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Works for Me Wednesday: Homemade Kit Kat MckFlurry

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We made our Family Day a little more fun last Friday with homemade Kit Kat MckFlurries using some of the leftover halloween candy that we didn’t give out.

They turned out to be delicious and way more budget friendly than the ones you’d buy from a certain fast food restaurant.

I thought I’d share the recipe for this fun and easy treat, so that you can try it sometime, too. It’s definitely a great way to use up leftover halloween candy, and you don’t have to use Kit Kat. This treat works well with M&M’s, Snickers, Reeses, etc…

Here are your ingredients:

Simple enough. All you need are some Kit Kats and vanilla ice cream. We’re partial to the Trader Joe’s brand of vanilla ice cream.

After you gather your ingredients, open the Kit Kats and toss them into a food processor (you could also chop them up with a knife), but they should look something like this when they’re finished…

Then scoop the vanilla ice cream on top…

Mix everything up…

Here’s what it should look like after its been mixed together…

And finally, put into servings cups and garnish with extra chocolate…

Enjoy!

Homemade MckFlurries work for us! πŸ™‚

For more WFMW tips and ideas, please visitΒ We are THAT Family.


Tackle It Tuesday: Baby Changing Table

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For this week’s Tackle It Tuesday, I decided to clean the changing table on my to-do list for the week. It’s a brand new changing table that we purchased from Target for around $22. It was originally around $99, so it was quite a steal.

BUT after it was assembled, because we don’t yet have the new baby “here”….it became a place not only to store diapers for my boys using the diapers and other things we’ve purchased for the new baby, but also a place to just put random things we didn’t feel like finding an immediate home for. And just look at what happened….

And here it is after about 10 minutes of work….

Much better.

To see what others are tackling this week, please visitΒ 5 Minutes for Mom!


Pregnancy Update: 33 weeks and 3 days

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Only 5 weeks and roughly 4 days to go until delivery day. In many ways, this pregnancy seems like it started so long ago, and at the same time, it seems like time has flown by.

Here’s what I’ve been up to this past week:

:: I had my first non-stress test for the pregnancy last week. It went well, only I’m going to remember next time not to recline the chair I sit in – just in case lying reclined for 40 minutes decides to throw a wrench in my back again.

:: I will have non-stress tests every week until I deliver the baby. This is the first pregnancy I’ve ever had to do this.

:: My back is WAY better! Praise the Lord! I’m not 100%, but nowhere near the pain I was in just 2 weeks ago.

:: I have another ultrasound scheduled next week! The ultrasound is just to be sure that things are fine with the baby as there was a small problem with baby’s kidneys early on. Things seem to have cleared up though.

:: We know who will be watching the 4 older kids on the day I go in for my c-section. My mom is kindly going to take the day off of work to come over and stay with the kids while Ruben and I are at the hospital. Once the baby is born and Ruben gets the chance to leave, he’ll come and pick up the kids to go to the hospital to meet their new sister.

:: We are pretty sure on a first name for the baby but still a bit undecided on a middle name. I’m thinking about Anne, Ann, Joy, or Grace for a middle name.

:: I have my hospital bag about 1/4 of the way packed.

:: I’ve been having stronger contractions and some with a little pain more frequently, but mostly at night or while I’m doing my walking for exercise. Once I settle down, the contractions subside or stop. No early labor for me! πŸ™‚

:: I’ve gained a total of 24.5 lbs. so far.

:: I got a slew of new-to-me maternity clothes from my sister, who just recently had a baby! These clothes should definitely take me to the end of this pregnancy and not require me to buy any new clothes. Thanks, Sarah!

:: I can’t wait to be able to eat cold lunch meat and tuna fish again.

:: I have NO diapers for the new baby – yet. I’ve actually been thinking about cloth diapering lately, but I don’t know that I have it in me. It’s the poopy diapers that scare me when it comes to cloth diapering. πŸ™‚ That and all the “methods” to do it.


10 Goals for the week & how I did with last week’s goals

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Last week turned out to be a semi-productive week, although I didn’t get everything on my list accomplished. I had a busier school week last week which kept me busier than normal on homework and such and that contributed to my not getting as much done as I wanted to.

Here’s how I did:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday. Done. Because we ended up short on time on Friday due to some other circumstances, we ended up picking up a chicken dinner meal (fully cooked πŸ™‚ for $10) from the grocery store and bringing it home. We then watched a Scooby Doo movie with the kids, but stopped about halfway through for a homemade Kit Kat MckFlurry break. After that, we finished up the Scooby movie, which was pretty good.

2. Finish making fun halloween hand-outs with Breanna and put them in plastic baggies with candy. Also schedule a separate craft time with Breanna this week. Done.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 20 minutes every morning this week, and walk for 15 minutes every afternoon/evening. I intentionally walked for exercise about 5 days last week, but I wasn’t able to get it done both morning and afternoon, so I’ll be adjusting this goal for this week.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week. Totally failed here. I got ahead in both books, but didn’t get anywhere near my goal.

5. Wake up by 7:30am every morning. I was able to wake up around 7:30am almost every day except one.

Home Management Goals:

6. Put the clothes that I’ve decided to keep from when I sorted through them last week into boxes. These are clothes for Isaac and David when they’re older and for the baby. Done. Ruben actually got this done for me. πŸ™‚

7. Go through Breanna’s old baby clothes and take out the ones I want to use for the new baby. I haven’t even started yet.

Business Goals:

8. Get business cards made! Done! Finally! I got a great deal on 100 business cards, and then a nice deal on 50 business cards that are actually shaped like business cards, but they’re stickers. Cool, huh! No, I really needed to get my business cards done for an upcoming “Networking Session” I’ll having in my web site design class.

9. Finish downloads and cancel a subscription I have for graphics. Did not get this done. Didn’t even start – hopefully, I’ll get to it this week.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website,Β Purely Sensible Design.Β I think I did this 3-4 days last week – not as good as the week before, but I’m going to keep it up.

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday.

2. Cook with Breanna for our “cooking day” and have craft time with her on Monday.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 30 minutes each day for exercise.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week.

5. Wake up by 7:15am every morning. I’m going to try to push my wake-up time just a little bit earlier.

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean out the new baby’s changing table which quickly became a place to store random things after Ruben assembled it. We’ve actually never had a changing table before, but we found this one at Target for 75% off!

7. Go through Breanna’s old baby clothes and take out the ones I want to use for the new baby.

Business Goals:

8. Blog for 15 minutes each day.

9. Finish downloads and cancel a subscription I have for graphics.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website,Β Purely Sensible Design.

What are your goals for the week?