Halloween Countdown Lunch Notes
I first published this post last September. It is pretty hilarious to note that despite so much changing in our lives this year, the day-to-day has stayed pretty consistent. My children still forget to put on socks. Every. single. morning. And they’ve been asking since August if I’m going to do Halloween countdown notes in their lunch boxes. Why, yes. We are definitely counting down the days for that one special evening when it is suddenly okay to take candy from strangers. Free printable below! My children’s selective memory is quite excellent. Case in point. They have been asking me for at least 3 weeks if I am going to do the Halloween countdown in…
Fall Dining Room
Last week I bared my soul and discussed all my problem areas. No, not those problems areas. I definitely don’t want to talk about those. I shared pictures of the rooms in my home that were giving me decorating issues. All of that sharing was extremely therapuetic. As was the furniture rearranging session prompted by all of that sharing. I’d like to tell you my husband was surprised when he got home, but it’s not the first time this has occurred. Furniture rearranging happens. When you least expect it. To start, I played a lovely game of musical tables with 3 various accent tables. The table in the dining room went…
Friday Funnies #2
Here are a few items that put the happy in my dance this week. Enjoy! via GIPHY My son started taking fencing lessons. If you have a little boy or girl who is obsessed with all things swords and lightsabers, then this is the sport for them. Here’s a conversation my son and I had when we arrived at fencing practice last week. Son: Mom! Did you see those lunches last week? Me: Lunches? They had lunch here? How did I miss that? Son: No, mom. The lunches I made with my sword. Me: Oh! You mean lunges? Son: Yeah. That’s what I said. At that point I started laughing…
Perler Bead Pokemon Coasters
I’ve wrote before about how much I adore perler beads. One day, a couple of years ago, I bought a container of 10,000 perler beads for my daughter. It was a great deal! Clearly, I did not understand how many 10,000 perler beads actually was. I’m guessing we still have 9,217 perler beads remaining. Last weekend, I left Handy Husband and our daughter home for ONE HOUR while I took our son to his fencing practice. One. Hour. Imagine my horror when I got home to see the tray from our entryway being used like this… When I accusingly calmly asked who released 6,000 perler beads from their secure containment facility (aka…
3 Walls That Have Me Stumped
Like anyone who appreciates pretty spaces, I’ve had oodles of fun creating spaces in our home that reflect our family’s style, interests and life stage. And by “our family” I really mean “my” because face it, if I let my kids decorate our house we’d have posters of kittens on every wall and Nerf gun targets around every corner. Handy Husband probably wouldn’t even decorate, unless you count lots of computer monitors as decorating, because that would mean putting holes in perfectly nice walls that he’d have to patch later. But I digress. It takes time to create a pretty space. Ideas don’t happen overnight. Money doesn’t grow on trees…much…
The Happy List
Very sporadically I like to share some of the random things that put the happy in my day. Here’s what I’m digging this week… WOMEN WHO RULE – Netflix Ad This. All of this. Since getting rid of TV service 6 years ago, I don’t see a ton of TV commercials. It says a lot that I willingly watched an advertisement. As a side note, if you want to have a television set in your home in Ireland, you have to pay an annual tax of 160 euros. https://youtu.be/tw2-K8w8l7I FREE BARBIE CLOTHING SEWING PATTERNS I’m not sure if I should throw Barbie in here with Netflix’s strong women ad, but hey, I’m…
Recipes to Try
Do you ever get in a recipe rut? I do, but that’s mainly because I could eat tacos five nights a week. Okay, it’s 7 nights a week, but who’s counting? Unfortunately, the children in my household aren’t as enamored with tacos as I am. Clearly, I’ve gone wrong somewhere in their child-rearing. I ran across 3 intriguing recipes recently. One of them I tried and loved. Two of them I haven’t tried yet, but for mainly legit reasons. Read on and I’ll justify my inaction… NIGHT CEREAL: SAVORY QUINOA RECIPE I use quinoa in my Dave’s Killer Bread CopyCat Recipe, but other than that, I don’t cook with it regularly.…
Jewelry Organizer From an Old Door
When you move, all of your organization systems are magically *poof* gone. Then you find yourself untangling necklaces day after day that you’ve been storing in a sandwich baggie in the bottom of your carry-on luggage. It’s a quick way to go mad. So I decided not to go mad. At least that day anyway. My favorite salvage item from our house in Oregon are these doors. They were in our basement and when we remodeled, I didn’t want to get rid of them. It’s not often that you find doors with cool details that have not had a circle drilled through them for a doorknob. It’s like winning the…
Friday Funnies
Here’s another edition of Friday Funnies! Who is ready for the weekend? *raises both hands* I’m always ready for the weekend, but September weekends are especially welcome. This lady nails why September is the Worst and does so in a funny and relatable way. Since I’ve been completely serious halfway joking that I’m dying a slow death by homework, I appreciated her take on things. (source) On our train ride home from school recently, my 6-year-old was reading aloud the advertisements inside the train car. He got to this particular ad. It’s an important message. There’s no doubt about that. His finger was pointing to the words and he said them very deliberately and…
Apple Oatmeal Muffins
My children’s new school wants the students to eat healthy. How dare they. Oh, wait. That’s a good thing. I wanted to come up with a healthy-ish, portable snack that would pass muster with my kids and conform to the school’s healthy eating policy. Now listen. I’ve baked some amazing muffins in my time. Delicious, eat-them-all-in-one-sitting muffins. Healthy? Mmm. Not so much. I think all of my muffin recipes fell off the healthy train somewhere between the powdered sugar glaze and the cinnamon sugar coating. I knew I wanted to incorporate apples and oatmeal into my healthy concoction. I made this important decision while lying in bed one night. By the way, 11:30…
