Hannah Montana
My ears are still ringing, but I can say I survived the much anticipated Hannah Montana concert! I attended with my three daughters in tow last night. It was the four of us and thousands upon thousands of screaming girls. I will admit, despite the uncomfortable decibel level, I enjoyed it very much. The dad sitting behind me with three girls probably would not agree. He had a little one in his lap with her ears covered, crying that it was too loud. Of course when he mentioned to the others they might have to leave, they started crying!
As a mom, I've always liked Miley Cyrus. Her show on Disney is entertaining for my girls and it always has a good message. She sang most, if not all, of her popular songs. My six-year-old knew every single word. I have to admit singing along to the next to last one, her big hit "Best of Both Worlds". It was so neat to see how much fun all three of my girls had. They especially liked the warm up group, the three brothers of "The Jonas Brothers". I had to remind them that I brought home autographed pictures of the boys when they were at the Galleria over a year ago. At the time, they weren't "popular" my girls tell me. Boy do they wish now they'd hung on to those photos!
Both Miley and her alter ego, Hannah, were represented in the concert with many costume changes. She chatted with the crowd and seemed truly thrilled with the screaming response. Especially fun for me was seeing everyone go crazy for Miley's dad, Billy Ray, who was in the middle of the crowd with the people in charge of lights and sound. His heart was definitely not "aching" or "breaking" last night! He appeared to be the proud papa of a 14-year-old phenomenon.
Let's just hope Miley and Hannah continue to be a good role models. We've seen too many times now how fame and fortune takes a toll on young girls. So was it worth the hefty ticket prices, the $5.25 I paid for a bottle of water, the traffic jams to and from the concert and the overall hype? This mom would say yes, it was all worth it! Although I look forward to my girls enjoying Hannah on t-v in the comfort of our own house, with the sound on a normal level!
Spinach in Brownies?
Leave it to a millionaire's wife to come up with what I think is a million dollar idea! I haven't blogged in a while because I've been so busy but I did catch ten minutes of the Oprah Winfrey show featuring Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica. She was sharing her solution to the problem of getting kids to eat veggies.
The subject caught my attention because I too struggle with trying to force my girls to eat vegetables. The revolutionary solution? Hide those veggies! I already do it to some extent, by doing things like tearing up spinach leaves and putting them into salad full of iceberg and other lettuce. Jessica Seinfeld goes a step beyond that, by putting a vegetable into the food processor and then putting that vegetable "puree" into a recipe for kid-friendly food. I think she mixes cauliflower puree into macaroni and cheese, as well as squash into chicken nuggets.
The show featured Oprah tasting a chocolate brownie that had spinach as the secret ingredient! The cookbook is called "Deceptively Delicious" and it apparently has a bunch of recipes featuring food with added vegetables. I plan on buying a copy of the book!
On the show Jessica talked about how she prepares all her purees for the week on Sunday night while she and Jerry chat together in the kitchen. I can't help but wonder if he's as funny in the kitchen as a husband, as he is as a comedian on TV? Anyway, it all sounds way to normal for a celebrity couple, but it's nice to think they have some of the same parenting issues as the rest of us. Jessica Seinfeld's solution sounds like a good one. I just wish I thought of it (and put it into a cookbook) first. I'll let you know how the brownies taste!
