Oh my word guys, I don’t even know where to begin! I’m so sorry my dang blog was “down” for about a week and a half. It was such a nightmare. I gotta tell ya, moving a blog and switching web hosts is an extremely stressful ROYAL pain in the bee-hind. I had about 12 nervous breakdowns and 8 panic attacks. I’ll spare you all the details, but let’s just say that I’m never planning on moving my blog anywhere ever again. Btw, I switched to Bluehost and I love them SO MUCH! After 20 million technical support calls, I feel Continue Reading…
How to Make Homemade Fruit Leather
I told you guys about all the strawberries we bought a little while ago. Well, after making 3 batches of jam, I decided to make some fruit leather too. I love fruit leather! It is extremely simple to make and so tasty. My kids all love it and love to “help” me make it too. It also makes your house smell so good! I make mine in our food dehydrator, but you can easily make it in your oven as well. I will tell you how to make it either way. Easy Strawberry Fruit Leather **Note: I like to add Continue Reading…
Craziness + a New Resolve
I’ve been wanting to hop on here the past several days, but I haven’t had a chance. We’ve been so CrAzY! But, I think “crazy” is the new “normal” now. 🙂 It’s tough to find time to do all the “mom stuff”, keep a sorta-kinda clean house, make healthy food, exercise, get adequate sleep AND blog about it all. Man. Here are some pics of some of the many CrAzY things we’ve been doing the past few days…. My daughter had dance pictures on Saturday. AND, since she’s in three different dance classes, she had to show up THREE different Continue Reading…
Making Homemade Strawberry Jam
Last week, we were able to get some great strawberries from a friend for 75 cents/pound! Yay! We bought 16 pounds and decided to have a little bit of strawberry fun. I had a bunch of pectin in my pantry, so I decided to make some strawberry jam. FYI, the Ball Instant Fruit Pectin package uses a lot less sugar than the other two pectins. The other two pectin packages require a TON of sugar and “they” say you can’t reduce the amount of sugar or it won’t set up right. 🙁 Note: Freezer jam uses less sugar because it’s Continue Reading…
Sleep Deprivation + Fun Easter Things
The kids were out of school part of last week and yesterday for Spring Break. We had a lot of fun and it was nice to have them home, BUT I’m happy to get back to a regular schedule once again. Because of spring break, I have been a TERRIBLE sleeper! Kev was also off work last week, so we all stayed up a lot later than usual. I tried to sleep in a little in the morning, but it’s so hard for me to get good quality sleep in the the morning. So, I’ve kind of been draggin’ all Continue Reading…
Lovin’ My Workouts
Kev and I have been doing Jamie Eason’s Live Fit Trainer for about 3 weeks now (minus our little vacation hiatus, lol) and so far, I LOVE it! The workouts are really TOUGH, but I know that Tough=Results. Here are a few things I love about the workouts…. The way the days are divided up into specific muscle groups. We work arms, chest, shoulders, back and legs on separate days. We work abs on a few days too. Each muscle group is allowed adequate time to rest before being worked again. I know this is pretty typical for bodybuilding programs, Continue Reading…