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Day in my Life: 5 minute makeup routine, and a meatless meatloaf recipe!

meatless meatloaf

Hey guys!  Happy Friyay!

I am excited to share this post with you.  I absolutely love the recipe I share – Meatless Meatloaf!  I thought what better way to share this recipe then in a vlog with my cute little 17 month old.

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meatless meatloaf

I also share my 5 minute makeup routine while chasing a toddler, and special little moments throughout my day.

meatless meatloaf

CLICK HERE to watch my vlog!

So let me share the recipe.  🙂

What you need:

3 eggs

1 stick of butter

2 packages of George Washington Broth.  ( I bought mine off amazon – Click here!)

1 package of gluten free meatloaf seasoning. (You can check amazon or your grocery store for McCormicks gluten free or I get Victoria Taylor’s Seasoning Classic Meatloaf from Meijer!)

1 tub of cottage cheese -1% small curds

Rice Crispy cereal (I get the Kroger brand)

Recipe:

  1. Melt your butter
  2. Break and whisk your eggs
  3. Mix eggs, butter, cottage cheese
  4. Stir in the broth and seasoning
  5. Add 2 tubs (use your cottage cheese tub) of rice crispy cereal
  6. Mix!
  7. Put in 9×13 pan (I have used other sizes as well!)
  8. Bake on 375 for 50 minutes or until golden brown

This recipe is delicious!  I wanted to share the recipe in time to share with your families over the Thanksgiving holiday.

I got this recipe from my sister-in-law.  It can also be called a Special K Loaf.

Follow me on Pinterest as I try to share more gluten free vegetarian options!

Happy Thanksgiving!

~ Gracefully Fashionable Britt

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DIML – 9 Month Old – schedule, exclusively pumping, & quarantine!

Hey guys! Happy Friyay! First, I hope everyone reading this is healthy and having a good day at home. I can’t believe my baby is 9 months! I wanted to share with y’all my 9 month old schedule (which is all over the place! LOL), my exclusively pumping journey at 9 months, and what it’s like being with a 9 month old in quarantine. I hope this blog post (AND video included!) can provide some entertainment for you and if you have any questions or tips, please leave them below!

Click here to watch the video!

schedule –

My baby, Milo’s schedule has changed more than ever.  I feel like from newborn to 3 months there really wasn’t much of a nap change.  The same with 3 to 6 months. But holy cow, 6 to 9 months is a HUGE change.

His naps have been all over the place.  One day he only napped in 30 minute increments!

However, as I’m typing this, he’s currently taking his second nap in his crib!!  So this phase will pass momma’s, I promise!

My only real tips for this is don’t cling so close to having a schedule.  When your baby starts to yawn lay them down or rock them to sleep.  That has been working great for me, and he’s kind of started creating a schedule all on his own!

Exclusively Pumping

Never did I think I would become so passionate about this topic.  I have made multiple videos about my personal journey, I will leave linked down below.

Click here for my pump journey!

 

DIML with 6 month old

Click here for DIML with 6 month old!

 

 

day in the life - 3 months

Click here for DIML with 3 month old – Exclusively Pumping!

 

I currently pump 3 times a day. 

5:30 am

1:30 pm

9:00 or 9:30 pm

I am pumping about 27 ounces a day and Milo is eating 20-27 ounces.  I do have close to 400 ounces of breast milk frozen in the freezer.  He is drinking one of them a day.

I currently have a count down on my phone for my days left of pumping.  I plan on stopping on his birthday – June 19th, 2020!

Quarantine

Quarantine over all isn’t much different for me than normal every day.  I am a working at home / stay at home mommy.  So our schedule hasn’t changed much.

However, I do miss running errands with him, I’m worried how he will react next time we go to church (since it will be months since his normal church routine), I miss being able to go and visit my family in Tennessee.

Let me stop and take a moment… If you are reading this and currently serving in a job that is helping our community – thank you!  Sincerely, thank you!

New things that I have been trying to add to our schedule since being on quarantine are : more Facetime talks with the grandparents, going on a walk, sitting on the porch, going on a drive, moving from room to room more for different activities.  

We’d both go stir crazy if we just stayed in the living room.  😉

There are several other things I go over in the video: his favorite toys, cosleeping, and more!  Scroll up and watch the video if you want to see more of our quarantine day. Or click here! 😉

I hope this blog post and video can give you some encourage and ideas for dealing with this time we are currently going through.

I am so excited for Milo as he is learning new things.  I am also a little worried about the world he is going to grow up in.  I guess that’s all a part of being a momma! ;).

Again, I hope you have a happy fri-yay!  And thanks again to those serving us in our community!

~Gracefully Fashionable Britt

 

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DIML with 6 Month Old – Exclusively Pumping & Baby Led Schedule

DIML with 6 month old

Hey guys!

DIML with 6 month old

“Let them be little because they are only that way for awhile. Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle. Just let them be little.”

I’m excited to upload this blog/vlog! My baby is now 7 months old. I can’t believe it! (I’ve been meaning to post this when he was 6 months old but life happens. )

What I thought life would be like and what it is, is almost completely different. I thought Milo would be crawling – he’s getting there. 😉 I thought he would be sitting perfectly on his own like the other kids. (I think my kid is lazy or just has a big head!)

I thought I would be breast feeding from the breast. I thought he’d be a perfect sleeper! (ha!).

But my life does not match the Pinterest schedules of what a 6 month old should be doing or what milestones he should have accomplished….

And

That’s

Okay.

Yes – one thing I am learning to embrace. I’m even feeling a slight tug on my heart typing that wondering if the words really are true. Is….

It’s

Okay.

Now what I DO HAVE is

A heathy 6 month old boy, who loves to roll over and over. A boy who knows his name, his mommy, and daddy. Who smiles ear to ear when his daddy gets home. A boy who likes to scream and holler.

A boy who likes to drink mommy’s breast milk from a bottle, a boy who likes to snuggle next to his mommy at night.

I’m trying to embrace the quote above. “Let them be little.” They don’t have to be Pinterest perfect – just be my baby. Hug them and love them.

DIML with 6 month old

So here is what my day looks like at 6 months. If you want to watch the video/ vlog – JUST CLICK HERE!

  • I’ve been going strong for 4 months as an exclusive pumper ( started at 1 month). I start my morning at 5 am pumping. Sometimes I can’t believe I’ve even made it this long.
  • Sweet baby Milo wakes up around 7 – 8 am.
  • During the morning – He takes a bottle and eats some cereal. Then I’m usually trying to entertain him while doing some house work. Entertaining him is taking more and more of my time. He’s a tough crowd. 😉
During the video – I share with you some of his current favorite toys, adorable monsters eating pizza PJS, AND a jumbo ball pit Grams got him for Christmas. CLICK HERE TO SEE!

DIML with 6 month old

  • 10/ 11 am -PUMPING TIME! I always try to have toys around to keep Milo entertained! Oh and drink you some water! 😉 Anyone else able to hear their pumping machine noise? 😉
  • Next is lunch time for him and momma! Oh and he’s got two teeth!
  • 2-4 pm- Nap time AND pump time. Over Christmas I was able to get some Avent storage bottles. They hold up to 6 ounces and you can write the date on them.
*** Side note ***
I thought I was going to love those bottles. WRONG – I have tried tightening those bottles as tight as I can. No matter how tight I make them, they STILL manage to spill when I shake the bottle to mix the milk. So now I’m just sticking with my Lansinoh storage bottles. JUST FYI
  • 5 PM – COFFEE TIME – Hallelujah!  Its my celebration drink for making it this far in the day!  😉
  • 6 -8 pm – Supper, play time with Daddy, possibly another nap, bath time!
  • 9 pm – LAST PUMP (yay! I made it another day! You can too I promise!). During this time, daddy will entertain Milo. In the vlog, we ended the night by watching the Disney movie “Tangled” while I pumped. After my pump, we all go to bed. Zzz

I hope my vlog, or daily schedule can be an encouragement to another momma or daddy. You don’t have to follow another babies schedule.  Just do what works best for you and your baby.  
And let them be little because they are only that way for awhile. 😉

~ Gracefully Fashionable Britt

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10 Photos – Day in My Life at the Grand Canyon

Hey guys!  Happy Wednesday!  We are half way through the week, hallelujah!  I know I was scheduled to upload this post yesterday, but I had a horrible headache.  Hope you can forgive me. 😉

Also I was originally going to make this just a normal day in my life, but honestly the day I was suppose to take all the pictures, was just a boring day.  And I didn’t want to bore y’all to death.  So I improvised.

10 Photos – Day in My Life at the Grand Canyon!  Y’all this is in my top 5 vacations I have ever taken.  I hope to go back one day, but have to pay with cash, so that might take a few years. 😉

I already made a post about my overall Road Trip Adventure to the Grand Canyon, check it out here!    So I am going to try to keep this one simple.

 

1- This is where we stayed, El Tovar Hotel actually in the Grand Canyon park.  Highly recommend!

 

2- Room Service!  Gluten Free Pancakes, different syrup options!  Delicious!

3 – Every morning we saw wildlife around the park!

 

4 –  Always start the hike off in the morning with a light jacket!  Also rain jackets are a must there!  

5 – Bright Angel Trail!  We only hiked a little bit down into it.  Hope to eventually hike the whole thing!  They recommend it being a 2 day trip.

6 – My husband made me take this picture, and I’m so glad he did.  Also dress in layers, it gets hot. 😉

 

7 – Lunch time!  Gluten free pizza!  Actually really good!  Yavapai Lodge Restaurant.

8 – El Tovar Lobby, we always tried to take a break in the afternoon.  Gift shop, candy shop, and restaurant in this lobby.  Highly recommend!

9 – This is the most delicious tortilla soup I have ever had!  Gluten free!  The Arizona Room Restaurant.

10- Every evening here has a beautiful sunset!  Bonus you see the outline of what looks like a cowboy towards the lower center of this picture.  And no, there was no cowboy there, so this is just a natural weird thing that happens. 😉

BONUS PIC!

I thought this was strange, who would ever be tempted to drink toilet water!?! 😉

 

Happy Wednesday!