Advice from Elder Busche

This is such simple yet profound advice to have an incredible life

Date Night is Back!

Yippee! It's date night tonight once the girls are off in dreamland!

Anybody else watch? What are your predictions?

In search of good books

I am in search of good books to read. What are your favorite books and why?

All of those with perfect houses... we all know who you are!

Now that we have determined that you are all perfect and have perfect houses - let Ang and I in on your secrets.

Schools back in full swing! It's time for me to get back into regular routines again.

What are your routines to keep your life afloat? Is it flylady, doing one main thing a day, set schedule or you're just a wonder woman and keep everything perfect because you are perfect.

Green Smoothie Anyone?

I thought that I came across an amazing way to get vegies into my kids. I wasn't going to tell them what the ingredients were though. While we were at the store I mentioned something about smoothies, Jessica starting jumping up and down and asked if we were going to make green spinach smoothies. So obviously I'm not the only one making these. If you haven't tried them - they are great! If you have tried them - what's your favorite recipe or things to put in them.

Here's the one that two of my kids like - the third one doesn't like smoothies much anyway

1 cup spinach (I use baby spinach)

pineapple (fresh or in it's own juice)

banana

orange juice

enough water to keep it blending smooth

I put the spinach in and add a little water until it's blending well then add the rest of the ingredients. Blend until it is completely smooth.

You can't taste the spinach at all. If you can just add more fruit. I love the fact that there isn't any sugar in it and it's still sweet enough to enough. PLUS - there is a bunch of spinach in it. We have added frozen berries and the kids like that too - it also gets rid of the green color.

The first week of school is almost over! Now it's really time to get the routines going. What is your favorite tip or routine to help keep everything running smoothly with school and activities.

Jessica takes her lunch everyday (except every other Wednesday). This year she is in charge of packing her own lunch. Each evening once dinner is cleaned up, she packs her lunch completely then sticks it in the fridge for morning. This has been wonderful, no more running around making breakfast and packing a lunchbox at the same time!