Prepared Grapefruit and naughty kids...

My kids have grapefruit almost every morning for breakfast.  I can't think of anything better because it's so good for you and so good to the taste.  If I let Shane he will have three grapefruit at a time.  I purchase the big bags of Grapefruit at Costco, it comes with about ten.

This last week I did my shopping on Friday.  By Sunday we were out of Grapefruit!  So I happened to be by Costco and "ran" in for another bag of this stuff.  The checker said it's the smallest order she'd ever done.  Funny, because she probably fills her biggest orders thanks to me as I officially need two carts when going to Costco, which means bringing Kalen or Gwyneth to push the other cart.

Blogging makes me want to become a photographer.  I love the way these first two pictures came out.  Grapefruit makes for some great art.  I think I could hang these pictures in my kitchen.

These pictures are done at a different time of day with a different "F" stop and with the kitchen light on.  I don't like them as much, but they demonstrate something I want to note.

I've created a bit of a habit, not necessarily bad but time consuming.  Since my first children were little I've cut the grapefruit for them.  But, not the easy way by cutting the skin off and then cutting up the fruit.  I cut the fruit in half, and then with a Grapefruit knife cut each individual section of the fruit, put it into one of these darling ramekins with a toothpick.

I tried serving the fruit differently once, put it into a big bowl with spoons and they all looked at me like I was serving them raw fish.  So every morning I spend about twenty minutes just preparing Grapefruit.....

This brings me to an actual bad habit that drives me nutty, but not my bad habit.  This is not just a random picture of cereal.

I mentioned in one of my posts that I only allow my children to have cereal two days out of the seven.  Why?  Well, because they always waste their milk!!!!  Luckily I have awesome friends who have experienced the same naughtiness with their kids and they advised me to strain the milk, so here I am below.

Picture all my six kids standing in front of the camera (yes even baby Summer because I know she'll be a milk waster too) saying, "STOP WASTING YOUR MILK.....

YOU NAUGHTY KIDS HAVE BEEN TOLD OVER AND OVER

NOT TO WASTE YOUR MILK!!!!!!!"

Do you see how my eyes are bulging out of my head, you'd think this would scare the dickens out of them to stop but I guess I am not that scary....because I'm still straining milk for Pete's Sake......