My Life as a Mom

Feeding kids can be challenging. Between the "I don't like that!"s and the "What is it?"s it can be hard to consistantly feed kids healthy meals. So I've started to make compromises. I will make something that the kids really like, ie Macaroni and Cheese:  And then I pair it with something that might not be quite as appealing, but super nutritious: I find that if I'm doing a veggie plate, the presentation really matters. If I just cut up a cucumber and leave it on the cutting board, the kids might each take a piece or two. But if I make it look pretty on the plate (this litterally took less than a minute) then they are intriguted by the presentation and will eat a lot more. I also find that this doesn't add anything to prep time, I cut the veggies while the macaroni was boiling, and the amount that it adds to the buget isn't much either when done this way. My total meal today cost about $3.50, and that fed my family of six, with

Natasha's cake was so fun to make and it turned out so nice!! It took a lot of time, but was worth it in the end! The finished project dividing the colours I got the idea off of pinterest (of course!) and decided it was perfect for our value party! It was pretty easy to do. I made up my cake mixes and split them into three, (which means I needed three mixes to make the 8 layers that I needed). My wilson food colouring - my favourite! Dad is definitely my asset in all cooking projects! ready to go in the oven  Then I coloured each layer individually and baked them. I had to watch them quite closely because they obviously don't need the same amount of cooking time as a full cake mix. And if you're anything like me, your layers wont be exactly the same, so they will have different cooking times from one layer to the next as well--toothpicks are my friend! The monkey needed to help Dad... After each layer was cooked, we took them out of the pa

okay, so I`ve been a major slacker on my blog. I know. But I`ve been super busy living my life instead of documenting it. And whether or not the blogging world says that`s okay, I say it`s okay. But now I`m living my summer life (so laid back and fun!) and I have time to do things like blog. I`m not really planning on ``catching up`` neccessarily, but I am going to blog about a few things I missed as I decide that I want to. :) Auntie Julie, who wrote a letter about Choice and Accountability, Uncle Craig and cousin CJ So, here is Natasha`s birthday party. It was such a fun party to plan and carry out. Because she turned 12 this year, I thought it would be fun to really centre her party on going into young womens. So I did everything in rainbow colours and used the values where ever I could. I also asked special people in her life to write her letters about the values. Each person was assigned a value and the letters that she received were fantastic! Definitely putting them in he