Valentines Day Shirts

I have been feeling crafty this week. And a woman from one of my facebook groups decided to post a photo of a cute couple of V~Day shirts.

"I could do that", I shouted with glee. Ok well maybe not glee and maybe I didnt even shout, Oh heck I never even said it out loud. But in my head it was with glee and shouted, alright?!?! Dont judge me!

WHATEVER!

Anyways, i decided to go ahead and try with the boys shirts, okay they came out kinda crappy. But hey, they are going on my kids and my kids dont care. So then I finished those and thought I would step up my game for my daughters. I found a picture online and outlined it. An TA~DA her shirt was designed.

They love them by the way!
My husband on the other hand, sighed. And then went on about something along the lines of our kids being teenagers with christmas tree shirts or something, I dont know I stopped listening. Let my babies be babies. They will never grow, NEVER I tell you!

So here is the pics I took, of cell phone quality, at night, in my poorly lit bedroom.

Poof Be GONE Gluten!

My husband and I decided a while back we wanted to try a gluten free diet. I went to Publix with high hopes. I left with a few boxes of gluten free pasta and a bag of gluten free flour. I had no idea what I was doing. So I gave up.

A month or so later - a friend posted about this really awesome website..

The Fresh 20

It gives you meal plans, shopping lists and recipes - Classic, Gluten Free or Vegetarian.

I researched it and prayed on it and finally decided to take the plunge. I requested a free sample of what the menu may be like and it sounded amazing. So I signed up.

I printed out my list and recipes and went to the grocery store today.


Here is my menu this week...

Italian Polenta Mozzarella Bake with a Spinach Salad
Chicken Breast ( was supposed to be salmon but I don't do fish) with roasted red pepper sauce and Parmesan Cannellini Beans
Peasant Bean Stew
Greek Chicken with a warm Spinach and rice salad
Twice Baked Pizza Potatoes with sauteed garlicky Kale

Sounds good right?
Well this will be fun for me, and broaden my pallatte because I have never had polenta or kale in my life!!
And it will be fun for me to learn more recipes and think out side the box!

My kids?? They arent picky at all and usually eat what is put before them, and if they dont, they dont eat. Yep, I am one of those moms... but like I said they arent picky and usually eat everything with a few exceptions!!

I am excited for this journey!
Stay tuned as for my thoughts on the meals!!

Rainbow Cake!

So we came to the end of our Home Schooling week of weather and Noah's Ark.

We were supposed to make windsocks and rainbow cake on Friday, but I was a little under the weather... no pun intended...

So Saturday, come hell or high water, again no pun intended, ( ok maybe a little pun intended) we at least got to make our rainbow cake. I still did not get to the windsocks, as it is raining cats and dogs from Tropical Storm Debbie...

Maybe we will save those for another day...

Anywho, our cake experiment was awesome! Skylar and I did the whole thing ourselves and the boys reaped the benefits.. But it was a great lesson, not only for home making skills, but for her to learn math and deal with texture ( the Aspergers in her HATES texture!) She was able to dip her hand in the Crisco and spread it on the baking pan. She measured out the ingredients and because I dont have a 1 Cup measure she had to figure out how to make 1 1/4 cup water... She had to find 6 bowls and make the rainbow colors out of food coloring, then she had to mix each bowl until they were all mixed in.

We layered all the colors in order, gave the pan a shimmy shake, then crossed our fingers and hoped it worked.

End result?

It worked amazing, so much so, that I jumped for joy at how awesome it was!!

And then everyone enjoyed the cake...

Until my hubby mentioned that our poop may be rainbow colored! LOL!!
Only in my family!!

Here are the photos we took of the progress of the cake!

Home Made Glue

Ok, So I am NO Martha Stewart... But I have to admit I felt pretty crafty after making this Home Made Glue that I found on Pinterest!!

I pinned this page: Homemade Natural Glue

And stuck to her recipe, which was:

1 Cup Flour
1 1/2 Cup Water
1/3 Cup Sugar
1 Tsp Vinegar

I heated it up like instructed and put it in a canning jar. Which I then put in the fridge so it stays good. I dont know what it would do bad, but I am not gonna wanna find out!! So far its holding paper together well, which is all I needed it for anyways! SCORE!!

This will help with all the gluing I intend to do with the kids over the summer, and if they should happen to ingest it, its all natural! It may be gross but there are no chemicals!  SCORE!!