realities of two

my life is full of good intentions lately.  i have plans every weekend to sit down and write a beautiful amazing post about how our daughter is growing up or the funny things that liam has been saying.  then life walks in and screws that all up.  the kids have total meltdowns complete with class-one diaper blowouts.  screaming and throwing of toys because one doesn't get to play with something immediately.  dinners are refused because "i don't like it" (even though he ate the same thing two weeks ago and love it)  and mountains of laundry appear and for some reason the more i fold the more laundry appears.  i don't get that one.  ahhh the lovely realities of parenthood.  i sometimes fantasize that there are magical laundry elves and one day they will come and do my laundry.  complete with folding, ironing and putting away of.

and while we're at it.  where are those timeout elves and diaper changing elves too?  don't get me wrong.  98% of the time i love life, my family and my children, and yes, sometime i don't even mind the laundry.  but let's get real.  parenting two children, making sure i spend time with my partner in crime and working full time can really take a toll on a lady.  i sometime feel like i'm in a constant battle with life.  that i'm running a race through an obstacle course to get to a place called "balance" does such as place even exist when you have a one year old and a three year old?  or is it just complete and total chaos until .... when?  or maybe balance is something that we try to achieve only because it keeps us going in the race purely to keep us going.  the reality of this proverbial race of raising two happy loving children is that it is daunting and exhausting.  and somewhere in between exhaustion, spilt milk, tantrums, timeouts, husband dates and report card deadlines is this thing called balance.

we'll just say that for now we're working on it.

egg pie

we've now officially entered the fussy eater phase with liam.  to be honest it really sucks.  he was always our good eater.  averie was the fussy one, still is.  but liam, he was our eat pretty much anything kid, with the exception of his brief anti-fruit period.  fast forward to liam these days and about the only thing we can count on him eating is cheesy noodles of the Annie's variety.  seriously i feel like i'm grasping at straws when it comes to dinner time.  and it seems like it's always a crap-shoot whether he's going to eat try something or not.  so in my quest to find things that are non-noodle related i have turned to pinterest and kraft.  i've received the what's cooking magazines from kraft for i don't know how long.  love them.  quick, easy and usually kid friendly meals.  done.

this bacon and cheese quiche, or egg pie for our "lets get liam on board to eat this", is freaking delicious.  bacon and cheese?  how can that possibly be a bad combo?  it also passed the liam test.  we got a "i like it" and a "mmm mmm mmm" from the three year old at the table.  that's a total win in my books.

we're looking for some yummy kid approved recipes.

would love it if you shared your favs.

life {lately} ~ vol. 20

wow.  these photos have been sitting in a blank post for a while now.

had every intention of posting this earlier.

but ya know.

here's looking back to the beginning of november.

rob's birthday ... cheesecake, adult birthday dinner party, & a birthday chalkboard.

snow fun.

liam's puppy having lunch.

the moo playing with her boots.

time for running indoors.

and one of many bottles of wine consumed.

i'm so looking forward to christmas.

tree is up, but undecorated.

the return of elf on the shelf.

tons of eggnog.

elf, christmas vacation and it's a wonderful life.

and more merriment than we can handle!