Whew. Last week was a crazy one! Thankfully it ended better than it started. But I’m still glad to be starting a new week. Hard to believe it’s time to start thinking about fall and all of our regular activities starting again. The summer sure does go by quickly. So, last week…here’s a quick recap…church, …
Meal Plans Week of 8-14-11
Is it Sunday already? With several days away, a day at Michigan’s Adventure and Justin on vacation all week I’ve kind of lost track of the days 😛 Back to a “normal” week now. Plenty busy for sure. That seems to be the theme of August. Last week we were gone a lot. We went …
Meal Plans Week of 8-7-11
We’re back! We successfully went on our first real vacation as a family of four. We spent 3 days at Double JJ Resort. And now that we’re home safe and sound I can post my real plans for the rest of the week. Before I move on to the meals, I wanted to give a little …
Meal Plans Week of 7-31-11
Last day of July. Gearing up for a busy August. This week will be plenty busy preparing for a short vacation. And keeping up with our summer produce. Last week was a full week as usual. In addition to our usual errands we made our first stop at Cone World for the summer. We went to a picnic …
Peach Ice Cream
I haven’t made ice cream all summer! Even in this hot hot weather. I finally got around to it yesterday. I decided to try peach ice cream this time since we have fresh peaches. I used my basic vanilla recipe from Nourishing Traditions. And added some peach juice and diced peaches. I also tried …
Fresh Pea Soup (egg free, dairy free, grain free, GAPS legal)
Now that I’m doing GAPS I’m trying to get more creative with soups since eating chicken or beef and veggie soup all the time gets pretty boring. So recently I started doing pureed soups. Wish I would have done it sooner! So good. Last week I made cold beet soup. Yesterday I made beet, carrot and …
Grain Free Zucchini Muffins (dairy free, GAPS legal)
Last week I made cold beet soup. In the post on Health, Home and Happiness where I got the recipe was a link for zucchini muffins that sounded good. So I tried them yesterday. These are about the easiest muffins to make. I made them in a couple minutes while I was unloading groceries 😛 And …
Happy Anniversary…Why My Husband is Awesome :)
I want to take a moment to say Happy 8th Anniversary to my wonderful husband, Justin! You are such a blessing to me and our children. My love for you grows daily. Here are some of the things I love about my husband. He works hard and is great at what he does. I’m so …
Meal Plans Week of 7-24-11
We made it through the heat wave! Not that it isn’t still hot. But…we have A/C!!!!! We got a window unit for the main floor on Thursday. What a blessing. The house has been so much more comfortable ever since. We’re not sitting here sweating the entire day. Too bad we didn’t have it when …
Cherry Pie
A couple weeks ago we found out that our local orchard would be getting tart cherries! I didn’t think we could get fresh tart cherries around here. So I ordered 5 lbs. They came pitted so I didn’t have to do anything to them! Justin has wanted me to make a real cherry pie with …