Yay! It's Friday!

Dinner is in the oven, work is done for the week, hubby will be home shortly, I love Friday's!

I figured as I sit here smelling the fish, potatoes, and veggies I have roasting in the oven I would type a quick update.

Seems I have been on pinterest a bit too much looking at ways to better stay on top of things.

We now write out a weekly list of meals for dinner. Two of which have to provide enough left over to be reheated for lunch throughout the week. So far this is working very well, it's nice not having to get home and think about what to have for dinner. The only problem that we keep running into is having lunch for Monday's since most of the time we are not home for dinner over the weekends, or if we are hubby only wants chilli. Only way thus far I have found to fix that is to make a meal some time on Saturday/Sunday just for lunches. Now, when we will try that will be other story.

Healthy eating has been on the brain a lot. Sugar is the run to around here if we are stressed or tired so it's about time to fix that. I would not say it's a "diet" so much as it's just watching a bit more what we eat. Less dairy, sugar, and starches, more veggies and fruit. Thankfully coffee is not on the list of what hubby wants to cut back on :P Thankfully summer is almost here since that's when I normally like to have salads more. I still have the american brain when it comes to winter food means heavy, starch filled with a side of bread type of food.

Thankfully it's Friday though, so we do get some Ice cream and strawberries for dessert :) Though I really want a chocolate chip cookie to go with it....

Hair care

After hearing many good things (as well as a few bad) about natural hair care I decide to do some research on it to see if it was really worth it. After many hours of reading one site or another, I decide to give it a go (mind you this was after I just stocked up on shampoo and conditioner since it was half off.)


That was well over 6 months ago.

I will never go back to shampoo and conditioner again. My hair has never felt so healthy. I had a major problem with to many oils, washing once a day just to keep the oils down. Now after 6 months I can get by with washing one day, and just rinsing the next! Yes, this makes me excited. Everything I read said after the first 4 weeks or so that it would be really oily, but for some reason this really didn't bother me. I just fixed my hair as it was wet, and left it up for the day so I never really noticed it.

I have all my baking soda and vinegar pre mixed so it's ready to use, which makes it just as easy as shampoo and conditioner are. I did finally get some sort of essential oil to mix with the vinegar rinse since hubby complained that some times I did smell a bit like vinegar. :P But other then that everything is all good with it!

I would say to anyone who is thinking of trying it to go for it! It was well worth it for me.

BTW hubby has yet to use up a full bottle of normal shampoo and conditioner. At this rate he will have the bottles I bought for the next 5 or so years.

It's Finished!

Okay, so really I finished it about 2 months ago. I have just been lazy and had not taken the photo yet to prove it. Some of you may remember last year I done a post about a cross stitch I was working on, well it is finally finished :) I'm very happy with how it turned out, took a whole lot longer then I thought, but it was well worth it.