Here's what's been happening!

Well, let’s see..  what all has happened since I last posted.. I have really been so slack about even thinking about posting to my blog.  I’m a terrible, terrible blogger!  We’ve had a few things going on over the last several weeks~

The first weekend in April we had Passover AND Easter back-to-back.  My hubby is Jewish, and we used to always go to his hometown, Cleveland, OH, for Passover with his family.  Now that his father has passed away (his mom did long ago) and the kids are going to college with different spring break schedules, it is very hard to make it up there for Passover.  A few years ago we started our own Passover seder tradition, big dinner and all.  We love doing it, but it is a pretty big production, so it wears us out!  We had a great dinner this year with just our kids and a few of their friends.  Got my seder plate inspiration from none other than Martha Stewart :o)

The next day was Easter so right after we cleaned up from dinner we set about dying eggs!  They turned out so pretty – two of our college-aged kids got in on the act.  Some great time spent with the kids – pretty rare to have them all at home at the same time.

 

The next morning my 13-year old “found” all 15 eggs and then we trekked off to meet the boys’ father at church with my sweet Hubby.  We were not about to even think about making dinner – we went out for wings...  It was awesome!

We have spent all of our weekends working in the yard – nothing real exciting, but it looks good!  But because of that I have not worked on any projects – projects that I am itching to get to!  More about those later~

Hope you have had a fantastic spring so far!  Let me know what you've been up to~~

Love, Kelli

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