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I took the #BetterBreakfast Carnation Breakfast Essentials® 7-Day Challenge

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I was asked to try Carnation Breakfast Essentials® powder in a recipe of my own devising for seven days. The major challenge to me would be to actually eat breakfast for seven days. Breakfast at our house can be one of the craziest meals of the day. Normally we wake up around 6am to get ready for school. Andrew gets downstairs first, after he tries to wake us so he can go downstairs. Eva will spend some time in her room and come down utterly unprepared for the day. She has to make several trips upstairs to get everything. In between, lunches are being made and many times I do not eat breakfast. I’m either uninterested or there isn’t anything I like. For a while I had been trying to make oatmeal in a mini crock-pot overnight and then eat that. Do you know how many times I’ve completely forgotten to set up the oatmeal? The answer is many. Sadly, there have been mornings where I’ve had a glass of milk and a brownie or cookies for breakfast. I needed to get my act together.
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Lazy Sunday and new Skylanders Sunday Vlog

Lazy Sunday with a new Tablet
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After being sick from work I woke up feeling better and happy that we weren’t rushing off to 8am Mass. We spent some lazy Sunday time in bed after Andrew woke us up. Then he and Eva spent some time with a new Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 that I received for a future review. It has the Samsung Kids subscription app for the next three months free and it is really fun to use. I set it up last night and each of the kids has their own account. The choices are set up for their ages and they had some good fun with it. It is a nice little tablet, too.

We went to the 10:15 Mass, one that we never get to go to because of work. It is the children’s Mass so the kids got to go to another room with all the kids during the Liturgy of the Word. Then they come back at the Offertory. We went with my parents. Continue reading Lazy Sunday and new Skylanders Sunday Vlog