Breakfast & Brunch

Our weekends are insane!  I know most people have busy schedules, but the weekends used to be for relaxation.  Well, I don’t know about you, but I am exhausted come Sunday night. This past weekend we had 5 games, 3 practices, 2 birthday parties and a dinner party.  And I only have 3 kids!!! I can barely deal with my three-I have no idea how all you people do it with more than three kids. God Bless you!

Even though our Saturdays and Sundays are busy, many times we have a couple hours in the morning to just lay around as a family, if the older two get out of bed.  My youngest is still up at 7am and on the weekends he always demands, oh I’m sorry, requests politely (I don’t want to look like I am one of those moms that allows the hooligans to run the asylum) for me to make biscuits and gravy.

Of course I give in to his demands because I love biscuits and gravy as well. Oh, did I say that? What […]

The kiddos are out of school today and shockingly we have nothing going on!  I almost don’t know what to do with all three kids at home.  Little one got up about 7:30am so that means that I was up at 7:30AM!, but the other two are still asleep and it’s 10:15am. Yay Lord!  I truly never thought we would get to the day where the kids slept past 5 o’clock.  I have to say it is heavenly.  There is nothing better than having all your chickens in the house and yet have it quiet.  So since I was up at the crack of dawn with my youngest and the two dogs-Lord have mercy on my soul-that is another topic for another day.  But, anyway we got another dog (picture me opening a bottle of wine and not using a glass) so I was up with Jack and the dogs and he asked me to make him breakfast. 

I have not been to the store in a few days so I used what I had in the fridge and made breakfast burritos. I […]

I don’t make much in advance, but I do make these savory waffles.  I am not the kind of cook that can make 25 freezer crock pot meals. I just don’t have it in me and I frankly forget what is in the freezer.  I know it would probably make life easier, but like I said in my bio I am not a cupcake mom-I am lazy!

But, with all that being said, when I make these waffles there are always enough to save for breakfasts during the week. I have to say it does make mornings easy when all I have to do is pop one of these in the toaster and pour syrup over it. Because sometimes walking to the pantry and grabbing a box of cereal and pouring it in a bowl and then hiking over to the fridge to get the milk is just too much! 

So here is the recipe for the all in one breakfast waffle-yum!

Having three boys that play sports our weekends are consumed with games.  We rarely have time to just hang around on Saturday or Sunday.  But this weekend our first game was not until 12noon on Saturday so I had time to make breakfast for the family.  This is a really easy recipe.  You can mix the dry ingredients and double the batch and save half in an air-tight container for later use.  Then all you need to do is add the wet ingredients!

Blueberries and lemon go so great together and you can almost always find blueberries year round, but if you cant then use strawberries or blackberries or raspberries.

We spend a lot of time in Colorado in the summers and there is a restaurant we go to often that makes these amazing pancakes.  I had to try and recreate them when I got back.  So here is my version of Lemon Ricotta Pancakes.