Celebrating Earth - one small step

Its Earth Day tomorrow and our family is taking baby steps towards going green.
We turned off our second refrigerator.My husband took off most of the bulbs in the
bathroom vanity area (there are 8 bulbs in a row)

We turn off any extra lights around the house. The girls have started their own little kitchen garden with tomatoes,herbs,chilli peppers,cucumber etc and have been quite enthusiastic about it so far.

Last weekend after they worked on their garden all afternoon I rewarded them with a
special dinner in the backyard.


Picked these cute chocolate bugs at the after Easter sale at Walmart.

Easy Cupcake Bouquet for Valentines Day

Valentines Day is nearly here,there is a lot of excitement in our house.Here is the first in a series of craft & recipe ideas for the day.I fell in love with the Cupcake
bouquet idea its so cute and economical,flowers look nice but are quite expensive so
why not try something that's not just pretty,its edible too!


I began with mini cupcakes with pink frosting with pink sprinkles

Here's a closeup of the rose petals I tried.

I used a low pot I had at home with green silk flowers as base.

Toothpick on the cupcakes as stems

Here is my final creation




Tomorrow a basket of love

Tea with Daddy

We moms work very hard, and ever so often we get appreciation from kids and others around us, there are magazines,TV shows, internet sites and so much more that reaffirm the importance of what we do.Dare I say that the dads on the other hand do not get as much acknowledgment for what they do for their family?? So My first post is about celebrating dad. My three old hosted a tea party for dad after he came home from work(He has a cup of tea, every evening & we just made it a special celebration).We started with a hand made card and flowers(from our backyard for dad.

The Tea menu consisted of simple snacks available in the pantry.Cookies,caramel popcorn,crackers,fruit trifle,egg sandwiches,cucumber & hummus sandwiches,tea & juice.

The Fruit trifle was very easy to put together.

Pound cake,Tapioca pudding or any other kind of pudding,Your choice of fruits( jello,& whipping cream can also be added).
We had two kinds of sandwiches- egg sandwiches,cucumber & hummus sandwiches.


Tea ofcourse!!!and juice

A nice table cloth, flowers and napkins with dads initials( I picked them up at Micheal's) and the table was set for a special celebration just for dad.