The Best Window Cleaner

I'm using this recipe and love it, so I thought I'd share! I knew to use vinegar, but adding the bit of dishwash liquid works wonders. Plus, this is completely safe to inhale, which is so important when cleaning with little ones around. (Oh, and it's super cheap, too!)

The Best Window Cleaner

Menu Plan Monday

For more Menu Plan Monday ideas visit Laura @ I'm an Organizing Junkie! There's a giveaway this week :)

Monday - Blackeye Pea Supperdish w/ homemade bread and salad
Tuesday - Grilled cheese & tomato sandwiches, spinach/onion/mushroom omelet
Wednesday - Stuffed peppers, baked potatoes, cheese biscuits
Thursday - Hot dogs, beans, chips, fruit
Friday - Breakfast
Saturday - Meatloaf (make one, freeze one), mashed potatoes, green beans
Sunday - Chili (from the freezer), cornbread muffins

Cole's 2 months pictures...and some of Graeme too :)

Finally having a chance to upload some pictures today! :) These aren't fabulous, but at least they're updates....I know the last one of Cole is blurry, but of course, the only picture I got of him smiling was blurry. He's sharing many smiles, cooing a lot, holding his head up for fairly long stretches, and discovering his fists - he even hits his toys on the playmat sometimes. It seems to surprise him and then he wants to try to do it again :-)

It was finally warm enough to take a walk yesterday. The double stroller was nice, though I don't have the hang of the fixed frint wheel yet.

Graeme has yet another cold! I knew he had to get some sometime, since the average toddler gets like 5-8 colds a year...we were due for some! But I hope this one does not last 2 weeks.

We have pediatrician appointments on Friday, so next weekend I'll post updated weights and lengths :)

Recipe Fun Friday

I thought I'd jump in for Nikki's Recipe Fun Fridays...if you share a recipe, please leave a link!

This week, I tried a new recipe that will be in my rotation regularly! It's "Maria's Stuffed Chicken Breasts" from allrecipes, with the following changes:

1. sauteed garlic & onion in olive oil,
2. used fresh spinach and threw it in w/ the garlic/onion until wilted
3. cut a "slit" in the fat part of the breast instead of usng toothpicks like the recipe called for
4. added some parmesan
5. cut the recipe in half b/c many of the reviews said it made too much, and I agree!

Served it on top of spaghetti and some garlic bread...mmmmm! It was fairly easy and quick, but looked and tasted very elegant.

i'm learning...

...that for my sanity and the good of my household, i need to get up earlier - my ambition is 5:30. I did 6:15 today :-)

...that the Biblical command in Titus 2 (older women teach the younger to love their husbands) uses the word for "love" that means warm, passionate, exuberant, adoring. As a woman, it comes naturally for me to love in a nurturing, even self-less way. It does not come naturally for me to be passionate and adoring...especially with a newborn and a toddler to care for :-) Yet that is what God knows my husband needs.

...that God is merciful and sovereign. Read this article!

...that newborn poop is not supposed to be green :-( Trying to determine why Cole's has been since a week after birth.

...that I need to go to bed earlier to achieve said goal LOL! Goodnight!

Coming to us on Thursday...

...our first brand-new appliance - an Amana washer, voted the consumer's best buy for a front-loader washer! We got a great deal on it at Home Depot yesterday, and I can't wait to have a working washer back in the house. It's going to get a super-testing because I'm going to have probably 10 loads to do in the first few days LOL!

Sickies and Family...

Just a note to those of you checking in - we've had family visiting and now sickies, so my blogging has taken a back-seat...should have some time in the next few days to download new pics and post some :-) Blessings to you and yours in this new year!