Family, Fun, Food, and Home Design
This post contains some affiliate links Positive parenting has always resonated with me (and my husband) and we've tried to incorporate it's principles in raising our girls. I wrote about how we've used some of the techniques in regards to discipline here and while it's been effective, we still needed some new tools. A couple months [...]
This post contains affiliate links. Pistachio Delight dessert was a childhood favorite in our house. I still get texts from old friends asking me for my mom's recipe. Just like my chili and chicken soup, this dessert is super nostalgic for me, it's a great treat to bring for an Easter or Mother's Day brunch, [...]
This post contains affiliate links. I knew when I got pregnant with my oldest that I wanted to breastfeed. Naively, I thought it would be SO easy. Pop the kid on the boob and things just take care of itself. It's definitely one of those pre-mom moments where I look back at myself and shake [...]
Cheesy stuffed meatloaf is one of my family's favorite dinners. Growing up, our comfort foods where soup and chili but meatloaf was always a good comforting meal. I know I've stumbled on something good when even my Mom calls me to make sure she's making my recipe right. I'm a bit of a traditionalist when [...]
This post contains some affiliate links. It's February. Finally. Anyone else think that January always feels like the longest month ever? And I still feel like I didn't have enough time to get everything done but that's the beauty of keeping lists and tracking your goals. I'm looking back now and realizing that I got [...]
This post contains affiliate links. It's Catholic Schools week in San Diego which almost means that it's Teacher Appreciation time. Last year, we had just started preschool the week before and I literally just had a baby so our gift was a card and some money. It was greatly appreciated but I wanted to be [...]
This post contains some affiliate links. It's hard to believe that we just celebrated Little Nugget's first birthday. She doesn't actually turn one until this Saturday but we did the party a week early since we had family in town. I said wasn't going to go crazy, and I actually think I kept myself in [...]
This post contains affiliate links. I said that I was going to be checking in once a week with how I'm tracking on my goals for the year and I missed last week. Good thing one of my goals wasn't to remain consistent. HA! I did have family in town for the last week and [...]
When we bought this house, we knew that the original windows would need to be replaced. Other home improvement projects took priority, like rebuilding our dining room after a flood, but the windows were high priority. We knew the value of that project since we replaced the windows in our last home. It made such [...]
This post contains affiliate links I've decided that I'd check in once a week to see how I've done so far on my goals for the year. It will keep me accountable but will also give me a chance to update on anything I've learned. I'm also sharing our meal plan for the week. Have [...]