Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Real Life with the Taylors: Making Breakfast Burritos (for dinner)

We're back with another episode of Real Life with the Taylors-- where I help you feel better about yourself and your kitchen skillz.  

Today we're cooking (breakfast for) dinner.  If we had some kind of regular meal rotation around here, these would definitely be a part of it.  

Here's how you make them.

Step 1: Cook some bacon. Baking it in the oven allows you to move on to other steps while its cooking, cleanup is easier, and every square inch of your house won't smell like bacon. 

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Real Life with the Taylors: Scenes from Our Living Room

It's time for another episode of Real Life with the Taylors, where I encourage you with my imperfections and let you know that you're not alone!  Or maybe show you that you're a lot more pulled together than you realize.  And I remind myself that just because I'm a mess doesn't mean I'm a failure.

For dinner tonight we had leftover grape salad from this weekend, and cheesy brats from Aldi.  Cheesy brats from Aldi are becoming an alarmingly frequent meal at this house.

The good news is, I just ran 2 miles!

PSA: Cheesy jalapeno brats and running are NOT a good combination.

But we're not talking about nutrition and exercise tonight.  We're going to talk about the living room.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Real Life with the Taylors: Vegetables and the Garage

Earlier this summer I was visiting family, and a few of them mentioned they enjoyed reading my blog.  Alyssa said "I really admire people that find the time to do things like that."  I assured her that the reason I do have time is because I don't clean my house or walk my dogs.  I shared this conversation with Cheri later, and was explaining to her that people only see the things that get done... not the 1,000,001 things that I don't do.  I don't have a clean house (like, ever), and I don't workout very often either.  Well we don't know that!  Just let us keep believing it! Was her simple, reassuring reply.  I could just show you all of the productive things that I do, and let you guys think I do ALL the things .  But I don't want you to think that!!!  Because I don't do it all, and I'm not pulled together at all.  I'm a mess, People!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

summer salads and songs

You may or may not know this about me but... I'm kind of a health nut.  So while I sit here and drink my milkshake after a dinner of pasta and cheesy bread sticks and wonder why I gained 2 pounds this week,  I'll share with you some awesome salads I've found, tried, and loved.  You will probably notice that they are all from two of my favorite ladies in the world of the wide webz.