Five Things I Know For Sure... 1. Healthy Eating Is Friggin' Hard. I feel great. Really good. But I want chocolate. Right now I'm trying to cut sugar out for 3 days at a time. 3 days on, 1 day off, and repeat. Someday I'll bump it up to 7 days and maybe 14 days, but for now I need to start small. The hardest part is being prepared. I need quick things to grab out of the fridge, throw in my purse, and go. It's messy to throw cottage cheese in your bag. It's not messy to throw in Skittles. Just ... Read More
Stress
image via etsy This week is kicking my ass. It's been so stressful that I had to use ass, rather than booty. It's been that bad. Work is going crazy and I haven't been able to work out and I feel like the kids' activities are slowly taking over our lives. I know that this is just the next stage in parenthood, where we play taxi cab and juggle our jobs and all while trying to eat dinner before 10pm, but right now it sucks. And I'm exhausted. Both physically and mentally. I find myself zoning ... Read More
25 Days of Christmas Movies
We are scaling waaaaaaay back this Christmas in terms of our time. We've always volunteered at church during the months of November and December, but this year we had a Family Meeting and decided it was time to take a year off. Now that we have all this extra time, we are packing in everything Christmas we possibly can. The kids came up with this idea to do 25 Days of Christmas Movies. ABC Family plays Christmas movies every night, but we decided to skip the commercials and start our own DVD ... Read More
Chore Chart For Moms
Have you all noticed the amount of Chore Charts for kids on Pinterest? I feel like they're everywhere. And I love them. My kids work so much better with a clear list of what I expect of them and what they can receive if their chores are completed. So why not have one for us moms? I think we can all agree, we like to be rewarded when we make dinner or clean the house or put on a bra. So I created a chore chart for moms, which of course, you can use too. Cheers friends! ... Read More
Halloween Party Ideas
One of my favorite things to do is to host a party for my boys' friends. I love having their friends come over. For 2 reasons: I want them to stay home, where I know what they're doing. And I want to know their friends. I lure them in with candy and then they like me and want to come over all the time. That makes me sound like a complete creeper, but when it comes to my boys, I kinda am. I want to know their friends, I want to know who they're texting, who will be at the football game, their ... Read More