Meatloaf cupcakes

Well My husband loves everything MEAT! I mean what man doesn’t right!?!?!?!? Things 1 & 2 they are a totally different story. Thing 1 does like the chicken salsa that  I have posted about, but otherwise neither one of them like meat much at all. SO after seeing a post on Pinterest about someone having made Meatloaf Cupcakes and her children ate them I thought I would give them a try. My kids know what cupcakes are but really my kids are kinda deprived they don’t get candy, cake ice cream and cupcakes often (only at birthday parties and that only applies to the cake, we eat frozen yogurt so they do get that but I eat mine with no toppings or just the fruit for toppings so it is mainly healthy, and they NEVER get candy…. We do use healthy fruit snacks for potty training incentives but that’s it)…. I love that my kids like to eat carrots and string cheese as snacks. they call the organic animal crackers cookies and I am ok with that!

Meatloaf

2 lbs ground beef

1/2 c bread crumbs

1/2 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped onions

1/2 cup shredded carrots & Zucchini

and then I use the seasoning packet from the store (I like the generic one) and add the other ingredients not already mentioned except the ketchup (I’m weird and like the taste without it). I put a golf ball size ball in each cupcake slot and baked for 35-40 min

Potatoes

I peeled cubed & boiled 3 large potatoes Drained the water then put back on the low heat to cook the rest of the water out some, as I added 1/2 stick of butter let it melt and mix completely, then add 1 cup sour cream mix well I also add some dried chopped onion, pepper and a little bit of garlic powder to taste. They should be creamy but stiff enough to put on the top of the meat loaf I didn’t have time to pipe it but an easy way if you don’t have a piping bag with tips is to put the potatoes in a ziplock bag cut a bottom corner off and you can do it that way. I just spooned it on top and smoothed it around some then i topped with some chives.

Both Thing 1 & 2 loved it.

And We have POWER!

Well I thought the last time I would be back to updating regularly then My computer died! The battery has been dead for about 2 years but now the power cord died too. We had to wait to get our Income taxes to order a new battery and power cord. Thank goodness I never realized how much I would miss it. But on the plus side I have been cleaning up our planter boxes to get ready to plant our veggies again for the year. That will be another post another time.

Well this wasn’t our month TCH ended up being out-of-town for a couple of nights working long hours so we missed our window. Today I started (2 days late which I thought was weird) I am so bloated today that the pants I wore yesterday that fit just fine are now way to tight. I got on the scale (cause I have been trying to lose some weight) and saw that even though my pants don’t fit I am still down 2.5 lbs from last monday. So that was very exciting and encouraging!

I have some stuff from Pinterest that I have been trying so I will be posting about all that soon!

I’m back!!! Or so I hope to be….

OK I know I have not been doing good keeping up on my blog. I have been working a lot of hours at work lately, So many that last night when I noticed I had a lot of CM I was like OMG what is the date! I was afraid I missed my window (cause I did not feel like doing anything last night). Well Thankfully I realized that it’s still a little early (about 2-3 days) so we need to start BD tonight. Maybe TMI BUT OMG I don’t think I have ever had such Egg white CM as I did last night it was crazy. I have been eating healthier in hopes of it helping us conceive faster so hopefully this is a good sign. I also bought a cute little number to try to help spice things up. I have been having a hard time keeping up with my blog too because all the ones I started reading about infertility when I started keeping this blog about 75% of them are all pregnant now… I am happy for them I REALLY am but I am also very jealous and just want it to be my time to have another baby too. I cant wait to feel a baby moving inside of me again. it was the most wonderful feeling…. I also miss the ability to sleep. When I was pregnant I could sleep all the time I had no trouble falling asleep at night but when I’m not I have serious insomnia issues so much to where in a 3 days period sometimes I only get 10 hrs of sleep… so then that results in a cranky Hope and nobody wants that. Thing 1 & 2 are so ready for another sibling too. We have some friends that have had babies recently and they are so good with them they are always trying to help with the babies and they are always playing with their baby dolls feeding them bottles and changing their diapers putting them down for a nap and wrapping them in blankets, It is some of the most adorable stuff I have ever seen. That’s something that yes even though I have 2 kids I didn’t get to experience when going from one kid to two kids. (Oh btw I realized I haven’t written our about page yet so I will be doing that now too if you want to know more about us).  Well I guess this is it for now I still have our about page to write and then I need to get to cleaning house (I can’t get in the mood to BD if I have a messy house!)

I have had a few drafts saved and will be posting those up so make sure to check back and read them for some good recipes. Unless I remember to change the dates they will probably post in the past…