This is what I'm making for dessert!

This is what I made for dinner! yummy!

This is the craft I made with my Mother-in-law and Sister-in-laws a few weeks ago. We got the idea from Michael's and made it for half what it would have cost to buy it from there! I love it when I make cute stuff and save money doing it!

Dinner used to be something I dreaded. One because I couldn't cook well, and two,I hated trying to figure out what to make. With my husband loving patience and strong stomach, I have found the look of cooking great meals for my family, and they actually love it! I plan my meals for one week, I go shopping once aweek, and it has greatly reduced my stress and anxiety about what's for dinner. I even use my crock pot a ton because its so much easier to let the crock pot do all the cooking! It frees up my time to play with my kids, get more chores done, and I can actually do things I want to do like scrapbook or make cards! So on the menu tonight: Orange chicken in the crock pot of course! Chinese Noodles (it a recipe I got from a Schwans book, I called that) Rice Egg Rolls So if you are like I was and dread dinner, make up a menu, have your hubby and kids help you pick out what to make, it takes so much stress off. Enjoy your dinner! Heidi P.S. if you ever want a recipe I use, let me know. Mine are usually on Pinterest!

Dinner

On the menu tonight is Potato Soup with Texas Roadhouse Rolls! What are you making for dinner? Does this give you any ideas?

So I've realized I haven't blogged in a year! Yikes! So we'll just pick up where I left off! The other day I was feeling very crafty ambitious whatever you want to call it. I have never canned by myself, and I attempted to the other day. I canned 12 quarts of apple pie filling, and I'd like to brag and say I think I did pretty good for a beginner! We ate some for breakfast, I fixed the kids Danish pancake with the pie filling! Yum-a-lisious! I'm so proud! And I didn't have to reseal any of the bottles! I rock! I so want to can something else now! I will post a picture with the recipe when I can figure out how to do from my iPad... I'm hoping to post more so keep checking back! Thanks for checking in!

Halloween crafts!

These ghosts light up! So easy to do! So cute!

Paper pumpkins!

These wooden spool creatures were made by my girls!

close up of the ghost.