Cooking the Lazy Mom Way

Hellooooo all you wonderful lazy moms out there! :) I am SOOOO excited to tell you about an awesome new thing we are going to be doing on our lazy, lazy site! You can tell that I'm sooooo excited because I keep spreading my ooooo's out.

COOKING THE LAZY MOM WAY!

Doesn't that sound exciting?!?! I don't know about you... but I just don't have time to cook like Pioneer Woman does. Or maybe it's just because I'm too lazy?... but whatever.

At any rate, this is how Cooking the Lazy Mom Way is going to work, so pay attention! Look sharp! Yoo-hooo *tap* *tap* *tap* I'm talking to YOU out there! Is this thing on?

So cooking the lazy mom way is going to be open for all of YOU lazy moms out there to participate in. Now don't go and get lazy on me! I expect FULL participation in this ladies. Do you hear me?


Before I explain how to submit a lazy mom recipe, I need to first go over the rules of what can actually be submitted.

Our first rule for submitting recipes to the lazy moms that run this lazy, lazy site:
1. It must be so simple that a lazy mom can do it. [Hehehehe... I love that. But don't ask me why. I just get a kick out of silly little things like that.]

Number 2!
2. It MUST, absolutely MUST be LESS than five ingredients. If it's more than five, I'm afraid it's a no go. [Unless it sounds really, really good and then we might just post it anyway. Hey. I'm coming up with these rules, I can break them, right?]

Number 3! [Are you still paying attention?]
It must be family friendly. [Duh. This is a no brainer. If we are lazy moms then we have lazy families we have to feed.]

So there you have it. That wasn't so hard was it? Very simple rules for very simple moms.

To submit your awesome, amazing, lazy recipes (which word there doesn't belong?) just email them to us at imalazymom@gmail.com. It's THAT simple.

Any questions?

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Things I've Always Wanted To Do (Part 3)

....but will probably never do....


21. Water my plants before they begin to die from dehydration.
22. Keep my kitchen island clutter-free.
23. Get a new lampshade to replace the one I burned with the candle.

24. Buy new living room furniture.
25. Give myself weekly manicures and pedicures like I used to do when my husband and I were courting 7+ years ago.
26. Finish painting our basement
27. Clear off the top of my refrigerator and KEEP it that way.
28. See a new movie before it's out on DVD.
29. Powerwash the outside of our house (Wait. That's something lazy dad is supposed to do).
30. Organize our basement so we are all ready for the new school year.

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Lazy Mom Tip #18

Oh my gosh, you guys... this could seriously be THE. BEST. LAZY. MOM. TIP. EVER!!!!

Recently my family and I took a 10 day vacation. The first day we had to be in the car for about 9 hours (not too bad considering that in the past we've done 20 hours straight). I had heard about a way to keep Little Darlings occupied in the car, but I was a little skeptical about it. We thought we'd give it a try though and boy howdy, did it ROCK!

As you'll see pictured below pipe cleaners are now my NEW favorite lazy mom travel item! I know it's shocking to think that pipe cleaners could keep a kid busy in the car. It's okay. I was a skeptic myself... until I tried it! Here is the proof that it works people....

My middle Little Darling particularly took a great liking to the pipe cleaners. He twisted them into all kinds of things... people, fish, tire swings, etc. He started arranging his creations all around him, including the above handles and the window area.

It seriously kept him busy the entire time he was awake in the car. It also kept my other LD's busy for most of the time, but none of them were nearly as creative as my middle LD!

[Side note: Last week we were at Kids Camp. We bought a pack of pipe cleaners while we were there and you should have seen the creations our pre-teens came up with! They made crowns, butterfly wings, wands, necklaces ... ALL kinds of cool things out of them!]

So now that you've heard this AWESOME lazy mom tip, you must, I said absolutely MUST, go get you a bag of pipe cleaners and try it yourself! It's the cheapest form of entertainment EVER ($1.24 for a bag of 100 at Walmart!).

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Tip from Lazy Mom Chana

Hello fellow lazy moms... this is Chana....

I've been asked to introduce myself by my dear friend Stacey.... but it's late and I'm lazy so that will have to wait! Plus it gives you something exciting (YES exciting!) to look forward to in the next few days (or whenever I get around to it!)

So instead I will start off with a tip.

I recently gave birth to my second adorable baby girl. We'll call her Chicken Little (and her big sister is, of course, Chicken Big.... but we'll get to all that when I actually introduce myself)....

Both of my chickens are still in diapers so when the second one came I had to give a little thought to the diaper bag and this is what I came up with. I went to Wally World and bought pencil bags in several different colors to hold each kids' stuff. That way I can tell quickly which diaper fits who and where the wipes are (believe me, a New Born diaper is NOT meant to hold the poo of a 32 pound toddler.... and yes, it was tested.... but that is also another post for another time!)

So here's a photo of my diaper bag with the little colored pouches... diapers, wipes, change of clothes/burp rag for Chicken Little and hand sanitizer, sunscreen and bug repellent....

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