Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. So many yummy possibilities. Recently we’ve been trying out new smoothies. I eventually want to start juicing (just watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead), but a new juicer isn’t in the budget yet. Last week’s Food Network Read more…
Oatmeal is one of my breakfast staples. Growing up I enjoyed Quaker Instant Oatmeal . About a year ago, I started cooking more from scratch and found this 5-star oatmeal on allrecipes.com that I loved. I ate a lot of oatmeal during my pregnancies to Read more…
My New Year’s Resolutions are pretty typical. Health. Money. Home. Family. They are big and pretty encompassing, but I will be breaking them down into bite size pieces each month. I am participating in several link ups to help keep me accountable. Today I am Read more…
This year I am participating in Clean Mama’s Clean and Organized in 2012! We just had our third little one in September and boy oh boy do we need a major decluttering and organizing of our home sweet home. We are houses sitting in our Read more…
Happy New Year! Hello 2012 :). I am kicking of the new year with www.orgjunkie.com and the Food Network’s weekly Healthy Challenge. This week’s challenge is to eat breakfast every morning. Breakfast is my FAVORITE meal of the day and I’ll be sharing some of Read more…
It’s been one of those weeks … misunderstandingshasty wordssick toddlers(let’s just say projectile bodily fluids were a little too common at the beginning of the week)last minute work emergenciesjob changesmessy housepostal mishapslack of sleep… let’s stop there, shall we? Each event by itself wasn’t anything Read more…
Get Ready To Jump Into 2012!!! Did this year fly by for you like it did for me? I swear with each kiddo time speeds up that much faster! Next year my goal is to take things from “pin to practice!” Here’s what I mean Read more…
Part 3 – The Birth On the morning of September 22nd, I went in for my appointment at 9 am. I completed the non-stress test and the baby was slightly less active than usual. My blood pressure was also getting higher. I was dilated to Read more…
Early on in this pregnancy, I had planned on having my good friend Aubrey be my doula. She had a homebirth with her second baby and was in training to be a doula. It was perfect for our financial situation as Johnny’s work had just Read more…
When I started writing Kyler’s birth story, I realized that a lot of the emotions I felt were tied into my other pregnancies as well so I wrote everything down. The complete story is so that I have a record of my journey toward choosing Read more…