First Time Mom and Losing It

I love to celebrate any holiday by creating a fun craft that my toddler can do. To go with the theme of St. Patrick's Day I created the printable by drawing a rainbow with clouds. Not only does it go with the theme but it is also teaching her colors and patterns. She loved putting stickers on a rainbow when we learned pointillism so I decided to let her have some fun with sticking on some pom poms to the rainbow.

First I mixed up all of the pom poms and let her separate them by color. She has known the colors for a long time now so this task was easy for her. I always reinforce what she learns so I asked her a ton of questions about the colors while she separated them.


Since it was the first time I was allowing her to dab on her own glue, I put a little bit into an old juice cap and showed her how to dip the tip of the pom pom to paste it onto the printable. I started her off by putting the first color of each rainbow slice and then let her independently figure out where the next ones went. She is at an age right now that she wants to do everything on her own so she felt like a big girl when I got up from the table and cleaned up some dishes while she worked. Then I came back and we had fun playing around with the white pom poms while I showed her where on the printable they went.


Supplies:

• colored pom poms
• white school glue
• printable*

*To print the printable: Download it onto the desktop or a place you can easily find it. Open up the .PDF -->File --> Print and choose the "Fit" setting. Print.

What is your favorite kids St. Patrick's Day craft?

I love eating cabbage and love the fact that it is one of the vegetables lower in carbs. You can eat one cup of cabbage for about 2.2 net carbs. One cup of cabbage is very filling and the perfect accompaniment to a lean meat.

I always had cabbage boiled with potatoes and ham the way my mom used to make it. Then I started making vinegary slaws to put on top of fish. I wanted to try something new so I finally attempted to make the cabbage steaks that I saw on the Dr. Oz show. It is super simple to make and I was curious to find out how roasted cabbage would taste.

First I took off the top bruised leaves of the cabbage. I sliced the cabbage into 1/2" thick steaks and brushed them with some olive oil. Then I sprinkled some salt, pepper and garlic powder on top and roasted in a 400 degree oven for about 30 minutes.

In the spirit of Saint Patrick's Day I decided to pair the cabbage with some ham steaks. All I did was rub some minced garlic and oregano with olive oil and placed it in the oven with the cabbage.


Cabbage and Ham Steaks

• 1 small cabbage
• 1 tsp of olive oil, separated
• salt, pepper and garlic powder, to taste
• 1 ham steak
• 1 clove garlic
• 1/2 tsp dried oregano

Do you like cabbage? What is your favorite way to eat it?