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I created a meal plan to give to my MOPS moms as a gift during our Favorite Things giveaway this December and wanted an easy way for them to find recipes so I thought this would be the easiest way to do that. Hopefully this meal pretty simple and mostly home made for those busy nights during the Christmas season. This meal plan isn't ridged and most things can be swapped for ingredients your family will actually eat. Breakfast Ideas Oatmeal topped with butter and honey or pure maple syrup Scrambled eggs with assorted veggies especially peppers, mushrooms, spinach etc. Blueberry zucchini muffins  - i use whole wheat pastry flour and apple sauce instead of oil Fried eggs over spinach or with bacon Whole wheat pancakes or waffles (there are some good remade brands out there) Lunch Ideas PB, banana, and honey on whole wheat Tuna salad - made with pickle relish, plain greek yogurt and salt & pepper) Green egg salad - 3 hard boiled eggs mashed with one avocado and salt &a

Professional, I am not.  But we have been having fun trying out the awesome face painting kit Warner got for his third birthday. A tiger and a football player.   A pirate, a soccer player (I guess those are cleat mark bruises on Dylan's cheek) and a sweet little race car. Warner isn't into the elaborate stuff yet.  My favorite part of the whole thing is that the paint comes off with just a wet wipe, hooray!

So a few months ago I read about this "crazy diet" called The Whole30 and pinned a few recipes on Pinterest not thinking much else about it. I sure wasn't ever imagining that I would want to try this Paleo on steroids thing. Then my sister messaged me and asked if I was thinking about trying it. Shannon Sadler  • 16 weeks ago  She makes this totally sound do-able! The Lazy Girl's Guide To the Whole30 // @ The Little Things We Do Jackie Steele  • 16 weeks ago  Have you been thinking about doing this? I was just reading about the Whole30 today and thinking about it, but I'm not sure I could do it! I would starve! Maybe we could do it together! Shannon Sadler  • 16 weeks ago  I'm thinking about it but a little intimidated because I have very minimal self control and love dairy. She recommends doing it with someone! When I realized that maybe it wasn't so crazy I started doing more research and ta

Besides homemaking in a luxurious manufactured home, continuing to be wife material, and child rearing three rambunctious boys to be gentlemen in tomorrow's society, there is the rare occasion I do something for me. Over the summer I started making hand-painted signs for a craft fair and *almost* started an Etsy shop. I did all the steps but never actually listed any products because the thought of someone actually wanting to buy something I made was just too scary. I didn't end up doing a craft fair or selling anything, but I did make plenty of great gifts for Christmas and birthdays and also for my own home.  This went to my brother and sister-in-law.  For my sister.  I originally made this as a Christmas card holder but now use it to hold all of my long necklaces in  our bathroom.  I kept this one for myself too ;) Homemade laundry detergent.  Soap On a Rope - handcrafted goats milk soap for the light hearted men in my family.  Up above ou

We don't have any official schedule or keep attendance for preschool but I would say we are about half way through the "school year." We have had tons of fun trying what works and learning what doesn't work for us as well. Lincoln is a much different learner that Dylan was. Lincoln is busy, has a short attention span and remembers things from when you didn't think he was even paying attention. Worksheets are part of our daily activities but they aren't the primary focus. Playing, real life situations, experiments and the basic fundamentals rule our day.  We have a basic idea of what we want to do with our day, but rarely do we actually follow it. I actually created it last year when Lincoln was three so I will still be able to follow the same basic plan when Warner (currently two) is ready for preschool. Our schedule is simple and easy to change, broken up into 30 minute chunks for the most part. Anything longer and I completely lose the kids. Lincoln&#

So according to my dad, I haven't blogged since April. April, as in nine months ago. We've been busy.  Not super awesome, over the top crazy busy. Just the day to day busy with three active boys. We got through peak at UPS during the Christmas season when Shane was leaving the house at 6am and getting home after 7pm. We made it through a pee-wee football season. We made it through officially starting homeschooling preschool with Lincoln. We made it through a traumatic injury when Lincoln's tooth went through his lip but all is well. We made it through babyhood with Warner and we are onto his troublesome era. You see that first picture below? Gold Sharpie all over his forehead and the palms of his hands (also on my new vest, but that's another story). Rubbing Alcohol on a cotton ball really does work great! Be careful by the eyes though ;) I also had a few days where my mom too the two older boys to her house so it was just me and Warner and we had a ton of