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Easy Pasta Dinner Recipe- Green Bean Pasta Carbonara
June 2020 Updated September 2023 Want an easy dinner that even your pickiest eaters will love? This 30 minute pasta carbonara can’t be beat! This recipe is so simple my kids help make it and it’s an entire meal in only two pans. This post may contain affiliate links. By clicking on them and making a purchase I may make a small commission. Coupon codes may expire at any time, thank you for your support! This recipe is one of the first to become a Chaos family staple. Now it is the stuff of legends as it is E’s all-time favorite meal. When we make it, we make an entire…
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Quarantine Birthday-Or How to make a birthday cake no one eats
Originally posted Summer 2020 *I am writing this piece realizing how lucky my family is that Covid has only affected us in superficial ways. Please consider donating to a deserving charity (see below) if you are as lucky as we have been during this difficult time. *Some links may be affiliate links. With no extra expense to you, I may earn a small commission if you click on them and make a purchase. Thank you for your support! A no gift birthday, how to celebrate a birthday during quarantine With the quarantine lasting this long, someone was bound to have a birthday. That someone was little M. This year was…
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake Tutorial
If you missed my post on M’s quarantine birthday, check it out here. This is the step by step tutorial on how to make this great The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake! Originally posted Summer 2020 *Some affiliate links may be included in this post. By clicking on them I may make a small commission at no additional cost to you. Ingredients: Step 1- Halfway Homemade Cake Spray bundt pan with nonstick spray. Put a few sprinkles of flour in the pan and over the sink shake it to have a thin layer of flour throughout. Make & bake the cake per the instructions on the box. I used Annie’s confetti…
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Things you’ll actually use for your baby
Updated 09/2023 As you know by now, I have been crazy lucky enough to bring three beautiful babies home. What you don’t know, is that I’ve also worked in the childcare industry for over 10 years. After all of this I have some very strong opinions on the things you have to have when you bring home your new bundle of joy! Keep reading to find out what you need for baby. *Affiliate links are included in this post. I may make a small commission on items you click on through no extra cost to you! Thank you for supporting my family. *Please always check recall lists before using a product…
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Father’s Day: 10 Unique Gifts
Updated May 2022 September 2023 Father’s Day is coming soon and given the weird year we are in there is a good chance your usual traditions won’t be happening hopefully you are finally able to get back to your pre-Covid traditions (or at least close!). Here are 10 unique Father’s Day gifts you can get for the dad in your life without having to leave your house! Affliliate links appear in this post. I may make a commission from your purchase with no extra cost to you! 1) For the Dad joke enthusiast Do you follow @thedad on Twitter? It’s a dad joke palooza daily. If that sounds like your…
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Homeschooling with Disney-Part 2
Originally posted Spring 2020 Continuing right where my other post Homeschooling with Disney left off, here are even more ways to educate at home using Walt Disney World and Disney stories as a theme. Math & Science *Some links are affiliate links, by clicking on them and making a purchase I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you! In my last post I wrote about using Disney World as your homeschooling inspiration in art, music, literature and social studies. There are so many opportunities and ideas that I needed to make a separate post for math and science lessons! Please remember that I am not a…
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How to Homeschool with Disney
Originally posted Spring 2020 Since Covid ruined our real vacation plans, we had a Disney staycation last week. I’ve already posted about all of the amazing meals and theme nights we had, (see here) but we also had a week full of Disney activities for our homeschooling! (Some links are affiliate links and I may receive compensation if you make a purchase. Thank you for supporting my family!) The world of Disney gives us a wealth of literary, art, history, science and math homeschooling activities. Of course I consulted Pinterest for some inspiration and there ain’t a whole lot out there. One of the only Pins I found was from…
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Ohana
Originally posted Spring 2020 By clicking on an affiliate link, I may make a small amount of money at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support! Ohana means family. It is also an amazing restaurant at the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World. I thought it would be the perfect grand finale meal to our Disney Staycation and attempted Ohana- a Disney meal at home! While the restaurant serves breakfast and dinner, we have only dined there for dinner. It is served family style (of course) and there are 10 different menu items brought to your table. So what was I thinking trying to replicate this at…
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Please accept this rose…
Originally posted Spring 2020 “Tale as old as time…tune as old as song…” Sorry, couldn’t help myself. If you grew up in the 90’s and are even the tiniest Disney fan- you know that this rose is from “Beauty and the Beast”! In Disney World you can visit the Beast’s castle by eating at Be Our Guest restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. That’s just what we did for our sixth evening of our Disney staycation. Affiliate Links in this post, your purchase helps to support my family at no cost to you! The Disney Character Store on Amazon On our menu for the evening: The first thing I made was…
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Taquitos in Epcot
Originally posted Spring 2020 *Post may contain affiliate links TLDR: Easy taquito recipe inspired by the Mexico pavilion at Disney’s Epcot. I tweeted out a hint as to our Disney destination today, where do you think we’re going? Did you guess Epcot? Good job! Bienvenidos a Mexico! Epcot is occasionally my favorite park. Even though it sometimes gets a bad wrap as the educational or boring park, it has a lot of the best food in all of Walt Disney World. Had I been feeling more adventurous I would’ve tackled fish n’ chips or the fanciest of French food for our Epcot dinner…but we’re in month two of quarantine and…
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