-
Bunny Footprint Template | Easter Fun for Kids
Having Easter bunny footprints throughout the house is a tradition from my childhood. Now that I have children I want to share with them the joy and excitement of finding Easter bunny footprints in the house on Easter morning! So to make it easier on myself, I made an Easter bunny footprints template to make the tracks with and I want to share it with you! If you haven’t heard of having Easter bunny footprints in your house before now, here is how they started in our family: We would go to my grandmother’s house every year for Easter when I was growing up. Easter morning was always so exciting…
-
Easy Easter Side Dishes | All You Need is a Microwave
The holidays can be stressful! Especially if you are doing the cooking! With most of staying home this year for Easter, it may be the first time you have to cook Easter dinner! Take the stress out of dinner prep with these seven easy Easter side dishes! All you need for these amazingly easy Easter side dishes is a microwave! Save yourself some time and the mess of cooking without sacrificing any flavor! These easy side dishes never fail to impress! All you’ll need is a microwave, a microwavable casserole dish with a lid and a few other staple kitchen tools (like a bowl and potato peeler) and you are…
-
Toddler Truffles | Easy Peanut Butter Truffle Recipe
If you have been a follower of Struggle Shuttle, then you already know that I have a picky toddler! If it’s not fries, candy or cake she probably won’t eat it. She loves her sweets! For example, she was perplexed the last time we were at the pediatrician as to why there wasn’t candy on the food pyramid! If you have my article, Nutrition for Kids | 5 Nutrition Sneaking Hacks then you know that I am always looking for ways to sneak nutrition into my daughters’ diet! I recently came up with this peanut butter truffle recipe that is packed with protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals! My daughter loves…
-
What is Brachycephaly?
My youngest daughter was recently diagnosed with severe Brachycephaly. When our pediatrician first suggested that we go to see a specialist for an official diagnoses I had questions. What is Brachycephaly? What causes it? Is it my fault? How can I fix it? At my daughters‘ two month check up our pediatrician expressed concern about the flatness of the back of my daughters’ head. She advised us to keep her off of it as much as possible and she would reevaluate it at her four month appointment. My daughter started rolling over at 2 months 6 days old. She started sleeping on her stomach shortly after she mastered rolling. Between…
-
Best Books to Read on Libby While Rocking Your Baby
As moms we spend a lot of time rocking our babies to sleep. I don’t know about you but I find those middle-of-the-night, hour+ long, rocking sessions to be the most difficult to get up for and STAY up during! I found myself having to scroll through Facebook on my phone just to keep myself awake! That was until I discovered e-books, audiobooks and Libby. Now I am actually excited when the baby wakes in the middle of the night because I get to see what happens next in the book I am reading! So the books that I read have to be page turners! So far, this is my…
-
Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta Recipe
One of my first jobs was as a hostess at Bonefish Grill. While I was there I fell in love with Bang Bang shrimp and ordered it for dinner every day that I worked! When I got married and bought a house we were no longer close to a Bonefish Grill location so I started missing my Bang Bang shrimp! That is when I started to try to make it at home! I tried so many variations of the copy cat Bang Bang shrimp recipe that I found online, but I still couldn’t find one that satisfied my craving for the real thing. That is when I started trying my…
-
Springtime Crafts for Toddlers
Spring is in the air! Now it’s time to find springtime crafts for toddlers! If your toddler is like mine then I know that you are CONSTANTLY looking for something hand on to entertain them! I used to play the game of: look things up on Pinterest, pack the kids in the car to go get all the supplies and then come home exhausted to then make a mess I have to clean up as the result of the craft that did NOT turn out like the picture! I had to break that cycle! Now I stock up on crafts for my toddler that are there for whenever I need…
-
What Does a Stay at Home Mom Do???
There is a stigma around the title, ‘stay at home mom’. Admittedly, I too, use to be one of those people that asked the question, “What does a stay at home mom do?” Growing up I was taught that you get a job as soon as you can, work all your life and then retire. I just couldn’t rap my head around not working. So I assumed that stay at home moms just didn’t want to work, couldn’t work for some reason, or didn’t have to work. I basically assumed that they were lazy… Boy was I wrong!! I was initially forced to be a SAHM when I was laid…
Motherhood Refined
