The Weekend In List Form

Good Morning Everyone, 

I'm writing this the morning of instead of the night or days before and honestly list form just sounded super appealing so that is what is happening today! 

What went down: 

1. Attempted to make festive cake pops for the holiday. Followed recipe exactly...yet somehow managed to fail. Tasted great but looked like a weird lumpy mess.

2. Harry Potter Marathon. 

3. Harry Potter themed Jell-O shots. I still have an entire cookie tray left of them. All in the house colors of course. 

4. Ran out of Jell-O shot containers and used tiki faces as edible Voldemort faces instead. Thought that was clever as hell. 

5. Since the cake pops bombed and I didn't want to waste the sprinkles I went the easy route and made chocolate covered strawberries. Big hit. Tasted Awesome. Looked Pretty awesome too. 

6. Spent the 4th at my parents for a bit, had dinner, hung out. 

7. Spent the night of the 4th keeping the dogs calm and watching Totoro for approximately the billionth time. It was a wild night around these parts. 

8. Made homemade donuts for breakfast. Tasted awesome as usual. This is why I will never be thin. 

9. Caught up on chores, watched some TV, started and finished Girl on the Train. 

10. Went to bed with Kyra at 9:25...she didn't actually go to sleep until around 3am. Hence late blog post. Also husband is still not back from trip and am super jealous that I will never get a weekend away without having to adult the entire time. I AM however going to get a pedicure this week so that is something! 

Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday! I will be catching up on comments and blog posts later this afternoon! 

Happy Monday Everyone. 

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Confesssions July 1st??!!

Good Morning Everyone, 

Time for Confessions!
I confess that I am honestly not sure how it got to be July....I was just celebrating Kyra's birthday wasn't I? How did June go by so quickly? 

I confess that I decided to go ahead and do Camp NaNoWriMo this year. Normally I only do the NaNoWriMo in November but I thought it might be fun to do it this summer as well. Also it is just what I need to get my butt in gear and get some seriously word counts done! 

I confess that I am JUST NOW starting to realize that not only do I need a cleaning schedule but I need a daily schedule as well. I am trying to be more productive and for that I need some structure to my day to day activities. I am trying to set up a routine that gets Kyra down for regular naps and makes sure that we are eating at roughly the same times every day. I have no idea why I fight the idea of schedules and routines so much but I know that once I stick to them everything goes so much more smoothly! 

I confess that I went to 5 different stores in search of sprinkles on Monday night. Seriously. I finally found some but they aren't the star sprinkles I was hoping for...however they should turn out all right for what I want to make. (Pssst....that recipe will be on the blog later this week....) 

I confess I bought new pajamas on Monday night because we are going to stay with friends in a few weeks and I can't be wearing my ratchet pajamas out and about. They are super cute and super soft and make me look like I have my life together. 

I confess that I am looking forward to this weekend not because of fireworks, food, or anything particularly holiday related....but instead I am looking forward to the EPIC Harry Potter Marathon that my brother, our friend K, and I are going to have. All 8 films, lots of gaming, loads of baking...I mean really what more could you ask for? 

I confess that even though I'm going to miss him, I am really glad that my husband is going away for the weekend. He needs the break and I know he is going to come back super relaxed and happy from his float trip. Also I am happy because he is getting to do something that I am just not into. Camping? River water? Outdoors in the July heat? Um....NO.

I confess that last week I spent like....8 hours working on the blog. Can you tell? Probably not. The changes were super small but significant (on my end) but one thing just wouldn't work for me and I am still a little ragey over it. Okay I am still a lot ragey over it. Why won't you WORK?! 

That's it for my confessions, be sure to join the linkup and see you all back here tomorrow!

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