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Hi Friends! I'm excited to share with you some of my new favorite breakfast ideas !  I used to just have a cup of coffee in the morning and eat my first meal around 11am.  A little over a year ago I started eating a healthy breakfast (one that includes some carbs/protein and fat) I have been able to lose weight and I believe completely ramped up my metabolism. :-) There are so many variations on making overnight or refrigerator oats but here are some of my favorites.  For the last 2 months I've pretty much rotated these 3 breakfasts.  Both of the pumpkin recipes freeze great!  Sometimes I'll make a giant batch and put them in individual serving containers.  It's so nice to just pull one out the evening before for when you need a healthy breakfast FAST! Pumpkin Pie Oats Breakfast Recipe - Individual Serving: 1/2 cup of raw (uncooked) oats. 3/4 cup egg whites (from a carton) 1/4 cup pure pumpkin puree (from can is fine) 1 Tbsp ...

I am always excited when I can offer you guys a yummy NuNaturals Stevia giveaway!  Woo whoo! If you are not familiar with stevia, it's a natural, no calorie sweetener. Now-a-days with it's gaining popularity there are a lot of big names  (yep, Coca Cola and PepsiCo!) coming out with a stevia based product like Truvia and Pure Via.   Unfortunately , those companies aren't really concerned about your health and their stevia products go through a chemically driven 40 step process to get you the white powdered outcome.  (Sigh)  In fact, the first ingredient in Truvia and Pure Via isn't even stevia!  I have been using NuNatrua's stevia for YEARS and it's a brand I trust.  They start with non - GMO stevia leaves and use cold water for extraction .  If you really want the healthiest form of stevia (other than growing it in your backyard!) I suggest buying NuNaturals  Pure White Stevia Extract   (there are no fillers lik...

Is it just my crazy life, or does anyone else have to travel through a cardboard box every morning and night to get into their child's room?  :-) And once you are IN, don't bother standing up because to the left is the sleeping quarters and to the right is the changing area.  This is pretty much an all crawling tunnel room from now on :-) As much as I love fort building -  having sheets and cardboard up for weeks on end makes my life as a pretty organized mother a little bonkers.  And then I ran into these great outdoor summer ideas!  How about moving the fort OUTSIDE!  Just string up a rope between two trees and put sheets over it -  add a few pillows and voila! Or build a simple A frame and build a tee pee to play in! handmade A frame tents Building this great little hideout with hula hoops and shower curtains sounds awesome!  alannageorge Better yet - I know my kids would L...

Well my friends, we have run into a bunch of problems with the sports court.   I've decided I just want to have a hopscotch for my entry instead.  (hee,hee) Sunshineontheinside *SIGH* First off, the company we ordered from ( Flex Court - NOT impressed with them) took 12 weeks to even deliver the court.  This was 4+ weeks longer than quoted.  Secondly, they told us that the court would work over a mixture of compacted gravel (6" sub grade with 3/4 minus to be exact) that was not true and third, after all that, they sent us the wrong rebounder net. /-: So, if any of you out there reading this post thinking about installing a court using the sports tiles, especially when it's for pickleball, you HAVE to put the tiles over a concrete slab, believe me.....it's not going to work (bounce right) any other way. :-) Anyways, we are now WAY behind scheule because we have to wait to get a concrete slab put in.  (Ummmm, concrete is SO stinkin expens...