Early turkey time

Tonight I tried some new Rachel Ray recipes.  Three thumbs up from each taster. 

We had the turkey mini-meat loaves w/bacon and onion and bbq gravy and suiza style mac n cheese (fancy name for tex mex I guess).  I cooked good old broccoli to go with it.  The mac and cheese was a bit spicy, but no one minded (C ate 2 helpings).  Our child won't touch instant mac n cheese, but he loves all kinds homemade.  Let me also preface that Scott and I don't love traditional meatloaf.  I like a turkey veggie meatloaf I make and this one.  I will eat regular meatloaf, but I don't crave the normal stuff like I do the veggie one and now we can add this one to our list.  I liked making the mini-loaves b/c they cooked in about 25 minutes.  They were easy to form and you just put them on a cookie sheet.  It is definitely a drier type meatloaf.   

We had some crafty/art time after dinner.  C and I made a Halloween pic w/stickers and a marker--very cute with lots of giggling while he pretended he was going to mark over his stickers.  He's very silly.  Then we made a paper chain w/about 12 links b/c that's all our attention span allows--he mostly liked using the tape (for all of 4 rings).  We also tried cutting w/zero success.  He wants to hold the scissors horizontally w/2 hands.  I don't even begin to know how to teach this little boy who doesn't listen when things don't meet his expectations.