We made a Minions Cake to celebrate the launch of The Minions Movie. At this point, you've probably encountered photos of every kind of minion decorated dessert that you can dream up. Unfortunately, I'm the worst ever at decorating. So I had to come up with my own minion dessert that had almost no effort required. I took my standard Marshmallow Crispie Bar Layer Cake, and ...
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Hasselback Tailgate Potatoes
So this recipe was supposed to be about how to make some delicious ribs on the grill for game day. Then I made these hasselback tailgate potatoes and they stole the show! They are a great way to combine your favorite types of potato. They are basically a baked potato that has been pre sliced to simplify the “loading” process of loaded baked potatoes. Thinly sliced about half ...
Keeping your pets warm and busy on snow days!
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #proplanprobiotic #CollectiveBias This week was so cold that almost every business in our state was closed for at least a day and a half, schools were closed, libraries were closed, and mail wasn't delivered. It ended up being in the negative 20's for almost 2 days, and ...
Homeschoolers Guide to Scholastic Book Club
Recently we joined the Scholastic Book Club, I'm not affiliated with the Scholastic Book Club, I just love the nostalgia it brings and it definitely takes me right back to the elementary classroom in the 90's. I think that might be where I became a frugal shopper. I can almost hear 8 year old me saying, "Look at all these books for under $3, if I get a few of those books I'll ...
Snow Day Bucket List DIY
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc., Abreva, Breathe Right, Clorox, Robitussin and Theraflu. All opinions are mine alone. #SoothesOfTheSeason #CollectiveBias It has already been pretty snowy here in Wisconsin, and we’ll probably have plenty of snow days this Winter. In fact, as I’m typing this I glanced out the window to see little snowflakes flying ...
Hands on learning with PLAYMOBIL toys
Disclosure: This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PlayWithPlaymobil #CollectiveBias As a homeschooling family we love learning hands on, and at Aliceana's age a lot of our learning is through playing. Which is why we were so excited to head to Walmart and pick out some PLAYMOBIL toy sets. There were so many ...
Hearty Chicken and Pumpkin Soup
Pumpkin coffee. Pumpkin bread. Pumpkin cookies. Pumpkin cake. Pumpkin cookie butter. Pumpkin pies. Pumpkin cheesecake. Yep, I think we’ve pretty much hit our limit for pumpkin sweetness this year, so it was time to get savory. ..and by hitting our limit, I mean that I’m definitely drinking a cup of pumpkin coffee right here, right now, while writing this. Pumpkin has ...
Pumpkin Pecan Streusel Pie Bites
It's pie time! Pie is officially the unofficial Thanksgiving dessert, don't you think? I made a recipe that takes an already delicious Pumpkin Pecan Streusel Marie Callender's Pie and made it into the perfect bite sized portions. Covered with white chocolate of course. It's ridiculously simple. First, Just bake the pie according to instructions. After the pie is baked to golden ...
The 5K run and the 6-year-old
I turn 28 in 10 days, and if you saw way back in January I made a goal, or I guess since it was January it might as well be called a resolution, to complete a 5k by my 28th birthday. Well, I did it, I completed a 5k! It didn't go according to plan, but I got through the finish line. AJ and Aliceana joined me on this 5k and we did it together as a family. It was actually a ...
Hiking at Cave Point Park | Door County, Wisconsin
We took a day trip to Door County and after we had amazing bbq at Casey's we went for a hike. It's an incredible hike on rocky cliffs that lead straight down to Lake Michigan. We took Watson with us and he had so much fun navigating the trails. The trails are full of tree roots and rocks so you have to carefully plan out each step you take. At one point Watson randomly lunged ...
1st-grade Homeschool Goal Planning Journal
Disclosure: This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BackToSchoolGoals18 #CollectiveBias It's back to school season, but as a homeschooling family, we learn all year around. That doesn't mean we're not incredibly excited this time of year when school supplies come in every color and theme and for a steal ...
Free resources we’re using to learn Spanish while unschooling
Aliceana is almost 6 and I figured it would be the perfect age to start learning Spanish. The only problem is I don't know any Spanish aside from the words that everyone knows, uno, si, fiesta, taco, and other extremely basic vocabulary words. So I'm definitely not the best person to be learning Spanish from. So we'reworking on learning Spanish together and it's actually really ...
Our Time4Learning Schedule
Our Time4Learning schedule Let's talk about our Time4Learning schedule, if you're not aware of Time4Learning it's a complete online curriculum. The first year we did Time4Learning was 1st through 2nd grade, those grades moved extremely quickly (she completed each grade in about 3 and a half months) for Aliceana and we used block scheduling. When things started to get a little ...