Too Tired Mama

You may have seen the upcycled cabinet door towel rack I made for my kids' bathroom  here . The next project I wanted to tackle was some floating shelves for above the toilet. I started with some plain pine half crates from Joann. They are about 10" x 12" x 5" deep so they weren't too large or deep for my tiny bathroom. Then I grabbed some Minwax Polycrylic in Espresso that I had from a failed project I tried a couple years ago, a foam brush, newspapers, and lots of paper towels. I laid out my newspapers and started brushing on the Polyshades. I went one side at a time and completely covered it before wiping it off with a paper towel. You will probably want to use gloves for this portion. I ended up with really sticky hands and I got a splinter in my finger when I was wiping stain from between the slats. Gloves would have solved both of those issues, ha! one side coated with polycrylic after wiping off polycrylic As you can see it's no

As most of you know, I recently had a darling baby boy. You may not know that he has a milk/soy protein intolerance and gets extremely gassy and fussy when he gets even a small amount of either. Since I'm breastfeeding that means that I have had to cut dairy and soy from my diet in addition to the many foods I'm already avoiding for my allergies. My diet is so limited and it is really hard because I love food. Especially cheesy, creamy food. In an attempt to help me feel less restricted and satisfy my sweet tooth I tweaked some recipes and made some yummy oatmeal raisin cookies without dairy(butter). It turned out really well and even though I'm generally a butter purist when it comes to baking, I didn't miss it at all! Important things to note for this recipe: while some kinds of cookies can get away with just dumping everything in and mixing, oatmeal raisin isn't one of them. It is important to mix the batter-ish portion first & then mix in the oats and

My kid's bathroom is boring, completely undecorated and non-functional. There is nothing wrong with boring, but I would like to have a place to hang towels and store bathroom essentials, especially since this bathroom is the one guests use to shower when they visit. I'm making several changes to make it work better and look cute! Boring Bathroom The first thing I'm adding is a towel rack to keep towels off the floor. I had been browsing racks for a while, but couldn't find anything I liked enough to shell out the money that was being asked(I'm cheap). Then I happened to drive by a cabinet in bulk trash near my in-laws house so I borrowed a screwdriver, saved a door from the dump, and started a new project! After cleaning the door & taking it home I went to Hobby Lobby & got some  hooks  and  chalk paint . I've been wanting to try chalk paint forever & this was a small enough project that I wasn't too worried about starting over if I mes

I haven't posted for a long time, but for good reason. I had a very difficult pregnancy that is finally over and now I'm a mama to three little stinkers! I'm hoping to post more projects soon so keep an eye out.

I've had this idea floating around in my head for Activity Days for a long time and I finally got around to doing it this week! For those who don't know, Activity Days is the name of the young girl's youth group at my church including ages 8-11, my group includes 8-9 year olds. Part 1 will talk about the spiritual thought/introduction to the activity, Part 2 will talk about instructions for extracting DNA from cheek cells and putting them in necklace pendants and Part 3 is what I would do differently next time. My DNA in a necklace. Part 1 We started with prayer and then I asked the girls if anyone knew what DNA was. We got a couple answers that were pretty close to what I was going for. I then gave a *very* basic outline of what DNA is; the bullet points I hit on were: *DNA is at the center of every cell in the body & is like an instruction book or blueprint about how our body develops and forms. *We get traits from our biological parents/grandparents/etc..

I claimed the name "Too Tired Mama" for my blog because at the time I was feeling too tired to do much of anything. Since then, I've been diagnosed with Lupus, among other things, which explains much of my fatigue and other issues. Modern medicine is amazing and treatment seems to be helping most of the time. In spite of my chronic & debilitating fatigue I always have a million ideas for projects floating around in my head that I'm simply too tired to do - most of the time. I'd like for this blog to be about the projects that I am able to get to between bouts of "Too Tired" (when I can remember, hahaha!) and whatever other topics on life & random subjects I feel inclined to write about. I won't promise consistent posts, but I will post when I can and I'll try to not be *too* boring.  ;)