Thursday, September 22, 2011

GIVEAWAY WINNERS!!!

Wow, I am SO sorry I have not posted the winners for the Twooth Timer or Soar with Reading giveaway's! Things have been so hectic with school starting and I can't express my apologies enough! 

The winner of the Twooth Timer:
Anonymous said...


i follow its a mom thing on twitter (lizlovesvan)


The winner of the Soar With Reading giveaway:
KELLY HOWARD!!! 

I am a follower! My granddaughter would do so well with this!


Congratulations to the winners!
I will get the information to the giveaway sponsors and get the prizes to the winners!  If I don't hear from the winners in 48 hours, I will pick a new winner!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

So much going on!!!

Hello everyone! 

I know, it's been quite a while since my last post and I apologize!!! 

I'm not sure where this blog is headed right this minute, I just know I've got a LOT of ideas floating around in my head right now.  I'm trying desperately to find some sort of time management schedule that includes making time for this here blog.  It's proven difficult being a wife, mother and student...add on trying to be a blogger AND vlogger and it's a lot to handle!  I have to take care of my priorities and the things that start to lack are the latter of the list. 

I'd love to continue posting here.  I want to do reviews/giveaways, recipes, crafts, etc. for all of you because it's always been a way of motivation for myself.  I love sharing what I learn, with all of my readers!  I have a lot of ideas it's just finding time to get it all done that is the problem. 

I often times ponder on how these other mom's get so much done when it comes to maintaining a blog and a youtube channel.  Sometimes they even have more than just 1 of each and I don't understand how they manage it all!  It's like, I want to get dressed up the days that I don't have school and am caught up on a lot of my chores, and do videos and/or product reviews for this blog and my Youtube channel but it's been really hard to get that motivation.  I hate feeling in a slump and I'm ready to crawl out of this darn hole!  After all, blogging and vlogging is what has helped me figure out what I like doing! 

With all of this said, please just bare with me as you all have done so already!  I thank each and every one of you for all of your support! 

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Back at it! FREEZER COOKING!

Now that it's school time again, and I, myself, happen to be going back too - I find myself actually wanting and feeling motivated enough to do some freezer cooking.  I wasn't so big on it over the summer but I'm ready to get back at it!  I found a few recipes and wanted to link them up here:





LOTS of great freezer meal ideas!  (It's a longer post but has great recipe's!)

Click on the links above to get the recipes, I'll be sure to let you know when I make the items listed! 

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Fruit Pizza Recipe!

I found the recipe for the pizza crust/dough over at Chef in Training!  It was SO good too!  

I've also added the video tutorial I made up for this recipe, check it out at the bottom of the page :-)

This was SO good!  You've got to try it yourself to believe it!

Fruit Pizza Dough:

1/2 cup butter softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp cream of tarter
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Bake at 350 degrees for about 8-10 minutes or until golden brown on top (mine was in about 12-15 minutes)

Mixing the dough!

Putting dough in the baking dish

I just love pictures of freshly cut fruit!  Weird?  Who cares! LOL

All done and ready to be ate!

Cream Cheese Fruit Dip/Spread:

1 (8oz) block of cream cheese
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix all ingredients together!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Welcome Wednesday

I'm participating in the Welcome Wednesday blog hop over at, Take It From Me!  

Why don't you come join us?!




Please check out the current giveaway's going on here on It's A Mom Thing (Look over at the top right hand column!)

Project Time = Necklaces! (VIDEO)




GIVEAWAY EXTENDED!

Well, the 18th (yesterday) was suppose to be the last day to enter for the JetBlue Soar with Reading giveaway.  There were NO entries so I am extended the giveaway for another TWO weeks!  That means the giveaway will now end on....September 1st @ 11:59PM EST

To enter, please go HERE!