tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81574699255983781152024-03-05T03:07:03.063-05:00It's The GraysAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-80720983876225726072013-01-17T15:43:00.000-05:002013-01-22T19:15:41.291-05:00Pink SandwichesJust a little update on the Princess Party Food. If you are looking to make the coloured popcorn you can click <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/269512358920226431/" target="_blank">HERE</a> for the recipe. You can make this popcorn in any colour that jello is sold in. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As for the sandwiches I went to a local grocery store and
ordered pink bread cut lengthwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
might need to call around to order the bread as some stores don’t have it. We
have a Fortinoes in the area that does it or specialty bread stores will usually sell them as well. These sandwiches should be made a day before and refrigerated so they will stay together and are easier to cut. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once you have the bread cut all the
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goes for the cream cheese and cherry sandwiches but I mix in a little cherry juice in the
cream cheese to spread a little easier. Line up your maraschino cherries and roll up. Saran wrap and refrigerate. On the day of the party use a sharp knife to cut in 1/2" rolls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can make this with any filling you like egg salad, tuna, peanut butter etc. You will need 2 different colours of bread for this. Slather filling on cut in 3 lenghts. Use the filling to stick together so you have alternating colours. Once you have one row with 3 together slather the top with filling and repeat. You will have 3 layers. Saran wrap and refrigerate. On the day of the party use a sharp knife to cut in 1/2" rolls. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-26666237205326081322012-09-07T13:20:00.003-04:002012-09-07T13:20:57.519-04:00One Dirty Girl Mud RunWell tomorrow I get to participate in another mud run! I would say mud obstacle runs are pretty addicting. It's the fun with friends, getting sweaty, dirty and doing obstacles that you never thought you could do.<br />
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There is a team of 5 of us traveling from Canada to Buffalo NY to the <a href="http://www.godirtygirl.com/" target="_blank">Go Dirty Girl</a> tomorrow. We are the Muddy Beavers and we are excited to work as a team get through the finish line.<br />
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I haven't trained as hard for this run as I did for the warrior dash but it's going to be AWESOME! I love that even though I'm not even close to my goal weight I see my life changing. I have the confidence to get out there and sign up for crazy runs with obstacles which my Mother feels is so unsafe. Love you Mom. I can encourage my friends to come with me and have a good time. I'm not the one that needs the pep talk and extra support anymore. I feel as though I'm free and getting my confidence back. <br />
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Tomorrow is going to be a blast with my team and family coming to cheer me on. It will be a different feeling running through the finish line having my 2 kids cheering for me. I'm more fulfilled in the choices I'm making now, then the satisfaction from the delicious unhealthy food I used to eat. I'm happy as well as I don't feel deprived and that is what matters.<br />
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I'm sure there will be pictures to share once I get home.<br />
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TammyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-18405724938761726132012-09-05T13:35:00.002-04:002012-09-05T13:35:44.678-04:00Wordless Wednesday Back to School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-51553623922441179482012-08-29T08:36:00.002-04:002012-08-29T08:36:58.409-04:00Wordless Wednesday - The Upside-down Mom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-5058862299859154402012-08-27T14:27:00.001-04:002012-08-27T14:27:23.782-04:00A Gift for the Hostess with the Mostess<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I found this paper basket on <a href="http://pinterest.com/rawrtammy/crafty-diy-ideas/" target="_blank">pinterest</a> and thought it would
be the perfect little hostess gift. I needed an alternative to my go to bottle of wine or flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love handmade gifts. To me it shows that the person took the time to really think about what they are giving instead of just walking into a store and grabbing the first thing they see. The time and effert put in is what I appreciate so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For this project I got to go through all my scrapbook paper that doesn't get brought out enough. I have so many
different beautiful sheets of scrapbook paper just waiting for some
creativity. This was such a great way to use some up and really personalize depending on the occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The basket took about 5 minutes to make and was so easy. I would do this again ,especially for my Christmas cookies. Just <a href="http://www.thenshemade.com/2010/09/tiskit-tasket-little-green-paper-basket.html" target="_blank">click here</a>
for a tutorial on how to make this super cute basket.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-76230105601732849612012-08-22T11:30:00.000-04:002012-08-22T13:17:19.547-04:00Weigh In after CampingWell this is the first week back on track. I've done well and had my weigh in a day late because I was at a No Dad's Camping trip with my kids. The last 2 day's I have gone over my daily point so I was nervous to weigh in. Stepped on the scale waiting for them to say you gained and I was down 2.5lbs!! I'm very encouraged! It feels wonderful to see the work I put in earlier in the week show up on the scale. <br />
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So as of right now It's The Gray's -2.5 and <a href="http://thatmomblog.com/2012/08/20/week-34-back-on-track-fail/" target="_blank">That Mom Blog</a> +1.3<br />
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I know That Mom Blog is going to be kicking some butt this week so I'm going to have to say focused!<br />
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My first weeks challenge was to drink 8 glasses of water a day. I had a few tricks at getting all my water. I would drink a herbal decaf tea with a splash of agave nectar in the morning, one of my water bottles during the day would have a little mio in it and sometimes I put some frozen berries in my water if I felt like I needed something a little different. I was successful but did I ever get my exercise going to the bathroom every 5 minutes. I'm going to continue with the 8 glasses of water. A great way to keep track of it is if you fill a jug full of 8 cups of water then mark the side and fill it every morning.<br />
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The challenge for this week will be at least 30 minutes of exercise each day this week. I'm going to be bike riding, Jillian Michale's 30 day shed and some jogging to get ready for <a href="http://www.godirtygirl.com/" target="_blank">Go Dirty Girl</a> I'm doing in 2 weeks. <br />
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What are your favorite exercises?<br />
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January. I’ve lost 30lbs and celebrated that for most of the summer as I
stopped weight watchers online and tracking my food all together. I tried to
get into my fitness pal because some of my friends swear by it. I’m not into
it! I think mostly I like the nutrition factor in coming up with the weight watchers
points vs me tracking calories. It's just not for me but it is a great program.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Monday was my big kicking it into high gear again. I join
Weight watchers again but this time I’m going to be doing the meetings not just
online. When I weighed in Monday a good friend of mine that has been doing the
weight loss journey with me and I hit the same weight. Well what else can we do
then to have a competition to spice up the weight loss journey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So it’s a race as who can lose 20lbs first and let me tell
you it’s on! So <a href="http://thatmomblog.com/" target="_blank">That Mom Blog</a> is using her my Fitness Pal and who knows maybe
she'll have some pizzas or cupcakes magically delivered to her house. Hahaha I
wouldn’t do that! I’d think about it but I wouldn’t…. This is going to fun for
both of us. Just a reminder on those days you want to eat everything in sight
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-42529341212671327292012-08-10T08:18:00.000-04:002012-08-10T08:18:03.933-04:00Princess Party for Lil MissThe theme for lil Miss this year was Princesses. All her little friends came all decked out in the jewelery, puffy dresses with lots of crinoline and even some Tinkerbell wings. It was very adorable! I wanted to keep the food light and easy. <br />
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When I was a little girl and I'd go to a family bridal or baby shower my Mother and Aunts would always make the most fantastic colourful sandwiches. After asking for the help of my Mother we worked together and made some pink and white tea sandwich's. If you'd like tutorial on how to just leave a comment and I'll put it in another post. <br />
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I seen on <a href="http://pinterest.com/rawrtammy/" target="_blank">pinterest </a>paper cones with popcorn in them. I went searching for my girly card stock and glue gun and this how it turned out.<br />
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As you can see below this is what our snack table contained:<br />
Pink Popcorn made with cherry jello <br />
Chocolate Dipped Marshmallow and Oreo Princess Wands<br />
Cream cheese checkerboard sandwiches<br />
Peanut butter Banana roll ups <br />
Cherry and cream cheese roll ups<br />
Cupcakes, Fruit and Veggies<br />
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-86602100785094811652012-07-24T10:00:00.000-04:002012-07-24T10:10:02.375-04:00Warrior Dash CompleteSunday I completed the Warrior Dash Ontario. I'm SO proud of myself. This is something I would look at and say I'd never be able to do that. It's for people that are super fit, but I did it and loved it!<br />
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I'm not going to lie I was so scared as we arrived!! My stomach was doing flips but once we got into it, it was so much fun! <br />
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We got pumped up at the start of our wave time and we were off. Jogging along with my husband and all of a sudden he lost his shoe to the mud. He's a warrior he just dug in deep to the mud and reclaimed his shoe and we were off. <br />
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I did the dash with 2 friends and my husband. A bit after the 1 mile mark our one friend was struggling with her asthma and needed to slow down and walk. We stuck together and did every obstacle! We climbed over walls that were 3/4 of my height and under barbwire, crawled through a trench, climbed over a huge cargo net (did I mention I'm afraid of heights?), jumped over fire as a team, crawled through a mud pit with barbwire over top and more.<br />
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I'm a bit disappointed I wasn't able to push myself and see what my best was but it was AWESOME being able to complete this with such close friends of mine! We completed the Warrior Dash Barrie in 1 hour and 19 minutes, which obliterated our goal of completing it in 2 hours.<br />
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I'm excited to continue with my exercising, weight loss and training for next years Warrior Dash. One thing I will say I really need to work on is my hill training because those hills kicked my butt!<br />
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<em>~Tammy</em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-35427387389926725662012-07-18T11:26:00.001-04:002012-07-18T11:26:10.172-04:00Wordless Wednesday - Teachers Smores Gift<br />
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This week is a big milestone for me. I get to check off my bucket list a 5k run. I'm not doing just any 5k run I'm completing the warrior dash! Keep your eyes open for my next muddy post.</div>
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1. <b>Camping</b> – We love camping. We go with a few families with kids around the same age. By the end of the day the kids were ready for their sleepovers in the big tent. I have people tell me it’s crazy to camp with kids but really all you need is a little organization and a laid back attitude and everyone will have a great time. For some camping tips you can check out <a href="http://thatmomblog.com/2012/07/12/that-moms-tips-for-camping/">That Moms Blog</a>.
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2. <b>Treasure Hunt</b>- We did this well we were camping which was nice because when the children were getting a little too excited it really focused them. We started each hunt with a little circle time, doing duck duck goose and singing different songs. I picked up 6 treasures, one for each of the children. When they found the treasure they needed to share it with all of their friends. Our treasures were: crayons with colouring pages and crafting materials, balls and frisbees, Fruit snacks, sand toys for the beach trip later in the day, glow sticks and finger lights, and water balloons with water guns. This was just so much fun. Each child got a treasure map with their names on it so they took turns being the leader and everyone else had to follow holding hands. They went around under benches and over logs, finding treasures hung in trees, behind rocks and in tall grass.
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3. <b>PLAYDATE PLAYDATE PLAYDATES!!!- </b>This one is very important to me. Being a SAHM it’s nice to get the kids together with friends and I like getting together with some awesome Moms too. We just had a Ice Cream Tasting play date today. Everyone brought a topping or ice cream. The kids tried all the different kinds of treats and made a sundae. What a great time! Some other different play date ideas we've done or been to are book play date- bring your favorite book, superhero play dates- make masks out of construction paper and elastics, Cookie decorating play dates, fairy play dates with a tent and sparkles and a nice picnic with friends never fails.
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4. <b>Road Trips</b> – We have good travelers so we pack up and take a day trip to the beach with a packed lunch. A few weeks ago we had tired kids in the van but my husband and I didn't want to go home. The kids slept in the van well we drove almost an hour to get to a beach for an ice cream. We sat and enjoyed the view beside our van with 2 sleeping children inside. FANTASTIC! We are also excited to plan a family road trip to National Museum of Play in Rochester NY. I’ll let you know how it is but I’ve heard great things.
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5. <b>Kids Games</b> – We can spend the day making tents out of bed sheet and pillows, playing hide and go <strike>sleep</strike> seek, dance parties, Lego, painting, colouring, water balloons, playing on our trampoline and tea parties. Here are a few links that have bucket lists for summer activites. Side note – Gotta love pinterest! <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/269512358920745601/">Summer Activity Bucket</a> List <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/269512358920549000/">Quiet Time Activities</a>
I hope you enjoy your summer and if you have some family summer activity ideas you post your ideas below.
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I want to cherish the time I have with my children they are only this age once.
I want to make time once a month for just me and my husband to get out and enjoy each other's company.
I <strike>want</strike> need to make time for me. Whether it be getting out to excercise or just spending some quiet time alone. I've always felt guilty about doing this but I'm not the best mother or wife I can be if I'm not taking care of me as well.
I'm sure you can tell that changing my eating has changed more than just my weight. I have a ways to go to hit my goal but I'm going to keep trucking along, working hard. The <a href="http://warriordash.com">warrior dash</a> is in 2 months and this mamma of 2 is going to kick some serious butt!
One last thing... This week I decided to try on my wedding dress. It's been 6 years and 2 kids since I've been able to fit in it and well it's a bit big.
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I'd love to hear your fav recipes. You can find all of these recipes links on my pinterest.<br />
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<i>Tammy</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-91223512561606375292012-01-20T12:48:00.002-05:002012-01-20T13:08:23.749-05:00The Journey from a Pretty Face to One Healthy MomJust wanted to post a quick little update on my weight loss journey. I have been working hard at learning the weight watchers points and changing my routine. The first few weeks of weight watchers was a challenge. I felt hungry a lot and really deprived of my favorite foods. I think that this week I'm finally in the groove. I'm choosing foods that are more filling and satisfying. <br />
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I am a cook! I enjoy making homemade meals from scratch and baking as much as I can. One thing that I don't need to give up is my love of baking homemade bread! This makes me very happy! I am aware of the points and am able to enjoy the homemade bread smell filling my home. As you can probably tell I LOVE carbs. I'm still enjoying them just in a smaller portion. With the weight watchers online site I can put in any of my recipes and it will calculate the points. This is my life saver. It's nice to play around with it and see what different substitutions I can make and see the impact on the points.<br />
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The last few weeks have been filled with some very satisfying meals! Homemade pizza with thin crust(homemade dough from Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day), turkey dinner with stuffing veggies and faux mashed potatoes (it doesn’t have any potatoes but cauliflower) and stir-fry with quinoa. I'm going to try and post a few recipes as I continue on with my healthy choices but one website has been very helpful <a href="www.skinnytaste.com/">skinny taste.</a> Chek it out there are some fantastic recipes!<br />
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Ok back to the weigh-in... today was my 3 week since making a healthier life for me which inspired me to write this post. I have been sticking to the weight watchers and running but need to work on getting my strength training in 2 times and working up to 3. So after 3 weeks I've lost 13.4lbs which I am celebrating every single one of those pounds!!<br />
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I’d love to hear your weight loss success and challenges. Plus tips and tricks are always welcome!<br />
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I proceeded to rip apart the book (which on a side note was very therapeutic, I felt a little rebellious), and making the pages into cones with a dab of hot glue. You could really do this with any book depending on how big you wanted the cones to be or just cut the pages in half. <br />
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Once I had an abundance of cones I started hot gluing them to the circle starting on the outside working in. Then ta da... the finished product! A beautiful wall art flower.<br />
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I might just have to do this for our hallway. You could use different colour papers to make it festive as well. <br />
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Thank-you pinterest for yet again another fantastic idea.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-86668415125706838012011-12-29T15:22:00.000-05:002011-12-29T15:22:58.257-05:00The Weight Loss Goal Is SetAfter a lot of thinking I've finally came up with a weight loss goal. I will be turning 30 in April and would like to have lost 40lbs by then. Along with that goal I <s>would still like to run a </s>will run a 5k in the spring.<br />
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I am going to train 3 days a week for the 5k and workout 3 days a week with 1 day off. I was doing this successfully with a personal trainer in the fall before I had surgery but feel back into bad habits during my recovery. Unfortunately personal trainers don't work for free so now it's on me.<br />
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I've decided that I will be using <a href="http://www.weightwatchers.ca/index.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">weight watchers online</span></a> to assist me with my food choices. I feel that this is a life style change and that the weight watchers program is set up in a way for me to change my outlook on food. As I am going through this I hope to keep blogging about tips and tricks of my weight loss, review weight watchers online and find a exercise program I like.<br />
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I am sick of being the one with the pretty face. It's time for me to treat myself with the love I treat others with and not putting myself last. I am going to make sure I am a priority in my life and I will be proud of ever accomplishment on the way.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-624899995097600322011-12-14T19:29:00.000-05:002011-12-14T19:29:05.581-05:00This time Will be Different.<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This isn't one of those crafty posts but I will get back to that soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been a big girl for as long as I can remember. I've been working hard but not really getting anywhere with my weight loss goals. It seems when I'm making headway a bump comes along and I crash down. I really want to challenge myself, set a goal and push myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Right now before Christmas time there is lots of bake goods, dinners, parties and my ass is getting fatter. Well I don't think I can wait until New Years to make a resolution. I have today and I need to make a change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So maybe I can change my patterns if I share it with those who pop in a read a little about our family. Maybe I'll feel some accountability if I write it out. Worth a try because I'm ready for change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now time for some goals:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted to share my recent project. It's not really crafty it's about food. With our little guy starting school it's been a struggle to have a meal ready quick enough so he can get to bed early enough without falling asleep in his dinner. I've been reading some different sites about once a week or month cooking. I found </span><a href="http://onceamonthmom.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once A Month Mom</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I was floored at the variety of menus and the resources it provides. It has the menu with includes about 3 breakfast recipes, 3 lunch recipes and 6 dinner recipes. The idea is that you would eat each meal twice so you'd end up with about 24 meals. Other resources they have is a downloadable grocery list with a cell to put in how many people you are cooking with and it adjusts the portions. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Recipes, labels for the frozen meals and instructions on how to use your time efficiently. I would strongly recommend looking through this site at all it has to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok so as you can <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">probably already </span> tell I decided that I was going to attempt this once a month cooking to see if I could save time and money. I'm a very frugal Mama and enjoy feeling like I'm stretching our family's dollar as far I we can. Just a quick side note about saving money, </span><a href="http://www.mrsjanuary.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs January</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is a fantastic site to assist you in that. I have been price matching my butt off and starting the couponing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways back on topic. Cooking, cooking and more cooking. Here were my thoughts before doing this. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buy everything in bulk when I could because we were cooking for 2 families</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the majority of my cooking will be done during an off peak hydro time making some savings there</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This would be a one day cooking marathon saving me time during our hectic days and reduce that thought about ordering out when all is falling apart</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The night before our cooking marathon we did all our prep and then some. We made sure everything was all chopped up. I decided I was going to get a jump start by making up all the bread and tortillas. First time making tortillas and I'm going to do it again they were so <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">delicious </span>and really not that <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">complicated</span>. After about 6 hours of cleaning, chopping, roasting 12 squash and baking up all the breads we were ready to get started.</span><br />
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I am not a gardener at all but have attempted a veggie garden that we have grown from seeds. The kiddies had lots of fun planting and watering our seeds. We could figure out why all our cucumber seedlings were dieing until little monkey showed me. He was ripping off the leaves and pretending to eat them saying they were cucumbers.... Just makes you laugh. <br />
So far no veggies yet but everything is growing so well. Who knows maybe I am growing a green thumb. <br />
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It has been so <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>EASY</em></span> and simple to incorporated it into our menu for the week. Last week I made an olive dough and with that it makes 4 loafs of bread. We had two loafs of focaccia with onions and rosemary with our pasta. I also made Cheese and Spinach Calzones, which were AMAZING. It was thumbs up for these recipes and our company loved them as well.<br />
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I've also done the whole wheat dough and so far have made homemade cinnamon raisin bagels.<br />
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I am really impressed with these books and thinking that they are a good buy because there are so many different recipes. They take no time at all plus no kneading and the dough lasts about 2 weeks in the fridge. There are many different recepies you can make out of the one dough.<br />
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If you check it out or use these books let me know what your favorite recepie is.<br />
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<div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"><div class="blog-posts hfeed"><div class="date-outer"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1097219372523219119"> <div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b2a1c7; font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Tammy</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224486361136581781noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157469925598378115.post-9386056311716170442011-05-24T14:20:00.000-04:002011-05-24T14:20:52.815-04:00Mirror Mirror on the Piano<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxvbwrOm-hyulaK36M_PWAtiy9mprbjlFu-KxlUwAMmtT7YCyDp4jeiPeSTQvueCbKyvYzEDOb5aBzyVM_MKHlTE0DQARwgb4D76sPetePsI737dEPX7MFihtYWsa4Ie2jYrOsuUmteH6X/s1600/IMG_1443.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxvbwrOm-hyulaK36M_PWAtiy9mprbjlFu-KxlUwAMmtT7YCyDp4jeiPeSTQvueCbKyvYzEDOb5aBzyVM_MKHlTE0DQARwgb4D76sPetePsI737dEPX7MFihtYWsa4Ie2jYrOsuUmteH6X/s320/IMG_1443.JPG" width="320" /></a>I really wanted a mirror for on my mantel. I was seen a few fantastic mantels with these beautiful mirrors. When I was a the salvation army I found this mirror for $5.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsGdJO8fomDCYbt5jwbN9yBmFAkpudDu20FpGZvSRh90ZwW0OLC1P8mUK8bmja_bAOghLfTmXwX8WJobSbNL4w9xLmK3USzNGdwPsckCsdr06tnSDnYDh0oirZ2Y2X5caFnNLID4_pL37/s1600/IMG_1622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsGdJO8fomDCYbt5jwbN9yBmFAkpudDu20FpGZvSRh90ZwW0OLC1P8mUK8bmja_bAOghLfTmXwX8WJobSbNL4w9xLmK3USzNGdwPsckCsdr06tnSDnYDh0oirZ2Y2X5caFnNLID4_pL37/s320/IMG_1622.JPG" width="320" /></a>I'm not a huge fan of gold so I decided to paint it a nice white. I don't think it's done yet because there is something missing. I might do some glazing to bring out the details but for now this works.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWza16Jv2eBapT2pTs6mfGQsk-vjejb39y8xmz-JlZkh-4FXGHBh3aha08481E67mt5eUCR_87vD_chyq9ulMcqQh7kXJSNWxyJou8_gR4Wo7f0hWHGof6OYSpVJdQbfmRfAGJ2pXkzGg/s1600/IMG_1624.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWza16Jv2eBapT2pTs6mfGQsk-vjejb39y8xmz-JlZkh-4FXGHBh3aha08481E67mt5eUCR_87vD_chyq9ulMcqQh7kXJSNWxyJou8_gR4Wo7f0hWHGof6OYSpVJdQbfmRfAGJ2pXkzGg/s320/IMG_1624.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the way it never made it to the mantel but it looks great on top of our piano.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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We were using post-it notes but I was sick of seeing those little yellow papers on the fridge. I decided to make little close-pin note hangers for each family member. Now we can use up that scrap paper from our printer. Works great for me!<br />
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I started to organizing our abundance of crafty supplies for the kids. Finding old jars some with lids so we don't have any spills for things like beads. Paper to cover up the sticky parts of the a few jars that I couldn't get off and an old tray I had laying around. <br />
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After some tidying of the bookcase, adding a few extra doors and taking some toys away here is our revamped kids storage area.<br />
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