Nashville in 3 days with toddlers! Nashville is Fun for Adults The downtown area is amazing and you will, literally, hear live country music coming out of every door and window. The food is great, the people are crazy and nice, and the city is full of rich history. I’ll admit, this was a city…
Toddler Sleeping – What to do when they quit!
Are you almost to the point of wishing it was acceptable to give your child a heavy dose of Benadryl to sleep? Are you about to pull your hair out over lack of sleep and frustration? Are you tired of bargaining with your toddler, just to have them NEVER hold up their end of the…
Healthier Poptarts
These are a little time consuming, but it’s a fun recipe to make with the kids. It’s a much better alternative to store-bought poptarts, and you can make them with wheat flour and your choice of filling. My personal favorite is strawberry jam! (Also… scroll to the bottom for an easier version of this recipe,…
Side Dish: Whipped Sweet/Regular Potatoes
This is a good, easy side dish. We don’t eat it very often but the kids love it! It’s very simple, too. I do 1/2 regular potatoes and 1/2 sweet potatoes so that the kids can get the great benefits of a sweet potatoes without getting gas (sweet potatoes make my kids have gas pains!)…
Meatloaf for Kids
This meatloaf recipe was delicious! There are quite a bit of veggies in it and they’re pretty much completely unnoticeable. I put a little ketchup on top when serving to my toddler and he loves it (my baby eats it plain… I guess she’s a toddler now, though.. but whatever). I most recently served this…
Breakfast: Egg Muffins
I’m always on the lookout for a good, healthy, make-ahead breakfast. They’re not as easy to figure out as lunches and dinners… and frozen waffles usually seem so much easier! However, these muffins turned out to be VERY easy and VERY good! I even eat them for breakfast sometimes! It’s a very versatile dish, so…
Exclusively Pumping
With my first baby, Hudson, I breastfed for somewhere-around-3-weeks and then gave up after mastitis attacked! I just wasn’t doing everything properly and didn’t even know it. With my second baby, Everleigh, I decided to exclusively pump. We breastfed in the hospital for 3 days but then immediately went to pumping at home. I had…
Potato Bake (+ Veggies!)
This is a recipe for a side dish for toddlers. This one ends up sort of casserole-style and is able to be cut in to squares to put in your containers for weekly lunches or dinners! I don’t use potatoes often in their diets, but they ARE a good source of nutrients! Yes, they’re a…
Chicken Spaghetti Recipe (+How to Sneak in Veggies for Toddlers!)
Chicken Spaghetti is one our favorite meals around here. It’s full of yummy nutrients; the kids love it and so do my husband and I! This meal provides a whole wheat grain, vegetable, protein, and dairy. It’s pretty super! You can change-up this recipe many different ways, but below is the way I usually make…
Why You Shouldn’t Let your Baby get Over-Tired
You can’t protect your children from everything, but on the ‘easy’ things that you can help them with, why wouldn’t you? Well, you can enhance your child’s brain development, mood, behavior, attention span, and general disposition – not just now, but throughout the duration of their life. THAT is how important PROPER SLEEP is. Of course, I’m not…
IVF with PCOS
I was diagnosed with “mild PCOS” when I was 16 and I knew at that point that it would be hard for me to conceive naturally, so it wasn’t a surprise when I had to resort to in-vitro fertilization, or IVF. I don’t feel bitter about the situation and never felt the way a lot…
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease – It’s not Pretty!
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease… if you’re reading this, I’m praying you aren’t experiencing the torture that is HFMD! I’m writing this from experience, as my 15-month-old and my 2.5-year-old (32 months) children are both just now well from this disease; Hand, Foot, & Mouth is no joke. My son also had it when he…
Momming it Up! 