Motherhood changes ev-ereee-thiiingg! I cried at the movie “valentines day” not because of the boy meets girl and gets girl scenario but because of the mother-child love– bawled like a baby! I use to cry at movies where couples fall in love and now I only cry at movies about that unconditional love of a mom and child.

Something else is the protective instinct I have now. I’m much more aware of my surroundings and who is walking near me.
My friend was just accosted walking down the street with her child… this makes me want to beat the crap out of the guy for messing with my friend and her child. I am not sure what I would do in that situation but I’d probably be insanely on the defense and probably get hurt.
I can’t even go into the weird feelings the olympics are making me go through— thinking what if that was my kid crashing on the downhill. I would definitely be like Shaun White’s mom who can’t watch her son do all those jumps… I’d just be hiding my face saying a novena.

i am all about pick you battles right now too. my son wants to wear strange clothes or no clothes all the time now. he wants to wear his baby brother’s clothes or a puppy outfit or nothing at all. so i have decided that as long as his is safe and warm that is all that matters. you want to wear tigger socks on your hands to the grocery store… okay. ask me again how i am doing with this when they become teenagers!

how has motherhood/fatherhood changed you?

upcycling sweaters

so i went to goodwill and got some sweaters to cut up… here is what i did to a small pink hollister sweater… see the stitch line

i made the bottom into a hat for me, the turtleneck into a baby hat (notice the models are boys and only real men can wear pink LOL), and the arms have been made into fingerless gloves that i later added a heart to each side but forgot to take a picture of… (just used red yarn and stitched on a heart)

the last picture is the dino hat i made the baby out of a turtleneck of another sweater then cut up a light blue dino shape from another sweater and added yarn accents for the eye and the spikes.

st.patty's day menu

shepherd’s pie:

4 med. potatoes peeled and diced

two handfuls of baby carrots cut up

one can sweet peas

one can corn

one can crescent dough (or make your own and roll out thin)

one bag veggie crumbles (or one pound of ground meat)

2 tablespoons olive oil

one garlic clove

one and half cups of veg broth

tablespoon worcheshire sauce

one onion minced and divided

one block of rice cheddar cheese shredded and divided

3 tablespoons butter or fake butter

boil diced potatoes in salted water until tender then puree them in a food processor … add a couple of tablespoons of onion and the butter and a little shredded rice cheese, salt and pepper and set aside

boil carrots in salted water until tender, then drain and add peas and corn and stir

add olive oil to skillet and cook onions and garlic until soft then add veggie crumbles and cook until unfrozen then add worsteshire to veg. broth and pour over crumbles mixture and cook about 5 minutes.

place dough in bottom of lasagna/brownie type pan then layer (fake) meat mixture on top, then veggie mixture, then spread potato mix on top and top off with shredded rice cheese

bake in

350* oven for 25 minutes

chocolate stout cupcakes….

i used this recipe but halved it and changed sour cream to soy sour cream and whipping cream to soy creamery …. i think next time i will use semi-sweet chocolate to make it a little sweeter frosting.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/recipes/desserts/chocolate-stout-cupcakes-with-bittersweet-ganache/

this is the sweetest baby and I grew him.... i believe in that old wives tale that if you eat a lot of chocolate when you are pregnant you have sweet kids! both my boys are as sweet as can be!

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