Here’s what this past week looked like- My Everyday Life: Week 30
This week, we were in Idaho visiting my in-laws!
Before we left, I wrote down what everyone wanted to do during our trip.
Definitely do this before you go on vacation with your family.
We knocked off quite a few and added some other things to the list.
It was so nice to get away.
Takes a lot to get everything ready to go. The lists keep me sane.
Hello, Idaho!
We spent most of the time at my in-law’s pool.
Finished Calypso
How do you get a family who doesn’t really like eating vegetables to eat their vegetables?
You made a creamy bacony carbonara that has an exorbitant amount of zucchini in it.
You make it easy for them to eat by using penne.
That way they can stab penne and zucchini with a fork and shove it into their mouths.
Have you ever made carbonara? No? You’re in for a real treat.
It couldn’t be simpler.
You just have to act fast when you stir in the sauce so you don’t accidentally make scrambled eggs.
Fear not, I’ll show you.
But just FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS.
It’s a simple dinner you can pull together on a weeknight and a great way to put all that zucchini you’ve grown in your garden to good use.
Chances are if you’re growing zucchini in your garden you have more than you know what to do with.
Besides this Zucchini Carbonara, you can also make zucchini fritters, zucchini blueberry bread, zucchini parmesan sliders, curry zucchini soup, and one of my favorites zucchini corn pizza!
Happy Monday, friends!
We’re in Idaho this week visiting family & vacationing. One of the new things I like to do before a trip is to spend some time during family dinner the night before mapping out our intentions for our vacations.
If you haven’t done, this I highly recommend you do. It helps you see what other people in your family want for their trip. It’s a great way to say what you want and what you need for your time away. You can always refer back to it when people aren’t respecting your wishes!
All you need is an index card and a pen and you’re ready to go! Make sure you ask for what you need!
and Casey is reading Into Thin Air
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while I try to eat healthily
is helping)
I hope you have a great week! Remember to write down your Intentions for the Week to help keep you accountable!
Here’s what this past week looked like- My Everyday Life Week 29
I can finally share something I worked very hard on!
I have a 6 page spread in the August issue of Better Homes & Gardens and it’s on stands right now! My meal prep is in a magazine. YAY!!!
The most exciting part for me is that they wanted my handwriting in the feature.
I hope my Mom can see it, wherever she is. I know she would have been LOST HER MIND to see this. My Dad is pretty excited!
I wore her jewelry in the shoot and her soup & salad dressing recipes are in there. It made me feel happy to know that she is a part of it.
Thank you for helping me produce beautiful photos, Todd!
Family adventure in Sausalito.
SWe spent the afternoon looking for funny boat names.
Having a jar of this strawberry shrub in the fridge.
My new mechanical keyboard makes typing fun! I love the sound it makes and the keyboard lights up!
Read through this cute/simple weight loss book this week. Some really good points in there.
I had an old photocopy of this cake in a stack of papers.
I have no idea what year I photocopied it, but there it was sitting on my desk.
For weeks I thought about the cake. Apricots were on a few of my grocery lists but all of my trips to the grocery store were fruitless. None of the apricots I saw were ripe and they were too expensive to justify less-than fruit.
If you’re wondering, for the record I say APE-RI-COT. It’s not an app to me. It’s an ape. What about you?
So, yeah…no APE-RI-COTS that I liked in the stores and then….
I got a text message from a friend of a picture of a ton of apricots from her tree that said, “WANT SOME?!!”
I was seriously just looking at the recipe when she texted.
Yes, I do! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. And I made that cake and it was GOOD.
When the moment presents itself, make this Apricot Almond Cake.
It’s nice served warm with vanilla ice cream.
You’ll love those juicy apricots mixed with the light cake and crunchy toasted almonds.
It’s kind of like a pineapple upside down cake meets a cobbler.
Now friends, who has a fruit tree to share with me??! TEXT ME. I’ll bring you cake.
