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February 13, 2015

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This morning we got our grocery shopping done early, and by early I mean we were home before 11AM.  I HATE grocery shopping.  I always try to get it done before the weekend so i don’t have to waste my valuable free time at the grocery store.  By the time we hit the checkout at the second (and last) store the baby was whining on the outside and I was groaning on the inside.

While we were at the store I was taking in all the Valentine hints and decorations placed in the aisles.  Of course my little girl was just tickled about the scores of balloons bobbing and swaying in the deli section.  When we got to the checkout area we were just smacked with pure Valentine’s Day merchandise: chocolate, cards, candy, buckets of flowers, and I mean FLOWERS everywhere!  I am by no means any sort of romantic and I don’t care one way or another about Valentine’s Day, but this display was beautiful and it smelled like spring!  In the dead of winter when the high for the day is supposed to reach 17, it was actually very nice to get out to the grocery store and smell flowers today.  I would have really liked to snap a picture to share with you, but my hands were tied up with baby hands.

Creative Update:

I am not working on giggleFritz and Company as a business right now.  Having a baby and being a Stay At Home Mom has taken most of my time, energy, and motivation to create.  I have been slowly getting back into crafting and making things, but nothing is for sale in the shop right now.  I have been experimenting with paper crafts and book making and I am working on a counted cross stitch piece.

 

LHbook (Small)
Booklet of lighthouse counted cross stitch patterns

 

This is the pattern I am working on.
This is the pattern I am working on.

I have always loved lighthouses, and I bought this booklet years ago.  I started one of the patterns and never finished it.  I decided to start over and I have been working on this project for the last few weeks.  I usually do a few rows at night when I am watching television with my husband.

I am off to do mommy things now, and I am looking forward to a wonderful (and chilly!) Valentine’s weekend!

Have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Missie

 

Merry Christmas 2014!!

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I have to tell you a quick story that made me chuckle last night.

Last night was Christmas Eve, and in between my husband’s family’s Christmas party and my family’s Christmas party, we stopped at home.  The baby needed a nap (we ALL needed a nap) and I had to throw the next round of meatballs in the oven.  I also had to heat up the little cocktail wieners and get them in some BBQ sauce for my older daughter.  It’s a food tradition that we have the BBQ cocktail wieners every Christmas.  I was getting the food ready when I remembered I hadn’t bought a bottle of BBQ sauce for the wieners.  I wasn’t too worried, because I thought we had two bottles of partially used sauce from making BBQ pulled chicken.  I went to the refrigerator to see what I had and I was amazed at what I found: five (5) bottles of leftover BBQ sauce were in the door shelves of our refrigerator! Yay, I had enough sauce! But, what the heck??!! That is what happens in my kitchen now that there is curious little baby roaming around: not enough time to notice what is all going on.

Anyway, today is Christmas and that is wonderful!  We will be eating and drinking in celebration of the birth of our Savior.  Have a Merry Christmas, whatever you are doing today!

Missie

5 Bottles of BBQ Sauce!
5 Bottles of BBQ Sauce!

Grocery Shopping Adventure

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My LO and I got back from grocery shopping about an hour ago.  Always an adventure when shopping with a baby!  Each and everything I took from the shelf had to be handed over to the naughty little baby.  When the item was not given quickly enough, the grunting began.  Yes, grunting, her newest “thing”!  I listened to a lot of whining, crying, and grunting during our grocery shopping adventure, because obviously I can’t give her things like meat or cleaner.  She held (and hugged fondly) the following items: iceberg lettuce, baby wipes, frozen pizza, cereal bars, block cheese, string cheese, pretzels, a 12-roll pack of toilet paper, bread, etc.

I have a little time left before “Grabby McGrunty” wakes up.  I’d better get to hiding the groceries.

Enjoy all your adventures today!

Missie 😀

Christmas Stamps

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I was working on some Christmas cards today and just adore the stamps this year.  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is my favorite Christmas movie and I love the stamps they produced for this year.  Today’s giggleFritz post is made possible by my geeky love of stamps and Christmas.

Christmas Stamps
Christmas Stamps

Enjoy the new week!

Missie 😀

Happy Holidays!

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Season’s Greeting, Everyone!

I have been yearning to add to my blog for many months.  As I write this, my naughty little baby is taking a much-needed LONG nap.  So, I quick cut out and baked up some sugar cookies out of dough that has been in the refrigerator all week.  As I was cutting little mitten cookies out, I thought, “If the naughty baby stays asleep after I get these cookies done, I am going to write. TODAY!” Here I am. A blog post! 🙂

Cookie Baking (Small)

The baby is awake, and I am off again!

It was nice to drop in and chat.  I will do it again really soon.

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Missie 😀

 

October 23, 2013 – Easy Homemade Wrapping Paper

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We have so many Fall birthdays in my family!  I have been collecting gifts and gift cards for the past couple of weeks, trying to get everything done before baby arrives.  I asked my husband, “What do you want for your birthday?”  Of course I got, “nothing, I don’t need anything.” Boo!!  So, I kept my husband’s gift simple.  I made his main gift.  (I won’t tell you or show you just in case he actually reads my blog!)  I am adding a few of his favorite eats to this gift box.  I hope he likes it anyway!

Once I started making my husbands birthday gift, more ideas came to me.  I decided to also make his gift wrapping paper.  I dug out some ink pads and my “Happy Birthday” stamp and got to work.  I still have a nice big roll of white paper from the gift wrap section of Hobby Lobby.  It isn’t glossy, so when you stamp, the ink is absorbed.  I stamped that paper like a boss!!  I like the two shades of blue together.  Simple, easy, fun!  That’s about all I can manage right now!

Have a wonderful Wednesday and make something fun!

Missie

October 21, 2013 – Candy Corn

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“Ghost Poop”

Candy corn is a part of Fall and Halloween.  Every year thousands of bags of different flavored candy corn fill the store shelves from August to November.  Every year people make cute, crafty treat bags with candy corn and call them things like “ghost poop”, or “pumpkin teeth”.  Fall craft projects thrive on the image of candy corn.  Every year I get stuck with tons of candy corn that people give me.  I hate candy corn.  Not this year though.  What the heck??!! I cannot get enough candy corn.  I have been eating handfuls of candy corn by itself and mixing it with nuts and trail mix.  My favorite is caramel apple flavored, but my sister bought me a bag of Brach’s regular candy corn made with honey and I am addicted to that stuff too.  I am blaming it on hormones.

Oct 18, 2013 – Healthy Hot Cocoa

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Warning: I am about to whine about my lack of coffee drinking!  I miss my coffee!  I have not had a pure cup of coffee since March and will not have another for at least another six months.  I promised my husband no coffee during pregnancy and breastfeeding (caffeine).  I have had chocolate and soda, but only after doing some research about the amount of caffeine in cocoa and sodas.

A while back I found a recipe in the newspaper for homemade hot cocoa.  I cut out and kept the recipe to use because I don’t like all the stuff they put in store-bought hot cocoa.  Cocoa is so good, but when I read the ingredient list it bothers me.  Also, I didn’t drink hot cocoa too often (only with my daughter in the winter) because I always had my coffee.  When I did drink hot cocoa, I ended up feeling bloated, tired, and I had a weird taste in my mouth.  It made me wonder if the ingredients weren’t making feel crappy.  I thought I would try this more natural hot cocoa recipe.

Store-Bought Hot Cocoa
Store-Bought Hot Cocoa Ingredient List

In March of this year, 2013, I was missing my coffee.  I found my natural hot cocoa recipe and decided to give it a try.  I made a cup and loved it!  I was so excited because I really loved this homemade, natural cocoa and thought my daughter would too.  I made her a cup of the hot cocoa.  She did NOT like it. Not at all. It tastes “weird” she said.  Ugh!! 🙁

Healthy Hot Cocoa this morning!

Well, I really love this stuff and had to have a cup this morning.  Maybe you will like it too.  Here is the recipe I have been using:

Homemade Hot Cocoa

  • 1 cup Milk
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1-1/2 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder (70% or more)

Directions:

Combine ingredients in a small sauce pan and whisk.  Heat gently over low or medium-low heat (do not boil).  Heat and whisk until hot cocoa begins to steam.  Pour into a mug.  Enjoy!

For greater convenience, you can make up a batch of the dry ingredients in an air-tight container to add to hot milk from the microwave:

Combine:

  • 3-1/2 cups sugar
  • 2-1/4 cups cocoa
  • 1 Tbls. salt

Directions:

Heat 1 cup of milk in microwave until steaming (about 60-90 seconds).  Add 2 Tablespoons of the cocoa mix and stir.

If you make this recipe, how do you like it?  Do you have a favorite healthy hot cocoa recipe?

Have a great Thursday!

Missie S.

 

Oct 17, 2013 – Nursing Cover

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As you may have read, I have been busy getting ready for our new little girl.  My latest project has been making a nursing cover to use for nursing in public.  I really have been hoping I NEVER have to do that, but just in case, I am now prepared!  I am not posting a tutorial on this project.  There were so many tutorials on the internet, you can easily pick and choose which one works well for you.  I chose to work with a tutorial from a blog called “Little Birdie Secrets“.  I used most of their tutorial and improvised when adding boning and straps at the end.

Nursing Cover Hanging in the Nursery

 

Folded up Nursing Cover

 

Close up of Strap and Boning

 

I had fun making this nursing cover.  Everything I used I had on hand from past projects.  It was so much fun picking out the fabric and I can’t wait to pick out fabric for a backup!  I didn’t use boning as the tutorial instructed.  Instead, I ended up using the rim of an ice cream bucket lid.  Another blogger, who posted a tutorial on making a nursing cover, said she used the rim of an oatmeal container lid.  That got me thinking and so I used the ice cream bucket lid.  I also like finishing up the project my own way, and having my way work out.  🙂

Along with cleaning, cooking, and stocking up on groceries for the next two weeks, this is what I have been up to lately during my wait.  Back to making some fitted cloth diapers.

Have a great Thursday! 😀

Missie S.