Busy, Busy, Busy!

To say life is a little bit crazy would be an understatement! So many exciting things happening that I want to blog about but who has time to log on to a computer anymore! Let alone take pictures while I'm doing things with an actual camera. 

We are going to Disney in 4 days!! Can't wait, Alexis is going to love it!! I am trying to find time to do a few Disney DIY.  Wish us luck it will be our first time flying with kids... yikes! 

I started an instagram for my hobbies if you want to follow me @abrams_homestead 

Cloth Diapering- First Day Recap!

I wanted to share my thoughts after finishing my first day of cloth diapering so as my opinions evolve, everyone is up to date! 

I need more diapers... Stat! I bought 5 diapers and 10 inserts from a mama friend, not nearly enough.  With 5 I would have to do laundry at least every day or supplement with disposables. 

Poop?... I was nervous about my first poopy diaper, lets face it this is the least appealing thing about cloth diapering! But it was not bad at all, Hunter is at the stage where most of his poop is actually turd shape so none of the poop even ended up on the diaper it just rolled out when I pulled his diaper down. 

Cloth diapering is much more time consuming, at least right now it is.  I think the more I cloth diaper the better my system will be worked out the more efficient I will be. 

The brand diaper I am using right now is Coolababy. Hope this helps you guys! Let me know if you have any questions! 

Getting Organized!

I am pretty sure if I wasn't organized I would not survive day to day.  I came across free printables on diy home sweet home that I have been using and so far have been making my schedule easier.

 

 

I made the comment to Chris the other day that we needed to work on our budget, so I am adding that to my to do list. I've been reading up on Dave Ramsey's methods and he has some really good advice! Lot's of motivation to get out of debt and stay out of debt and live a financially free life.

 

So far emeals has been amazing! They send out a new meal plan every wednesday and as long as I can get to the grocery store (or Chris can, cough, cough) we are good to go.  Last night we had clean sloppy joes that were really good, only took 20 minutes to make and I had plenty of leftovers to bring to work today.

 

Being super busy and taking all of this on has its good days and its bad days. I was so excited to have a free night with my cousin, Mandy this past wednesday to find out the night before that Chris did a switch and had to work at 9p... I was heartbroken to say the least. Of course I held it in until the next day and then just cried all day but whatever.  I got that out of my system and now on to the next task. I just hope all this hard work on my end pays off.  

Emeals

Something cool I found that I am giving a try, I just signed up for it so I don't know if I like it yet or not but all the reviews I found sound good.

They send you weekly meal plans (with whatever diet you are on- clean eating is an option!) and they send you everything broken down with meals and directions and then they send everything all together with a grocery list. There is even an app for it, which as far as I can tell so far is awesome!

 

If you decide to sign up, use the link above so I get credit for referring you.
Also, I used coupon code School15 and got 15% off :)
Hope I like it because I committed to them for a year! (its only $5/month)