Pumpkin Oatmeal

We all love Pinterest. You know the place that I cannot say. I am always corrected on how I pronounce it. Anyways, I have found a ton of recipes that have to be made at my house weekly. My favorite one is pumpkin oatmeal. I found the recipe on Budget Bytes. She has a ton of amazing recipes. The reason I love this recipe is because I love pumpkin, I love anything healthy. She crumbles her and eats it with milk. I have not tried it cold. I have only eaten it warm with a side of fat free col whip. The recipe is very simple: 1 (15 oz.) can pumpkin purée 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 large eggs 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice 1/2 tsp salt 3/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1.5 cups milk 2.5 cups dry old-fashioned oats If you want to know exactly how to put these wonderful ingredients together just head over to Budget Bytes and find out how. She will even break down the cost for you. Pamela

Piper Reed

I have written about Piper Reed before. Several months ago my girls and I read Piper Reed, Navy Brat. I wrote about it right here. This afternoon my girls and I read Forever Friend. This book is written by Kimberly Willis Holt and illustrated by Christine Davenier. I loved Navy Brat but this book was amazing. I laughed and at one point while reading it I had tears in my eyes. Not because it was sad but because I could relate to the mom in the book. This book was hilarious. I had a hard time keeping a straight face. I think rather you’re in the military or not you will enjoy this book. Honestly, for us it hits home because they move around and their dad is a chief. I love that this book talks about making new friends and staying in touch with old ones. Something that is hard for my children. This book is a great book because not only does my 12 year old enjoy it but my little kids are kept entertained by the action of it. I will close this book review with one phrase that you will only understand if you read the book “GET OFF THE BUS”. How would you like to read this a book? I am giving one away this week. There are three ways to enter: Follow me on facebook Follow me on twitter and tweet about this give away Look on amazon and tell me what other Pipe Reed you book you would like to read. Pamela Petrie

Feeling Beachie- Belly Fat

1. I have no desire _run, all my friends run and I feel like the odd man out. __ 2. I love the smell of _gasoline and good cigars because I do not know, seems weird to me. ___ 3. I wish that my _belly fat__________ would magically disappear________ 4. In one month I, well next month I will have my hero’s arms wrapped around me. I cannot wait. __________ Pamela

5 Question Friday

1. What is a must in a hotel room? If it is just my hero and I it must have a good bed with awesome bedding. If we have the kids then it must be 2 rooms with plenty of floor space for sleeping bags. 2. Which Olympic event would you be best at? Losing your keys, organizations, screaming the loudest would be great events for me. Childbirth is pretty fun to me too. I guess I could do gymnastics. Only I would be just doing flip flops. 3. What's your stance on the Chick-fil-A subject? Support chick-fil-a, love them. I feel like we live in a country where we are allowed to express our religious views because of people like my husband. I am in awe of people who are willing to stand up for what they believe in. I think it is only going to get harder to stand up for what we believe it right. Yes, I was in line to get Chick-fil-A for over 30 minutes the other day and it was well worth it. 4. One thing you said you'd never do as a parent, but totally have. Parent using suggestions from other parents. My mom did this and it made no sense and was stupid ideas. Luckily, I have better, stronger friends then she did. My friends are more grounded in their values and can explain them. 5. What's the weirdest thing you've ever found at a yard sale? Hmm, I know I should be able to answer this because I know I have seen several crazy things. Used underwear or lingerie are some of them. Okay putting this one on facebook Pamela

Aunt Candi

Recently my girls visited my mom. She took them swimming with my sister in law. A couple of really fun things happened. First after telling my mom that Grace could NOT swim she put herself under water and went swimming like she had always known how. Hope on the other hand would not let go of her Aunt Candi. She has always had a special bond with her. On this day she would not stay off of her and at some point told Candi it was time to get out of the pool so they could have a talk. I have no clue what they talked about. It looked pretty intense. Do your children have a close relationship with there aunts and uncles? I think part of the reason I want a large family is so my grandchildren will have lots of aunts and uncles. I honestly feel guilt for my kids when I hear about there friends staying with aunts and uncle. We take every minute we can get with Aunt Candi as a special time. Pamela