Proud or Pissed?

27 Jun By 6 Comments

So husband is out of town and the kiddies are driving me insane. Constantly running to the basement and bringing up things like decks of cards, etc. Now if you lived with my husband you would know that he is an insane pack rat and I basically have to stash things where I can…keeping things like decks of cards or board games out of the kids hands is not always easy.

The last straw was when I came out of the bathroom and the kids were in the garage swimming in a freaking cooler that my husband was SUPPOSED to have emptied. It was the cooler that we filled with ice and pop for Z’s party almost 2 weeks ago. After dragging the damn cooler to the entrance of the garage and emptying it, I changed the kids clothes and got them in the car. I had it. We were off to Home Depot.

Now you have to understand something. I HATE Home Depot. Whenever I am dragged there by my husband, I constantly complain to him how the place just sucks the life out of me. I don’t know what it is, but I literally feel all my energy draining when I am there. But, nonetheless we were headed to Home Depot.

After wandering the store to find what I need, I finally settled on getting two of those chain locks. You know, those kind you see on apartment doors. One was going on my door leading out to my garage and the other was going on the door leading down to my basement.

My next step was to locate all the tools I needed for my project. Now remember, I mentioned above that I live with a pack rat. He says he organized his tools. Ha! Not really. But I finally found what I needed and got started. Let me tell you…there is something about using power tools and accomplishing what you set out to do, that makes you feel so proud of yourself! Sure I could have waited until hubby got back from out of town, but I did it myself and now I am not going to be beating my head against the wall with the kids constantly opening those two doors. Not to mention the whole cooler thing…thats just dangerous.

So hubby is either going to be proud of me or severely pissed that I drilled holes into a brand new door (door leading out to garage)…not to mention the holes I drilled into the molding. Ah well!

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White Chocolate Chex Mix

26 Jun By 1 Comment

This is a HUGE hit with both kids and adults. When I was in college and some Professors had potlucks on the last day of class, I would bring a HUGE bowl of this and it was always gone right away. I usually left out the peanuts because I don’t like them (haha) and one of my classes we had a peanut allergy.

You could make this holiday specific too. Red and green M&M’s at Christmas, pastel M&M’s at Easter, etc.

White Chocolate Chex Mix

3 cups Rice Chex
3 cups Corn Chex
3 cups Cheerios
3 cups Pretzels
2 cups Mixed nuts
12 oz M&M’s
1lb White Chocolate

Melt the chocolate. Mix with the rice Chex, corn Chex, Cheerios, pretzels, and mixed nuts. Continue to break up and mix until the white chocolate is completely dry. Add M&M’s. Store in an air tight container.

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Dear Mommy in Swim Class,

24 Jun By 3 Comments

I understand that to you, your child is the cutest child on the planet. And I do have to admit, he was pretty cute, but what is not cute is the fact that he kept spitting water at all the kids. Now he is only 1 1/2 years old so maybe he didn’t know any better. But you sure as hell did. Repeat after me “Son, you are not allowed to spit water”. See was that hard? Oh and it is OK to speak in a firm voice to your child. They may cry, but they’ll get over it.

Oh and one more thing, I may have said sorry when B splashed water at you, accidentally I may add since the direction was to kick their feet, but I didn’t mean it. I was glad she got your precious hair wet.

Sincerely,

Mommy of B.

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Great Cookbook

17 Jun By 3 Comments

It’s 4:45pm and you haven’t the foggiest idea what you are going to make for dinner. You open the fridge and the only thing jumping out at you are leftovers. You don’t want to serve the same thing as the night before, but defrosting something would take too long as well. Ordering out is an option, but you want to serve low calorie and low fat foods to your family…ordering out doesn’t usually get you that.

**This post may contain affiliate links. I received a copy of this book for the purpose of this review. All opinions are 100% my own**

If that sounds anything like you, then you really need to pick up this cookbook, The Busy Mom’s Slow Cooker Cookbook by Jyl Steinback. It has more than 320 low calorie and low fat recipes. Each recipe includes the nutritional information, as well as a shopping list of ingredients that you would need for the recipe. So while you will be ordering out today, since you didn’t plan ahead, you can plan the rest of your week while eating your take-out!

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My local grocery store had this cookbook, but I have also seen it on amazon.com and at the major chain bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Borders.

Enjoy! A must try recipe is the Sweet and Sour Chicken. My whole family, including my 4 year old and 1 year old, loved that dish.

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Must have breakfast recipe

16 Jun By 1 Comment

I am not much of a breakfast food person. Unfortunately (or fortunately) everyone in my house LOVES breakfast foods. I stumbled across this recipe either in a Weight Watchers magazine or got it from someone at my wedding shower and it is the best bread EVER!

Try this bread out. Your family will love you even more for it!

White Chocolate Blueberry Bread

1 box white cake mix
3/4 c flour
1 tsp orange peel
1 c frozen blueberries
1 lg egg
2 egg whites
3/4 c water
1/2 c orange juice
2 TBS apple sauce
1 c white chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 350. Prepare two loaf pans with cooking spray.
2. Mix cake, flour and orange peel. Add egg, egg whites, water, orange juice and applesauce.
3. Fold in white chocolate chips and blueberries.
4. Spread evenly between two pans.
5. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean in the middle.

Let me know if you try it and how you liked it!

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