Life Between Loads of Laundry
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience Giving up red meat How I Picked the New Experience Somewhere around seven or eight weeks ago, I noticed that it had been about five days or more since I had eaten red meat. Since I had thought several {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience Making cake push pops, which would be for Molly’s First Communion party. How I Picked This New Experience I’m pretty traditional in my dessert making, but when I kept seeing cake push pops around (especially on Pinterest), it definitely {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience A one day juice fast using prepared juices that I purchased at Whole Foods and following the recommendations of the company that produced the juices. How I Picked This New Experience While I know that juice fasts have been {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– I’m changing up the format that I’ve been following for this series to make this one fit into a Top Ten Tuesday as well. While I have been to some larger art museums, such as the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and The {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience This might be cheating a little bit, but this is my blog and I get to make the rules, I guess. This is not something that I did because of this series. Instead, it was something that I did {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience Okay, so while I titled this “Going to the Gun Range,” it’s because I couldn’t really bring myself to title the post “Shooting a Gun for the First Time.” This one actually has several new experiences all wrapped up {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– The New Experience Taking the kids and heading out to get a meal from a food truck How I Picked This New Experience While I had once had a cupcake from a food truck (while at the second Savvy Blogging Summit), I’d {Read More}
Today’s post is sponsored, with special thanks, by Personal Creations, your source for beautiful and unique personalized gifts for First Communion as well as other special occasions. —– A special thanks also to my readers who have absolutely no interest in First Communion things. You’ve had to read quite a few posts about it lately, so I appreciate you hanging in there! Today’s post will be the last for a little while at least. This weekend, it was that time {Read More}
This week and next week (Monday through Friday each week), I will be participating in iHomeschool Network’s Hopscotch with the topic of 10 Days of New Experiences. The experiences vary from simple to more complex, and hopefully you’ll enjoy the variety. I’ll be sharing what the new experience we did was, what I expected beforehand, how the experience actually went, and if I would do it again. In the next two days, you’ll get to read about me shooting for {Read More}
The idea of making a Rosary shape out of cupcakes is certainly not a new one. However, after seeing this set up at Molly’s Day of Reflection before First Communion, I just had to share this set up that made some pretty impressive uses of two chocolate molds. Here’s close up of the white chocolate molded centerpiece: And the cross cake with a chocolate molded piece on top of it: The kids loved seeing the setup, and loved eating the {Read More}
