Crock Pot Zuppa Toscana (Copycat)

I have minimal time (like 10-15 minutes) during the week to cook, so now I plan my recipes the week before by going on Pinterest and pinning easy, fast (and healthy) looking recipes. I have like 250+ recipes pinned right now. YAY! I've made a bunch and all are AWESOME. This one caught my eye because I LOVE OLIVE GARDEN and it looked fairly easy. Maybe not the healthiest with the heavy whipping cream, but still AWESOME! ENJOY! serves...

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Is Making My Own Baby Food Really that Hard? - Month 5

Trying New HEALTHY Baby Foods   Jackson has now been eating solids for a full month. I was a little nervous about him eating solids at four months just because all these studies show that if you start babies on solids too soon, they have a higher chance of getting food allergies. Are these studies accurate? I don’t know. One day we’re supposed to be drinking coffee. The next we’re not. We can eat egg yolk. Then we can’t. So what is...

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Slow Cooker Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

Yummy (healthy) Breakfast Goodness I wanted to make something healthy to kick off fall. I think of apples and their aroma (especially when they’re cooking). YUM. Throw this together at night and it's ready for you in the morning!   I saw a recipe on Pinterest (my new obsession) of apple cinnamon steel cut oats in the slow cooker. I was so excited to try it but I didn’t have any baking apples at the time or steel cut oats. That...

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Writing Mommy-Style

Can you still be a writer AND a mom?   I think most of you know I have this major dream of becoming a writer. Sometimes I can even visualize myself as a published author. This is how it plays out.... Supermom to my son Jackson by day, writing and living out my dream by night AND being able to provide for the three of us. I don't want to give myself false hope, but that is what I see. Yet sometimes things don't always happen as quickly...

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Peek into a Working Mom's Day with a 4.5 Month Old

We seem to always want what we don't have at the moment I was telling a couple people the other day how I’m kind of grateful I was single for eight years while in my twenties. If I knew back then I’d be saying this now, I think I would’ve cried. Overtime, I’ve started to accept that God did have a plan for me back then and still does now. He works in such ways… Why? Well, back then I learned how to become self-sufficient and I learned...

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Trip to Arizona: A Different Kind of Travel with Baby - Month 4.5

21 weeks I keep meaning to blog about our trip to Arizona, but I can't believe how quickly time slips away from me these days. Little crazy. Jackson's first trip to Carefree, Arizona To recap, we flew to Carefree, Arizona over Labor Day weekend (stretched it to a longer weekend), met some of my family out there and were able to experience the first-time joys of traveling with a little one. If you take anything from this post,...

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