Happy Thanksgiving!!

I want to wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

Let your bellies and your heart be full!!

Take the time to get to know your neighbors and really have that family connection with those who you may not see regularly.

Also, please share in the comments some of your families traditional Thanksgiving items weather it be entrees or side dishes. 

Here's mine....

Green Bean Casserole

Pumpkin Roll

Macaroni Salad

I really love all of it!! 

Thanksgiving is truly my favorite holiday!!

Do You Ever Feel Like Your Never Enough?

Here lately we have been going through a bunch of transition with jobs, with home pretty much in everything! I feel like that is somewhat normal, as an adult I am trying to find my own way, trying to build my life and home up and put down some roots.

The problem is I don't have a clue! 

I thought I did, I thought I knew exactly where I wanted to be and what I wanted to be doing. But then things changed, people change! 

The more I grow up and the more I see Alyssa grown up I tend to question EVERYTHING!

Am I making the right decisions and I doing the best for my family, am I good enough?

I don't know if you feel the same, maybe its just a woman thing or maybe its just me! Why do we always feel that we are never good enough or that we have to be better. 

This is such a haunting and exhausting feeling!!

Alyssa is such a sweet, smart and funny little girl so I must be doing something right, right?

I am 30!! 

I thought for my whole life by the time I was 30.... I would have it all figured out, I would own a home, have the perfect career that I loved and I would be content in my life, just sitting back relaxing for the years to come. Sadly my real life is far from that dream.

Maybe my expectations as a teenager/young adult were to high or perfect. 

Maybe its okay to not have it all together, maybe that is part of the adventure in life?!

Maybe now it's time to have new dreams or new goals, maybe by the time I'm 35 or 40.

Who knows?! 

Life is messy and hard, adulting is not all its cracked up to be after all!

Who Knows?! 

If you do, then tell me all the secrets!!

I Feel Proud!! #SmallVictories

Hey Guys!!

I posted an Instagram of my accomplishments on my day off (that I am super proud of by the way) like cleaning my dishes and cooking dinner for my family! A couple people were like yumm that dinner looks good, what is it and can I have the recipe!? 

So here it is lovies the recipe to my super easy and delicious Smoked Sausage Alfredo compliments of Danelle at LetsDishRecipes

Clearly Danelle's picture looks way better than mine but here are my pictures below:

I love that you make the Alfredo sauce from scratch because it smelled amazing!! My family really loves smoked sausage so this meal was literally perfect for us! 

This recipe was so easy, I boiled the noodles, made the sauce and then threw everything together and popped it in the oven to broil and melt the cheese on top! 

I felt like my sauce was not as creamy as Danelle's but it was still delicious!! I did not use the same noodles or the Cayenne Pepper or Red Pepper Flakes but I did use Chili Powder. 

Overall it was very easy to make and delicious, we will be making it again!!

What are some delicious but easy recipes you like to cook for your family?!? 

Please share them in the comments below I am running out of ideas!!

Where Does the Time Go?!?

Hello All! 

I am so sorry for my absence, I am just struggling in the time management department with work, home life and spending time with my family I just have no idea where the time goes!

It seems like we are rushing to even get out of the house in the mornings so Lyss can catch her bus, then I go straight to work from there. When everybody gets home in the evening we are rushing as well, homework, taking care of our animals plus dinner!

By the time all of that is done, its now Lyssa's bedtime and after all of that 

I am exhausted!!

I do not know how people do it, I had the opportunity to join PTA this year at Lyssa's school and instantly was like No I barely have any time now, I cant take on anymore!!

I would love to just sit at home and relax, blog like every night and have these glorious home cooked meals, but that is just not my reality!! Some nights its chicken tenders and fries and some nights its frozen pizza! 

I'm sorry but it is what it is! 

Clearly, I need some help mommas!! I have tried planners and agenda books and even apps on my phone but I just get too distracted! 

Have you ever heard of the mom that went to wash the dishes but then saw the trash needed taken out but on the way to take the trash out decided to clean the living room because of course it was dirty as well, and then hours later the dishes still weren't cleaned LOL that is me 100% 

How do you all do it!!!??!!

#Adulting What Does That Even Mean?!

I have been struggling lately with being an adult. I remember when I was little and just couldn't wait to be independent and have my own money and not have to answer to anyone! But now it just feels like I am trapped, I am suffocating with no way to get out. 

The bills are piling up and so is my workload! Sometimes (more recent than ever) I find myself just laying on the couch or laying in bed and just thinking to myself, ugh is this all we live for?

I got married, I had the kid and I have the job, but still it always seems as if something is missing. I work to keep the lights on and food in the fridge but then on my days off I am trying to catch up on laundry or the dishes or trying to spend time with Alyssa and Cole. 

I feel like the weekends are shorter but the work week is longer. 

How does that happen?

Cole and I got a desktop computer recently and we decided to buy Sims 4. Guys, it was like a flash back to my high school days. I use to play the sims all the time, I love that game! 

So I built my cute little house (with the cheat code of course cause who has time to make all that money in the beginning) I made Cole, Alyssa and I. I got our sims jobs and Alyssa was in school and life seemed so easy ya know? Then my sim got pregnant and we had a little boy and still life seemed so easy. 

Then my sim got pregnant again with TRIPLETS!!! I physically started getting overwhelmed with the crying babies and the meal times while caring for my sim and spending time with the other children! How in the world was I suppose to handle that!!

I ended up having my sim quit her job to stay home to care for the triplets and I still had to hire a nanny!! 

I thought to myself ohh my gosh this is overwhelming!! 

That is a video game people!!!

I started feeling the same emotions and feelings for my fake family in the sims that I kinda did in my real family now! Why do we work so hard to get so less? Is this really what life is about?

Cole and I had the idea of moving again for a job opportunity that had appeared. All I could think about was, Is this job going to make me happy? Is this move going to make me happy?

What am I doing wrong in my life that is causing so many deep and hard feelings?

I just don't have a clue people, still I know that I have great days where I am over the moon and I know that I have awful days when I just want to hide in my bedroom! But I think that is pretty normal.

Do you all ever feel the same or am I just crazy?! 

Please help me either way lol