• Outdoor Play

    Pumpkin Painting

    This is a cheap and fun kids activity for your child(ren) to freely express themselves! I told the kids to give me scary faces in the “featured picture”…..😂🤷‍♀️!!! Creatively, there is no right nor wrong way to execute pumpkin painting…..and that is the beauty of it! Let those imaginations run wild! Painting pumpkins is long lasting and a better option in lieu of pumpkin carving. We tend to paint pumpkins a couple of weeks before Halloween and then on the Eve of Halloween, we will carve them (saving the seeds as a yummy roasted snack…..actually I may try cooking them in the air fryer this year…..I will keep you posted…

  • Pork and Beef

    Baked Beef Stroganoff Casserole

    The cream cheese in this recipe brings my Baked Beef Stroganoff Casserole to next-level creaminess! This is a staple meal in our home! Beef Stroganoff is one of my Husband’s favorite meals…..I had it a few times growing up, but…..definitely not as many times as he did, ha! I wanted to make him a different version of beef stroganoff…..this recipe includes extra mushrooms, french fried onions AND cream cheese (which makes anything and everything better….as y’all know). Needless to say, this version is the one he requests when he needs his Stroganoff fix. Pictured below are the ingredients you will need to create my Baked Beef Stroganoff Casserole. Preheat your…

  • Outdoor Play

    BOO! Bird Feeders

    A FUN and CHEAP kids activity that may even give the birds a fright! This kids activity was inspired by my Aunt Kathy…..she lives thirty-ish minutes away from us and always have the best time when we visit! Her backyard backs up to a vast expanse of woods and right off her screened-in porch she must have at least five to ten birdhouses/bird stands lined up next to each other…..filled with birdseed. What I witnessed…..was truly amazing and almost UNREAL…..thirty Cardinals…..no, forty…..maybe even fifty Cardinals swooped down from the treetops and surrounded the bird stands. THEY WERE EVERYWHERE…..and it was the most divine moment I have ever experienced. I looked…