Hey friends. I am linking up today with  Patty and Holly for monthly musing. This months theme is All Things Spring.  1- Favorite thing about spring? Warmer weather, hearing the birds chirp, the deer are back more often and longer days. 2- What are your spring traditions? From yard work, to eating outside whenever possible, spring cleaning, more time outside. Everything weather pertaining.  3- Favorite spring outfits? Flip flops and spring dresses  4- Favorite springtime meal? salads and more food on the grill 5- Spring rain ... love or loat ..read more

 Spring Salad Ingredients: make as much or as little as your heart desires.  Artisan lettuce cucumber cherry tomato black beans corn hard boiled egg diced chicken honey mustard dressing (I used Walden Farms or you can make your own here) Directions: Cut up all ingredients Drizzle with honey mustard dressing Serve Enjoy!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!!! If you are new here, Feel free to follow along. You can find me on Bloglovin, Facebook, and Instagram New Youtube Channel and Etsy Shop XOXO ..read more

 Hey friends. Happy What's Up Wednesday. How is it already the last Wednesday of the month. Easter, Spring Break, and the crazy eclipse day is over which seemed to take forever to get here. Now we are counting down the days until the end of the school year.  It is hard to believe that we have a little over a month, less than 30 days of school left. When do your kids get out?  It's that time for What's Up Wednesday with Shay, and Sheaffer. On the last Wednesday of every month we are all invited to share a little bit everything that has been going on for the past month ..read more

Strawberry Walnut Salad Ingredients:- make as much or as little as your heart desires.  romaine lettuce cherry tomatoes strawberry walnuts pepper mushroom homemade buttermilk ranch Directions: Cut up all ingredients Drizzle with ranch dressing Serve Enjoy!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!!! If you are new here, Feel free to follow along. You can find me on Bloglovin, Facebook, and Instagram New Youtube Channel and Etsy Shop XOXO ..read more

 *This post may contain affiliate links, which means at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through or make a purchase  Hey friends. I know this is late this month. I love reading and sharing book reviews but they take the longest time and it has been a busy month with Spring Break, and new schedules.  Total physical/kindle books: 7 Total audible:  7 Total for March: 14 Total books for 2024: 33 Goal: 150 books Title: Outlive  Author: Peter Attia Genre: self help How I Read It: physical book My Rating: 4 out of 5 Amazon Description:&n ..read more

 Buttermilk Ranch Ingredients: 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup mayo 1/4 tsp mayo 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 1/2 tsp onion powder 1/2 tsp parsley flakes 1 tsp garlic powder 2 tsp dill Directions: Add all ingredients into a bowl.  Whisk together. Transfer to a mason jar. Let sit in fridge overnight. Serve Enjoy!!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!!! If you are new here, Feel free to follow along. You can find me on Bloglovin, Facebook, and Instagram New Youtube Channel and Etsy Shop XOXO ..read more

 Hey friends. Happy Monday. How was your weekend? We have a somewhat lowkey, but busy weekend. I was very present and didn't take many photos at all.   I am linking up with Holly and Sarah for Hello Monday. Friday Friday after school was Taylor filled with music. My oldest is obsessed with Taylor Swift and as soon as she was doing with her homework she was listening to her new album on Spotify, all 31 songs.  I made homemade pizza for dinner with the help of Anna. She helped spread the dough, spread the sauce, shredded the cheese with the Kitchen-Ai ..read more

 Hey friends. Happy Monday. I did better this week with taking pictures of what I ate. I have been tracking my food, working towards calorie and protein goals and more veggies. breakfast  burrito with egg and veggies a few mornings with tator tots too Eggs with veggies and tator tots Lunch Salad with some fruit and other veggies and homemade reach. Chicken sausage as my protein. Strawberry Pecan salad (recipe coming in a view soon) Spring salad (leftover coming soon) Snack veggies and hummus  cucumber with ranch seasoning, a new favorite Shake rice cake with pea ..read more

 Banana PB Granola Bites Ingredients: 3 overripened bananas 1 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup maple syrup 2 cup oats chocolate chips (optional) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Line a 8x8 baking dish with parchment paper By hand or with a stand mixer, mash banana, peanut butter and syrup together. Mix in oats until well combined Press mixture evenly into baking with a spatula. Top with chocolate chips Bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool completely before cutting Serve Enjoy!!! *store in air tight container on counter for one week or in freezer for up to 6 months.  Thank you f ..read more

 Hey friends. We have made it halfway through the week. It is our first week in forever that my kids go 5 days. I am loving getting back to a routine and getting so much done. The weather has also been beautiful the last two days, today is suppose to be hot but raining and possible severe storms.  Let's have some hodge podge fun. I linked up with Joyce over at From This Side of the Pond for Wednesday Hodge podge.   1-  What's a skill you think everyone should have?  Kindness and manners. Somewhere down the grapevine people have lost both ..read more