We acquired some laying hens this year and we were  excited this week to get an egg from one of them!  It is nice to know that they will start producing eggs and that we will be having an endless supply of them each week. We are only up to two per day, but I know that it will change quickly:)

As a mom, it is nice to have this ongoing supply in the refrigerator if I need to pull out a quick meal to eat.  My family enjoys having breakfast for dinner during the week and now we will be able to add an egg dish to it, instead of just having pancakes or waffles. We may be able to do two meals per week that are breakfast style—-the children will love that!

One of our monthly meals is breakfast haystacks.  Well, I should call it breakfast bowls as it doesn’t actually look like a haystack.  To me, layering food on top of each other would constitute calling it a haystack but to the “normal” person they would call it a breakfast bowl:)

We take our favorite breakfast foods:

• biscuits–crumbled
• shredded frozen hashbrowns
• crumbled sausage
• crumbled bacon
• scrambled eggs
• shredded cheese
• country gravy–we use one of those packets and add more water to make it thinner

We then  layer it in each person’s bowl for the meal.  This works well for us as some might like one thing over another.  The little one’s do not like things “layered” so I do their plates like this:

An easy meal that you can make in a short amount of time.  I like to do all my cooking in the morning and just keep the food warm until dinner time.  I make the eggs up right before we eat, but the rest you can make and keep covered until ready to serve.

Hope you have a blessed day today!

I probably should of had this published yesterday, but we had a nice long weekend of just hanging out at the lake and spending time together. My husband took off a couple of extra days which gave us a long weekend.

We started out by celebrating Jadyn’s 11th birthday.  Her, Brooklyn, and I went to a Jamie Grace concert about a week ago–her favorite Christian artist.

If you have a daughter who needs a good role model as far as music goes….look her up.  She shares about being single and waiting for God to bring her a husband.   I like that she takes the time to see each and every one of her fans afterwards.

Then for her birthday dinner we celebrated it on the weekend when everyone could be together.  Now for myself, I like to cook and bake.  I might just be the only person who doesn’t mind making her own birthday dessert—because I know how I like it.  Jadyn is the same way:)    She made herself a chocolate sheet cake with homemade fudgy frosting. 

We also knew we were going to have a few extra’s for the day so we decided to make up a batch of vanilla cupcakes.  We had a cake mix and just used that for the cupcakes but for the frosting we wanted something homemade.  We decided to make a mock whipped cream type frosting.

She wanted to do some piping, but right now the temperature in North Carolina is close to 100 and we have a little bit of humidity which does not make it good for piping.  But she tried:)

We spent much of our time this weekend at the Lake swimming.  We BBQ I think almost every dinner.  We went and saw fireworks in our community and yesterday we finished the weekend off with a trip to Lake Jocassee.  It was a fun weekend.  Today I am spending the day washing up towels, wiping down coolers, cleaning off chairs, and getting the house back in order.  I hope your week is going well and I pray you find some time to play with your children.

Here is a little video of our weekend.  Be blessed!