National Oatmeal Month!

Happy National Oatmeal Month everyone! Why do we need a month to celebrate oatmeal, you might ask. Well...

Yeah, I don't know. But apparently someone, somewhere loved oatmeal so much that he/she/it decided to dedicate the entire month of January to this most simple of cereals. And since I can't help but partake of each and every celebration, I've complied of list of 20 things to do with oatmeal in the hopes that you will join me this month in honoring everyone's favorite childhood gruel.

• Eat oatmeal every morning this month as a heart-healthy breakfast.
• Make oatmeal raisin cookies.
• Make oatmeal bread, biscuits, scones, muffins, pancakes, souffles, or just about any other thing you can think of.
• Exfoliate face with oatmeal and olive oil mixture.
• Fill an inflatable children's pool with oatmeal and commence oatmeal wrestling.
• Grind oatmeal up into a powder, mix with water, and use mixture to re-grout the bathroom tiles.
• Use as kitty litter.
• Sprinkle on icy spots in the driveway to provide better traction.
• Mix up a dense batch of oatmeal and attempt to use as modeling clay.
• Encourage the children to play doctor by creating oatmeal casts around “broken” arms, legs, and faces.
• If the children are unsuccessful in creating oatmeal casts, then smear their faces and limbs with oatmeal and allow them to play leper colony.
• Throw oatmeal like confetti at every holiday, birthday, wedding, and funeral that occurs this month.
• Use as a prop in a production of “Oliver Twist.”
• Throw on floor and walk across for a cheap foot massage.
• Use as a substitute for sand when sandblasting the house.
• Glue dry oatmeal to the wall for a faux-finished stucco look.
• Sprinkle in the fridge to absorb bad odors.
• To relieve your dog's dry and flaky skin, coat the animal in a thick layer of oatmeal, allow the oatmeal to set until dry, and then flake off.
• Pack your shoes with oatmeal before storing them. This will keep your shoes from becoming misshapen.
• Reuse the oatmeal container like a bongo drum.