Easy pork chops with black eye peas.

I am not really crazy about black eye peas. I eat them for New Years for luck. That use to be it. One day I decided to try some frozen ones from winn dixie. They were on sale for $1. I had 5 pork chops and my kids are meat eaters and I was try to figure out a way to stretch those pork chops. So I chopped up an onion started cooking it down in water and added the beans and then the pork chops all to one pot. I am sure someone has done this before but not I. I was just praying the family would like it. After cooking it down for a couple of hours. The pork chop broke up in the beans. It gave the beans this awesome flavor. It just went so well together. Now I do it this way often and tried different types of beans with it. This is how it looks all thrown into a pot. It's still cooking right now but will post a picture later.

My beautiful babies!!!

Here they are. I dressed them up this past Saturday and took them to a park. I did a little research before we went for a nice spot. It was suppose to be a waterfall but no water was running when we got there. The rocks were pretty nice. I let them sit how they wanted and told them if they think of any way let me know. I can always erase what I don't want. These are pictures of pictures so they won't look as great as they really do. I went to Walgreens.com and ordered the ultimate package is the best for your money with the amount of pictures I needed. For $10. You get 3- 8x10's 3- 5x7's 20- 4x6's and 20- wallets. I then used a coupon code to get $10.00 off. Total came out to be only $21. I picked them up at my favorite Walgreens. If I would have ordered exactly what I needed. I would of had to pay $3.99 for each 8x10 and I needed a total of 9.

Walgreens brag books only .99 cents

Mother's Day is coming up. My mom and mother in law buy what they want when they can so when it comes to buying gifts its always easier to just give them pictures of our girls. Yesterday we went to the park and took some amazing pictures with the girls. At Walgreens they have a good deal on brags books regular $6.99 for only .99 cents. You can pick backgrounds and different pictures. It came out so cute that. I ordered one for myself also. After all I am a mother and those beautiful kids are mine. I can't wait for it to come in. I also ordered some 8x10s for them and us. Once I pick those up. I can show you how easy it is to just go out and take pictures.

Swiffer duster

I purchased a sniffer wet jet years ago. I had a coupon and I wanted one. I ran out of the solution a long time ago. I still love the swifter. I never was crazy about the mops where you reuse the same mop that never is really washed over and over again. I found this towel at the dollar tree. My floor was very dirty. I wasn't feeling good for the past couple of days. If I don't do the floor it won't get done. Besides 10 feet running around here I can mop everyday and the floor would never be clean enough. So today I decided to test out the towel. As you can see it picked up a lot of hair, dust and dirt. I will purchase another one. My mom would say to my dirty floor you should be ashamed of yourself but I am not. I do what I can. If I lived my life feeling what she probably thinks of me because no my house is not spotless. I would be so depressed.
Eww. I really do clean my floors.

1 of the many reasons I shop at winn dixie.

My gas light came on in my car letting me know it was empty. After a month of shopping at winn dixie I take my rewards card to Shell station. This month I had $1.30 per gallon on my card. Gas being $3.17. Made my gas only $1.99 a gallon. Awesome price. Paid $34.00 to fill up my tank.

Awesome day.

Today my youngest had a doctors appointment and the girls were off of school so they had to come with me. I decided to surprise them with a day of fun. I didn't go prepared so I stopped at McDonald's picked up 4 burgers and 2 large fries. It came out to $8. And some change. We already had drinks. Cheaper then 3 kids meals and a value meal for myself. We went to a playground that a friend of mine was telling me about. We had a picnic and played for an hour and a half. Then we went for snowballs. When we got home I let them play outside for a while since dinner was already cooking in the crockpot. No my housework didn't get done but spending time with my girls was so worth it. Besides it will all still be there tomorrow but my girls will be in school. They were awesome today.

Baking bacon = more time for other things

I ran across this idea one day. It's one of those duh moments. Why didn't I think of that? We like to have a nice big breakfast at least once a week during the weekend. We would spend hours just on bacon. Some days we would finally finish breakfast at 11am. Save me from having to worry about lunch but that was a lot of wasted time on bacon. Now I put the oven on 350* and for 20 minutes. I leave it in the oven and turn it off. Keeping the bacon warm. While I cook everything else.

Get a free new app from amazon.

Everyday you can download a new app at amazon.com. Today's free app is to train you to run a 5k. Normally would cost $1.99. Today is free.  .Here

Corn on the cob

I found this tip on Pinterest for easy corn on the cob. It did make it a bit easier to peel the corn and a lot less time since it takes a while just for the water to boil. However the flavor wasn't as good as when you boil it. My 7 year old said it tasted like the hair found on the corn. My 2 year old was upset that I wasn't letting her help pull the husk off the corn. So we will stick to the old fashioned way.   Here

Mexican Pizza ( copycat Taco Bell)

I found this recipe on Pinterest. The girls love Taco Bell and we are always looking for healthier ways to eat. Yes fast food places are convent but what do they do to your food before it gets to you is so gross. Make sure before you put on the topping and filling the tortilla is very crunchy.

http://www.thecountrycook.net/2011/11/mexican-pizza.html?m=1