Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful mothers out there, and even the ugly ones!

 bahahahaaa....that was a joke people.

This is my mom, I call her Lafawnda.

She helped mold me into the person I am and for that I am super grateful. She also always has and continues to spoil me and my family rotten. My favorite thing about my mom is she likes to pretend that all her kids were perfect while we were growing up....or maybe she is in denial, either way.

Being a mother is the hardest thing in the world. It never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever stops and even when you are alone or getting a break you still always are thinking about what your kids are doing and if they are ok. The best thing about being a mom is how your kids love you unconditionally (at least they do when you are little, I have heard horror stories about teenagers).

 About 75% of the time I feel like I could be a better mom, have more patience, talk in a nicer voice, play pretend, play hide and go seek and take 10 minutes to find them hiding in the same spot every time. 

But no matter what they just keep loving me. I love my girlies more than anything in this world. I'm so glad they made me a mom, and help me continue to be a better one.

Now onto the serious stuff, this is how my Mother's Day played out in my head. My kids sleep soundly all night like usual. Big Daddy gets up with them at 6am. I sleep in soundly until at least 8am, then I awake to the smells of breakfast in bed and fresh flowers and the cute little homemade cards my kids made me.

My reality:
Nate falls asleep on the couch while watching House on Netflix, he never comes to bed so I can't sleep that well anyway, Sas wakes up twice yelling about who knows what, B Face wakes up once crying, Big Daddy does get up with them at 6am and keeps them quite but I can't go back to sleep. The brings me the most delicious breakfast in bed (SCORE)! B Face helps me eat it. And Sas sits in her room screaming about how it is not Mother's Day therefore she will not come in and say Happy Mother's Day to me because it was last week.

 Love my little family. And I have finally convinced Sas to make me a card even if she doesn't think it is Mother's Day. I will get my hand crafted card DANG IT!

Mormon Crack

(Disclaimer: for those who follow me on Facebook I made this for a birthday present. I did not eat it and ruin my awesome, in the making, weight loss story!! I knew some of you were judging me, I could feel it.)

Mormon Crack (news flash, I'm a Mormon. And you may or may not know that Mormon's typically don't do drugs, therefore this is my drug....get it?..it's supposed to be funny but if you don't get it by now it may be a lost cause for you) is what I have decided to call this oooey gooey sticky crunchy heaven in my mouth creation. It all started a couple years ago when I was at a church bake sale and this bowl of what looked like regular old cereal sold for $90 or some crazy number like that. The weird thing about that is the person who bought it was married to the person who made it?! Well, said purchaser was sitting in front of me and let me have a taste and that was the end of my waistline (not to mention everything else I stumble upon on Pinterest). I quickly had someone snatch up her magic recipe and I made it many times. 

Then something terrible happened..........I moved and the recipe was lost!!! I text the person I got it from to have her send it to me and she never did. Then the horrible cravings set in and I was on a mission to find my oooey gooey friend again. So I finally came across this recipe on Six Sisters Stuff and it was the closest thing to the original recipe I could find, but it still wasn't the one. So here is my wanna be version of "the one" and I'll be honest, once you have it you will want it over and over again. SOOOO yummy.

Ingredients:

1 box of Rice Chex or Crispix

1 box of Golden Grahams
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 1/4 cups light corn syrup  

If you are feeling crazy you can also add almonds, coconut, little yummy candies or chunks of candy.

Directions:

1. Grease a big ole bowl and mix the cereals and whatever other yummy things you want to add.

2. Put the sugar, butter and corn syrup in a pan on medium heat and stir. Wait until the mixture starts to boil and let it boil for three minutes while you continue to stir. (Sometimes I turn it up to high to get things going)

3. Pour the mixture over the cereal and mix it all up.

4. Spread it out on wax paper (sometimes it sticks) or onto greased cookie sheets. 

5. Put it all back in the big bowl when it has cooled, then take the bowl and hide in a closet with it so you never have to share!!!

Just Call Me Martha

I will start by saying I AM NOT CRAFTY. As a matter of fact my attention span for crafty things is approx. five minutes long, maybe ten on a good day when I am loaded with sugar or caffeine. With that being said, Big Daddy and I have been tapping into our crafty sides and I am loving the results while hating the amount of time it takes to get things done.

Recently we inherited a new huge television from my brother and we had to get rid of the entertainment center we had because the tv wouldn't fit in it. Which lead to our tv mounted on the wall and all the stuff from our old entertainment center sitting on our floor...not so kid proof. Then the search began. You may not know this but Big Daddy and I are rather picky. Our budget was max $300, and we wanted something real wood so it would last forever, or until we were sick of looking at it. Oh, and we also wanted something long and taller than two ft. Weeks later we came to the conclusion that was never going to happen with our budget.

So we searched out DIY dresser/entertainment centers and decided that is what we were going to do. After days of searching on Craigslist we found the perfect one and of course I didn't take a picture of what it looked like before so you can be that much more impressed with the results. But here is a picture of the mirror that was on it, which shows the wood stain color so with a little imagination you get the idea. 

So the mirror is laying on top of the dresser hence the weird angle and the reflection of my garage shelves and garage door, but lucky for you if you look really close you can see part of the dresser below it.

The all it took was a little (many, many hours) sanding, priming, sanding again, and painting twice. I lied, that wasn't all. We also took out the middle drawers and put wood down so we would have shelves for the blu-ray player, Nintendo 64 (woooooooohooo) and other things to make our viewing pleasure excellent, and cut holes in the back for the cords. And of course the new hardware to make it look so fresh and clean. 

Ready for the much anticipated reveal...... 

TA-DA!! Take that Pinterest!

I am so in love!  All we have left is hiding the tv cords, and the best part was it cost us about $160!!!!! So there you have it, I am turning over a new crafty side.

Next project re-upholstering the piano bench.

FYI the color is BEHR Amber Moon