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SUMMER ROUTINE!

Hello, good morning!
Welcome back to another blog with me! Hi I’m Kandis with Classy Classics By Kandis!
I am a stay-at-home mom with 4 kids 2 are classed as big kids and 2 are classed as little kids! All in the aged of 12 down to 2 years year old!
Our summer routine tends to look a little different time to time however, usually works out pretty close to the same!
The kicker with the summer vacations is my big kids go to their grandparents for a bit to the summer holidays, and so we tend to do more routine for just me and the littles!
The littles dont have much chores I have found that with my last two kids I’m not near as stricked on the littles with helping as I was when the older ones were!
So, I thought I would share our summer routine with how I have it set up for the day!
This will be more of a quick outline and if you would like more of a details routine give me a thumbs up and leave a comment and I would love to do one more detailed routine!
Like I was saying this one is going to be more for my outline through the day and what I tried to have outlined and needing to be done!
My day tends to start early lately as my youngest still feels he needs to be up at 6:30 am. During this time I try to enjoy some coffee depending on how whinny he wakes up, I came to try to sit down and just relax in the morning playing part of my games and checking Facebook, Snapchat, working on my blog stuff like that!
I will then sit down and work on my planner figure out what I’m trying to do for cooking, cleaning, possibly baking and other just day-to-day tasks.

Not all of my kids get up at the same time like by no means so breakfast usually consist of whoever’s up for the most part what they would like. I don’t always do big breakfast but, pre prepped breakfast can be really convenient.
After some lovely coffee time I will then get going on our morning. Usually, around 7:30 I will try to get dressed, wash up I use monat and my skin, I love it I have done a routine on my skin care that I will leave linked, I will also leave my monat shopping link for you to check out!
A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!
I started using monat over a year ago and I do not plan on going back to normal shampoo conditioner or skincare it is really wonderful products and it’s changed my days.

After all of that I will usually try to start organizing my day I get going on my morning chores. I tend to try to do more of my tasks in the morning so, that we can try to get outside before lunch and after naps without having a complete disaster of a house.
During nap time, I will aim to try to do either work in the yard, then some cleaning that didn’t get done and it just may be easier without the toddlers! There are some days where I might just need to lay down and take a nap, I don’t always do the best with that though and I tend to sometimes feel bad about it even when I’m not supposed to.
Then, after nap we will usually get up have snack and head outside or find some toys depending on what the weather is like.
I will start thinking about supper if not start prepping it, tidy up outside or just fill in those couple hour gap with sometimes. Something usually needs to be done LOL. Seems like a mother’s job is never done does it.
After supper I will clean up the kitchen get the dishwasher going any dishes that needed to be hand washed done just the kitchen whites and tidied up.
I try to sweep at night but that doesn’t always happen depending on how everything is shaping up that night.
Around 7:30 or so is the toddler’s bath or shower time we will then get on pyjamas and finish tidying up the toys and maybe watch a little bit of a movie before you get me ready for bed.
Around 8:15 8:30 is bedtime snack followed by teeth, find their bottles get them filled up and ready for bed. I try to have the littles in bed right around 9 my four-year-old will tend to just play in his room well in his bed until he falls asleep. The youngest you just go to bed because it he’s going to get up at 6:30 in the morning then he can just go to bed LOL.
Then from 9 to 10 I will usually do another task that can get done whether it be some sort of a cleaning task or back into my garden to get a little more done. Then I will come in wash up, get on pyjamas and watch my Netflix until I either put myself to sleep or just passed out sitting up in bed this does happen more than what I would plan.
That is my summer routine in a nut shell, it keeps me busy I am trying to learn how to take a step back sit down maybe I smell a flower now and then and not just weed them continuously but, you do what you got to do for the stuff that you want I guess right.

I hope you enjoyed this blog or my summer routine do you have a summer routine?
Doesn’t change every day?
I have kind of kept my morning afternoon and evening routines to a degree as my cleaning routines I have become a very big routine and so they just kind of stayed for the most part in place.
I hope you have a wonderful summer oh, I hope you make wonderful family memories oh, and I hope to see you when mask supposably left here in Saskatchewan. If you want some more fun little more personal details of what I am doing in my days make sure you head over to one of my other social media pages and either on Facebook or on Instagram.
I do tend to go on Facebook more right now than I do Instagram I turn to friend in and out of Instagram.
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Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week.
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STOP AND SMELL THE FLOWERS THIS SUMMER!
SUMMER CLEANING 🙄😭😱
BEST PORK TENDERLOIN!
Hello and good morning! How did your week go? I hope everyone beat the crazy heat!! On my deck in the sun I will add but, still, my thermostat actually read +60 the one afternoon!! That is a crazy temperature for June in Saskatchewan!
It was definitely a non cooking week, my family was lucky if I put something I the slow cooker!!
It was a busy, hot, weekend here building a railing on our deck and playing in the sprinkler!
Now with the weather slowly cooling down, reality is coming back! There is really only a handful of days it seems like in the summer were I’m willing to cook in my oven! The nice thing about this recipe is it can be done in the oven, or on the barbecue if you want!
This recipe is a wonderful recipe it is delicious, it is easy to make, and all of my kids love it! I find it a really nice fall meal but, it is a really good crowd pleaser! With restrictions supposedly starting to get lifted I suspect people be getting antsy if they get together!
I find a great way to save is to buy whole tenderloin, so a good go to sauce is wonderful. This recipe calls for 2 lb tenderloin.
When are by my whole pork tenderloins, I can get two pork tenderloins for my family of six out of it, it’s can definitely help cut costs!
If your ready grab a paper and pen as you will want to write this one down, and give it a try!
What you will need is
- 2 lb tenderloin
- 1/4 cup soya sauce
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon of each cinnamon, cloves and garlic powder.
Mix together and marinate meat for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425° cook for 15 minutes uncovered.
Reduce heat to 350° cover and cook for another 30 minutes. Let sit for 10 minutes, slice diagonally.
This is paired with any side and is so good.
Give it a try let me know what you think of it in the comments down below.
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So… I had pictures for the blog, and then they got deleted 😨😭
I apologize for this!
PREPPING FOR SUMMER!
Hello and good morning! Summer is coming fast now! Kids are on their last day of school if not out now, garden is growing and the tan is coming along nice!
With summer here it seems to mean what seems like jamming as much as possible into like 2 months! Mine are done at the end of June heading back beginning of September!
With cleaning, garden, yard projects, trips and a family time it’s busy trying to do it all and with 4 kids home asking for a snack lol every minute.
I am a stay-at-home mom of 4 kids, 2 are in school, 1 starts playschool in the fall and 1 is still at home for a couple years!
There is a few things I have to realize that it is just easier to have some plans in place! A game plan set! Some lists created!
There is nothing I love more than sitting down and making some good summer lists!
This can be done on ANYTHING! A peice of paper, a fun summer book, make a fun chart on Canva or, just with the kids art stuff! What ever your time is or your passion is it can work any way you need it to!
I will usually start with just paper and a pen! If I find motivation or time I will then make them up different to just add some summer fun! It’s surprising to see the difference a fun pattern can do for a list! haha
I find that there is more categories that I crop then I thought just thinking quickly!
My summer lists this year include:
- Cleaning
- Meals and snack ideas
- Meal prep and freezer meals
- Vehicle cleaning and summer prep
- Routines
- Trips or any “vacation” planning
- Projects
- Outside chores for routines or not
This is why I say it can be easier to sit down and make that list, that hopes and dream lists! I would never of had the brain power or space to have all that floating around vs being on a good old peice of paper! lol
Squirrel brain at its finest here lol!!
Let’s break it down now into the lists in the categories you have down! REMEMBER YOUR SUMMER LIST WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AS SOMEONE ELSE’S!
CLEANING
This is a very big area and so, when I put cleaning it is going to be broken down to the deep cleaning! The daily cleaning will get put on the routines! I do my spring cleaning in the winter so, my “cleaning” this summer is for tasks that can only really be done in the summer like:
– shampooing rugs
– outside windows
– cleaning camper, shop
– vehicle cleaning and prep can go here too!
ect…
MEALS AND SNACKS!
Meals and snacks are a forever ongoing thing in my house! With how much the “snack” food costs I try to have snacks planned! We also follow Jordan Page and the “If it’s in a wrapper it’s not to be eaten at home!” They are the most expensive thing to go the fastest in the house! So, if we are in the car, at a park etc, then those are the snacks that I will pack for them more! If we are at home then the wrapped goodies don’t come out! So, having snacks planned can make it easier not to grab them on those lazy hot days, or the busy working day!
Meals I find I waste less, spend less and eat better when I can have a good meal plan in place! There is definitely a difference in the foods that are eaten in the winter vs summer! So, having a good list to choose from can make summer meal planning and freezer meals easier! I love freezer meals in the summer for the days I don’t want to be in the kitchen or, super busy days they come in so much help!
ROUTINES
My routines always get a new outline to them! Most of the things stay the same as what they do through the year but there is definitely some things I need to change as there is no school now. So, what the only things that really change is the afternoon and a little bit of our morning routine but, for the most part the only thing that’s kind of changes is the time frames. It’s, can be nice not needing to worry about getting up for school going to bed at a good time because of school, however if I don’t have some structure in place I find that’s a little will to get way too over tired and my big kids will just try to not sleep at all. I tried to keep up with reading through the summer and depending on how the kids are doing we will try to do math and spelling also. Not a lot I don’t ask a lot for them about 15 minutes per subject.
TRIPS AND/OR FAMILY TIME
This one is still kind of up in the air with what exactly might happen with how the summer might go! But, when it comes time to planning and trying to prep what might happen, this is in regards to things like:
Are the big kids going to the grandparents for the summer?
For how long?
Are we going to do anything with the littles while they are gone?
Are we trying to go somewhere this year with everyone since we might be able to actually do stuff like that this year LOL!
So, that is part of what I mean when I say trips and family time! Also are we planning any beach time we’re not big on public places so when we do we try for lakes, or go with a group of friends!
This is all things that I would like to have a game plan for not sketched in stone but, would like to have an idea of what I might need to maybe pick up from Walmart or Dollar Tree when I’m in the city next just little things to make it easier when the time comes!
PROJECTS AND OUTSIDE CHORES!
This is going to cover all outside projects and the garden! This is going to be for trees to be planted, we are trying to get a railing up maybe on our deck, any other building or maintenance work outside! I would like to have a game plan or an idea so we can start getting a budget and time and supplies figure it out LOL! Other things would be something like outside equipment or pools or toys that I’m trying to get for outside for the kids, getting the camper cleaned up we are getting ready to sell our camper so, that has to be cleaned out and ready! With that are we going to go camping with the camper one more time? This will also be are we making a sitting area outside what kind of play areas am I going to try to DIYs things like that so again I have an idea of what I might want to look for when I do get to the city now and then in the summer! This will also include a garden list of things to get done in the summer!
There you have it that is how I prep myself for the most part for summer break!
How do you get ready for your kids home for the summer?
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Homemade Burgers For The Win! 😎
Summer time!
You will need for a batch is:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 egg
- Diced onion
- Spices what ever spices you want I use parsley,garlic powder, onion powder and paprika
In a bowl mix all together
I use a measuring cup usually at least 1/4 cup
Scoop meat mix and flatten into a patty, place on cookie sheet and repeat!
Yap it’s that easy!
Grill, bake or fry about 10 min per side or until cooked all way through depending on the size of burgers you have made!
Then sit back and enjoy!
What are you waiting for you can be eating burgers any day of the week, with this easy go to yummy burger recipe!
I hope this helps get you through some of the summer days of the cooking cleaning, and repeat.
Go ahead and make a batch or 2 or 3 lol it will come in handy as the days get hot and the nights get long!
If you like this recipe let me know. Do you make burgers or buy bulk! Got room in the freezer put some in, I guarantee they will be used by the end of Summer!
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The fun has just begun for the summer months.
Hope to chat with you on one of the pages, and share what summer foods you eat, to make it through the summer.
Have a great day and a awesome week.
I will be in touch on the social media pages and will have another blog up next week!
Got an idea you want discussed let me know, it’s all about making it together, so your thoughts matter, and I would love to hear them.
Till next week have fun and keep making those summer memories instead of all those meals! 😎😁❤
Cheers 🥂
MY GARDEN SO FAR! ♥

Hi good morning, welcome to another blog with me! I’m Kandis with Classy Classics By Kandis! I am a stay-at-home mom a for kids ages 12, 10, 4, and 2 years old!
I definitely am on my feet and on my toes all the time. With so many kids especially with so many boys three of them are boys, the groceries that goes with this house is unbelievable!
This is the reason why I need my garden, it’s not even want anymore and so need because of how many mouths there are lol.
I am a Frugal Living, budget loving, planner addicted stay home mom lol!
I have always loved growing stuff in a garden I have done a garden for about 10 years now, this is my second year for a garden in the spot oh, and I tell you I am still learning all sorts of stuff!
I thought as my garden is coming along now, all planted and ready to make me food, I would take you through my garden steps!
The kicker with my garden is anything that is grown in a garden can usually be grown also in a container!
What ever your garden space is or your time frame for planting you can also grow something but, beware gardening can be addictive! 😉
I love my flowers and trees as much as my garden! It is like a snow ball effect lol!

With the family growing the size of my garden definitely has too! With all the daily tasks already the kicker with adding is just that, adding more tasks to that already growing list! Make sure you don’t bite more then you can chew!
There is definitely a couple things I have learned in how to make the garden life easier to enjoy!
My garden got extended this year however, this is the size it will be now! So, couple years of hard work and it should get easier and easier! If you have a spot that has been there for years already then it will be easier already then starting one from scratch!
The first thing that I start with is to get right ground worked out and rotor tell, that’s your I actually made sure to get it spray with round up because it was extended again and it is a new garden that I am trying to to work with.
The next thing I did was I had went in to the garden and literally counted how many my feet the garden was oh, I say my feet because I have smaller feet so it’s not going to be like a full foot or something right LOL.
Then I get going on my outline oh, I had already done a rough outline to know what I needed to fit into the garden and tell you how to maybe make my sections. I’ll tell you more about my sections when we get to it.
So then the next thing that I have to do is I design my garden all of this can be done on a piece of paper or in a gardening book if you have one depending on how detailed you are and how many years you have been gardening. I said I have a gardening book because they say every five years to rotate your garden oh, they also say to watch what you plant in what soil and by what oh, so I find it easier to know where and what went where in case something goes wrong or I’m just trying something or I need to swap my rows around.
With the garden this year again I have it in 3 sections if you will! I have a section that contains short these are rows that are going across my garden as some things like to grow in shorter rows, it says its better for the growing! This is like radishes and carrots!


Then I have a section that I call my long grows oh, this is because they are just that long rows! These are used what’s my peas, beans and cucumbers.

Then on my third section I call my patch, this is because it typically will have my pumpkins, squash, zucchini, and any melons that I can find or start. There’s one by using a patch because they are super viney plants and they tend to spread across a large section oh, they will also choke out other plants smaller plants if you didn’t know LOL.

With this being the biggest garden that I have ever had and bigger than what I ever dreamed I would have there is a couple things that I am trying to figure out to make it just a little easier to keep up with it all.
With this I have a rototiller and I am hoping that my rows are big enough to make it through at least once, and then I just have to weed around my plants or rows.
Another thing that I am going to try this year some homemade Roundup and that way I won’t be as potent on my plants but I do know that it does work on me it’s because I have used it for years! So with this I’m going to see if I can use some homemade Roundup just do not like a spray bottle, for my weeds in between the rows and my flower bed! I will give you an update on how it goes for me lol when the time comes!
For the homemade Roundup you would need:
- vinegar
- table salt
- blue original Dawn dish soap
With June all of a sudden half gone and our weather still pretty crazy hitting + 5 the at night it’s still pretty chilly at night for June and, my watermelon, cantaloupe and homeydews! So, my melons haven’t gone out yet it is actually still too cold at night for them and I am not going down to my garden to cover them at night because that is too cold!

There ya have it! My garden update so far! It is not perfect but it sure didn’t help the weeding that I got the seeds planted and then we have had a week of on and off thunderstorms lol! I will not complain about that I love storms and we sure needed the rain! However, remember when your plants are doing good the weeds are doing great!
I will do another garden update when everything is up more and rocking and rolling!
Did you put a garden in?
What do you grow?
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Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!
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GO TO SWEET & SOUR SAUCE!!!
Hello and good morning welcome to Classy Classics By Kandis!
It always seems like this time of the year suppers can be hard to figure out again! Who wants to be in the kitchen prepping and cooking when you need to be outside weeding and playing in water! Ok,well it’s not water season yet but it’s coming!
This is the time of year that I really like to either pre-plan summer suppers and/or get my freezer ready with some freezer meals.
There’s nothing better than being able to just pull something out that morning that night day before or whatever the prep time is, it’s nice to know that I have backup meals for when I get lazy!
One of my favorite things to do is the sweet and sour sauce, I use it on all sorts of stuff and it doesn’t take up much room in my freezer.
The sweet and sour sauce is super easy to make and I love making it with meatballs. Make some rice and you have a whole meal!
I tend to do all whole lot of Meatballs pre-cook them you can put them all into one bag and just pull out however many meatballs that you need!
With this recipe it calls for:
The meatballs are:
- Onion diced
- Warcheshire sauce
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 2 cups rolled oats or bread crumbs
- An egg
- 1/2 cup milk
Combine all ingredients and roll into balls line in bake dish cook 400° for 35 minutes or until done!
The sauce you will need:
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons soya sauce
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder.
Mix together in a sauce pan and stir, bring to a boil until thickened. Add meatballs or pour over! It is that simple and yes that yummy.
Need a supper plan give it a try, let me know what you think in the comments down below.
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ME VS MY MIND… ANXIETY SUCKS!!!
Hi and good morning! How are you doing this week? This week was sure a swirl of craziness! With this it is still enough to make me go crazy! Anxiety!
I have struggled with anxiety my whole life! Do you would think that by now when I was in my thirties I would know how to control it better! However, that is not true and I crumble with my anxiety! I still struggle with “shaking” it off!
There is however a few things I have learned to try to calm it down! It is something that I have tried focusing on more, with my last kid! That 4th kid came and my anxiety got a little more touchy!
The kicker with myself is that it can be the smallest things that trigger my anxiety!
With having such bad anxiety I have found a way couple tips and tricks that can help calm me!
1) Stick to the routine!
This sounds so basic but, when my mind is going in all directions it is important for me to keep on going. I will do my routines and try to keep my mind on my routine! Knowing what my routines are I can almost float through them, trying to calm my mind! When I have my bed still made in the morning it can always calm me down! I love seeing my bed all nicely made….. before kids get at it lol!
2) Change my thinking!
I am not a go to the positive side of my anxiety! It takes a lot to get my brain thinking positive however, when it gets there it’s so much better!
How do you keep your thoughts positive?
3) Play it out
I tend to play out the situations in my head! When there is no outcome to the situation the outcome is usually what I put in my own head! Part of the reason why I need to change my thoughts to as positive as I can!
4) Enjoy the little things!
On the days that I wake up with anxiety can be hard, I tend to have worse days when I wake up with anxiety versus getting it sometimes through the day!
On days like this it is almost impossible for me to find motivation, and so I will try to just get my cup of coffee and I will go sit down with the littles, maybe do a puzzle with them, watch a little TV get some extra snuggle time in that morning.
This is a nice way for me to just enjoy those little things in life, my dishes may not be getting done got my babies are getting bigger and those snuggle days are coming to a countdown.
5) Destress… usually at bedtime!
If my anxiety has stayed with me all through the day, or was extreme intense level here the day then I will try to schedule out just a me night! This can be as simple as doing some stretching that night and will usually always have a nice hot shower to help relax me. I love when I can just sit down and put on Netflix and space right out onto my show, I usually don’t think about to much then, other than my show. I love planning in my planner so I can try to do something in my planner oh, this also keeps my brain on a totally different track than what it’s being stuck on for the day depending on what I’m freaking out about that day LOL.
There is so many different ways that can calm my head down oh, none of it’s easy and when I start to have anxiety it can be really hard to have it gone.
Really anything that can help clear your mind oh, I love going for a walk, a drive, make a phone call really anything that can help settle my brain I can try to help settle my day!
What about you do you struggle with anxiety?
How do you cope with it?
There is so much triggers in the world these days that I am trying to find a balance between my thoughts and my anxiety something that I’ve been working on and something then I will continue some working on.
I hope you enjoyed this guy out maybe if you show go with anxiety or any sort girls anxiety hopefully this blog how to find a couple ways to try to calm your mind!
I hope you enjoyed this blog it is definitely something that I don’t always talk about as anxiety isn’t my friend LOL.
It is something that a lot of us struggle with and is not going to be put on the back burner oh, it’s okay to have anxiety and it’s okay to ask for help with it!
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