This and That

For some strange reason I like baking and making homemade things. I don't sew (yet) or make sure crafty things, but if I can find or rather make time I like to whip up some paleo muffins, or egg muffins or powerballs or homemade larabars or homemade laundry detergent or body scrub. I love finding natural, homemade replacements for things and try to make them at home. Pinterest is a great resource (and a great addiction). I had found this recipe for homemade laundry detergent through Pinterest and gave it a try when I ran out of the stuff I buy from Costco. Nate helped me make it of course. It seems to work well so far. Dishwasher detergent is my next task, but dishwashers are so touchy that it may not work out. We'll see.

We've also recently switched from paper napkins to cloth. Partly to save some money (not that napkins are all that expensive but we seemed to go through a ton of them) and to be a little greener. I know, I'm turning into a hippie in a lot of ways. :) So far so good.

We got a bunch of pears in our Bountiful Basket last week. I buy two baskets at a time to last us two weeks so we had more than Nate and I could eat when they all ripened at once. I'm sure there is a way I could have somehow worked it so they didn't all ripen at the same time, but I didn't bother to look at it. Instead I searched for a paleo pear recipe and found Paleo Pear Crisp. I've never made a crisp before and I don't usually make desserts, but we had all of the ingredients already and it looked so yummy and easy. It was exactly that. It was easy to make and tasted heavenly. Not too sweet and the pears were perfect. Nate didn't eat it. He just ate the ice cream I served with it. Leftovers are just as yummy. Which reminds me... there is a bowl just calling my name right now.

 

 

I recently bought this cookbook. I don't really like buying cookbooks, but our library didn't have it and after I looked at the entire thing in the bookstore I decided to buy the ebook version. We have some of the recipes from the first Everyday Paleo cookbook and they are some of our favorites.



 

 We made some super yummy fish tacos, meatballs with marinara and spaghetti squash (to die for) and a zucchini salad (sorry no pictures of these meals). So yummy. Tonight we are going to try a Seafood Chowder (dairy and gluten free) from this cookbook. Yum, yum, yum.

 

Nate is officially in a toddler bed (his crib minus the front). He took naps the first 2 days, but yesterday and today he has not and he needs those naps. He sleeps great at night, but he just can't seem to settle down the last few days. It's always one challenge or another. Last night right after we put him down I caught him in the laundry room taking his clothes out of the dryer and putting them in his room. Quite funny that he thought if he was doing laundry that it would be okay to come out of his room. Silly guy.

 

Another tidbit about Nate. Not only does he refer to himself as some character or another, but now he refers to us as characters too. Today I was Sally from Cars. Eddie has been Captain Hook or Gordon from Thomas the Train. He even refers to Phantom as a character sometimes too.

 

 

Today while we were walking Nate was collecting dead leaves. At one point he said he needed to make a race flag out of them (for Lightning McQueen to race). When we got home he crumpled the leaves on the table and wanted to make a flag. I'm not sure what he had in mind, but I had him put the leaf bits between contact paper and hooked it to a straw. Then I made him a little base out of K'Nex to keep it upright. I'm not sure where the flag idea came from, but he is so imaginative.

 

 

 

Right now Nate is not in his room like he should be. It's wearing me out.