I have the hardest time getting my kids to eat healthy food… all 3 of them like these! It super simple and easy to make.
You will need:
Kale
oil(I use canola oil spray)
Garlic powder
Sea salt
Just preheat oven to 300°. If you buy the kale by the bunch (I just grab a bag of chopped kale) you cut off all the stocks and prepare into chip bite size pieces. Remember they will shrink. Toss with just enough oil to cover and sprinkle garlic and sea salt to test preference. ( I just use a pinch or two) Spread out on a baking sheet. Bake for approx. 15 minutes. Mix every 5 minutes to prevent pieces getting burnt. They are done when dried. Leave spread out until cool! Enjoy! Such a healthy snack!!
I just want a place where myself and other mothers can come to be real about what being a mom is like. Our children don’t come with instruction manuals, and neither do we. I don’t know about you but my husband has a hard time keeping up with my ever changing moodswings. It’s the raw material that I love to read about. It’s the safe place I want to be to share my experiences without being shamed. Can we stop mom shaming!? So many fb groups I belong to are so toxic. Like how is the air quality up there on your pedastool Karen! Must be nice to be so perfect. I’m not a perfect mom. I yell too much, I should probably allow less screen time, I give my kids melatonin sometimes to help them sleep and I swear more than I should. I Also did not breastfeed (not by choice but the shaming is no less) I give my kids sugar, my 15 month old still uses a pacifier and bottle at night. I could go on and on. My day is far from glamorous. I get up multiple times with my 2 youngest during the night while my husband sleeps and I fantisize slapping him.(sometimes) I rush my oldest kids to school youngest always still in pjs and me looking like the hot mess express. I look at other moms all put together like they have superpowers. Like how did you have time to shower, go for a run, get all dolled up and get your kids looking like they just came out of a jcpenney catalog before 9 am! Then of course you have the ones that like to post a play by play of their day on social media so everyone else knows how awesome they are. I’ll admit I’m half annoyed half jealous. Maybe we can become bff’s and you can teach me! Anyways getting off track. After taking my 12 year and 4 year old to school then i come home to feed Jaxon (my 15 month) breakfast. He refuses to sit in his high chair while I make him something. Instead I let him play. You would think i would have learned by now to check for mess potential stuff left out, but nope. He almost always finds a cup or something else that can make a mess and spills it everywhere while I’m getting his food ready. Or he will run all over the house with his bottle upside down spilling milk everywhere. (recently switched him to spill proof sippy) Once in his high chair he uses his master mess maker skills to smear his food all over his face and hair. He let’s me know that he is done eating by throwing his food on the floor.
Now its blippi time (yay) for the hundredth time while I clean up.. atleast he is educational. 🤷♀️ I finally get a moment to sit down and here comes jaxon up on my lap. Not to snuggle but because he has just pooped and wants me to change him…is it nap time yet!😬 It is not even noon yet but this is my usual morning and honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am a mom. It is my life.
My job is to raise my kids to be decent human beings, have dreams and goals, be happy, teach them to be kind and compassionate but also not let people push them around. To fight for what they believe in and most importantly to love. Do what they love and surround themselves with what and who they love! I’m very blessed to be a stay at home mom with my youngest. I haven’t missed a thing and our bond is so strong. I know what it’s like to work long hours and hate to leave your baby with someone else. To have to have the courage to just walk out the door when they are crying for you because you need to work to provide for them. It sucks. While staying home definitely has its challenges it is the only thing that led me to find peace within my soul. His smile and his laugh make it all worth it. Watching him grow and learn is so worth it. As annoying as it is not even being able to go to the bathroom without him chasing after me he is my last child and I am soaking up all of it. The good, bad, messy, fun and challenging!
Being a mom is hard! We gets no days off, no breaks, and are constantly busy! Being a mom is being sick with the flu and finding the strength to take care of my also sick children. Sleeping on the floor next to their bed to rub their back and be there for them when they wake up to vomit and are scared. I am needed. I am wanted. I am loved unconditionally as are they. We nurture and take care of our family… and am I the only one that wants to smack my husband when he asks me which kid I am taking with me when he is home! Um none.. tag you’re it!! I rarely leave the house without at least one kid. It feels weird like I am forgetting something.
Just keeping it real sharing some real mom life stuff. I just started this blog so i am just trying to bulk it up a little for when and if I ever get any followers.🤣 Lets face it we are tired and all just trying to figure out how to raise our kids the best we can and to not be assholes. Would love to share some laughs, struggles, support or whatever with other mamas because if I can’t laugh at my beautiful messy life then I go crazy. It’s all worth it! I love being a mom.
I know I’m not the only one. It’s hard. Somedays are worse than others, right? I mean it’s hard enough to handle toddler tantrums at the grocery store and keep calm. Add a side of anxiety and I’m just letting the tears fall when I get back to my car. I have panic attacks that have nothing to do with my children while shopping. Especially when I’m shopping on a tight budget.
I’ve recently learned after being told for years that I am a bit of a control freak and when i don’t have control I get anxious. So its little things like letting my 12 year old go to school in basketball pants and snow boots that I let slide. (Sometimes) lol.
So what do we do about it? Medications help sometimes. I take 5htp which is an amino acid and I swear by it! I also learned that exercise helps tremendously. Even just going for a walk with my littles helps me get out of my head and them burn up some energy. Eating healthy is probably a no brainer since it helps with everything. I am curious other women’s stories and how they cope? I’m also a yeller which really doesn’t help at all. It just makes my anxiety worse. But I swear once a yeller always a yeller. It’s like my kids don’t even hear me unless I raise my voice. 😒 I do much better now that my little girl is growing out of her reign of terror. 🤣
If you are feeling anxious or whatever you can’t just sit around and let it consume you. Find what works for you. As weird as it sounds anxiety becomes a crutch. A go-to for every emotion. Like sometimes I’ll be happy and start thinking about something to be anxious about if that makes sense. If you’ve done it you will lol. But don’t let it win. Mothers can overcome anything especially for their children. Talk about it. It’s hard with everyone’s fake lives on social media and their perfect looking lives. It can really get a person down. It gets me down. But people don’t usually post the raw, uncomfortable, or bad. It’s what they want you to see. If everyone posted their camera roll of every picture they took before they finally got a post worthy one now that would be funny. Anyways I hope one day my blog will go somewhere and I can help other women to support each other and not feel so alone. Being a SAHM can get lonely. But it is so worth it and there are so many joys. My children are my world and as long as they are watching me can overcome anything.
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