So, we made our first YouTube video. You have to watch it!
Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments. Enjoy!
PAUSE. We are taking a little break this week from our Meal Planning. I have the meals planned in my head of course and it is called, “easy, easy, easy.” Our weekend was stocked FULL of fun but whew are we ever worn out. We camped, went to a wedding, had a birthday party, [...]
Over here at the King house, we love traditions. Early, early in my parenthood I got wise teaching from Donna Otta. (She is passionate about teaching Mamas (and Papas) to be intentional about making memories, setting traditions, eating together, etc.) Donna taught me that when you intentionally make traditions for your family, it [...]
Thanks for coming along again for Meal Planning Monday. Seriously y’all, you have helped me stay on task with my meals… so I just wanted to say thanks. I hope that you enjoyed celebrating the men in your life for Father’s Day this weekend. Our plans got rearranged due to some crummy weather but needless [...]
Hello there! Ready to start a new “work” week? I am not sure I am after the last week we had over here in the King house. Needless to say I can’t believe a week has already gone by. Phew.
But here I am with another addition of Meal Planning Monday! My goal is to [...]
Hey there. It’s Monday and I am gonna start a weekly meal planning session. I hope that this will make me more accountable. Hehe. I LOVE planning our meals because it helps us with the grocery budget and I also know we will be eating nutritious foods. We have recently been switching to less processed [...]
If you stick around here long enough, you will see that Mr. King and I are passionate about training our little people! One of the areas that we are training in is doing tasks/chores/upkeep of our “ship.” Three years ago we were conflicted about whether or not to give an allowance for bed making, room [...]
Don’t you feel like life pulls you in a million different directions and that sometimes it is difficult to find a balance? I know I do. And cleaning my house and keeping it in order is one of those things that gets in the way of things I REALLY want to do, but [...]
today andy and i woke up early in order to get things ready for… caleb’s first day as a little pelican. he started preschool today and we started some new traditions. andy made his famous pancake breakfast with his yummy scrambled eggs. we served caleb’s breakfast on our “you are special today” plate to make [...]
the kiddos and i ventured out to kohls the other day since i had a $10 gift card and we needed to get some fall clothes for caleb. i have to say up front that this outing was particularly chaotic. my double stroller’s wheel is about to fall off and it made for difficult maneuvering [...]
last night we went to our usual spot to watch some “pre-4th of july” fireworks. andy’s parents came along and we ended up seeing some good friends there too. after it stopped raining on us, we let caleb loose to play with the other kids. mostly it was older boys, i would say 7-10 years [...]
one of caleb’s and emmry’s favorite things to do is take a bath. that was what we were doing a few nights ago when caleb got me into stitches! i had just finished washing emmry and caleb was laying flat on his back, taking up most of the bathtub space, with his head emerged in [...]

