Our second post in the new "How To" series: dicing veggies! Seems super basic, but I have had a surprising amount of people ask me questions about this, and I got multiple requests on Facebook for this "how to" when I was putting my feelers out for what people wanted me to post about! I'm not claiming that the dicing techniques shown in the video below are the technical ways you would be taught ...
How To: Roux (Plus 3 Uses)
This is the first post in a new "How To" series that is kicking off today! It's going to last about two weeks and five "How To's" all together, covering ultra basic cooking 101 things like this (roux), scrambled eggs, basic marinara, etc...I won't give them all away here 😉. This is for those of you out there who are either learning how to cook from the ground up, or are used to cooking, but don't ...
Top 15 of 2017
2017 - what a year. This year has been filled with a whirlwind of exciting, challenging, new, and wonderful memories and experiences. Between being pregnant for a large chunk of the year, having our first baby, my husband deploying when our son was seven weeks old, and quitting my teaching job to go full time with the blog, it has been one for the books! It will definitely go down as one of my ...
To the Tired Mommas
This past week was an exhausting one with my little man. Basically a combo of no sleep + lots and lots of fussing + needing to be bounced and swayed while walking around in order for calm to happen (aka I got a BOSS arm and leg workout 😉). We aren't totally sure what is going on yet, but his pediatrician thinks it sounds like acid reflux or a protein sensitivity - both potentially fixable, so ...
Back in Business!
OH MY GOSH. It's been years since we've chatted. Okay months, but it feels like years. This is the longest I've gone without blogging since I started! So let's sit down, grab a cup of coffee (preferably Pumpkin Spice since it is now September/Fall/the best time of year EVA), maybe a cookie or five, and catch up. The first and most glaringly important thing to update you on is our brand new, ...
Maternity Leave!
Hello friends! If you are followers of my blog, you will notice I've been MIA for the last few weeks. I was planning on starting my maternity leave this past Tuesday, but I ended up starting it a week early. Once I started getting cervical checks, my OB predicted that the baby would be here early based on how dilated and effaced I already was and because of how low the baby is. So I decided to ...
My Life in Pictures
I totes had a recipe to post today. A yummy and fun one, too. Buuttt I'm not feelin' the write-about-food thing today. I'm in a "let's talk about life and ramble about our daily happenings" zone right now. So here's the plan: I'm going to sum up my life lately in pictures that are currently in my phone's library. Let's see what happens....GO! First things first...pregnancy updates. Because ...
My 9 Pregnancy Essentials
Okay all you women out there, let's get real for a quick minute. Pregnancy ain't no walk in the park. It might be for some of you lucky ladies out there (I'm glad you can't feel my resentment as I type... 😉), but for the majority of the female species, it's nine months of heartburn, mood swings, back pain, and the appetite of fifteen morbidly obese men. I definitely haven't had a bad pregnancy, ...
Riley
May 4th. This day was supposed to be very, very different for us. Rather than just another normal Thursday work day, Seth and I were supposed to be at the hospital, welcoming our first child into the world. Today was my due date for the baby that my husband and I lost this past September. I never realized how common miscarriages were until I had one, and people started coming out of the ...
Fifteen Quick and Simple 30 Minute Meals
Even those of us that love, love, looooove cooking are fans of 30 minute meals. Meals that are that quick and easy but still pack so much flavor and yumminess are just so much fun to make. Not to mention, MUCH needed on crazy weeknights when you've either been dealing with a pack of crazy kids all day, dealing with a crazy day at work...or both...yikes. So, this roundup is for you, busy ...