Having girls

Can I just take a minute to express how much I love having two little girls?! I love the fact that they get excited to watch “Cupcake Wars” with me… I love that my little one asks when “Sweet Genius” is going to be on. I just love the fact that I have prissy little girls that love to get excited about the same things that excite me!

Mother’s Day 2013

Did everyone have a wonderful Mother’s Day?

I believe every year with my girls gets better and better! Being a mom is so wonderful, but it seems as they get older it gets better. <3

We went to Whole Foods for a free coffee, flower, & mini pastries. It was lovely, and while we walked about, they had beautiful bouquets in Mason jars, & I had to have one! So I came home, pulled out one of my Mason jars, and started to walk the perimeter of my house. I feel like I came up with a good combo, don’t you? I wanted to put a yellow tiger lilly in there too, but held back. My husband came home later and brought me some white roses too. I love it!

Oh no! I thought I had that!

The other night I started boiling my pasta, the plan was to make baked rigatoni. I grab my pasta sauce jar out of the fridge only to see it half empty. My first thought was “great this is suppose to be my quick fix go-to meal”, so now what? Off to the store? In my baby-fit manner, I spin my lazy susan quickly around, and something caught my eye! Hmmm I can make pasta sauce homemade, I’ve done it before, but it takes all day of simmering. I grab the tomato sauce can that caught my eye, and rummage through my spice cabinet. There we go!

I pour into my sauce jar the tomato sauce that will fit, and start “doctoring it up”. I throw in about 2 Tbsp. of Parm, and a few, three shakes of Italian seasoning, a dash of garlic salt (I didn’t have garlic powder on hand). I put the cap back on, and give it a good shake, shake, shake. Then I poured it all over my rigatoni as usual. It worked out so good, I had to share it with all of you, my favoritestes peeps. 

Vintage of the Bubbly kind

Have I mentioned we have a Chocolate Company in our town? Yeap! In fact, in the first couple years after I moved to the South Bend area, I had a wedding to plan, and… I purchased my bridesmaids a mini box of chocolates. Each one picked by me, according to their tastes.

I adore everything about the South Bend Chocolate Co. Café, I could easily write a dozen posts about them alone. It is Chocolate after all, we know what an addiction I have!

This post, however is not about chocolate, but it is about sugar of another variety. Soda Pop! Every vintage soda pop I’ve ever heard of, and loads I haven’t…

I had to take pictures to share with you, all the colors, and lined up all nice and pretty. Doesn’t it make you want to sample every single one? I know I sure do… however, I am starting with the root beers first. They seem to remind me of my childhood the most, and there are several of them. (Side note: I tried the DANG! butterscotch root beer pictured in front, holy yumm) Who knew there were so many types of Vintage soda?

Someone give me a swirly-loopy straw! <3

Rainy Gloomy Monday…

& you don’t feel like cooking, right?! Well… I don’t claim to be the “best cook/mommy” but I do know this: In order to have a super quick meal (think faster than Rachel Ray on 30 min. meals) you don’t have to sacrifice any form of nutrition.

Try not to go all judge on me, and I will tell you one of my quick “go to meals” when I really don’t want to cook!

I guess I should have told you, that my daughters refuse to eat the “yellow” of an egg.

Seriously though, how Quick is this meal. Popp a tube of biscuits, boil some eggs in one pot and broccoli in another. 15 minutes tops! And let’s be honest here, this is obviously NOT one of those meals that you have to be at the stove for.

Easy Peasy

Couch Potato Weekend

Where did the weekend go? Did you all have a lovely weekend?

We had a lazy weekend, and were couch potatoes the majority of the weekend.

Although we watch a few movies, they were all repeat views for us. Oh well, it was nice anyway.