Light Tortellini

Of course I love any kind of pasta, well except that wheat pasta. That's some bad stuff. I picked up some of the packaged tortellini in a Italian sausage & another with prosciutto. 

After cooking I put it in a large bowl & added dried garlic bits, a can of petite diced tomatoes & a small amount of olive oil. Mix it well & serve it up with a few cubes of fresh mozzarella. 

My toddler loved this too if anyone is looking for a great meal for kids. 

Flowers for Mother's Day

I remember art class vaguely from grammar school. Cute little crafty projects! I've been trying to reach down deep in my memory for some of these projects to do with Ash lately. With a little help from Pinterest, voila! 

I love flowers, but they don't last long & can get rather expensive so paper flowers are a great gift especially for mothers day when there's grandmas, aunts, neighbors, etc. 

You need tissue paper in the colors you like, scissors, & pipe cleaners. 

Cut a bunch of 5x7 rectangles of tissue paper in the colors you like. Stack them up & fold accordion style. You can cut half moons at the ends or cut a triangle to make a point on each end. 

Loop a pipe cleaner around the middle & twist off the end on the "stem". Fan out the tissue paper gently separating each piece of tissue paper. You can lightly spray with perfume if you'd like. 

Hope you all have as much fun as we did!

Ice pop great for kids

I've always loved ice pops but as I've gotten older I can truly appreciate the real fruit ones compared to the box of food dye pop sticks that I loved so much as a kid. I found some plastic Popsicle molds & decided to give it a try for Ash since he loves fruit so much. This is of course an easy teething helper!

Most grocery stores will have bags of frozen fruit that are individual fruit or a nice mix. I found a really nice one that had
strawberries, mangoes, pineapple, peaches and red grapes. You can really get whatever you prefer. Then I got a bottle of Juicy Juice mango juice.
I took about 3 cups of frozen fruit & 3/4 cup of mango juice & puréed in the food processor. I let it freeze overnight & we both thoroughly enjoyed our yummy ice pops!

Obsessed

Sorry I know it's been a little bit, but I've been crushing candy. This silly little game is more addictive than angry birds! I find myself needing my fix with any spare time that I have. HELP! I have been doing some cooking so I have a few new recipes coming soon! Oh! I think someone just sent me a life....