A little garden {very. little.}

Oh my gosh!  I have been so bad about blogging...  Probably mostly because I work full-time and am old as crap and don't have much energy to get things done..  lol  But hubbs and I did get a lot of yard work done last weekend (very exciting, I know) and actually planted a little garden!  And by little, I mean "very small," like 9 plants!  Really, with our busy schedules it is a good start.  We'll see how well we do and next year we could possibly go bigger :o)

 Awe!  It's so yittle!  No matter - we're excited and looking forward to some home-grown tomatoes in a few weeks.  How about you?  Done any gardening lately?

Love ya,

Kelli

What's for Dinner Tonight, Mom??

Sunday is my grocery shopping day.  It’s also the day I make the dinner menu for the entire week (so I actually know what to buy at the grocery store).  Problem is…  I run out of brain cells and can’t think of stuff to have for dinner! 

Does anyone else go through this?  I literally hate planning the meals all week long.  I have brain freeze – What. Do. We. Eat. For. Dinner. ? ?  Like a robot I sit there and stare, completely clueless for hours (it seems, probably only one hour, but that’s still too long!) until I finally think, okay, we’ll have grilled pork chops.  Yeah.  How exciting. 

My one little saving grace lately has been Pinterest ~  I have found lots of cool recipes and tried several of them.  One of the best is this pork loin roast in the crock pot from C+C Marriage Factory.  Very, very yummy and everyone likes it (even my very picky 13 year old).   

There was also the crock pot pork chops from Real Mom Kitchen that were heavenly! [I have a thing for the crock pot] 

But so far my favorite as been this little jewel from The Larson Lingo blog ~  oh my stars so easy and SO YUMMY!  Just dump everything in and walk away – so. tasty.

Even Robbie (my 13 year old) has enjoyed breakfast finds on Pinterest – like this and this.  [yes, bacon pancakes] I have lots of pins on my Recipe board left to try.  So now when I sit down to write my shopping list I have to be in front of my computer. :o)

If you have found any good ones on Pinterest I would love to hear about them! 

LOVE Y'ALL!!

Kelli

From Ugly to Pretty With a Little Paint

A few months ago I was dying for some new lamps for our den and started looking... Not only did I not really find what I was looking for I came to realize....lamps are expensive!  Wow!  I guess I hadn't shopped for lamps in awhile!  That's when I started "shopping my house."

We already had some ugly well-made lamps in the den that hubby had before we married - they were, shall we say, not my faves, if ya know what I mean...

We thought hey, let's paint these or get rid of them, so we chose to paint.  First we primed them and let that dry, then we painted them a very nice, creamy beige.  We also removed that fake "key" sticking out of the side there.  It was a one-hundred-percent improvement!  I ordered black shades from Lamps Plus, which were beautiful, but we realized once we put them on the lamp that they were really too small for the height..  sooo - Hubby took to shortening the lamps...

And in the end they look pretty good.  Although, I'm not super happy with the color.  I always tend to go with a "safe" color as I did here with the beige.  I try to imagine them being red, or yellow, or even gold - but then I'd kind of be right back where I started!  For now they'll do just fine - until I get the itch to paint them again.

How about you, have you ever done a quick little paint job on something that totally changed how you felt about it?   I'd love to hear about it if you have :o)


Love, Kelli