real moms {sharing} all things fabulous
This summer, on a whim, I sold my double stroller. We had barely used it since the birth of our third child, despite having two older kids who, in tandem “were so tired and needed to sit” in the ride-along section of our stroller. I loved the idea of having an option for a tired…
Confession: I am all about easy. Fast. SIMPLE (fitting, right??). If I can feed my family with a meal that takes less than 20 minutes to prepare, I am in chef heaven. My recipe box is full of recipes that I never use because they are either too time consuming or have too many ingredients….
This is my first year of having a full-time student. I have never before had to pack a lunch each morning and was kind of appalled at how many plastic bags we were going through each week. It seemed like a huge waste and not very green. And green is good. So when I read…
Do you ever get to the point with vegetables where you know you need to eat them but are just sick of steaming them and throwing some butter in for flavor? This recipe is another one I discovered early on in my marriage (13 years ago…wow!!) on allrecipes.com. My husband and I both love…
We are a visual family. My kids love playing games on my iPad (mostly educational……ish), playing Wii Sports with their dad, and watching their favorite Disney movies over and over. To be honest, with three kids 6 and under, putting on a movie is sometimes the only way to settle things down for a bit….
This week I decided to take a break from my “mom’s favorite recipes” theme and share one of MY favorite recipes. I have been making this for most of my married life and my husband and kids eat it up like candy every time. I originally found it on allrecipes.com but have been making it for so…
I am not big on Halloween decorations. My kids are always bugging me to put up spiders and skeletons and scary witches. It’s just not my thing. I haven’t dressed up in an actual Halloween costume since 2004. But my kiddos love every spooky thing Halloween has to offer. So they were super excited to…
You may be sensing a trend here. I LOVE my mom’s cooking. I have been using many of her recipes for most of my married life. And because {truth be told}, she loves her cooking too, I have been able to convince her to let me share her recipes. With YOU, our loyal SIMPLE readers…
One of my favorite things about being the mommy of two sweet girls is the primping. We shop for daddy-daughter dance dresses, we put on lip gloss for Disney on Ice and we always ALWAYS have fancy feet. Painting our toesies is one of our very favorite things. We have a whole cabinet full of…
Nothing says fall like a good, old fashioned apple pie. And no one makes a better pie than my mom. She has been making Betty Crocker’s recipe since she and my dad got married in 1970. Apple pie is my dad’s absolute favorite and she has perfected the recipe over the years. Since my parents…
A few years ago, my in-laws bought a golf course in Hastings, Michigan. It quickly became my kiddos’ favorite place to visit on the weekends. They go on golf cart rides, they look for deer, they “pick the range”…..it’s kid heaven. And whenever we hop in the car to head out to dinner, my daughter…
I am totally dating myself here but I loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when it first debuted in the 1980’s (I was something of a tomboy back then). Since then, they have re-emerged in a few different versions and platforms but have always maintained the four original Turtles: Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and of…