Here is a favorite…Tater Tot Cassserole. Not the healthiest but anything in moderation is ok.
1 Bag of tater tots
3 small cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 bag of frozen beans thawed
1 lb. Ground Turkey (hamburger works too)
1 cup of grated cheese (whatever you desire)
Garlic powder (to taste)
Salt and pepper (to taste)
Brown the meat first and mix everything together with the cooked meat.
Bake at 400 for 20 min.
Sprinkle cheese on top and bake another 15 min.
ENJOY!
Sharing because why not, someone else may benefit from it too.
I’ve lost 7 pounds since Christmas. 2 things I have done different that explains it.
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It seems like a lot of $ at first but only having to buy breakfast items and lunches for the boy at the grocery has saved me about $150 a month on my Kroger bill. Not impulse buying and thinking…”maybe I’ll make this.”
I saved my receipts for 3 months from the grocery and compared to my meal delivery months and I definitely saved.
We still have one weekend day of pizza with the in laws. We eat clean for 6 and eat pizza on the 7th day. The good is definitely out weighing the bad and making me feel much better and losing inches so yay!
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So I got the book The 5 Love Languages for my wedding like 14 years ago and just finally got around to listening to the audio of it because I’m too lazy to read the book.With the audio I can walk around and do other things as I listen. I also read the five love languages of children and I probably should have read this 13 years ago because there’s a lot of things in there that I wish I would have realized in the beginning of my relationship with my husband and my kids so I need apologize to my kids and my husband for not taking the time to learn better from the beginning. Hopefully I have figured out some stuff too late for before any permanent damage has been done!
As I’ve said, many times before, I know that my mood definitely creates the entire mood in the home. For the most part for not just my kids but my husband as well. Something that I have noticed after my dad passed away is that I was really angry, and for a long time. Probably like 16-18 months. I noticed a change in my kids especially my son who I found out is very very sensitive and his love languages are words and touch and I was so short-tempered that I noticed that he was misbehaving more because my mood was rubbing off onto him. My daughter who is a preteen and hormonal anyway was also in a really bad mood, and way more than normal. This is just another reason to know that my mood is definitely creating their moods at an accelerated speed. My relationship with my husband was even getting rocky. He tried to be very compassionate, but even the strongest person has a hard time being around an angry person 24/7.
Since I figure this out, I have tried very hard to change my mood and think about what my mood is going to be for the day. I have changed my vitamins, I am eating cleaner and getting back into an exercise mode because all that helps with anger and grief and everything else. Getting back into my weight loss regimen has changed my mood a lot. I am a lot happier. Plus my kids enjoy this so much because they are working out with me and we are having fun.
I have been a lot calmer and I have noticed a BIG change around the house. My hormonal preteen is still a hormonal preteen but she’s been a little bit more bearable. We’ve been able to have more conversations and the yelling ventures had nearly left the home. My son has had better concentration and is getting in trouble less.
On the days I find myself heading down a terrible path I have to go to a space where I am alone and regroup. Whether this is a short 10-15 min. nap or just plain old sit on my bed in quiet and think about how I want the day to go time.
Either way, this has all changed the dynamics in the house. Also, my husband and I are on way better terms. We argue 90% less and we can have conversations with each other and even disagree without getting all mad.
The circumstances to learn this sucked. I wish for my dad back every day. However, I guess you could say that my Dad has helped me learn some healthy coping skills. Thanks Dad, I sure do miss you. Regardless of how it happened I am glad that I am now a smarter person and can realize this. Not every day is perfect but it least we have a lot more perfect days then we did before.
When I was younger life seemed a lot less stressful. Of course it was, I was a kid. However, I don’t believe that is very normal anymore. Kids are in so much stuff, including mine, and now I am starting to worry that they are doing too much and not being kids enough. That is for another post. This post is about how my stress effected my household.
I never was a believer in ADHD. I honestly thought it was a bad excuse for parents that were too busy to train their child. Then I had a son, whom I love dearly, however, that boy has the most energy of anyone I have ever met. Could ADHD be real?!
True words spoken, by me, many times. You know the time when you are single and young and you know more than the parents around you? Yes, I know exactly how I would be as a parent. I would be patient and I definitely wouldn’t be caught dead in a public place with a screaming child. Don’t parents know how to keep their kids calm and quiet? Yes, I was the 20 something judging you in the corner table of the restaurant while you kid threw food all over the floor.
Then came the books, all the books. When I was pregnant I read a good load of books. I was sure to have this parent thing under 100% control now. I knew everything I needed to know to do everything right and perfect! If you would have asked me, at that time, I knew it all.
I have to admit that my first child was pretty perfect. She was calm and sweet and barely cried. She slept through the night at 3-months (12 hours at a time) and has always slept through the night. It was the three of us and while my husband was at work, we ruled the world. Life was perfect and I had it going on.
Then something happened. My child got older and this sassy little princess started to test me. No worries though I had all my experience of parent judgment in my 20’s and even more experience reading about it. Bring it on little sass monster, bring it on! But wait…none of this sh$@ works. What, wait…the books lied, they all lied! Why is my perfect little princess yelling and crying at me in the grocery store over a can of olives I took out of her hand and put back on the shelf. Wait! Give it back, NO that didn’t work either…OMG everyone is looking at me wth! Who are you little devil and what have you done with my sweet child! This is the time I grab her from the cart and run out crying and sobbing…”why oh why!”
I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I make Jell-O and it makes that thick gelatin layer on the bottom so when you’re scooping out the Jell-O it’s kind of hard on the bottom. It’s kind of the texture of the jello jigglers, but even harder and it grosses me out.
I made Jell-O o for a couple of people a little while back and they both told me that I needed to share how I do it because they don’t like that layer either.
What I do is super easy. I simply follow the directions on the box but
I’m not a super tech-savvy person, but I have been streaming shows and movies for years because I don’t want to pay for expensive TV. So when I switch back to AT&T for my cell phone service and called them for some other issue, they talked me into some DirecTV Now app that I thought sounded like a good deal because it was only going to cost me $10 a month to stream on two devices. So I decided that my husband and I could stream on our phones. Well, let me tell you a little bit about our experience and why I’m canceling it ASAP.
I only buy Stouffer’s products like this lasagna once or twice a year. I have a family member coming to visit me and I have one of these in my freezer and I figured it was a good time to make it. However she is Jewish and the ingredients list does not tell you what type of meat but, there’s a number on there that you can call or text.
I have tried many homemade all natural things in the past and have not been very happy with them. But, when I went to my friend’s house a couple weeks back to do go to a pool party outside she had made and essential oil bug spray that I was skeptical to use as mosquitoes love me more than most people. I was pleasantly surprised that it actually worked on me and my kids and pretty much every other person sitting at the party watching the kids swim. Let me tell you it’s not like there weren’t any bugs that day because there were a ton of bugs flying around that we’re not biting my legs arms and neck. I decided to go ahead and share the recipe on my blog So others may benefit from this awesome concoction.
So it’s been a whirlwind I’ve had my interstim turned off for like two and a half years because I was having some pains and my urologist who kind of blew me off right after surgery, who only did one follow up with me, is no longer around. His old office wouldn’t see me because it didn’t take my insurance. So, I went without a doctor for two and a half years. Mind you anytime I called their stupid office during the first handful of months, I was pushed off to my Medtronic rep. My medtronic rep told me I was calling for doctor related issues, which the rep was correct. Pretty much my first Urologist just wanted me to be a number on his Stim trial list. Since 2010 he has seen me once, on my 2-week follow up.
Now there is a newer doctor in the area and I finally was able to go in and see them.
Let me rewind…
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