meal plan week two (still needs updating)

Yes meal planning is back on! I found a great app called Big Oven. It has been easier to use than interest pinning.
Monday (sept. 2nd)
BBQ bundles- My boys and hubby preferred the mustard based sauce over the ketchup but hubby says the ketchup tastes better as leftovers.

Quinoa bean salad- I didn't put in the chick peas. I enjoyed this side dish. Hubby and the older boys not too much. They aren't that big on healthy bean/pea based food. No issues from the three younger eaters though;)

Tuesday (sept. 3rd)
Bean and cheese enchiladas- I added beef to this recipe because I have a hubby who believes in meat. Everyone liked this meal.

Wednesday (sept. 4th)
We had left over day. I usually make recipes serve eight people since there are indeed eight of us but with the little kids and baby we always have left overs:)

Thursday (Sept. 5th)
3 Envelope roast. This was a very tender roast. I never thought to put ranch, italian and brown gravy packets into a pot roast... But surprisingly it tastes really good
Rolls (cheated here and did pillsbury)
Amish bean salad chilled


Friday (Sept 6th)



Saturday (Sept 7th)

Introducing new baby

Savannah Ryla

Born June 22. 6 lbs 9 ounces 20 3/4 inches long
She spent her first few days in the NICU because she was "juicy" at birth. You could hear her juiciness at birth. I meant to ask the doc if she was in a lot of fluid but never did.
She is doing perfectly fine now and we are loving every minute with her!

Total slacker

Yes, I know I am one. We moved recently and I just have not put any of the meal planning up here. I have at least two weeks to write up now. So ASAP I will get those up and going. Everything I make is still on my pinterest page under food. I have started labeling it by days. If it is missing then it means it was horrible:).

Meal planning Week One

Because I can be a total slacker when it comes to this I decided to share it on my blog. All recipes can be found under my pinterest account in Food! unless other wise noted:)

I will also try to update what was no worth making. This is all pretty much new recipes to the family.

Night one: 
Beef Rigatoni I made it without the mushrooms and tomatoes. It lacked something. I don't know if it is because I left that out or what. It made a ton of food though. We ate off of it then next night (I had a nasty stomach bug) and again for lunch.
Fluffy dinner rolls These are a keeper. Loved them and easy to make. But I need a counter blender because my hand one got bogged down.
Green beans (not on pinterest)
Honey Buttered carrots (not on pinterest)

Night two:
Beef stuffed crescents These had too much cream cheese in them but all in all pretty good. 
Chips and salsa

Night three:
Chicken fingers
Confetti mac n cheese

Night four:
No peek beef tips
Best broccoli of you life
Sauteed corn and scallions

Night five:
Spinach lasagna rolls
Parm seasoned fries

Night six:
Spaghetti (not on pinterest)
A+ home olive garden rolls

Night seven:
Crock pot chicken n gravy

The dreaded tubes

Yes we finally got tubes today. Brayden has been getting ear infections constantly for the last year. After doing three rounds of antibiotic shots enough was enough. (If your child has ever had the shots you know how painful it is. He cried every time he got them.) So today we woke up bright and early and traveled down to the surgery center. We were in and out in about an hour and a half. It took ten minutes to do the tubes. Doc said that in one ear he had snot looking gunk behind his membrane. Brayden was a slight beast after the procedure. He screamed the whole time in recovery but as soon as we started heading out he calmed down.

When we got home He promptly starting jumping up and down on our bed. :)

The crazy days

We all have them and if you say you don't you have to be lying. There are days when it seems everything goes wrong. The kids are grumpy. I can't get anything started, even breakfast. The kids end up eating snacks all day long because the effort to make chicken nuggets just makes them have break downs. The floor ends up a total mess because they kids refuse to sit during lunch so we just roam around. Everything piles up and you know what, It will be okay. We have had many days like the one above and we have survived. I have sat in the hallway with my children and cried with them. I have laid on the floor and let them crawl all over because they just want momma. I have wiped so much snot that I never wanted to see snot again, changed so many stinky diapers that I couldn't even smell it anymore.

Those are the days that I look back and laugh at. Those are the days where I bonded with my kids. Those are the days that they will remember momma taking care of them.


Now to go change yet another stinky booty.

Play Dough fun!

Today was way too icky to go outside so I looked in my book for fun things to do. Decided today was play dough day.

I mixed two cups of flour
2 tablespoons coconut oil
2 tablespoons alum
1 package of koolaid (or you can just put in food coloring)

I heated 2 cups water and added 1/2 cup salt and let the salt melt in the water

Then you get a big bowl mix the water and all of the other ingredients together and knead. Now it is going to be hot so I suggest you wait awhile for the water to cool before mixing.


Fun times:)
We used cars, teething rings, a play phone and an animal to do imprints in the play dough.