Listed below are some tidbits of life currently!!
Wook at dat whiddle faaaaace
My Birchie boy is sort of TWO!
We received to spend so much of time collectively final week as a result of he was residence from faculty with a chilly.
All of us got here down with the chilly on Monday.
I took Birch for a covid check per his faculty guidelines (and waited in our automobile within the pressing care car parking zone for two hours…I digress…) and it was detrimental. This acted like a chilly and felt like a chilly, however I used to be nonetheless relieved when it got here again as “simply” a chilly.
Dwelling his finest life within the automobile with an iPad. I used to be a determined mama!
Fortunately this wasn’t a foul chilly and all of us nonetheless had plenty of vitality.
The boys had an excessive amount of vitality and have been actually bouncing off the partitions!
I really like my kids fiercely, however I would like a bit house day-after-day. Bodily house is good, nevertheless it’s the psychological break that it so helpful to me.
It received me considering how when Mazen was this age we had play dates and health club dates and “it takes a village” time, on a regular basis. Parenting is a lot extra enjoyable with associates, and I get lonely when it’s simply me and the children at residence. Simply one other small motive why this pandemic sucks a lot.
Final week it was simply us and the 100 animals in Mazen’s room conserving us firm.
Take a look at candy Birch tucking the gator in for his nap <3
Neighborhood Pumpkin Patch
I flipped round his stroller so we may speak throughout our stroll!
And look what we discovered – a pumpkin patch proper in our neighborhood! In your honor to pay for what you are taking. Adore it!
On The Meals Entrance…
Crisp fall mornings with eggs, pumpkin bread (a domestically made one) and crunchy grapes.
Three Lunches
Kale salad and leftover mac
PB&J with apples and pea pods
Kale salad with cheese and pita chips – plus leftover rooster blended in.
Dinners
We’ve began utilizing the meal planning app Plan To Eat (keep tuned for a evaluate!) in addition to ordering some Blue Apron bins (additionally keep tuned) so meals are getting thrilling over right here!
I clipped Cassie’s Lemon Rooster & Rice Skillet recipe to Plan to Eat and it was scrumptious. A brilliant easy ingredient checklist and many lemony taste. I did use brown basmati rice and needed to lengthen the cook dinner time by fairly a bit, however the finish consequence was nice.
+ lemony butter inexperienced beans steamed within the microwave
Leftovers for lunch –
Taco Tuesday
All the time on the meal plan! The addition of roasted corn this week was nice.
Splendid Noodles
I’ve been having fun with Splendid Spoon’s Noodle bowls for simple lunches when the fridge is operating naked. This one was butternut squash and broccoli with rice noodles – beloved it! (Get $25 off via my affiliate hyperlink 🙂 )
Look who resides his best possible life having fun with the autumn climate!
