Mama's Meatloaf

Today is my mom's birthday, so I figure that I would post a recipe that she always used to make and that I made for supper last night. It is my mama's meatloaf recipe. It is super easy to throw together and it was very delicious and moist.

 Here is another great photo of all the ingredients. 

I got my big glass bowl and placed my 1 medium chopped onion on the bottom and then added my ground beef. The meat was 73/27 and not what I use at all. I always use 80/20 because I HATE grease. Just looking at it and I feel my arteries clogging up. Next time, I make this, I will definitely be using my preferred beef. Then 1 cup of bread crumbs, 1 egg and 1 cup milk was added.

Tip: Next time I will be using 3/4 cup of milk instead of 1 cup. I started mixing it by hand and then Cayce came and started pouring in mushrooms.

I got my trusty loaf pan and Cayce sprayed it generously and then we dumped it and spread it inside the pan. Then we made the ketchup topping for it mixed with brown sugar. Next time, the brown sugar will be left out. I used dark brown sugar and I didn't have any light brown.

When glazed the top of the loaf and put it in the oven at 350 for an hour. It came out looking delicious but drowning in grease. I will just do plain ketchup on top next time. I will also cook it a little longer to help it firm up a little more, because it was falling apart as I was plating.

Here is the finished plate. This meal was so delicious, and so filling that we had to stop and eat the rest later on in the night. 

Review: The Travelers by Chris Pavone

About the book: A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident

It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. 

My Thoughts: I love spy novels and this gripped me from the summary. I love the 3AM line and it made me laugh. It was very slow starting at first and it kept jumping back and forth between different characters and it was confusing keeping up with who was who. But as it got father in the book, it would jump back and forth between different locations in the world and tell bits an pieces of the story, leave cliff hangers and then we would find out what happened a few chapters later. The marital problems between Will and Chloe hit a little too close to home because Cayce and I have been having constant fights recently. I loved all the spy aspects and travel and the espionage plots. 

About the Author: CHRIS PAVONE is the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident. He is the winner of the Edgar and Anthony awards for best first novel. He was a book editor for nearly two decades and lives in New York City with his family.
 

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Freebie Haul 2/6- 2/11

Another good and successful freebie week in the books. This is my 78th freebie haul. I have no plans on stopping and these are my favorite posts to do.

Monday: Combo of store bought and mail freebie.

Barilla Pesto Sauce

Nordstrom catalog

Tuesday: No Freebies

Wednesday: Got a much needed sample because I am currently looking for new laundry detergent

Persil Pro Clean Original Scent 1 load

Redplum coupon inserts

Thursday: one magazine day!!

February 13, 2017 issue of Sports Illustrated

Friday: No Freebies

Saturday: It was another day on the townfor Cayce and the girls and it was also another magazine day in the mail.

Pizza Hut Personal Pizzas

Toys R Us Batman Lego in store event

February 20, 2017 issue of Us Weekly.

March 2017 issue of redbook

March 2017 issue of Marie Claire

I am anticipating a small freebie week next week, because of Valentine's Day and not much comes around holidays for me. 

School Week 25 Photo Diary

We had a long and productive 4 day week of school. It was also a very busy week for our family and it is going to be a busy weekend as well, so I won't be explaining much about our days, because I have a small time frame to get this up and to spend the rest of the night with Cayce.

Monday: No School!! Adalyn's 5th BIRTHDAY

Tuesday: We had a fairly easy day with morning work and then reading Witches Don't Do Backflips, and watching Magic School Bus.

To end our day, we read the first three chapters of The Vile Village. I didn't take many pictures, because we didn't do anything worth taking a picture, and I was busy catching up from my day off for Addy's birthday.

Wednesday: We started the day early, and after morning work, Ariana worked on Easy Peasy copy work and Samantha did some workbook pages. Then we read more of The Vile Village. We had to include Addy because she wanted to be with us and have another day together. She watched a Settlers & Native Americans documentary with Sam and Ariana.

After the documentary, Ariana had reading time while Samantha did 30 minutes of Mathseeds on Reading Eggs.

After 30 minutes were up, they switched. Ariana got through two lessons.

Thursday: Today was the longest school day for me. Ariana had her second dentist appointment to have a filling and Samantha started her day at 8AM. I wanted her to be done before Ariana and Addy got back from their appointments, so I could devote the afternoon to Ariana's school time. Samantha got so much done. She did her morning work and did an hour of Reading Eggs.

Then she did some workbook pages that also covered material that she learned on Reading Eggs.

Thirty minutes after working in her workbook, she did an hour an a half of Easy Peasy and then she ended her day with watching two episodes of Planet Earth and she is in love with that show. Then Ariana got home and she was so exhausted and she was talking about everything that she learned from the dentist and she was asking questions and the doctor also asked her questions during Adalyn's checkup. So with all of that, I gave her a half day. She did 2 hours and 10 minutes worth of work. She did her chores and notebook. Then she did 45 minutes of Reading Eggs.

To end her day, she did two pages of Easy Peasy copy work and then she watched an episode of Planet Earth and she enjoyed it, but not as much as Samantha.

Friday: Since we didn't read any of The Vile Village the day before, that's how we started our day. After we watched another YouTube video on Pilgrims and the Mayflower.

When we finished watching the documentary, they did their own little Native American girl craft and they turned out so cute. Samantha finished her day with reading time and Ariana did too along with copy work pages.

We are going to have another productive week next week and there is one thing that I want to try. I am hoping that it will help get more done and to help get more practice on certain things that they are having trouble with. I have really learned their strengths and weaknesses this year. Samantha is really great with math, but not so good with reading or sounding out her letters. Ariana is great at reading, but she is a little slow with the math and hesitates on every problem. I am thinking of working with them on the weekend as well on their problem areas.

Wish App Haul

I have a new favorite website. It is Wish. I first heard about this site on YouTube. It is basically a deal site where you can get things cheaper and save loads of money. The only thing is that most of everything comes from China, Hong Kong or Shanghai. It takes weeks for the items to get here, so if that is a deal breaker, then stop reading this post.

I have found so many things I want on this site. I am going to be showing you three items that I have gotten so far.

1. Faux Fur Boots

I LOVE THESE BOOTS!

2. Short Sleeve Cotton Shirt

3. Leegoal PS4 Controller Docking Station

This is an early birthday present for Cayce so he can stop charging his controllers with my phone cord.

It did take a total of 2-3 weeks for each item to get here. They all came with a tracking number and if it doesn't come with a carrier name, you can always google Asian shipping sites, or global tracking sites and enter your tracking number.

I will be making more purchases from this site.

Ready for Spring (polyvore outfits 18-20)

I am going to be sharing three outfits that I have put together on Polyvore and I am ready for Spring. I am ready for the weather to warm up and I am ready for the school year to be done so we can go on a vacation!!

1. Rotita Zip Fly Design Summer Dress
2. Giuseppe Zanotti Suede and satin open-toe pump
3. AEO Bicycle Necklace

1. SKY Short dress

2. Gold Brentwood Sandal

3. Dooney Bourke Florentine Medium Satchel

4. Michael Kors Crystal Heart Pendant Necklace

5. France Luxe Small Dozer Claw Clip

1. HANII Y Marie Sleeveless Dress
2. Gap Women 1969 Denim Jacket
3. ANTIK BATIK Embellished Billy Sandal
4. Rina Limor Diamond Heart Necklace

Hope you find some inspiration from these outfits and that they make you happy. You can follow me here!

Have a great day
XOXO

My Addy Baby is 5

Yesterday my baby turned 5 years old! WHAT!! Adalyn is now a 5 year old and starting to do more things with her sisters and she is getting smarter each day. It's hard to believe that 5 years ago, we were having such a tough time dealing with all her complications after her birth and wondering how Samantha and Ariana were doing without their mommy and daddy. She had such a great day yesterday and such a fun past weekend with her daddy and sisters.

I love you my Adalyn!!!