HVPC — quarantine

What's for dinner?

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What's for dinner?

Anyone find themselves cooking more? Even though we live in the middle of nowhere, I really miss going into town and grabbing some dinner at a restaurant, whether with the family or for a date night. I mostly miss it because I wouldn't need to cook that night. But, since we've been staying home more because of this quarantine, I find myself trying to cook what I crave from these restaurants.  Because of this, I created a kitchen diary for myself to keep track of the recipes that actually came out good! Our family definitely has our weekly staples, but...

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Quarantine Blues... Every little thing gonna be alright...

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Quarantine Blues... Every little thing gonna be alright...

I gotta confess, a good portion of last week, I was kinda in a FUNK, a little cabin fever, a little depressed... did the bare minimum with the kids, put off projects, binge watched netflix shows til 2am, and just didn't want to get out of bed. I guess I had gotten the quarantine blues, if that's a thing. But, I snapped out of it (thanks to my hubby & my bestie) and I'm back to the grindstone. Thank GOD! Yesterday, one of my orders from Etsy was for a wall art piece I had created years ago! I forgot I...

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Kids quarantine activity - I miss my friends!

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Kids quarantine activity - I miss my friends!

My kids, for the past week, kept saying, "I miss my friends!!!" :( Seems that the new norm right now is homeschooling our kids because they can't go to school due to COVID-19. I really had to come up with some fun activities for my own kids besides the work packet they received from their teachers. So, I came up with a kid/adult coloring card! These were kinda perfect... it kept all three of my kids engaged for at least an hour or two. That's quite a feat! They really were missing their friends so much, so I told them...

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