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These homemade baby and toddler food pouches are filled with a tropical fruit blend stirred together with a spinach or kale blend. The green smoothie mixture is full of fruit and antioxidants and none of the preservatives for your baby, toddler, or adult to eat.

This new recipe for Green Smoothie Toddler Food Pouches is a throwback to our summer discovery of Green Smoothies (version 1 and version 2). I'm always looking for ways to keep vegetables in our diet and introduce more vegetables to my toddler. He is not a picky...

Jul 22, 2020

Recipes Solutions

Essential Canning Tools

These canning tools are essential when I make apple butter or summer strawberry jam. I've collected a few of them over the years to replace other canning tools that just could keep up. I'm not a jelly maker like my Papa was, but I like to think that I've mastered...

Jul 15, 2020

Holidays Recipes

This Weight Watcher Friendly take on a traditional Chicken Pot Pie recipe makes a lighter, skinny version that keeps all the hearty, creamy comforts you love in a Chicken Pot Pie. 3 weight watcher points per serving #weightwatcherdinner #lowpointweightwatchermeals #dinnerrecipes #skinnymeals

Naked Chicken Pot Pie (WW Friendly)

Sometimes I cook a recipe and impress myself. There I said it, I made a low fat, veggie-packed Naked Chicken Pot Pie that is totally Weight Watcher Friendly and Mr. McKinney and I both wanted to throw it in the repeat pile. This is a take on my traditional Easy...

Jul 8, 2020

Solutions

Sharing your Testimony in public doesnt have to be complicated. You have a personal story to share. This simple 5 step tool helps you break down your personal journey into a much more doable method to share your personal story publically. #testimony #shareyourtestimony #teenlessons #publicspeech #gospelstory

Share Your Story | Easy Testimony Writing Tool

This easy method for public speech building and sharing your testimony breaks down the traditional method into 5 steps anyone can do. Giving your testimony or sharing your personal story in public doesn't have to be complicated. From time to time, I have the...

Jul 1, 2020

Recipes

Chickpea Summer Garden Chopped Salad is full of fresh Mediterranean flavors, high protein, and full of colorful garden fresh vegetables. It’s also only one point on Weight Watchers for a big serving.

Chickpea Summer Garden Salad

Sometimes, I just want something fresh and healthy to eat for lunches at home, and this Chickpea Garden Summer Salad is my default winner every time. This salad is full of fresh vegetables and that boost of protein from the garbanzo beans, but any white bean will...

Jun 24, 2020

Recipes

This summery take on a traditional chicken salad is full of fruit and savory seasonings to enhance the flavor and keep the Weight Watcher points at zero for one serving. Easy lunches are the best way to go for a busy mom trying to stay healthy and use here down time to be productive. This quick and easy chicken salad recipe is perfect to eat all week, carry along for a picnic or serve at a party or shower. #chickensaladwithgrapes #healthychickensalad #zeropointlunch #ww #weightwatchers

Zero Point Chicken Salad

Its summer and that means mama likes lean, quick, healthy lunches I can have at home while I multitask during nap time. This Weight Watcher Friendly, Zero Point Chicken Salad is full of fruit and savory seasonings. It is easy to mix up from leftover chicken, canned...

Jun 17, 2020

Big Sister Chat

We have been busy looking for cows for my toddler and chasing my dreams to see the oldest Magnolia tree in Arkansas covered with flower blooms. These two activities have been our constant to avoid the crazy of Covid and monitor our mental health while making new memories.

Chasing Cows, Finding Blooms

This post about Chasing Cows and Finding Blooms is my personal reflection of the COVID-19 in my community and processing the thoughts ruminating in my head. While it's not my normal content, it takes me back to the roots of why I started this blog for healing and...

Jun 11, 2020

Family/Parenting Solutions

Tie Dyed Flour Sack and Bar Mop Kitchen towels are a perfect Mother's Day gift, house warming present, or summer project for kids and teens. #tiedye #summeractivites #teencrafts

DIY Tie-Dye Kitchen Towels

Tie-Dye Kitchen Towels may not be the most practical thing out there but isn't the point of a gift to give you something you wouldn't give yourself? These turned out to be such a fun and unique Monther's Day gift and I made a few extras that will be burp cloths at...

May 27, 2020

Holidays Recipes

Weight Watcher Friendly Pimento Cheese Spread

I live in the south and Southern Pimento Cheese is one of my favorite food groups. But, these days we are trying to make better food choices and our Weight Watcher plan is (was) working before quarantine! So, finding light and easy lunches for summer are important...

May 20, 2020

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I'm building a subscription list to my blog post updates and exclusive content and I'm inviting you to be part of the first group of subscribers. If you currently receive my post by email on the day they are released, that service will be going away, so I encourage...

May 16, 2020

Big Sister Chat Encouragement

An open letter to the Class of 2018. Graduation is upon you...but you have the rest of your life ahead of you. Let me share a few "big sister" moments and thoughts with you. #graduationthoughts #lettertograduate #encourgementforgraduation

An Open Letter to Graduates

Something about the graduation season makes me a little nostalgic. So, I thought I'd write An Open Letter to Graduates in big sister chat mode! I think I reflect on who I was at 18 or 22. And with a Little Man of my own, I can't even begin to think about...

May 13, 2020

Holidays Solutions

Relaxing and Restoring Bath Salts

Bath salts are such an easy way to turn a long day into a relaxing evening. Just 2 tablespoons of this Relaxing and Restoring Bath Salts added to bathwater can help calm your thoughts, restore peace and some moisture, and clear your mind before bed or for a midday...

May 6, 2020