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Water Park Hair for Littles {Thoughtful Thursday}

June 13, 2013 by Jules 4 Comments

I mentioned yesterday that we got to spend the day with friends at a water/amusement park for the 1st time as a family. We were beyond pumped!

Because we wanted to eliminate any possible kinks in the day, I wanted to make sure little girl hair wasn't going to be a constant issue. Ya know, pulling it up all day. Bang in the face. Hair slapping you on rides. Nasty looking, 1/2 dried hair. Soooo

We borrowed little brother's hair glue, "Gorilla Snot" and used tiny rubber bands to created some cute doos that would last all day.

I wet down the girls hair, added a generous amount of GS, and used a fine comb to comb their hair, removing knots, before putting it up.
Because both my girls have bangs or baby hairs/fly-aways, we created tiny pony tails right in the front.
Then we did a little dipsy do. I'm sure there's a real term for this but basically, all you do is make a hole under the hair-tier and poke the ponytail through before pulling tight.
Finally, we pulled the tiny dipsy do back into another ponytail. My oldest daughter has more hair so we ended up doing 3 ponies on one side and a single on the other side but only 2/1 on my younger daughter.
I left the back down on both girls {having only pigtails on the front 1/2 of their heads} so it would be less likely to fall down, since both of them have shoulder-length hair. I also scrunched my younger daughter's curly hair with the GS.

These stayed All Day! AND looked cute 😉 How do you fix your little girls hair when you need it to stay all day?

edit to add pics of hair glue

Filed Under: Hand-Dandies, Parenting, The ones about the Rothacher Home

Ready, Set, WHAT?!?

June 12, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

I haven't been writing much lately. Not for lack of fun stories, interesting thoughts {or at least to me}, or helpful how-tos...we've been a lil busy. lol I honestly had to go back and look at my instagram to remember what all we'd been doing. {btw: sorry if you follow my instagram via my FB page- its gonna double up}

Shortly before mother's day we found out our #4 is coming to round out the family! Eeeek

Rothacher' Harlem Shake Video {announcement}

Saw a Bunch of former students graduate down in Parker's Chapel.

Went on an awesome day of adventure to Magic Springs water and amusement part with some great friends.

Celebrated our 9th anniversary!!!

Moved the rest of stuff out in 2 days {boooo}
We FINALLY sold our house, "Big Blue"! I'll be doing a follow-up post on the Homemaker's Challenge scheduled for July.
note to self: put the memory card in the camera so you can have that "last day in front of our house when we sold it" picture
Had our 1st block party for the Vilonia community. {the night after 'closing' in White Hall}

Valley Groups have launched! Our ultimate goal and entry point for our church.
Started potty training our 2.5 year old, Jamin. Yay for new-to-us underroos!

We had our long-awaited 1st ultrasound. Baby #4 is due December 24th {but we will likely meet him/her closer to Dec 10th via c-section; entirely different post}

Had an awesome Girls Night Out in Little Rock where we went and saw Steel Magnolia's at Murray's Dinner Theater
Hosted our daughters big 'o 5th birthday party at the park {the next morning after our GNO}

We made an offer on a house in Vilonia! After a year of searching {and waiting to sell}, we made an offer at 3:30pm, received a counter-0ffer {of exactly what we were looking for} at 5:30pm, and accepted at 6:00pm. Did I mention this was the same day as the ultrasound? Busy day 😉

Now we are moving on to the "Honey-Do" list that we are hoping to accomplish before my sweet hubs leaves for Super Summer for a week and a 1/2; leaving me to single-parent {unskillfully} while he's gone.

Sign papers & turn them into the bank for our loan- check
Wii & DVD player hooked up correctly and ready to rock way too much screen time- check
Remove the giant wad of plastic wrap that I tried to use to help the bathtub water leak out slower but may or may not have gone down the drain before I could snag it possibly causing slow drainage and a pretty good clog- check
Go to SAMs Club as a family to get TP & other much-needed essentials so I don't pass out from loading, pushing, and unloading all that stuff by myself- check
Stalk up on simple foods & snacks for the prego & kids at said club- check {but may need a couple things a the big WM, ugg}
Catchup on the dishes, laundry, and big cleaning around the house- 1/2 check
Bring in our microwave from big blue because our current one got tired and doesn't heat any more- Wednesday
Baby pool, weighing way more than I should lift, dumped and refilled with clean water for scorching days- Wednesday
Collect tax return papers after the bank makes copies- Wednesday
Home inspection complete on our New House {within 10 days with the hubs being gone 7 of those days}- Thursday
Mow the jungle- maybe not...
A thousand other random things my hubs will do because he's so good at taking care of me- CHECK

Filed Under: Being a Help-Meet, Birthdays, Holidays, Homemaker, My Husband ROCKS!, The Ones about Jules Life {Randomness}, The ones about the Rothacher Home

WIC Approved Breakfast

June 4, 2013 by Jules 4 Comments

Many of you mom's out there with littles under 5 may know the blessings and woes of the WIC program.

Now that you have the food home, what do you do with it? Today I want to share a breakfast meal my kids love and only takes 1-3 ingredients that WIC doesn't provide but that you likely have in your pantry. Check them out over at the Homemaker's Challenge!

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking, Homemaker, The Ones about Homemaker's Challenge, The ones about the Rothacher Home

How-to Make Scramble Eggs in the Microwave

May 30, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

Last summer, I visited my mom who was working at a diner. Being a "home cook'n" kinda place, they needed to make real food while still pretty fast. She taught me that you can make scrambled eggs in a microwave in about 2-3 minutes. You an also do individual servings of eggs without dirtying an entire pan! They turn out incredibly fluffy!

Scrambled Eggs {in the microwave}

Ingredients:

2 eggs
Tsp Milk
Shredded Cheese {optional for added yumminess}
Salt/Pepper {to taste}

Instructions:

Crack eggs into a microwave-safe dish {preferably the one you will eat them in so you don't have to do more dishes}
Scramble the eggs with a whisk {or fork- again on the saving on washing dishes}\
Blend in the milk {and cheese}
Place dish into microwave and cook for ~2 minutes {maybe less if your is high-powered}
Remove & fluff with fork
If there is still more liquid {eggs or milk} in the bottom of the dish, return it to the microwave, cooking for 30 sec at a time
When ready, salt & pepper to taste and serve!

Did you try it? Does it work? I really enjoy this...especially being pregnant, craving eggs, but getting nauseous at the smell of them cooking over the stove.

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking, Homemaker, The Ones about Post Series, Thoughtful Thursdays

Summer Snackage {Thoughtful Thursday}

May 16, 2013 by Jules 1 Comment

The other day I had sliced open a cantaloupe for my daughters' snack. After the melon was empty I was reminded of some kind of cute snack I'd seen on Pinterest or some other place that clever people post creative ideas. A melon filled with jello.

Cool. Maybe I had jello! nope. I had no jello. I did however have cheap popsicle...yep. I tried it.

I cut open about 10 unfrozen popsicle, I chose orange...because no one likes that flavor in our house. I pored them into 1/2 of the empty melon. I covered it in plastic wrap and set it in a flat-bottomed bowl and placed it in the deep freeze.

And here are pics of my kids eating it.

Or at least trying to. It was kinda a flop. It tasted okay and was kind of like a slushy. But then I tried to slice up the cantaloupe it was wicked hard & I had to call on the strength of the hubs.

I was envisioning the kids eating it like watermelon or something but it was more like a slushy mess on a plate that required a spoon.