After surveying our fridge for dinner ideas, I decided to make a winter-inspired pasta dish with roasted Butternut Squash, Brussel Sprouts, a little leftover chopped onion, turkey, and cranberry sauce. I quickly decided that the red peppers and leftover marinara sauce were not going in my dish. The flavors just weren’t going to fit. I decided that [...]

Emma just went down for her nap, so I’m heading down to fit in a little workout before Steve gets home. I thoroughly enjoyed all the delicious Thanksgiving foods + leftovers (enjoyed yesterday), which I accompanied with a little green salad and cuke. Didn’t bring any of my pecan pie home, because one slice is really quite [...]

Just updated my Family Page “Sweet Family” above with some new Fall Pictures and added my Winter Goals :)!! I love having goals. I’ll add more to my goals page soon!!
Love you guys! kc

I LOVE 4-day Weekends!!! Awww, so good! In preparation for Christmas I made my first batch of homemade cinnamon rolls (the time intensive kind!). Baking them made me feel so empowered …I’ve been meaning to try making them for ages, but just never got around to it.   

Here is my beautifully kneaded dough, fist marks and [...]

Lately life has felt too busy…and I think it’s my own fault (to some degree!). I’m always a little over-ambitious around fall, which tends to get me in trouble around this time when I start asking the question of: “How in the hey did we get to the end of November!! It cannot be Christmas [...]

This week I have established a morning routine that I am LOVING!! I detailed my routine below and let me tell you, getting my workout in first thing has really helped jumpstart my day and gets me showered, dressed, and ready to bring on the day before my little one even wakes up…perfect!!
Morning Routine

5:40    1st Alarm: [...]

Haloween was an incredibly fun holiday this weekend, but the aftermath was not so fun. Emma and I both got very sick the day after with fevers and chills…it almost seems inevitable that we would get sick after all the festivities of the day before. We trick or treated downtown, went to Light the Night [...]

The other day I stumbled upon an article “Don’t Eat When You’re Not Hungry” about the 5 Common Types of Hungerless Eating (poweringmuscles.com). And I identified myself in many of the eating types. We’ve all heard about emotional eating—eating because you are bored, tired, procrastinating, stressed, pms’ing, etc…, but there were a few others that served as [...]