I love lists!! I like to write everything that I have to do down.  I used to have to worry about losing my lists.  It was a bad thing when someone took Mommys’ slip of paper off of the counter.  Then my head would be at a loss of what to do.  So I switched to a notebook.  I would write my lists out and then after looking at them being all scratched off and messy, I would find myself rewriting those lists with the things I didn’t scratch off so that I could have a nice neat piece of paper.  I got tired of wasting time rewriting my lists.  Plus I was wasting much paper.  So I decided to go paperless.

I saw somewhere on the internet where people were making dry erase boards out of a picture frame, and I thought that was cute.  But I wanted to go a step further and make it like my notebook.  For Christmas I made my daughter a really cute weekly organizer out of a picture frame.  You can see that here.  After since realizing how useful hers was, I decided to make one for myself.

I bought a picture frame, scrapbook paper, and some sticker letters.  I placed topics that I would normally write on my paper lists with stickers on my scrapbook paper.  Those topics included:

• Office—things to do on my office day
• blog—things I wanted to write about or remember to do on my blog
• store—things I ran out of, or needed to get at the store
• baking–things I wanted to make that week
• reminders—things I needed to remember short term
• children–things I wanted to remember for the children to do

I love it, I have been using it since the beginning of this year and have not at all went back to my paper list.  When I am finished, I just swipe it off with my finger:)  Paperless, another way to simplify your life:)

This was one of our favorite foods that we made over the holidays.  I have never made a cheese ball before in my life.  We always bought them and they were just okay tasting, this one was the greatest tasting cheese ball we have ever had.

Super easy to make and kept very well during the holidays.  We found the recipe on pinterest but tweaked it a bit and came up with what we liked.  Here is what we did:

• 1-8 oz pkg reduced fat cream cheese
• 1-8 oz block of sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1/2 bag of bacon bits
• chopped green onion, about 2 stalks finely chopped
• peppercorns and carrot

Mix cream cheese, cheddar cheese, green onion, and bacon  with a mixer until well combined.  Shape into 3 snowman sized balls.  Coat the balls with parmesan cheese and place on serving plate.  Decorate with carrot piece for the nose and some peppercorns for the facial features.  Serve with crackers and meat.