uhhMAZING chocolate chip cookies- Easter Edition

I found this uhhmazing recipe on bloglovin a couple weeks ago and it has changed our cookie GAME forever. I’ve made cookies before here  and people have raved about mine, but these ones blows mine out of the water and vanishes forever.  Yup it's seriously that good. We wanted to try to make our own cookies since we all usually have 1 after dinner every night, but lately we've been finishing them quicker than usual. By we, I mean Haidyn :] Any who this recipe was simple enough to put together ( I made it twice already )  and easy for  Haidyn to get involved in the cooking process. 

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. soda edition
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3 1/4 cups flour (give or take)
• 1 cup  chocolate chips ( add in more depending on your liking)
• 1 cup M&M's ( Easter addition ones **optional )

 DIRECTIONS :

1. Cream butter and sugar together until well incorporated. 
   
   
   
   
2. Add in eggs and vanilla.
   
   
   

   

   look at that concentration!

   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Mix all dry ingredients in a separate bowl and gradually mix into the wet mixture. mix the dry ingredients separately in a large bowl. 
   
   
   
   
4. Fold in chocolate chips and Easter M&M's. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Spoon cookie down onto a baking sheet as usual. ( We made a cookie pizza too!) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. makes about 2 dozen. ( We made 18 regular cookies and put the rest onto a pizza pan and created our pizza cookie. The pizza cookie will cook for about 20 minutes. ) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Adapted from: Love Taza  

** My family is so grateful that I found this recipe on Bloglovin'! Thank you Naomi !! **

Lil' Miss Designs Accessories Monthly Bow Description- Month One & Review

I found this store on facebook a little over 2 months ago while I was looking for Haidyn’s birthday bows.  I loved the fact that she had so many different options and ribbons styles to choose from. Each one is handmade and local; which I am a big supporter of.  Local is always better in my book. Lil’ MissDesigns offers a “Bow of the Month” subscription which offers 3 different options for the subscription; 3 month, 6 month or 1 year. The prices are reasonable and affordable if you are the one who loves to buy bows for your little one. I paid $ 90.00 for 3/bows a month for an entire year; which makes each bow $2.50 and shipping is free with the subscription.  You either get to pick the bows yourself or let her decide at random.   

Now that Haidyn’s hair is growing faster than I can keep up with, bows are an easy way to keep her hair in place and dress up her hair a little. My girl loves to play in the dirt at school so the bow doesn't fool anyone, but the bows always add a little flair to her outfits. She is starting to favor and pick her own bows too!  (Queue excited Mama Dance here)

She was not successful in eating this rock. Don't worry [: 

Each month of the bows I wanted to showcase all of the bows of the month that Lil’ Miss Designs created. This month I chose: SF Giants, St. Patrick’s Day and Elmo. All shipments are shipped out on the 15^th of every month; however since the mail man didn’t have mine out to deliver on time I received a complimentary Easter bow! Seriously, #1 reason why I love local small businesses!Check out the business facebook here and check out the different bows and accessories she has to offer!

** This blog post is not a paid promotion by Lil’ Miss Designs and is simply a review of the business’ products ***  

How&Why We Chose a Home Daycare

One of my biggest stressors before giving birth to Haidyn was where she was going to stay while we were at work. I already knew that I couldn’t be a stay at home mom when I entertained the idea for a few days when I was pregnant. I became stir crazy within 2 days and ran out of errands to do.  So upon returning to work it was a VERY huge deal on who would be taking care of her while I was away from her. I wanted to find a center/provider that had;  experience with children, education and continual training required for childhood development, committed employees/provider, licensed facility with a stimulating environment for children, excellent referrals and someone who genuinely was going to love my child.  I do want to clarify that Waymon and I were NOT looking for a babysitter; we were looking for a provider to teach our child what she needs to know at each developmental stage while having fun. The price of the school didn’t matter as much as the quality of care that we were going to receive in return.  

I was in the childcare field for a few years, so I knew going into interviews with providers on what to ask and to expect. I felt like I had simple requests/questions for the providers (you can see the interview questions/links I used below) but Waymon was not convinced that anyone would be able to take care of Haidyn as well as we could let alone love her while they took care of her, until we met Ms. Pattie.  I received a referral from a parent that I knew through my previous daycare job. I felt that we had the same standards when looking for provider, so I went with her referral and I’m extremely glad that I did.

Pattie was the one provider that came backed with outstanding credentials and passion during her interview. Pattie runs a chemical-free, organic facility and runs small ratios while she provides a full age appropriate curriculum, is consistent with the children and is currently going under National Accreditation. Haidyn wasn’t just another number for her center. She was genuinely interested in looking after what was best for Haidyn and not was easy to do for her.  Pattie aced our phone and personal interview thoroughly and made us feel at ease about bringing Haidyn to her. Everything that Pattie has told us during our interview process she has stood by 100% and has never strayed away from it.  Pattie loves her children and her children love her. We loved how small her ratio was with her facility. Haidyn would get the one on one time we couldn't gI've her during the day other centers couldn't provide that nor could they provide any of the above.

 

 

The constant stimulation at her facility has allowed our little girl to thrive and excel on her monthly ASQ’s and on a daily basis. My almost 1 year old can say 8 words, enjoys all vegetables/fruits and various foods, understands directions and can interact with her peers /others without any struggle and is beginning to walk all thanks to Pattie. There is no greater joy than knowing that my child is in good hands every day. More importantly, Haidyn comes home from school everyday happy and energetic (even on her sick days) and always gives Ms. Pattie kisses and loves before leaving. We chose the best provider and I would take any of our future other child(ren) /refer her to anyone out there.

 

 

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND 

PATTIE CAKE DAYCARE

daycare checklist// provider interview //interview checklist