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6 Reasons to Fill Your Freezer

November 30, 2011 by Jules 3 Comments

6 reasons you should make freezer meals:

Its Monday and the "What do you want for dinner?" "I don't know...What do you want for dinner?" Conversations can be ended.
If you're going to all the trouble to dirty up that many pots and pans and have the oven on it should be worth it (Twice!)
Friends have babies and need quick meals (before your church has time to "plan" a line-up of women and casserole dishes- although that's awesome as well).
Kids still need to eat healthy on Mommy's night out (and you might run out of frozen pizza's).
Friends loose loved ones and need quick meals (before your church has time to "plan" a line-up of women and casserole dishes- although that's awesome as well).
Some times you NEED an emergency date night and {again} your kids need a healthy meal ... without the babysitter having to burn down your house.

Click around the The Ones about Cooking (11) category for yummy freezer meal ideas I use! {More coming soon}

What are some good reasons YOU make freezer meals?

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking Tagged With: 5 reasons, cleaning pots and pans, date night, freezer meals, frozen pizza, healthy eating, mom's night out

Monkeybread Breakfast

November 27, 2011 by Jules 1 Comment

Totally unhealthy but yum-scrum-diddly-umpsious!

I found this amazingness on Pinterest but adjusted the recipe a little.

I don't think there's a meal I haven't 'adapted' for our family... Anyways; feel free to adjust my recipe:

1 small tubes refrigerator buttermilk biscuits (I use 'cheap brand')
1.5 Tbsp. margarine, melted

1/4 C. syrup

4 Tbsp. packed brown sugar

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

Spray a pan with non-stick spray. Preheat oven to 375'

Combine the melted butter and syrup in a small bowl and set aside.

In another bowl, combine the brown sugar, and cinnamon.

Place about half of the syrup mixture in the bottom of the pan. Then sprinkle half of the brown sugar mixture on top.

Tare the biscuits 4ths (ball them up if ya want) and make a layer on the bottom of the pan, overlapping edges (closely together)

Top with syrup and sugar mixtures. Then make another layer of balled biscuits, syrup and sugar mixtures.

Bake at 375 degrees for approximately 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Cool for 1 minute in the pan, then invert onto a serving platter and enjoy!

You really need to try these soon!! Maybe for Christmas breakfast??? It's a good excuse to eat completely unhealthy. Enjoy!

What is your family's traditional Christmas Breakfast?

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking, The Ones about things Jules tried off Pinterest Tagged With: biscuits, breakfast, Christmas, how to, recipe, traditions

Hot Chocolate

November 16, 2011 by Jules 2 Comments

These are for Real the "Preparation Instructions" on my Great Value Milk Chocolate Flavored Hot Cocoa Mix with Marshmallows:

1. Empty 1/4 cup of cocoa mix into a cup {Mom, the "one spoon full of mix" rule---> Bogus!}

2. Add 1 cup of hot water {That's right my friends 1/4 cup mix per 1 cup water!}

3. Stir and enjoy. {I think the punctuation here behind ENJOY is and understatement!!!}
*I added large marshmallows and a dab of milk (3/4 water 1/4 mild) to mine as well ;o)

Go make some awesomeness! You know you want to now that the back of the can has given you permission to go overboard on the chocolatey goodness!

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What kind of favorite wintery treats to you enjoy?

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking Tagged With: Chocolate, hot chocolate, Marshmallow, mom myths, wintery goodness

“It’s like a Waggon!”

November 5, 2011 by Jules 4 Comments

Today we brought an entirely new level to my 3-year-old helping with major chores.

Before today I never would have considered asking Maggie to carry a laundry basket up our stairs but today...I did. That's right, I ask a short little, 25 lb, almost 3.5-year-old to carry 3 days worth of our entire 5 member family's laundry up the stairs. And she LOVED it!

Here's how we did it:

I attached a simple 4ft piece of twine to on handle on our laundry basket
I piled the children's laundry on the landing 1/2 way up the stairs
Mags then fill the basket up as much as she liked (and was able to heave up the stairs)
After loaded, we strung the twine across the laundry (holding in the items)

When it was through the other handle, Maggie then pulled it thus toting the load up the stairs
She ran down the hall way pulling the basket behind her yelling, "Mommy! It's like a wagon!"
Finally she dumped their clothes (a load at a time) into her bedroom floor where we later sorted and put it away
{We continued this same procedure with Matt's and my clothing to our bedroom}

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Share with us fun ways you involve your kids in daily chores?

Filed Under: Cleaning, Parenting Tagged With: children's chores, laundry, waggon

A Sarah Mae Giveaway!

November 3, 2011 by Jules 8 Comments

That's right everybody! I have Sarah Mae's "31 Days to Clean, Having a Martha home the Mary way" e-book to giveaway!

Many of you have heard me going on and on and on about 31 Days to Clean. Many of you may have no idea what I'm talking about. Let me tell you a little bit about the e-book:

“Life-giving is about receiving from God in order to give to others.” Barbara Mouser, Five Aspects of Woman
31 Days to Clean is about loving others well.
It’s about the “why” and the vision and the heart for taking care of our domains (Mary) with some spring cleaning thrown in (Martha).
The heart of our homes is not in the ability to keep it perfect at all costs; the heart of a home is love. We live in a thing, a non-eternal structure that needs to be maintained. The thing is worthless without the life we bring to it and through it. This book is about bringing life to the mundane in order to love well.

-Sarah Mae {click here to learn more about the book, author, see the table of content, and read a sample "day"

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