I can’t, in good judgment, buy a box of frozen corn dogs because… My kids probably won’t eat them 🤷♀️.
Sometimes they’ll ask for a corn dog when we are eating out, but more often than not, they pick the corn off the dog so really… They just wanted a hot dog. They are also the same kids who want just a patty with cheese and don’t want the hamburger bun (whose kids are these really 🤔) 😂 😂 😂.
Anyway, I was trying to fix the kids lunch before Easter dinner and decided to make some corn dog muffins. I wasn’t all Susie Homemaker and making my muffin mix from scratch… It came from a bag 💁♀️.
I just mixed it together, cut up some turkey dogs and baked them in mini muffin pans.
The kids ate them! 🙌🏼
I had a little too much batter left, so I made a new concoction by adding a half of a can of corn, and a laughing cow cheese in the middle. Those went into jumbo muffin pans.
When my in-laws came to town from Joshua Tree last month for Victoria’s birthday, they were clearly thinking ahead and brought Easter🐰 gifts for the kids.
I, on the other hand… Ordered things from Zulily… Forgetting that they sometimes take forever to arrive…🤦♀️ But they arrived yesterday evening… Just in the knick of time ⌚.
I just saw the bags from the grandparents this morning when my hubby brought the bag down. 😍
Such a creative idea, lunch bags, and what appears to be stick on dividers, except they are super cute, and some rope and staples and you’ve got a cute little Easter bag. Then add your own creative style to decorate. I’m guessing this was Nana Edie’s artwork since she is super creative and these are just adorable! ❤️ Maybe Grandad Rob helped too 🤷♀️.
I’ll have to remember this when I want to make some cute bags with handles! ❤️
I first learned about being allergic to the cold while I was watching the Bachelor. I thought the contestant was just saying she was allergic to get attention. I had no idea it was an actual thing.
Until… I started noticing my fingertips getting swollen and taking like 30 minutes to go back to normal. I forgot to say it in my video, but after my doctor did the ice pack test, and it just made my arm turn red, she sent me out to the waiting room to wait for the front desk girls to get my prescriptions for me. While I was waiting in the waiting room, I realized my red spot had turned into a huge red welt…
She diagnosed with me Cold Urticaria on the spot, and made a recommendation for me to see a rhuematologist. Seeing the rheumatologist is what got me started on my journey to learning about the importance of gut health. Not because he told me about it, but because he tried to prescribe me medication for a condition I did not have. I have learned that so many autoimmune issues are caused by an unhealthy gut, and I had no idea some of the issues I was having weren’t just my lot in life, but would get better as I got my gut healthier and healthier.
Watch the video to hear more.
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1 Serving of our favorite Protein Powder (we use 2 scoops of Lean)
Mix it together (I recently started warming the peanut butter and honey for 30 seconds so it is easier to mix before adding the rest of the ingredients), scoop out (if you don’t have scoops, they are amazing, I never had them before until my mother-in-love passed away and we kept lots of her baking items since she was an awesome baker, they come in so handy) and form into bite size servings, then chill for a bit so they aren’t so sticky for little hands.
Tonight I was helping my aunt and uncle work on a memorial video for my uncle’s mom’s funeral. They had sent me lots of pictures and videos, but there were some videos on Facebook messenger that I could not figure out how to save. Some videos did give me the download or save as option when I clicked on them or right clicked on them, but some didn’t give me either option.
So of course, if I can’t figure something out, I go to Google, and it usually has the answer for you summarized right below your question.
This is what worked for me… right click on the video to get the video URL, copy it. Open a new tab in your browser, paste the url, change the www. to mbasic. then click enter, you should see the video you want, click on the video so that it will open the video in a new page, click on play, then right click on the video and you’ll be able to “save video as” to your computer.
Hope this works for you! We were able to add a couple of really cool videos of his mom to be included in the slideshow.
If you are doing an Amazon return and printing the label at home… I have a tip for you! The first page is always the instructions, and I’m pretty sure you know what to do anyway.
When you click Print Label & Instructions and select your printer, the preview will show up and the instructions will be on the first page, and your actual label and the paper you need to put inside your package with your return on the inside of the package will be on the second page.
In the printer dialogue box select the second radio button down to the right of Pages and type in 2. Also change the color to Black and White (you’ll save your color ink for important thing where you need color, and the color cartridges cost more money anyway).
Then print! Voila! You just saved paper and colored ink! ❤️
And went with the honey option instead of the maple syrup, and added in a little bit of Almond Extract. Any time a recipe calls for Vanilla extract, I used the Vanilla, and add in the Almond Extract as well. I love the taste, and it makes everything a little more delicious!
So… I pulled it out and let it cool 10 minutes before I cut it and seems like it could have baked a little bit longer. I’m going to let it cool all the way, then refrigerate it and see if it stays together better tomorrow.
The kids loved it (I did too), and I love that they have another option for breakfast now.
As an update, I pulled it out of the fridge for an after dinner snack and it totally stays together now! 🙌
I saw a YouTube video with this idea, and tried it from memory. I think it would probably have been easier with the larger sized croissants, but this is what I had.
I bought these to make pigs 🐽 in a blanket but the kids weren’t impressed. 🤷♀️
So this is my attempt to get them to eat them so we can finish what is left in the house.
While I usually tend stay away from things that are “enriched” because let’s be real, they aren’t enriched with anything good, as a matter of fact, the good that was in it, has probably been removed, I occasionally make eggceptions 😂. Check out this great article about Enriched food
Back to the point… so even though these croissant are made with enriched flour… it’s ok to have some crap food every once in a while. Just make sure you are having more healthy than unhealthy, and I don’t mean 51%/49% I mean more like 80%/20%.
So in order to know what is going in my family’s body, I like to make most of our food at home, because the pre-made, pre-packaged foods usually have things in them that are probably not so good for you. But, I am a busy mom, so sometimes we do have pre-packaged or fast food… But that isn’t what we have most of the time.
So…. if you must go to a fast food place and have an egg and cheese croissant, why not try making your own at home instead, you’ll save money, and you’ll know exactly what is in the food you are eating. You can easily heat them up and keep the crispy flaky layer by popping them into your Air Fryer (I LOVE my Air Fryer, I am actually selling my old toaster oven because it takes up more space and I love the simplicity of the Air Fryer!)
First, scramble your eggs and try to keep them flat as you cook them.
I used my Tupperware microwave egg cooker.
Pour the egg in, pop on the top, pop onto the microwave for 2.5 minutes and it’s ready to go!
Next… Open your croissant 🥐 package. These always freak me out because of the POP. But… I remember in the video he hit the container on his counter to open it. Genius! It pops it open as it hits the counter so it didn’t scare me. ❤️
I had my second batch of eggs cooking, but this is all you need to make your croissants! You could add bacon or sausage too if you like, but I tried just eggs and cheese this time.
Layer your egg then cheese then wrap it closed.
I followed the baking directions on the packaging.
So these are baked and ready to go, and I’ll be offering them up at breakfast time to get my kids to try something other than the usual, cereal, yogurt, or bar.
After we got the Powerpoint complete for my uncle’s mom’s funeral service, we needed to figure out how they were going to play it. Since it had both music and videos, we figured converting it to a video file would be best so they could just pop in the DVD and play it through a projector.
I’ve done this before, but for the life of me, I could not remember, so… what do I do best? Ask Google!
This was an easy one! I kept trying to save it, but I couldn’t find the save as video option so that it would put it into one nice little package for me with everything I needed. But, Google told me I need to Export it… Duh! That totally makes sense now, right?
Always, always, always… click save every few minutes while you are working on a project. The last thing you want to do is work for hours then make a mistake that causes you to lose your entire project. After your Powerpoint looks like you want it to look… Save it! Then.. Export as Video, you can change your requirements, I didn’t want it to go to a CD since I know know if their DVD player will be able to read it from a CD, so I just exported it as a video. Then, I uploaded it to YouTube so they can review it before I burn it to a DVD for them.
I hope this helps you! I’ll definitely refer back to this myself the next time I work on a Powerpoint… I use it so much less now that I’m out of school. I’m sure I’ll have to help my kids with some as they get older. But, I will tell you that I was super shocked to see my 5 year old using a computer with a keyboard and mouse in her Kindergarten class when they were in the library. Kids are so smart and they are definitely way more tech savvy than we were a their ages.
Grandma Sandi was known for her English Toffee and I think everyone looked forward to Christmastime because they knew if she would be around, her English Toffee would most likely be with her.
If you haven’t heard of Grandma Sandi, or Sandra Lee (not the famous baker that you see her products in the store, but the famous baker that if you knew her, you knew you were loved, and that you were special, and that if you had a birthday, she would be sure to bake your favorite treat with lots of love) then let me share a little about her. She loved everyone and never met a stranger, and most importantly she loved the Lord and loved sharing about Him.
She only birthed one child, my husband, but she loved on everyone like they were her own kids. Her dream was to be a Grandma, and with my hubby getting a late start on marriage, meant she was waiting for a while. We (my hubby and I) finally met in October 2010, were engaged in July 2011, were married in May 2012, and had our first baby in March 2013. My Mother-in-love, Sandi, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer 7 weeks before our wedding, and participated in a clinical trial. She lost her hair the week of our wedding, but was blessed to find a salt and pepper wig that looked like her own hair, except shorter, so people just thought she had gotten a new haircut at our wedding. She also developed not only Bells Palsy, but bilateral Bells Palsy while she was battling her cancer. She was working at Jenny Craig still, but it was difficult for her to speak to customers like she used to because it impaired her speech, but she still tried her best. She was on disability at times, and one of those times she came out to our place to visit her new Grandbaby, Victoria (who was born 4 weeks early due to HELLP Syndrome). While she was visiting, my hubby had this amazing idea to record his mom cooking some of her famous recipes so we could share them with the kids. One of those recipes was her English Toffee. While it didn’t actually turn out that day (I think we only had unsalted butter in the house…) we are glad to have the memories to hear step by step how to do it, and we also have her handwritten paper copy so we could try to recreate it.
We tried once or twice before, and once it didn’t harden, and another time we cookied it a little too much…. (I don’t remember if we tried both with the same batch… or if it was 2 different attempts). But… this year I decided to try it again… and it finally worked!
Interestingly enough… I decided to try to make her Toffee, having no idea that The Chargers were playing football that evening. My hubby had left to exchange the artificial Christmas tree that we had bought that night, because only the bottom two sections lit up, but not the top section.
When he got home from picking up the new tree, and was watching a commentary of the game on YouTube, we got the new tree lit up in all three sections, and I got Grandma Sandi’s English Toffee to finally work… then The Chargers won! So… we definitely had some excitement that night in our house.
So, here is Grandma Sandi making her English Toffee…
And here is her recipe:
And here is our batch that finally worked.
Next time, I’ll put the butter in and let it start melting before I add the sugar…
I had added the sliced almonds here…
Keep stirring
Add broken pieces of chocolate across the top, after you have poured out and spread around your toffee, then put anotger jelly roll pan on top to keep the heat in to melt the chocolate 🍫 I had just bought those Hershey Bars with almonds from the grocery store the day before… I don’t know why they had already turned white on the corners 🤦♀️
Use a spatula to spread the melted chocolate (I used 1/2 lb, my hubby said I should use more next time) then put the other pan back on and put it in the fridge. I left it overnight.
Take it out and poke it with a butterknife to make breaks.
Taste test it with the hubby to see if it really turned out… Delish!
Break the rest up to share!
I hope you love this recipe as much as everyone else has! ❤️
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