Design and Lifestyle Blog
These last couple of months I’ve been trying to prepare for our baby #2 by creating yummy, healthy meals that would freeze well and be easily thawed and eaten or just thawed and thrown in the crock pot or oven and eaten. It’s tough to keep things quick, creative, delicious and healthy! Especially when you’re […] Read more…
Ever since I’ve become a mother… (a whole nine months ago. ;D) I have been trying to be frugal so I can stay at home with my little nugget, and also self-reliant so we would be prepared as a family in an emergency situation, if necessary. I’ve used cloth diapers, I’ve made my own laundry […] Read more…
Anyone else out there find it hard to keep the family interested in finishing what is left over from dinner the night before? I HATE throwing away food, and it seems that I can make a huge pot of chili so easily, and yet, it doesn’t disappear as easily… I get sick of eating it […] Read more…
Let’s cozy up and get our hibernation on this fall. Start it off with this delicious twist on peach cobbler. *this post contains affiliate links, clicking through helps support this blog, with no added cost to you! Thank you! Also, all opinions are my own, and I would not promote something I have not tried.* […] Read more…
So when the hubby and I were first married, I did not know how to cook AT ALL. I would attempt to make salsa and it would never be eaten… Cause it sucked… And now, here I am, making my own homemade salsa almost weekly cause we devour it faster than I can make it. […] Read more…
Perks of having a midwife who has practiced for more years than you’ve been alive: she knows things, not just things found on Pinterest, but things that have been passed down from generation to generation, midwife to midwife. But now I’m putting it on Pinterest because it’s amazing and should be passed on… Hopefully, the midwife […] Read more…
Once upon a time, we were both college students living in a basement apartment of a 95-year-old woman, pretty broke, and having to be creative with what we had. So one night, while the hubby was at work, I pulled out these ingredients and made something I’d never heard of before. You see, I was […] Read more…
We are getting more and more into this naturalistic and holistic lifestyle when it comes to food and eating right. Especially since having a baby and now nursing, it seems SUPER important for me to eat well so she gets all the nutrients our baby needs from my breast milk. Plus, it helps lose the […] Read more…
It’s dinner time! And if your dinner time is anything like ours, you are looking at your pantry and fridge contents trying to make some sort of meal out of it. That’s really how we make all of our creations ’round the Simmons home, and that was how this meal was born. So, whether you […] Read more…
Need the perfect, quick chicken alfredo recipe? You’ve come to the right place. This has been a Simmons family staple from the get-go, the first delicate dish we made as a couple, a classic and beautiful thing. Ingredients: Two Chicken Breasts (thawed) 1 Bushel of Asparagus Fettuccine Noodles for two (A large handful for us) […] Read more…