Author: mjbackyardingwithkids

With Christmas being on Monday you would think I would be ready! 🤣🤣 I am for the most part, just need stocking stuffers! The reason why it is taking me so long to get them.. well what do you get a 14 year old for his stocking? Most of the stocking things you find are for little kids or girly stuff. Even though I would care if he wanted to paint his nails. I don’t think he wants glitter nail polish. 🤣🤣 so here is a few ideas I came up with for my 14 year old stocking. 1. Beef jerky, he loves the stuff so why not stuff it into a stocking 2. Gum, he always ask for it chews some of it then forgets about it and it gets hard so why not get the gum. I mean after all don’t want to break tradition of chewing some of it and then wasting the rest right? 3. Socks, those come in handy for many reasons. You can wear them on your feet or your little brother can take them and make puppets out of them. 4. Pokemon cards, he has collected these sense he was little and every Christmas I give him a few packs so why break that tradition! #lovechristmas #lovemybigfamily

My daughter’s seventh birthday was this week. She wanted to do a lady bug theme. Which means she wanted a lady bug cake. She and I set out to make this cake, it took us almost 3 hours due to making the chocolate flowers for the spots, legs, an the antennas and not to mention I had to stop to do things with her younger siblings. It turned out how she wanted it and that’s great.. as for me I would of liked it to look different but she loved it and that is what matters. While we were waiting for the chocolate flowers to set in the refrigerator I made another little round cake. I was going to make that little round one look like a kitty… only that one became the cake for her little party .. because the dog jumped up and ate the other cake while we were out getting eggs from the girls (chickens). #crazydog #goodthingimadeanother

Spending time with Rwby! Our little bun( bunny) is doing wonderful! She does great with the kids. I was at first worried since she is young and hadn’t been around very young children, but she does good around them. We did her first nail trim the other day she did very well. Our bun that we had a few years back was not great at having her nails trimmed. As much as I do miss our other bunny, I’m thankful Rwby holds still! #loveourbunny

Rwby hanging out with my daughter🖤

My wonderful husband got me a few new things last night. He got me a little tree for right now I will leave it in the pot and then in the spring time do a bigger pot. He also got me this cute blue gravy boat filled with chocolates. Yum! What I love the most is the beanie he got me! It says Merry Elfin Christmas on it and it lights up!( I can’t get the switch to work but my husband can lol) Now I have a new beanie to wear when I go out to clean or feed/water the chickens 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #lovemynewstuff #lovemynewhat #merrychristmas

Girls ( chickens ) are not happy when their water has froze. I’ve looked into heated bowls just haven’t decided on what one I would like to get for them. This morning they look like they were playing a game of “kick the can” ( it’s an old game from back in the day). Only the can was their water jug. So for right now until I decide which heated water bowl will be best I have two water jugs for them. The frozen one comes in and gets cleaned and thawed out while the one from the house will go out in the morning for them. #chickens #ilovemychickens #coldoutside

This evening I hosted a holiday party. I made pizza boats!

They were fun and easy to do. Taking tortilla shells and cutting circles into them. I didn’t have a round cookie cutter so I used a measuring cup. 🤣 the recipe that you see going around on the Internet calls for you to dip in butter oregano garlic mixture after you get the rounds cut out.

But with doing this they didn’t turn crisp while baking as it says it will. They became soggy. I took my other rounds that I had and didn’t dip them in the butter mixture. They toasted up nicely! 😁 No one could tell the difference and they were all gone! In my opinion definitely fun to make and definitely cool for a party!

#lovefood #funtomake #pizzaboats

What is it about kids and climbing? Im not talking about trees or hills/ mountians. I’m talking about counters, a dresser, the walls, or my curtains! It’s human nature to explore!! Climbing is one way to learn just like touching everything in the store! They are learning how each item feels. With climbing learning how to pull yourself up and where to put your foot, it’s all part of learning.. you know what else is a part of learning having your heart jump into your throat every time they do this. You would think having five kids I would be use to it all but it’s still scary as hell when your toddler starts climbing!

When your child accomplishes something you feel so proud of them. You just want to shout it from the roof tops. With that being said.. let’s have an update on potty training. He’s doing very well, getting the hang of number one. Number two however wasn’t going so smoothly. I laugh because you would think that going crap would be the easier thing to do. I mean going under the table to squat down and take a crap takes time! Night we had a break through! We made to the potty! #nounderthetabletonight #pottytraining #yay

Everyone has random thoughts through out the day heres one of mine.. I hope when the apocalypse comes that it comes at Christmas! I know this sounds bad I mean it’s Christmas, a happy time right! My reason why…because that is when all the summer sausage gift baskets are out! I love summer sausage, so I would go and get all the gift baskets so I could eat it all!! #myhappniess😂😂😂 #ilovefood

Today I got some new Christmas decorations! They are hearts and the color of each of the kids birthstone. I really like them. I told my husband I wouldn’t mind leaving them up all the time 😂😂. With our tree falling over about a week ago I didn’t want to put anything else on the tree and I still have not found a tree topper! So I thought it would be fun to hang these off the Garland that hangs above the patio window. #christmas # birthstones # awesome