I think we started out with 4 baby apple seedlings In January. And all 4 of them did well for awhile. I forgot to water them for too long and we lost a few. So sad. And then there were 2. But they are getting bigger and growing tons of leaves. I am really...Keep Reading Here »
Recipes
A Beautiful Day and a Recipe!
Today was in the low eighties! It was an amazingly beautiful day. My children ended up filthy, happy and tired. My windows were open all day long, which made homeschool lessons a bit difficult early in the day, but was awesome none the less. My new studio and office space is in the back...Keep Reading Here »
Whole Wheat Calzones
I haven’t made calzones in years! For some reason I had a craving for them today. This was the first time I used almost all whole wheat flour, usually I used a mix of bread flour, whole wheat and white. I also never made them for a a family of 7 before and had...Keep Reading Here »
Apple Crumble
A few weeks ago Kate from Kate’s Life made a simple comment on Twitter about making Apple Crumble. It was right after we went to Carter Mountain Orchard for a Mended Little Hearts outing. I was planning on making pies with my stash of apples, but after Kate mentioned Apple Crumble, that was all...Keep Reading Here »
Feeding The Nut House
Have you noticed one of my new pages up in my menu bar? It is called Feeding The Nut House. I used to have a recipe blog where I posted my yummy treats and my dinners that satisfy my family. Some of my recipes are super easy and only take a few minutes, and...Keep Reading Here »
I am Spoiled by Homemade Granola
This is so good it could put Granola companies out of business! Instead of starting my own Granola business and making a fortune overnight, I am sharing it with you so that you too can have the best Granola recipe Evah!! Cuz I’m nice like that So what are you waiting for, head on...Keep Reading Here »
Mixing up Something in The Kitchen
I have not been very good about getting photos for my recipe site lately. If you are good at imagining how good things taste, just by looking at the recipe, I bet you would love to check out my latest post over on my recipe pages, Feeding The Nut House, it’s More Than Just...Keep Reading Here »
Samples, Coupons, Dinner and an Exciting Trip
Not too exciting around The Nut House today. Catching up with homeschool, laundry and other tedious housework. I did get to open up some free samples that came in the mail with a couple of coupons. You can see my samples over at my frugal living blog I’m Not Cheap, I’m Frugal. I have...Keep Reading Here »
Awesome Spiral Snack
My kids love fun food, and I love making fun designs with their food. All it needs is fresh strawberries and raspberries and it would be perfect! Oh, and maybe some grapes. Just a few more months and we can pick our black raspberries and add those to the mix too. Yum! It has...Keep Reading Here »
What’s Cook’n at the Nut House tonight?
I am serving up some Easy Peasy 15 Minute Chicken Pot Pie. Hop on over to my Frugal Cooking blog and check out my quick, easy and super Cheap dinner.Keep Reading Here »
Organizing My Week: 5 Kids, Homeschooling, Public Schooling & Preschool
At this time, I have one public school Nut, one Homeschooled Nut and one Little Nut Nut in Preschool. They all have different schedules, which can get hectic and overwhelming. They all start their day the same way though, bright and early, first thing in the morning. When I first came up with this...Keep Reading Here »
A Simple Saturday Snack
Today is a beautiful and lazy day at the Nut House. I can’t seem to get too much done around here today, so I decided to make a quick treat for the kids for after lunch. It is my variation of Rice Crispy Treats, made with marshmallow and…well you will have to go check...Keep Reading Here »
Eating Healthy at Affordable Prices, a few Quick Tips
We used to go to Whole Foods to get our organic food…we now call it whole paycheck…the food there is so expensive. Eating healthy is not about going to a health food store to find the good stuff…it is about finding the good, healthy, or organic food at your cheap store, aka wally world...Keep Reading Here »
Only one more month…
I can’t believe that we only have 1 more month until the 5th Little Nut joins The Nut House! I guess it is getting to the point where I should already be packed and have a freezer full of ready made dinners…but I don’t. It would also be nice if we had somewhere to...Keep Reading Here »
Honey Nut
Honey Nut is the Latest and Last Addition to the Family. She is our 5th Little Nut and our 1st and only Little Girl. She spends her days pretty much running after her brothers and pretending she can talk. She has no trouble being heard around here and loves her big brothers as much as they love her. Right now it is pretty much her job to just hang out and be cute.
Wee Nut
Owain is my 3 year old, my Little Heart Kid & my Hero. He is Double Inlet, Single Ventricle with Pulmonary Atresia and Malpositioned Great Arteries. He has had 3 out of 3 Open Heart surgeries needed to “fix” his heart. The Heart is an amazing thing and I never know what to expect. He also has asthma and we are doing our best to manage that. He finally had his last surgery on June 24th 2011.
Wee Nut and Honey Nut have become a pair of serious partners in crime. The two of them together can cause more trouble than the older three. They keep me on my toes!
Owain is our Miracle Baby. You can read his Congenital Heart Defect Story from the very beginning if you click on his picture.
E Nut
E Nut is 8 and wicked crazy! He is my fearless child and spent much of his life thinking if he could just jump high enough he could fly. If I let him, he would play Wii all day long, that is IF I let him. He has no trouble waking up before 6am and made me a morning person when I never thought I would be. He recently lost his first tooth and FINALLY feels like a Big Kid. E Nut and Wing Nut are the Big Kids around here and while they fight like enemies, they love like brothers.
Thank you for praying!
After his Fontan on June 24th he went home after 6 days! Now we are back in the hospital waiting for fluid to stop draining from around his right lung.
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Little Nut Nut
Little Nut Nut is my 5 year old boy genius and totally freaks me out with the things he can do. What type of child learns to read at 3 years old?!? He is his Big Brothers shadow and wants to do what ever they do. He doesn't have any trouble letting everyone around here know what he thinks, has no inner voice and talks non-stop all day long. If he thinks it, he says it. He says things like "I love life" and "I am made of Awesome" and always makes me smile, even when I don't want to.
Wing Nut
My Wing Nut, 10 years old, is my first born and is a Lego Fanatic. He talks in his sleep about "interesting number combinations" and insists that he is going to work for Lego when he grows up. From the moment he gets the current issue of Lego magazine in the mail, he anticipates the arrival of the next one. He has crazy mood swings, has recently been diagnosed with ADHD but I am not so sure that is correct. He is considered Failure to Thrive and I struggle everyday to get him to gain weight, he keeps getting taller, but not gaining any weight. I think if we can figure out why he his Failure to Thrive, his ADHD will go away.
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