It's What's for Dinner

The newest product discovery is the Plum Spoon Boon. I found mine at Target, but I'm sure you can find them lots of other places.

This little screw on spoon is amazing! I've had problems getting little man to eat. He has to have the spoon or we go into melt down. The traditional spoon was great, but he wouldn't get half of the food in his mouth and I couldn't get him food fast enough. Most feeding ended in tears. I tried giving him a spoon for each hand and one to feed him with, but alas he's a smart one and would drop one or both to acquire the one with the food on it. Why do I like this little spoon? I get food to him at his rate so less fussing because I can't get him food fast enough. He can hold something and not make a HUGE mess. He grasps the end of the spoon or top of the pouch without disrupting meal time. The only negative I have for it is that I think it's made for an older kid. The spoon is deep for such a tiny mouth (he's 6 months) so he can't get all of the food out, but I can look over that. Feedings are cleaner, faster and happier for all. Will we need to change methods as he gets older, yes, but for  now this is one happy momma.

As for my mealtimes I got around to cooking something for dinner tonight. The farm share brought potatoes so I made a little breakfast hash this evening. Potatoes, chives, green onions, and left over breakfast sausage from the other day. Yummy! It required no salt or pepper as you get plenty of flavor from the green onions, chives and sausage.

Mustgo Stew

In a previous post I mentioned our farm share. I love getting the bag of veggies each week. This week we had some beautiful carrots. As there are enough veggies for a full family and I'm primarily the only eating  them I'm finding it difficult some weeks to keep up. When I was at home, Mom would always make mustgo soup with all the things that "must go" before they spoil. Since I bought stew meat recently and it was either cook it or freeze it, I stuck it in the crock pot with the beautiful carrots and some celery, mushrooms, green onions and a few radishes that were left over from the 4th. Just a little happiness which greets you in the morning. It's nice to wake and know lunch is taken care of and today after the kiddo seems to only sleep 30 minutes at a time that was much needed.

Bright and Beautiful!

The Rule of Two

It seems now that I have a kid that I live out of my car. The diaper bag never really makes it in the house and then the stroller is always there along with other various items that make it in, but with a kiddo in my arms when I go in the house and the temp being over 100 degrees now I don't always everything the house. There are times I feel like the car looks like this.

(World's Messiest Cars)

Now I realize this is a big extreme. I know I don't collect that much stuff in the car, but the fact still remains that it's far from clean. Part of my attempt to simplify life is keeping the car clean and organized. Ultimately it would be really nice to do the drive thru car wash and then use the free vacuums and just clean out the trash, but alas baby boy is not a fan of the car wash or the vacuums. Where does this leave me? I either use a good morning naptime to clear it all out or use the rule of two.

The Rule of Two:
When you don't have time to get EVERYTHING done at once, at least get two things put away.

I'm not sure if it's an idea my mom had or if it's one of my own. It's been around a while, though not always utilized. So my goal this next week is relocating at least two things. When coming in from the car I'm going to grab one of the many toys that relocated to the floor on the drive home and something else and put it where it belongs. Once you get the car clean you can help keep it clean by doing the rule of two each time you get out of the car. You don't have to get ALL the trash at once. Grab the fast food cup and those gas receipts when you stop at Walmart and drop them in the trash on the way in. It's all about progress, not perfection. My new mantra. We'll never be perfect, but we can be better than we were.

(Image from IFB)