Ok, by now we all know about Pinterest.  You either love it or hate it.  I personally love it because I am kind of a nerd.  I like crafts and I love to cook so it is right up my alley.  Although I do think it has a way of trying to get into normal mom’s (like me) brain and try and make you feel inadequate.  Some of the projects are just way too out there for me.  For example, the pinata cookie.

 

If you have time to make this damn thing, PLEASE, please come over here.  I will put you to work  I mean, come on.  Who has the time or energy to do this?  I looked at the instructions just for kicks and it looks to be about a 12 hour process.  To that I say, “I’m out.”  And if you make these pinata cookies, I am not sure we can be friends.  Well, unless you come over and let me put you to work, then in that case, I could have an opening in the best friend department.

So if you are a Pinterest regular, you have no doubt seen this gem.

 

It’s simple really.  Fill water balloons with water, add food coloring and then put them out to freeze.  You are left with these stunning giant marbles.  Not quite.  I did not fall for this one because I knew it was going to be a pain in the balls.  Better yet, a messy pain in the balls.  I saw into the future when I considered this for a split second and the future did not look good.  It looked messy – very messy. My dear friend Wendy did not listen or look into her future.  Apparently she likes pains in the balls because she texted me these photos of her house after attempting this project.

 

If this happened to me, I might just walk away.  Walk straight out the door and stick a “For Sale” sign in the 12 foot snow drift with a sign that says, “AS IS”.  I might even grab my pals and have them come with me.  I could move again.  No problem.

You see I hate messes and even more, I despise cleaning them up.  That is why my house currently looks like a tornado of teeth, hair, diapers and eyeballs just rolled through here.  6 cups of blue food coloring on a cream carpet is literally, a recipe for disaster.  So word to the wise, skip this one all together.  Unless of course you like balls, the kind with pain in them.

We do a ton of stuff with food coloring in our house.  It is kind of like a staple over here and once in a while they have it at the dollar store so I stock up.  Currently, this is our favorite one.

Did you ever think to add it to your marshmallows when you are making Rice Krispie treats?  This makes making holiday themed Rice Krispie treats a snap.  We just made Valentine’s day ones the other day.

Yes, I realize that one photo looks like a vat of ground beef.  I also realize that my kids wear pajamas A LOT.  I hate doing laundry so if we don’t leave the house, sometimes we just keep them on ALL day.  Shhhh…..don’t tell my mom.  She would not approve.

We also put it a couple drops of the food coloring on the bottom of clear plastic cups and let it dry.  I did a bunch of these one night and let them dry and then stacked and stored them in the pantry.  So then when my kids want a fun surprise drink, you just add liquid. You put ice cubes in and add La Croix (my kids are weird, I know.  We all love La Croix in our house) or Sprite or hell, even tap water.  You don’t know what color you are going to get until you add the liquid.  They like to guess what color they are going to get.  It is actually pretty cool, I am not gonna lie.

We also add it to applesauce….my kids are obsessed with all things apple.

They particularly like the green apple sauce because they pretend they are eating a bowl of boogers.  Whatever works.  I buy the unsweetened kind so they can eat as much as they like.

Lastly, we put it in the bathtub.  They take turns who is going to pick the color.  I have to admit, when they pick red, It creeps the hell out of me and yellow is just gross.  But blue or green I can get down with.  Although lately we have been doing so many damn bubbles so you can’t even see the water.   My kids figured out that if you push the jacuzzi button thing on their tub, it is like a bubble machine.  It is insane.  I have almost lost poor Abbott a few times in the thing.

 

And the poor dog inevitabley gets sick from eating the bubbles.  F’ing Enzo.

So go grab a box of food coloring but beware what you do with it.  Just ask Wendy.