Emily's Healthy Home

One thing is for sure, I’ve definitely earned my metabolism this past week. It’s been non-stop working, moving, and well eating.  (Hey, eating does keep that metabolism up too ya know!)

 

It all started last Sunday when my sister came to hang out at my house after a long morning of church and a family reunion, I got the craving to create something in the kitchen and Allisyn agreed, I put her to work doing the fun stuff! (haha)

We made Apple Cinnamon Muffins (That are similar to my Lean Green Muffins, but their not green and a little sweeter).

 

They turned out so beautiful and fluffy. My sister had to take it a step further and drizzle (more like drench!) some warm caramel syrup over hers.

So recipe creation #1 of the week.

That evening we had a softball double header.

Hey look a couples photo, Allisyn is such a talented photographer, she managed to get both Ben and I in the shot together. how sweet.

I put Spiderman to work taking our garbage to our new compost bin in the back yard. Can you spot Ben’s undies? (is that blog appropriate?)

Did a photoshoot with Princess. (She’s already thinks that’s her name, that and Pretty Girl.) Such a Diva.

I cooked a spaghetti squash for the first time, COOLEST THING EVER. Had my doubts, but it really shreds into “noodles”. Even the boys were convinced and ate a bowl of “Spaghetti” with marinara!

Some other morning the boys and I made some whole wheat oatmeal (eggless) pancakes, Levi really loves cooking with me, he also loves smiling with his whole face and looks like this in every photo haha.

I sorta adapted the recipe from one in this book that I bought almost 2 years ago after finding out about Judah’s allergies.

How beautiful are those pancakes? Recipe #2 of the week that I created!

WAIT

I’ve been REALLY ENJOYING my oatmeal topped with Powdered Peanut Butter instead of my usual sugar free syrup, I’m feeling better already, although I will admit that I have been using it a little here and there, but definitely not as much.

Like I said, Levi’s really been loving helping me cook.  He made a soup all by himself, it was fun to let him get creative and just put whatever he wanted in it.  He put lots of vegetables in (some canned, some frozen, some fresh!) and even put seasonings in for me. I shredded up the chicken though. He did put a few pieces in but I ended up finding the chicken neck in a bowl.

Then to go along with the soup I created some Honey Whole Wheat Flax Bread, since I know how much Ben loves having homemade bread to go along with certain types of meals. (soups, lasagna…etc.) I must have accidently deleted the photo I had of the entire loaf.  It make two pretty loaves, the second is almost gone and I just made this yesterday.

You can even use the dough and make them into Rolls, like I did to take to my mother in laws for dinner tomorrow.

So there’s Recipe #3 that I created this week.

Don’t even get me started on Operation Fatten Eden up, let’s just say it’s going pretty well now, her favorite is Corn Casserole. Good news is it helps with her poor constipation, thankfully because we all know getting a baby to eat prunes is not the easiest thing.

Moving on, lately I’ve been on an organizing kick.  I’ve never been the hoarder-type, I find it pretty easy to get rid of (donate, toss) things without shedding tears. I’m all about simplicity and trying for the most part to only keep the bare minimal. I’ve still got some areas to work on in the house, but here’s some of the projects/areas I’ve recently tackled in making my house perfectly organized.

Oh the “under the sink” mess, I really wish I would have taken a before photo, but I was WAY to excited to get it cleaned up and forgot until I had everything ripped out.

I WAS going to rest and enjoy a break while the kids napped yesterday but after opening the refrigerator and seeing crap dripped all down the side I had no choice but to sacrifice my quiet time and rip that thing apart. I’ve always been good with keeping the fridge cleaned at least monthly, but this time I just HAD to pull everything out and really disinfect. I even discovered I could put a light on the bottom, almost feels like I have a new fridge! (almost) I still have to get to the freezer, next week…next week. (Maybe)

Someday I’d love a brand spanking new fridge with double doors, this one is good for now, the only thing that sucks is the shelves on the side fall off somethings, and well that’s not good, I try to keep them “unheavy” but I can only do so much, I’ve had a few disasters.  BUT besides car issues, every place we’ve lived since being married (5 years ago!) SOMETHING is wrong with our refrigerator!

This here is in our Dining room, where I’m going to keep all our “Memories” each child has a box that I will organized by year with a few photos of them throughout their lives, so when I die it’s all ready for them to have, haha. The bottom shelf in the green box is for shoes, and the box next to that on the right is where their baby books are located.  The shelf above that is where I’ll be putting the albums (if I ever get around to buying some) for all our photos. I’m also going to have a clock for each kiddos shelf that is set to the time they were born, Levi’s (top shelf) already has a clock, which is set to 11:56. Cute huh?

Personalized photo boxes for each of my babies.

Not pictured is my porch, which is yet another project I’m working on, the other day I cleaned up all the recyclables (yuck, they were overflowing!) WASHED the buckets (even yuckier!) and organized our garbage/recycle center.  It’s just one of those things you constantly have to keep clean and on top of or it becomes disastrous! (one of my favorite words of all time.)

I won’t bore you anymore, I know you’re getting cranky and tired and ready for bed. Before you go though, I need your vote!

Which recipe would you like to see first?

#1 {Healthy} Apple Cinnamon Muffins

#2 Whole Wheat Oatmeal Pancakes {Healthy+Eggless!)

#3 100% Honey Whole Wheat Flax Bread {or Rolls!}