Not Everyone's Mama

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I recently got to try a whole bunch of Kraft’s new products!  Look at all these!

• New KRAFT HOMESTYLE DELUXE Macaroni & Cheese Dinner: a delicious homemade taste complete with a crunchy breadcrumb topping.
• New KOOL-AID FUN FIZZ Drink Drops: a fun and delicious way to get kids to drink water with only 5 calories per serving.
• RITZ CRACKERFULS Filled Crackers: made with real cheese and 6 grams of whole grain per serving to help keep you satisfied.
• New DIGIORNO Pizza & Breadsticks: fresh-baked taste with big juicy toppings plus cheesy breadsticks along with marinara sauce — all in one box.
• OSCAR MAYER Deli Fresh Shaved Meats: sliced, packed and sealed at the peak of freshness.
• New KRAFT 100 CALORIE PACKS CHEESE BITES: big cheese flavor in every bite-sized piece in these satisfying 100 calorie packs.

I have to say that my favorite was the Kraft Homestyle Deluxe macaroni. (My most favorite is the Old World Italian!)  We have tried all the flavors now and they are a staple in my cupboard for lunches.  They take just a few minutes longer than the regular Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (which we love too), but it is totally worth it.  My kids chow it down.

The next thing I have bought tons of are the Kool Aid FunFizz Drops.

My kids love those!  They love to make it themselves.  Watch the fizz, then drink it down.  It only has 5 calories per serving, which is fabulous!

The Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh deli meat is so yummy!  It makes excellent sandwiches.  We add some chedder and provolone cheese, some red wine and vinegar and have an excellent sub.  It tastes just as good as the deli meat that I have had sliced for me at the grocery store.

The Ritz Crackerfuls were a huge hit with my kids.  Huge.  They were a little sweet for me.  Not my favorite thing in the gift basket, but ok.  I think I actually prefer the regular Ritz crackers, but since the kids love them, we have bought these also.

The Kraft 100 calorie pack cheese bites were excellent!  But, what Kraft cheese isn’t?  It’s the only kind I buy.

And the DiGiorno Pizza & Breadsticks were fantabulous!  Just what I’d expect from DiGiorno!  My kids ate that up too!

Guess what?  I’ve got a gift basket to give to one of my readers!  In it you will get samples of New KOOL-AID FUN FIZZ Drink Drops, New KRAFT HOMESTYLE DELUXE Macaroni & Cheese and RITZ CRACKERFULS Filled Crackers along with gratuity coupons for New DIGIORNO Pizza & Breadsticks, OSCAR MAYER Deli Fresh Shaved Meats and New KRAFT 100 CALORIE PACKS CHEESE BITES. I wanted to let you know the coupons expire on 7/31/10, so use them quickly when you get them!

NOTE – MOVING THE EXPIRATION DATE UP TO THE 5th due to coupon expiration dates.

It took me awhile to get the deli meat and the pizza & breadsticks at my local store, which is why I’m late in posting this. I wanted to try all of them before I posted the review.  I didn’t think about the expiration date while I was waiting for them to get more of that product.  (Sold out when I went the first couple of times!  Told you they are excellent!)

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But first, I have a song stuck in my head and thought I’d share so I wasn’t alone in the madness.

You know you want to click on it right?  Come on.  Join me in singing Holly Jolly Christmas in June.  I woke up with it in my head and it won’t go away.

I’ll get to the woof woof in a second.  I had to mention that I spent a good period of time this morning going through my inbox, if you have commented and I hadn’t gotten back to you, I was really far behind.  I try to send a reply to everyone who leaves a comment.  If the kids’ start getting into something (which happens a lot), I leave it to respond to later.  Then more email comes in on top of that and I am horribly sorry that I was so far behind.  I promise I read and love each and every comment.  And I’m trying to get back to everyone!

I only have 300 emails in my inbox now.  That’s down from over 700 this morning.  Make that 285 now.  I just deleted all the emails from my daughter’s teacher.   I figure school is out, I don’t need May’s calendar anymore.

I’m going to do it.  I’m going to get through all of them.  Today.

I hope.

I started it because I was worried that I had ticked off my regular visitors and those who always leave comments.  I don’t NEED the comments.  (I’m not saying I don’t love them either.)  If you want to read and that’s it, that’s perfectly fine!   I just was surprised this last week when there weren’t hardly any comments on posts.  That’s when I looked at my inbox and how far behind I was and thought, I really hope I didn’t make them mad because I haven’t responded to them yet. 

I’m hoping that it’s because it’s summer, kids are out of school, families are busy, you know, my excuse for why I’m behind.  I really hope I haven’t upset anyone.  If I did, I’m sorry!

I’m also mentioning it because Jordan was kind of bummed yesterday.  He knew I was posting his new haircut and he was hoping for some love on it.  It’s my own fault.  He said I have to like it, I’m mom.  I said, well, let’s see, I’ll post a before and after of you.  But, it’s been slow here on my blog the last week or so.  He thinks he was right.  Grandma, you’re in troubleeeeeeee.  He was waiting for a comment from you!  I told him you probably hadn’t gotten online yesterday.  That is holding him over.  He doesn’t know that I am mentioning it today, so if you have a moment, will you go give him some feedback on his new haircut? 

Honestly though, I just wanted to make sure I hadn’t done anything because of the comment decline.  I’m good if you just lurk.  I do it too on quite a few blogs.  I want to comment more, I have such good intentions, then my kids happen.  They happen a lot.  Do your kids just happen too?

Thought I’d mentioned why I changed my feedburner settings here while I’m thinking of it also.  Now it just shows the first 200 words of a post.  I promise, there’s a reason for that.  I didn’t want anyone to have their kids behind them when they opened up my email update and got my once a month Eden Fantasy review in all up in their kids faces.  Or in their own if they don’t like that kind of thing.  Got to be respectful! 

In other news…well, really there’s no other news today, hence the post about comments, I got nothin’.

Tee hee.

I’m going over to my brother and sister in laws’ to show them how to clean up their computer.  Then my sister in law wants me to install this thing that I installed on my kids’ laptops that they HATE!  K9 web protection.  I was using a Firefox add on for parental controls, but Jordan figured out how to get around that.  It wasn’t that he was going to bad sites, it’s that the game sites he was going to weren’t always smart ones.  When I’d check over his shoulder, he’d be playing an innocent game, but when I ran spybot search and destroy on his computer the other day I came up with over 300 spywares and trojans on his computer from these stupid game sites.  Some of them couldn’t be deleted by Spybot alone, so, I pulled out the heavy guns and downloaded malwarebytes.  That got rid of it all.  One of them was sexxo.com.  Yes, the game sites installed something from there.  Lovely.  I know Jordan didn’t go there.  Not only do I check his history all the time, I have a key logger on his computer.  He only goes to games sites and watches Weird Al videos on you tube. 

So, I installed K9 web protection which is totally free.  I can restrict his access with that to sites that I don’t want him to go to plus shut off his internet access period at certain times, which is AWESOME!  No more battles over turn off your computer or you’ll lose it.  He simply loses access at 9 PM and it doesn’t allow him use the internet again until 11 AM.  You can actually go through and allow access hour by hour. I plan on doing that so they can only have so much time on their computers a day without fighting me.  (I installed this on Kat’s also, but she doesn’t go anywhere but Webkinz, Disney, and PBS.)  It barks out loud (a very realistic woof woof if I do say so myself) if he tries to go somewhere that is restricted to him.  And if he tries to go to 10 restricted sites in 10 minutes, I have it set to shut down the internet for 10 minutes.  I’m cruel.  When I hear the woof woof I’ll start cracking up.  Then I get a dirty look and a “it’s not fair mom!  I can’t go anywhere” from Jordan.

He tried to get around it the other day, requesting a password, which came directly to my email.  I was rolling.  Trying to be sneaky son?  He was not thrilled with it.  Most of the game sites he goes to are now restricted.  I don’t care if he goes to the kids sites or even deadwhale.com, that’s one I play at a lot and haven’t gotten any nasty stuff installed on my computer from there, but he just randomly clicks on ads at Deadwhale and Facebook that takes him to sites that aren’t safe.

He asked if when he is 13 if I can take it off.  No, when you’re 18, I’ll take it off.  When you’re 13, we can discuss less restrictions, but darling, this is one of those whole, you live under my roof type of things.  Sorry!

Now you go have a great day!

(and don’t feel obligated to leave a comment.

I honestly just wanted to make sure I hadn’t offended

or upset anyone in some way or another. )

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