve finally decided to play along.  Hope to see you all again soon!

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I’d like the thank the members of the Academy for this honor…ooops, once again, wrong speech.  I’ve just had that one in the arsenal for so damn long and I’ve been dying to give it.  Ahem, let’s begin again shall we?

I’d like to thank Tiffany and Heather and all the amazing bloggers at The Secret is in the Sauce.  Haven’t been there yet?  It’s a-mazing!  A wonderful community of bloggers that comes together to support and encourage one another.  And today, as luck would have it, it’s ALL ABOUT ME!  Yup, I said it, I’m the Queen For A Day otherwise known as the Featured Blogger.  So if you’re new here, pour yourself a drink and pull up a chair to the Fitzpatrick’s kitchen table.  I hope you’re all hungry!

Ok, let’s get to the good stuff first.  Here are a few of our favorite posts…Please check them out, and many others if you like and leave me some love.  All I ask is that you say something slightly relevant, we’ll all know you didn’t read any of this if you just leave a Happy SITS day and move on, you know who you are, we ALL know who you are don’t we SITStas?  Alrighty then, enough chit-chat, on with the show…

1. The boys and I whip up some homemade sushi – ok, it’s not sushi, but it sure looks like it in

So Chic Sushi Rolls

2.  Giggle and hopefully commiserate as I fight the signs of aging in

Is That What I Think It Is?

3. Help me as I try to discover what on earth happened, as if I want to know, in

The Case of the Missing Toothbrush

4. And one more recipe for good luck…as grilling season is upon us whip up some

Inside Out Bacon Cheeseburgers

Now…let me tell you a bit about us…

So who are we?  Well we’re the Fighting Fitzpatricks…

Keegan

My three adorable little boys and I have taken to the kitchen in an attempt to get them to eat things that are more than just beige.  I was so sick of Keegan, Brady, and Cooper eating nothing but chicken nuggets, french fries, and plain pasta that I had to do something…anything.  I had attempted all the tried and true versions of meals…I put it in muffin tins, I hid spinach puree in brownies, but I wanted my kids to actually WANT to eat, and enjoy good food so I teamed up with them…And voila, Ma, What’s For Dinner was born.

Brady aka Second Child

We hope you enjoy your time here, have a look around.  Like what you see?  Well then, join us…drink the kool-aid.  Kidding kidding!  Seriously though, join us over there on the side bar and become a follower.

Cooper

Really, it’s cool to be a follower.  We’re on Facebook, Google friend connect, twitter…OH Oh Oh…you can also now buy our book!!!  It’s finally available for sale.  Pick up a copy here and feel good about feeding your family AND helping a worthwhile charity.  We donate 15% of all profits to Fight SMA a wonderful charity that helps children fighting Spinal Muscular Atrophy, the number one killer of children under the age of 2.  Our very good friend, Billy Therriault, is waging a very brave battle against this horrible disease.

Oh, look at you…still here.  I’m so glad.  I know, I know, you need more.  Well, my Ma taught me right, I’m nothing if not a good hostess! If you’re in the mood for more then feel free to check out these little ditties…

Cooper and I created a whole new style of meals, we call them One Arm Wonders because you can make them with one had tied behind your back, or in my case, carting your little man around the kitchen who is having a bad day…watch us make

Hawaiian Pizza – One Arm Wonder style

Giggle at our smiling mugs in our latest press in Green Home & Family magazine

MWFD In The News

Laugh as I try not to kill my middle child, Brady in

Second Child Syndrome

Need Mommy Advice?  Wrestle that binky from your child’s death grip in

The Binky Fairy

And what great luck!  My very first giveaway ends today at midnight eastern time so be sure to enter the contest, I announce the winner next week.

Perfume Giveaway

We hope you’ve enjoyed your time here.  We’ve so enjoyed having you.  Please come back soon.  We’re always whipping up something special and fun here and answering the scariest question known to mankind…

Ma?????  What’s For Dinner????

Lots of yummy love,

Ma

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OH OOOOHHHH OHHHH!!!  Good news good news!  I can’t believe it but I just heard that yours truly will be the Featured Blogger at SITS this Friday, April 30th.  I’m so excited I think I just peed…Be sure to swing by and join the party, you’re all invited!

That’s me all Sunshine and Rainbows.  Ok, stop snickering…

I’m so thrilled that the wonderful and talented Lazaro over at Lazaro Cooks chose me for this award.  Thanks Lazaro, and by the way, if you haven’t been by his awesome site you’re missing out.  He is always cooking up something incredible!  And all I have to do to accept this wonderful honor is pass the Sunshine Award on to 12 blogs that I love.  Piece of cake!  And since I’m so inspired by Lazaro Cooks and his incredible foodie delight of a blog I will pass this one on to my favorite food blogs.  And the winners are…ahem, drum roll please….

Steph at Live.Love.Eat I can gain 10 pounds just looking at all her amazing creations!  You have to check it out.

Anne at Annie Bakes Anne is always whipping up something magical, I check her out daily.

Julie at Mommie Cooks When I don’t know what to cook tonight, I always check out Julie’s site.  She’s always got something innovative.

Rachel at Me, Myself, & Pie is teaching herself, and all of us, how to cook lighter and brighter.  She’s doing a great job!

Pamela at Cookies with Boys she’s a great cook with wonderful and beautiful recipes.  Go check her out.

The Ungourmet at The Ungourmet This site always has the greatest recipes coupled with the most amazing photography.  I worship at her photo altar!

The Wife at The Wives with Knives who cooks up some amazing food out there in Oregon Wine Country

Tiffany at Eat at Home Tiffany always has wonderful and practical recipes to get on the table fast

Aimee at Under The Highchair Aimee and her kids are such a treat to watch in their kitchen adventures

Stacie at One Hungry Mama She just moved to this new site and it is looking amazing!

Jenny at Picky Palate is like me and just trying to get her kids to eat, not to mention she’s competed on Food Network competitions.  She’s awesome!

Tina at Mommys Kitchen is incredible and so thorough and I love all her down home dishes.  She even maps out monthly meal plans!

So there you have it, some amazing women and some amazing bloggers.  Please go check them all out, you and your belly, will be so glad you did.  Don’t forget to come back on Friday for my SITS day.  It’s gonna be a great party you don’t want to miss.

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I did it, I finally gave in.  After months and months of begging and hundreds of half hours of iCarly, I caved.  We made Spencer’s Spaghetti Tacos.  But at least I added lettuce and tomato to ours.

Is this show always on in your house too?  I’m pretty sure, at this point, I can recite every line from every episode.  I’ll be honest, as far as Nick shows go, iCarly is heads and shoulders over the rest of the lot.  That Big Time Rush show is enough to make me Big Time Rush to turn it off.  Incredibly annoying!  But there’s something about those iCarly kids.  They’re funny, sweet, and though they say stupid and butt WAY TO MUCH (are you listening Dan Schneider????) I’d rather the kids watch them than another annoying episode of Fanboy and Chum Chum, Spongebob, or Phineas and Ferb, and I really am glad they’re over the Wiggles.

So if you’re living under a rock, or God help you, your kids are still into the Wiggles or even worse, Teletubbies, then here is the low down.  Carly Shea lives with her big brother Spencer and with the help of her two best friends, Freddie and Sam, they  make the web show iCarly for all to adore.  Spencer, being the artist that he is, doesn’t like steamed halibut for dinner, it’s too boring…he likes to make Spaghetti Tacos for dinner.  For months my kids have been on my butt to make Spencer’s spaghetti tacos.  So finally I did.  And now we’re bringing them to you.  The kids loved them!  I couldn’t bring myself to eat them.  I’m going to give you the same recipe that they give you on the iCarly website.  Note, I did add some veggies to mine because the carbo load was making me twitch.  You’ll have to make the judgement call on that one.

“Okay, some might say my brother Spencer is a little DIFFERENT. He makes sculptures outta junk, he has a bright, sparkly sock collection, and he is obsessed with making our toilet water blue. But, sometimes he does things that are weird AND good — like make Spaghetti Tacos. Who else would put together crunchy taco shells with spaghetti and make it soooo delish!?!? So, I thought I’d share his awesome Spaghetti Tacos recipe with you all!

Here it is:
Get taco shells.
Get spaghetti (with meat sauce).
Get a BIG spoon.
Use the BIG spoon to put spaghetti into taco shells.
Eat.
Burp.”

Please note that this recipe and all pictures of iCarly are the property of Viacom.  Those pics of the other munchkins, they belong to me.

Oh and for the record, we will not be attempting iCarly’s “Chicken Soup in a Toilet.”  Thanks but no thanks….living with 4 boys the only thing that goes into that pot, is Lysol!  Ya know?

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Now my cup truly runneth over!  Yours truly is the proud recipient of not one…

oh no…

but two, that’s right, I said it, count ‘em two blog awards in the past few days.

I’d like to thank the academy…oh wait, wrong prepared speech.  I’ve been working on that one for so long…

Honestly, I’m tickled, I’m thrilled, and I’m touched that my fellow bloggers took the time, not only to read my little piece of cyberspace over here, but felt compelled to pass it along to others.  So let me try my speech again.

Ahem, I’d like to thank Angela over at My Book Barn and Lazaro at Lazaro Cooks for this wonderful honor.  Angela has  a great little site over there and if you’re a fan of reading, like I am, I swear, when I have time, no I mean it…I can read!  Not to mention Lazaro, who is always cooking up something beautiful and delicious.  Please swing by and check out both of them.

So today, ladies and gentlemen of the academy?  Oh no wait, I did it again didn’t I?

Uh, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press?  Nah, that’s not it!

So today my dearest bloggie friends I will feature my girl Angela’s award (Lazaro’s will be featured next week)

Well, I’m honest and I’m scrappy.  And I love to scrapbook so that works too, huh?  The deal with this one is I need to list 10 honest facts about myself then pass this along to ten lucky fellow bloggers.

So away we go.

Ten Honest Things:

1. I am the proud proud Mother of three little boys, and yes I assume there will certainly be a place for me in heaven…

2. I love to cook…duh.

3. I am a card carrying member of the Jon Bon Jovi fan club…

4. I love sports, hockey, baseball, football…good thing too (see #1)…

5. I can recite the entire screenplay of any John Hughes film…go ahead test me.

6. I am truly thankful for all the wonderful online bloggie friends I have made over the past few months…

7. I’m a closet scrapbooker, though I haven’t had much time for it recently…

8. I love the smell of a fireplace in the rain…

9. I married my best friend…insert “awwww” here…

10. I’m afraid the end of the line is near from my old old bullmastiffs, 11 and 9 1/2 years old…sniff sniff

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, I will now pass this award on to some of my favorite blogs to hang out at, grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a good read.  And the Oscar goes to, I mean the lucky winners are…

Shell over at Things I Cant Say

Cheryl at Deckside Thoughts

Lacie at Creative Attempts

The Whispering Writer at The Whispering Writer

Becca at Drama for Mama

Vodka Logic at Vodka Logic

Cathy at Antsy Pants

Debbie at Suburb Sanity

Denise at Run DMT

and last but certainly not least…

Dumb Mom at Parenting by Dummies

So there you have it, some of my honest to goodness very favorite blog reads.  Please go and check out all of these hard working and amazing bloggers.  They have some great stories to tell.  And huge thanks again in Angela at My Book Barn for thinking of me.

Stay tuned for next week, when thanks to Lazaro at Lazaro Cooks who gave the this sweet award

I’ll be passing those along to my absolute favorite recipe/food blogs!  Have a great weekend.

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