Category Archives: Nico

Jun 20

Make It or Buy It: Turkey

For Father’s Day I planned a “Thanksgiving” style meal for my hubby, Turkey with all of the fixings. I usually buy a Honeysuckle White frozen bone-in turkey breast, but Wal-Mart was out of my favorite turkey. I spotted the Jennie-O Oven Ready Skinless Boneless Turkey Breast, and I thought I would give it a try.

The Jennie-O turkey was a bit pricey for just one turkey breast, but it was easy to make. No thawing, no cleaning, just pop it in the oven and go. However, it didn’t stretch as far as my favorite Honeysuckle Turkey does. We did get 3 meals out of it, but no turkey stock for those tasty Turkey Noodles.

In a pinch for a quick meal the Jennie-O did a great job, but for the money I’ll be buying the Honeysuckle White Turkey and making a big batch of turkey stock.

Jun 19

Wanted to Do More, but my Head Hurts

We made it through the busy day yesterday, and I was up late last night with Dylan. I had this great plan today to fill the freezer and catch up on all of the neglected housework, but a horrible migraine found me, and I’ve been sick all day.

The boy’s have been great, and patient with me today. My hubby even brought me home a Route 44 Diet Coke from Sonic to help out my aching noggin, he is just too sweet. I think I’m going to call it an early night, and take it easy this evening. I just hope to be back up and going tomorrow, the dishes are piling up in the kitchen.

Jun 16

To Do Re-Do

You know I love my lists, and I’m always working on a way to make my daily routine run smoother. I’ve stopped making my daily To Do lists, and I’ve started making a weekly to do list. I figured out that I pretty much do the same chores everyday and I really needed a better way to keep track of those extra items that come up throughout the week. Once again I have redone To Do List…

It is now broken down into three sections:

  • What I Need to do
  • What I Want to do
  • What I Don’t want to do

The need section is reserved for all of those extra chores that really need done, a trip to the post office, or an appointment that I wasn’t planning on. The want section is reserved for all of the fun items that I would like to do: bake cookies with Thade, or sew a new bag. Lastly we have the don’t wants, which I am notiorus for putting off, Nico can be a bit of a procrastinator… This section is all of those things that I dread doing: like cleaning the litter box, or taking out the trash, the yucky stuff.

I’ve found that if I can get rid all of the don’t wants on the list first, it leaves me extra time to focus on all of those items that I do want to do. Maybe it will help out with the procrastinating Nico too 😉

How do you keep track of all of your extra To Do’s ?

Jun 10

Farmer’s Market Treats

When Summertime finally arrives there is a Farmer’s Market every Saturday. Luckily the market is just a few blocks from my house. I’ve made it one of my goals (for the Summer) to take the boys as often as I can. On Saturday we loaded up the stroller with my handmade shopping bags, and we all walked to the market.

We should have gotten there a little earlier than we did, but there was still one vendor open. We picked up some very delicious Homemade Amish Bread and Cinnamon Rolls. Thade couldn’t wait to try the cinnamon rolls, but they were for a special Sunday Breakfast 🙂

I came home and made tasty Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jam sandwiches for Thade and I for lunch. Thade was a little reluctant about trying the new bread, so I made his sandwich star shaped. We used the rest of the bread for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Bacon Sandwiches, but it was best toasted and smothered in Apricot Preserves.

The cinnamon rolls were a delicious Sunday Breakfast treat. I’ll be going back to the Farmer’s Market to buy those again, Thade loved the cinnamon rolls so much, he ate three 🙂

Jun 9

Day Camp Rain Out

Well Day Camp was a wash out today,thanks to a Flood Warning, and Thade was so sad. I thought it would be fun to have day camp at home. I picked out a recipe for Peanut Butter Pie, and I wrote it on the back of a paper plate so Thade could tell me how many of each ingredient needed to go into the pie. On the other side of the plate I made a pie outline, and got out the crayons for him to decorate his own pie. He happily colored a Strawberry and Peanut Butter Pie, while I assembled dessert for later.

Once the Pie was ready to go in the freezer I got out a bag of chocolate chips. I thought the pie needed a little something extra. Thade helped sprinkle on the chocolate chips, but not all of them made it in the pie, a few made it in to Thade’s tummy ; ) Now he is all smiles, and he even said that “Mommy at-home Day Camp was pretty fun.”