hamburger helper and other 90s mom things

Hi! It has been a whirlwind of a week with different health things going on and my birthday (🎉) but I am so committed to my weekly recap of my favorite 90s mom finds and recommendations!

I cannot believe that 4th of July was just last weekend, it feels like forever ago with how this week has gone but I have been so excited to share with you my product recommendation: buy a piñata

Getting a piñata has been making a comeback in my circle here in Austin in the best way. I was out of town for a friend’s baby shower but they had one so at another gathering we went to, someone brought a piñata and let me just say, if you want to have a 90s moment - go get one.

They got it at our local H-E-B grocery store for $7 and it was 100% worth the laughs and silliness of getting blindfolded and trying your best shot. Please let me know if you do this, I think you and your kids will love it.

Okay for the recipe of the week, we had a lot of burgers over 4th of July weekend and what made my burgers extra special was “special sauce”. I just think this sauce is now mandatory for all future burgers because of how easy yet elevated this is. Alright here’s what you need for smash burger special sauce:

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of mayo (I love my mayo around here LOL)

• 2 tbsp ketchup

• 2 tbsp chopped pepperoncinis

• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

And that’s literally iiiiiit 🎶 for the best thousand island-ish sauce for your burgers. I also made a lot of burger bowls from the leftovers, which is just: brown rice, burger, red onion, lettuce, tomato (chopped), and special sauce. It is what I am calling “hamburger helper bowls” for the fun of it - I know that’s not what it actually is but will our kids ever know that?

Alright, after all that food over the weekend my activity recommendation that I am recommending to you, my fellow 90s mom, is finding a local track and doing laps around it. I stumbled upon a lovely track by a pickleball court and I fell in love. It is part of a middle school but open to the public and there are so many people of all ages there at all times of the day just on the track improving their physical fitness and it is I N S P I R I N G! I absolutely love it.

I also love that I can just turn my brain off and walk in circles. I don’t have to worry about cars or the route I am taking, I just start and keep walking. I am trying to put my phone in the glove compartment when I walk too and just use the pedometer I got but we’ll see if I need to pop in an audiobook at some point.

Let me know if you end up taking a long walk on a track, I’d love to see that and cheer you on! You can also use this link to find a local track near you: https://runtrack.run/

Alright! 👏🏼 I am so thankful for this wonderful corner of the internet, it’s been lovely to share life with you and I am especially thankful for you paid subscribers joining this and keeping me going, you know who you are!

Speaking of which — if you've been thinking about upgrading to a paid subscription, this week is a really fun time to do it. I'm partnering with Avid Reader Press to send a free copy of Dopamine Kids by Michaeleen Doucleff (retails $30!) to the first 10 paid subscribers who join in July. It's a science-backed guide to raising kids with less screen dependence and more real life magic — basically everything we talk about here every week, in book form. I loved it and think you will too!

See you next week for more and hope you have a lovely weekend!

xoxo

Andi