Finding the Best in Midwest Weekend Getaways
I can’t take sole credit for this Pepper Jack Egg Bake as the original recipe came from the mom of one of my college friends and I’ll be honest that I have no idea where it originally came from! This riff, however, is my own!
Don’t like meat? Want more veggies in your diet? Check out this Hearty Veggie Egg Bake!
Continue “Pepper Jack Egg Bake”It’s May already?! How did that happen?? We are on the downhill slide of track season (unless R makes it to the state track meet)! We actually only have 4 meets left between the two boys! But, since it’s a new month, that means a new round of What I’m Loving Right Now and a giveaway (that I’m super excited about) at the end!
Can I be perfectly honest with you? I could live in nothing but leggings and tunics! It’s true and I’m not ashamed to admit it! If you find the right combo, it can be like wearing pajamas to work, so really…what’s not to love?! Right now I’m loving this Apt. 9 Tunic Tee from Kohls! While they call is a tee, the texture is similar to a microsuede so it makes it dressy enough to wear to work! Seriously comfy and stylish at the same time! It comes in a variety of colors and prints, but of course, I snagged it in gray! That is one of my two color groups that I wear! (If you don’t believe me, check out last month’s edition!) Ha!
Who’s on the lookout for moonshine recipes?
Spring is a crazy time of year in our house and this Lime Moonshine Margarita is currently my saving grace! And thanks to Smith Creek and this moonshine recipe, I’m surviving! Ok, well…maybe it’s not as dramatic as that, but I can say that I have enjoyed a few of these in the past couple months when I have a minute of downtime!
As T and I were headed back from Branson this past February, it dawned on us, that the only souvenirs we brought back with us were alcoholic. (I promise we don’t need AA!) But, as it ended up on this trip, we visited the Crown Valley Distillery for a short tour and some tastings and we also visited Smith Creek Moonshine Tasting Room at the Branson Landing! Since then, I’ve been on the hunt for great moonshine recipes.
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Can you believe it?! Gardening season is finally here! Well, according to the weather forecast, it’s gardening season for a day or two then it’ll be cold and wet again! Geesh! But, I couldn’t wait any longer, so it’s officially the first Garden Update post! Last year, I waited until the end of May and well…that is just too long! So, here it is!
So, is there a lot to update you on with the gardens? Have I actually done a lot in the gardens yet? No, not really, but I am so stinking excited this year to share it all with you, that I figured we might as well start from the very beginning, right?!
I basically badgered T this weekend to till our vegetable garden until he gave in! It seemed dry on the top…well, maybe he was right and it was too wet. However, he’s as stubborn as I am, so by the time he had tilled half of it, he told me I was planting it, so planting we did! We put in cucumbers, green onions, radishes, tomatoes, and a row of green beans! I’m hoping the sun and warm temps today will give those little seeds a jump start otherwise, I’ll never live this down! (I think you can see from the picture how wet it actually was..you can see where we packed it down in between rows!) There is still the other half of the garden to till and plant (when and if it ever dries up) along with 2 other sections that are adjoining!
Every time that Influenster contacts me to let me know I’m getting a new VoxBox, I’m excited! It’s always fun to see what goodies they are sending each time! I’ve gotten this one, this one, and this one in the past! So, when I was notified this spring that they were sending me the #CharmVoxBox, I was extra excited!
I can’t believe it’s M’s birthday again! Each year it seems to come around faster and faster! He’s becoming a teenager this year and I’m in denial. In fact, I’ve been completely avoiding the topic because I get teary whenever I think about it! I’m not sure how it’s happened, but it has!
Dear M,
You’re 13 today! I don’t know how it happened! (Funny, I started your 11th birthday letter the exact same way!) It’s official that you’re a teenager and I’m not dealing well with it! You, my sweet, brown-eyed boy, are such an amazing kid! 6 years ago when I joined your family, I would never have imagined what a place in my heart you would have! And really, you’re not a boy anymore, you are definitely a young man! And a young man I’m so proud of!
I love hard boiled eggs, which results in loving most egg salad! Recently, I developed a love for this Italian Egg Salad recipe and I’m so glad that I discovered it. It’s refreshing and simple, yet full of flavor and delicious!
My Grandma P made THE BEST egg salad I remember ever having! Unfortunately, she was killed in a car accident when I was 11, so I never got to write down her recipe and of course, like many grandmas, she never did document it. So, no matter how hard I’ve tried in my adult years, I can’t recreate it, so I’ve stopped trying! Instead, I decided to come up with my own delicious egg salad.
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1 Peter 2:16 – “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
I can’t believe that we are almost finished with the 10-Week Wellness Challenge! It seems like only yesterday that The Iowa Food & Family Project invited me to join their team! I was so excited when they did and I had such high hopes of blowing it out of the water this year! HA! Well, then life happened!
I’ve struggled with being healthy for the majority of my adult life! I’m, what I call myself, a coping anorexic! If you look at me today you wouldn’t guess that to be the case, but it’s true!! You see, being healthy has several different definitions. Obtaining a healthy lifestyle depends on your own personal situation. For me, being healthy is finding a balance with my eating and exercise. All of this, along with “life” during the 10-Week Wellness Challenge has gotten me to these realizations:
Just when we think Spring has arrived in Iowa (70 on Monday), Mother Nature proves us wrong (8 inches of snow on Sunday). So, while I was wallowing in the turn of the weather, I decided to whip up a batch of my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread for the boys and myself! It’s one we all enjoy because really…who doesn’t enjoy a warm sweet bread loaded with chocolate chips?!
There seems to be nothing like the smell of freshly baking bread in the oven when you’re dreading the impending snow storm! We all know there is nothing like snacking on a warm sweet bread straight from the oven either! There are probably hundreds of pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipes and while mine is nothing unique and there is nothing that sets it aside from the others, it’s pretty dang good, a classic, and super easy to throw together!
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