How To Keep Your Toddler Quiet During a Wedding

How To Keep Your Toddler Quiet During a Wedding

For all of you mamas out there that will be chasing after a toddler during an upcoming wedding or special event, I have a few pointers and suggestions of (quiet!) activities to try and keep your toddler entertained during a wedding ceremony and reception, including what I had in my bag!

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Favorite Things: May 2021

Favorite Things: May 2021

The month of May felt like a nice little preview of summer… and I am SO ready for summertime!

In this post, you’ll find a few of my favorite things that I have been enjoying the most over the past month or that my family has found to be super useful! It is my hope to share with you a few items every month and pass along some recommendations or joy to other families! Hope you find something helpful here!

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Favorite Things: March 2021

Favorite Things: March 2021

Goodbye, March! It’s crazy to think that this past month marked one whole year of the Coronavirus pandemic. In our home, the month of March was filled with lots of looking forward to spring and spending more time outside with my toddler (even on the cold days).

In this post, you’ll find a few of my favorite things that I have been enjoying the most over the past month or that my family has found to be super useful! It is my hope to share with you a few items every month and pass along some recommendations or joy to other families! Hope you find something helpful here!

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Cute Easter Baskets & Fillers for Toddlers

Cute Easter Baskets & Fillers for Toddlers

My husband and I decided that we would be super intentional about what we get to go inside of Easter baskets for our kids, and I thought I would share some of the items that I grabbed last-minute to go in our toddler’s Easter basket this year as we start our own family traditions for this holiday.

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Our Toddler Kitchen Tower

Our Toddler Kitchen Tower

We are big fans over here of interactive play and helping our son feel included and able to participate in what we are doing as a family - and we are especially excited to have him be a part of cooking and baking and food prep in the future! I have wanted to get one of these toddler kitchen towers for a long time, but often could not justify the price for the beautiful wooden ones that I would see all over Instagram. So I was very excited when a friend posted about one that she got as a gift for a much more reasonable cost.

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Meal Planning Tips + Meal Ideas

Meal Planning Tips + Meal Ideas

Are you ready to take your Meal Planning skills to the next level?! Follow my Top 3 best meal planning tips and I promise you will find that meal planning becomes almost second nature and less overwhelming the longer that you do it! You will also find an entire year’s worth of Meal Ideas and recipe inspiration, updated every month with new recipes.

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Favorite Things: February 2021

Favorite Things: February 2021

I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite things that I have been enjoying the most over the past month or that my family has found to be super useful! It is my hope to share with you a few items every month and pass along some recommendations or joy to other families! This month has been all about staying cozy during some extremely cold days and bringing some sanity to this crazy little home in the middle of winter during a pandemic. Hope you find something helpful here!

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MEAL PLAN: February 2021

MEAL PLAN: February 2021

A meal planning calendar for February 2021, with links to suggested recipes. Feel free to use this as inspiration to make your own favorite versions of these recipes or replace meals that don’t interest you with some of your family favorites! Includes a free printable of the February 2021 Meal Plan Calendar and a blank version to fill in yourself.

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MEAL PLAN: January 2021

MEAL PLAN: January 2021

A meal planning calendar for January 2021, with links to suggested recipes. Feel free to use this as inspiration to make your own favorite versions of these recipes or replace meals that don’t interest you with some of your family favorites! Includes a free printable of the January 2021 Meal Plan Calendar and a blank version to fill in yourself.

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A Simple Snack Basket for Delivery Drivers

A Simple Snack Basket for Delivery Drivers

I finally got around to doing something that I have wanted to do for years… and set out snacks and drinks for our delivery drivers! I created this holiday thank you sign quickly this morning and wanted to share with you all so that you can set up your own delivery snack basket and say Merry Christmas and Thank You to your delivery drivers this holiday season!

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The Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

The Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

These brown sugar cut-out cookies are the perfect sugar cookie recipe that holds their shape with a stiff but chewy dough that is irresistible with homemade icing and festive holiday sprinkles for decorations!

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Pumpkin Muffins

Pumpkin Muffins

I do believe that fall is easily my favorite season! And whenever that cooler fall weather hits, all I can think about is pumpkin… everything! Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin bagels, pumpkin spice donuts, and pumpkin funnel cake (yes, pumpkin funnel cakes are a thing!). So naturally, as I was thinking about making muffins, I had to look for a pumpkin muffin recipe!

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Using Trello for Meal Planning

Using Trello for Meal Planning

I know there are many methods for meal planning that include paper or whiteboard that will work great for many people… but it’s just not long-lasting for me. I need something digital. And this is where Trello is a dream meal planning organizer for me! I like to think of it as my digital recipe box… I can have lots of recipe cards (with all kinds of labels or listed in all sorts of categories), including links to the recipe source if it’s something I found online, added photos of what the meal is “supposed” to look like, and even leave notes for myself in comment form after I have made that recipe and want to remember something that I did differently or a comment that my husband or kids have made about that meal.

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Simple Scones

Simple Scones

A simple scone recipe that is easy to adapt to any variety by changing up the fruit, nuts, ora other add-ins! I would love to hear more ideas for varieties of scones to try next... leave your ideas or feedback in the comments!

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Banana Bread

Banana Bread

Lazy weekends are refreshing to my soul. And baking makes the house smell so good... and somehow inspires me to do some cleaning while there is something baking in the oven. For me, banana bread is usually the result of having a few bananas that I never got around to eating while they were fresh... so the over-ripened bananas become a heavenly-scented weekend treat!

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Chicken Tortilla Salsa Soup

Chicken Tortilla Salsa Soup

Soups are one of my absolute favorite meals to make ... there is so much room for variety and flavor. Not to mention they are great for freezing and enjoying later down the road! There is one soup that I first made when I was in college, and have tweaked it maybe only twice, but it is my absolute favorite!

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