Things I’ve been up to:

• Growing a tiny human person
• Keeping 2 additional small human people alive
• Going to a bazillion doctor/chiropractor appointments
• Wrapping everything in tortillas
• Occasional blogging at MPMK
• Not blogging here, ha!
• Doing weird nesting stuff like sewing crib sheets late into the night
• Eating all the bacon, avocado or chocolate-related things

So, yes! Busy living life. I have thought about posting so many times, but I just couldn’t get the gumption. I wonder if someday this blog will be like an old MySpace page (or dare I say Xanga?!?) that I can remember writing on, but can’t seem to track down on the web. Just an old part of life that I remember. Hopefully it will live on these great wide internets and be helpful to people even when I’m not actively writing here. Life! Blogs! So strange.

Anyways, that tiny human person I’m growing will surely be here soon, meaning more of the same on this blog. For today, though, I can at least share a few snippets of the work done elsewhere, since there’s no new content here. Click through, if you like!

quick and healthy dinners

simple chickpea lunches

colorful juices and smoothies

fruit and veggie gummies

seed crackers from I Quit Sugar

30 minute weekly meal plans

The countdown is on, people!

We move out of this house in four weeks. Unbelievable.

I’m at the point where I start thinking sappy thoughts about my friends and my town, and then I have to snap myself out of it and try to remember my best sappy stuff for future moments when I’m writing thank-you notes or trying to say goodbye/sobbing at our going-away party. Get it together, sister!

Aside from cleaning things up to show our house, we haven’t done much packing or anything yet. My main focus has been eating all the food in the chest freezer because I can’t bear to think about all the other stuff I should actually be doing. I made a list of all the stuff that needs to be eaten, posted it on the fridge and we are working our way through it. Bring on the awkward (I mean, creative?) meals made of random freezer and pantry ingredients, hooray!

Since the whole thing was consuming my thoughts, I wrote more about it over at MPMK. The focus of the post is how to eat healthily while you’re moving or traveling. I am a little scared that I won’t be able to stay on the GAPS wagon during this transition, but I am darn well going to try! The snacks pictured above are some of my favorite on-the-go foods that hold up well during travel (love me some pistachios on a road trip!)

Tell me how you stay healthy when things get stressful or you’re on the go. I want to know your secrets!

I am pumped about these Red, White and Blueberry Pancake Stacks that I’m sharing at MPMK today. Seriously, I love them. I want to feed them to everyone. They are adorable, are they not? Perfect for 4th of July breakfast or any other patriotic holiday. Let’s celebrate ‘Merica with a short stack this year!

Best thing about these is how versatile they are- you can use your favorite pancake recipe (gluten-free, grain-free, paleo, vegan, whatever) and use dairy-free coconut whip if you need to. Adaptable to all diets- you know I love that! Go forth and eat pancakes, my friends.

The drinks pictured above are Quick Blackberry Thyme Lemonade, Sweet Summer Cooler, Pineapple Grapefruit Spritzer and Cherry Cucumber Melon Cocktail. Get the last two recipes here and get sipping!

Head over to MPMK today for some easy dishes the kids can prepare in the kitchen (with minimal help from Dad). The kids in my house (even the baby!) love helping with the cooking. It can get a little messy, though- I make no promises about them staying clean. Forward it to your hubby or your best friend’s hubby today!

We have been struggling a bit around here with keeping the peace during dinner time. The baby typically spends her dinner throwing all her food on the floor, climbing onto the table and screaming for no reason. The toddler has ants in his pants, bosses his sister around and fights us about eating his food (until he actually takes a bite and remembers he’s hungry). This topic has been on my mind a lot and so I tried to come up with some ways that we could work on keeping the peace. I’m sharing 10 of my tips at MPMK today (and it is absolutely a post written for me, I am not doing these things successfully, believe me!). Thankfully, I have the Holy Spirit working to give me patience- I know I could not handle the task of parenting without God’s help. I pray that He would help us as parents to discipline and instruct our children in love (and I know He will!) I hope the tips are helpful to other parents out there looking for a few moments of peace at the table.

Good morning! Join me at Modern Parents Messy Kids today with five ways to make overnight oats: traditional soaking, grab-and-go baked oatmeal, DIY oatmeal packets, crockpot oats and refrigerator oats. There’s certainly something for everyone (unless you are grain-free or you don’t like oats.. then you’re out of luck.) What’s your favorite way to eat oatmeal?