homemade marinara sauce

As promised, here is the video of my homemade marinara.

The four moms...and the dining room/kitchen!

This week the four moms are blogging about their dining rooms and kitchens!  So I'm joining along...and it's not even that messy!  Lucky ya'll!

 This is the view from our living room.  We do school in the living room and the dining room...and a couple of the girls will work in the office too!

 Here you can see the table, which is covered in a big SCA project.  Normally, I'd have a lovely doily my mil made me in the center, and a pretty tea pot on that...I collect tea pots as you'll see soon!

 See my tea pots up there?  This is the shelf my MM made for me.  I have one over the top of a couple of the bedroom windows too.

 Here are some of my sussies, and the children's computer.

 Here is the other wall of the dining room...with the china hutch and more school stuff.

 The HUGE pantry my MM made me...man he's handy!

 Next to my cabinet, the baby swing and the freezer.  At the top of the freezer is our daily schedule of who cooks when, and what the childrens' jobs are after each meal.

 The play pen and CG helping. :)

 This is the view of my kitchen from my dining room.

 Here is my stove, the bottle rack, and the eggs! 

 The other side of my kitchen sink...my coffee pot (tres important!), and my mixer, which has the blue cover on it.  Next to that is my dehydrator.

 This is the wall, you can see the freezer in the background.  On the cart are two drawers, one of which has all the kitchen towels in it.  The other has the utensils that I don't use often...like my cake decorating tools and my pizza cutter...and cookie cutters galore!

This is the view of my back door from the middle of my kitchen.  The big bin is my cloth diaper pail, the little bin is for dirty kitchen towels.  The stool is because I'm quite short. :)

Thanks for taking this little tour with me...I love my home!  Check in with the four moms for more!

Boudreaux and Thibodeaux....and Butt Paste! (a review)

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boudreaux's Butt Paste. All opinions are 100% mine.

 So there is this joke that goes 

A long time ago, Boudreaux and Thibodeaux decided to go out west. They were in a covered wagon but somehow got separated from the wagon train. Boudreaux was in the front driving while Thibodeaux was relaxing in the back. All of a sudden, Boudreaux heard a yell from Thibodeaux in the back: "Hey, Boudreaux, there's Indians on horses back here chasing us." Boudreaux said, "Thibodeaux, how big are they?" Holding his finger and thumb about 2 inches apart, Thibodeaux said, "Mais, Boudreaux, they only about this big." "That's okay, Thibodeaux," Boudreaux said. "Tell me when dey get bigger." About ten minutes later, Boudreaux yelled out, "Hey, Thibodeaux, how big are those Indians?" "Mais, Boudreaux, dey are about tree feet tall." Boudreaux yelled back, "That's still okay, Thibodeaux, but tell me when dey get bigger." Ten minutes after that, Boudreaux cried out again, "Thibodeaux, how big are those Indians now." "Mais, Boudreaux, dey as big as you and me!!" "Well, shoot 'em!" screamed Boudreaux, "shoot 'em!" "Mais, Boudreaux, I can't," said Thibodeaux, holding his finger and thumb about 2 inches apart. "I've known 'em since they was dis big!"

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hahaha.  Now, in all seriousness, I want to tell ya'll about this product...Boudreaux's Butt Paste.  Not sure if you've heard of it....but if you have, it's memorable!!! Boudreaux's Butt Paste  has been around for as long as I've had children.  I personally have used Boudreaux's Butt Paste for at least three of my girls! 

I LOVE this product!  When CM was about 8 months old, I switched to cloth diapers full time.  With three children four and under, that seems crazy right?  Well, CM had developed this horrible rash, due to an allergy, from the disposable diapers...and I couldn't get rid of it.  I had the cloth dipes already, so i tried them in conjunction with Boudreaux's Butt Paste.  The Boudreaux's totally took care of this poor baby's bottom!  Ever since then, I've used Boudreaux's Butt Paste without fail!  Now, just in our recent past, I mistakenly gave Miss V undiluted apple juice...bad mommy!  She had the diaper rash of ALL diaper rashes!  You know, complete with the sores!  It was AWFUL!  This thing totally happened over night too!  So, because it was a bug day, I was out of Boudreaux's Butt Paste!  I ran to the store, grabbed the Butt Paste, and ran home.  (OK, you got me, I drove.  Heaven knows the store isn't close enough to get there by running!)  Immediately, I treated Miss V.  That was in the afternoon.  The next morning, her bottom had healed so that it was barely red.  I'm sayin', ya'll, I love this stuff!

Boudreaux's comes in the convenient sizes of 1oz, 2oz, 3oz and 4oz tubes, 16oz jar.  Head over to the website and get yourself a free sample...you won't regret it!  Thought you'd like to know the following:

Boudreaux's Butt Paste® was specifically formulated by a pharmacist with direction from a respected pediatrician to provide effective diaper rash care.

Contains 16% Zinc Oxide(which I think it why it works so quickly!)

This stuff is incredible ya'll...go check it out!  Then, let me know what you think!

some days you're the windshield...

some days you're the bug!

Today is one of the bug days...Miss V has been sick since Saturday...This morning, she woke up with wet dipe, dirty dipe, and it had leaked.  Her little room REEKED!!!  AR woke up with the cough that CM has had since yesterday.  AJ and CG are doing fine...so far.

yea, today I'm feeling buggy...can I be a lady bug?
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