I can't believe this weekend is Mother's Day. Is it me or does this year seem to be flying by very fast? I can't believe how fast it's going. This weekend my husband and I agreed mutually that we wouldn't do anything too spectacular for Mother's Day. I don't mind because I know he appreciates all that I do for the kids and how I take care of the house.
I made this card for Mother's Day and I am selling it on my etsy page, www.etsy.com/shop/SerendipityKisses and I love how it turned out. I wish it was easy to make a nice masculine looking card for Father's Day. I have some ideas. I'll work on them next weekend, I think. This weekend my husband is going to fix his brakes in his car. When the kids nap I will work on a wedding card. We're going to a wedding in three weeks and I want to start working on it as soon as I can so I don't forget. I might make an extra one of that card and list it on my etsy page as well. I haven't really listed anything on there lately. But I am hoping this summer I can post a new card once a week on there.
Tonight for dinner is going to be leftovers because my daughter has an appointment to go to this afternoon and I prefer to have leftovers today. We're going to have the leftover Sloppy Joe Chicken. I just need to make the rice while the kids nap and cook it before my husband comes home from work. Tomorrow I am going to make some chicken and veggie wrap thing, I think. I forget. I wrote it down in my Erin Condren day planner but I forgot what I am cooking tomorrow night. I am so thankful tomorrow is Friday.
I am so sleep deprived. But the sad thing is, once I am in bed and the kids are sleeping I am wide awake. My husband can fall asleep in less than five minutes while I'm laying in bed trying to fall asleep. Then the sounds of my son snoring on the baby monitor keeps me awake as I am listening to him sleeping. But I guess I shouldn't complain. There are several people out there in this world who can't have kids or aren't married so I should be grateful for what I have and not complain about the petty things.
This summer I am going to go full force on potty training my daughter after my father-in-law goes back home. He's coming to visit us for the weekend next month. It will be easier if I start potty training her once he leaves. I don't think he wants to see his granddaughter walking around the house bottomless. Wish me luck that potty training goes well.
Yesterday while the kids were napping, I got dinner ready in my crockpot. I made a dish called Sloppy Joe Chicken. I didn't know if I would like it or not because sloppy joe's just don't sound appealing when you add chicken to it. Maybe I'm just weird. But I made it because there wasn't a lot of ingredients needed for this meal and my husband likes sloppy joe's. We both enjoyed the meal so much and I can say I will be making this meal again! He rated this a 9 1/2! Wow, I'm impressed with such high ratings from him. Here's the recipe!
Sloppy Joe Chicken
6 skinless chicken thighs
8 oz. can tomato sauce
1 1/2 oz. pkg. Sloppy Joe mix
2 tbs. honey
cooked rice
Place chicken in a slow cooker. Combine remaining ingredients except rice; pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low setting for six hours. Discard bones. Serve chicken and sauce over cooked rice.
Notes: I used boneless skinless chicken thighs and when it was nearly done I shredded the chicken because my husband prefers shredded chicken.
I made these for dinner the other night and I didn't care for them. But today I was hungry and lunch was approachiing. I waited til my daughter was awake to heat these up again to eat them for lunch. Interestingly enough, these were fantastic the next day! I don't know if it was because the flavors got to soak in overnight or if it was the melted cheese from the microwave that made it taste better.. but this was my lunch. In the blue cup is my cherry coke. It has been a much needed caffeine kind of day for me.
My daughter woke up three times last night! Oh my. When does this ever end? I am getting so tired of waking up in the middle of the night one or multiple times a night. The other night she barely napped at all, I woke her up after she fell asleep for thirty minutes, but even then she woke up in the middle of the night. It's getting exhausting.
I have been trying to make and finish my mother-in-law's card but for some reason it is taking longer than anticipated. I hope to finish it this weekend since my husband will be home to help me watch the kids. But we'll see. I don't think we have anything planned this weekend really. It is getting warmer here lately so going out anywhere is going to be more challenging as we don't want to let our kids outside for that long and get too hot.
Tonight for dinner I am using my crockpot and I am making a meal called Sloppy Joe Chicken. It looks good so far and smells amazing! I can't wait to try it out. I am really loving this new cookbook I am using for some of the crockpot meals. But I do miss making casserole dishes, but Fall will be here soon. My mom bought me my crockpot like ten years ago and I never really used it until I moved in with my husband. And it wasn't until I started to meal plan that I decided to use it full-time. Planning out meals for a month is actually very easy and very relaxing for me. I look forward to when I get to plan the next month's meals.
I have never had pierogies before so I don't know what they were supposed to look like or taste like. But my husband has talked about loving them so when I found a recipe for Mock Pierogies, I thought I would make it for him. He said it didn't taste or look like what he was used to eating. I didn't really care for the meal. It seemed the recipe lacked taste and flavor. Not to mention it was very cheesy. I love cheese but this recipe was a bit overkill on the cheese. I don't think I will ever make this dish again. If I do, I'll put some sour cream and maybe salt the pasta and potatoes beforehand. With that said, here is the recipe for the meal.
Mock Pierogies
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup onion, chopped
6 to 7 potatoes, peeled, cubed, and cooked
16 oz. pkg. shredded cheddar cheese, divided
16 oz. pkg. bowtie pasta, cooked
Combine butter and onion in a slow cooker; add potatoes. Sprinkle with half the cheese. Spread pasta on top; sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover and cook on low setting for 30 to 40 minutes; stirring occasionally.
Serves 6 to 8.
This is my life. My daughter has been refusing to take a nap or even fall asleep. She fights it every single day, two times a day, fourteen times a week. I don't know why she keeps fighting it when I know she's tired. Yesterday she took forever to fall asleep. Luckily she went to bed at 9:00pm but still, she should be asleep between 7:30-8:00pm. I read that kids need consistency and a routine, but for her, it doesn't seem to apply. It is an hour and a half past her nap time right now, and what is she doing? She's playing on my husband's iPhone. We tried to put her to nap but she was not having it. Then my phone rang and it was my father-in-law who wanted to Skype so he could see the kids. All I have to say about this day is that I hope and pray she stays awake until it is time to go to bed tonight and she'll sleep easily and she will sleep through the night. It is seriously beginning to take a toll on my body waking up in the middle of the night.
Right now I am in the process of making a "house card" for my mother-in-law since she just recently retired and is moving to Florida in two weeks. I stole the house card idea from someone on YouTube, I forgot who. But I plan to make the house look like her house in Florida. I made her a card like that before that looked like the house that she used to live in. I made my husband's grandmother a photo album with pictures of the kids. She loved it. I might make another one like that but we'll see.
Tonight for dinner I'm making a meal called Mock Pierogies. It is going to be cooked in the crockpot. I have never had actual pierogies before so I don't know what it is supposed to be like. But my husband has had them so I thought I would make it for him to bring back memories for him. I showed him the recipe but he said it looks like nothing like the pierogies he used to eat. So, here goes nothing.
Today was a fun and challenging day. Today I took apart my daughter's old bed and put it back together again in the third bedroom for my son. While I was doing that, my husband was putting together her new bed. I don't know what possessed me to think we should do it right then and there, but we did. With all the chaos going on, my daughter was getting hyper and it was getting close to nap time. But I figured let's finish this and put her down to nap. It took me two hours to fall asleep finally! Two hours! I know I probably should have just let her not nap if it took that long. But we are planning to go grocery shopping today and then go get a mattress for her new bed and we're going to go to Babies R Us to get a new baby monitor for his new room so we can hear him. But I already put her monitor in his room so we just need a monitor for her room now. I know if we just skipped her nap and ran our errands, she would have fallen asleep in the car and we would have had to wake her up to let her know when we got to our location. And it's getting too hot outside so I didn't want one of us to go in the store while the other stays in the car while she sleeps either. So, that is why I waited for her to finally fall asleep. I know I am going to probably regret it tonight when it is time for her to go to bed. But whatever. No one said parenting is easy.
Tonight for dinner I am just reheating up leftovers. We really need to do some major food shopping. Today is the last day I'm cooking dinner in the oven. Starting tomorrow it will be either the stovetop or the crockpot for meals I will be preparing. But I will post the picture and the recipe.
My mother-in-law recently retired and is waiting to make her move down south to Florida in a couple of weeks. I am planning on making her a retirement card. I can't wait to make her the card. It's been a few days since I really made anything. I just cleaned up and somewhat organized the third bedroom. The third bedroom has almost all of my crafting supplies so when it comes time to make something, I will have to go in there.
Summer vacation is almost here! Yay!
The weekend is finally here and I am so happy about it. Tonight for dinner is going to be leftovers from a meal that I made and then stuck in the freezer. It was one of those meals you make and put the other half of it in a glass dish and bake it when you're ready. I can't wait for dinner because I am hungry!
Tomorrow we are supposed to go food shopping. Every three weeks I plan the menu out for the whole month and write down the meals I want to make in my day planner. After I do that I start to write down every ingredient those recipes call for. Once I do that, I go in the pantry, freezer, and the fridge and cross off everything we don't need because we already have it in the house. Once that is all done, I rewrite the list and put it in order of how I usually walk in the grocery store, that way I'm not hunting around my list to make sure I got everything. This whole process makes it easier for me because I am usually in the store trying to hurry to get everything done while my husband is in the store with our kids and trying his best to entertain them while I am walking around the store.
Sometime this weekend I need to finish folding and putting away the laundry I did over the week. This is the second time this week I have had to wash our bed sheets as our daughter peed through her diaper and got pee all over our bed and her pajamas and herself. I can not stress enough how much I can't wait til my kids are both out of diapers and both self sufficient so I don't have to constantly be watching their every little move. I know it will happen but until then I am doing my best to enjoy them as they are now.
