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Happy 2022

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Hello, good morning!

Happy Monday! How was your holidays?

This year was a good christmas! It was filled with great memories, great gifts, way to much food and some good drinks! This year was also a little different! The way that is was different was that I had my christmas decorations down before New years eve! This is almost unheard of for in my house!

Last year I had kept my tree up and made it into a Valentine’s tree! It was the cutest thing I think! I will leave a link for the blog… go check it out it was a cute and fun idea!

Valentine’s Fun!

So why the rush this year?

There wasn’t really a reason or a big rush however, this year like I said it was a great christmas. I has woke up tho one morning just after christmas. We has had christmas here with my husbands parents and brother, then boxing day we had spent with my dad! He is unable to come out to my house due to a knee injury he is still recovering from!

So, we did our christmas’s then for some reason I was good to end christmas there! I think I was conent I had said ” It was a great christmas and lets leave it there! Let’s let those memories be the end of the year!” Really I did!

With my hubby saying I could start with taking down the tree decorations I just kept on going! It really was just what I needed!

Now, that the new year is here I am still so happy that I took the time when I did and got the decorations but away and a clean start to the new year!

The last ocuple years have been a blur, as I am sure it has been like that for many people! These years have been a wonky one and I am ready to MOVE ON!

With the New year here I am ready to start 2022 with a wonderful start!

Do you make new year resolutions?

Do you ever pick a word for the year?

I had started thinking of word of the year a couple years ago and I liked it enough to keep doing it lol! I find it’s a nive way to sprinkle some possitivity and motvation on the start of the year! I also make new year resolutions however, I do that one a little different! I don’t do big lists of things that I might or might not do! I have been trying to take a couple spots in my life that I would like to work on and every month I will try to do something with that goal or try to incorporate it into my days instead of junping in and feeling like it will not work and just stop a couple weeks into it!

I aim to improve myself or my life vs changing big almost impossible tasks!

This year I had thought about it and, different words had popped into my head for the new year but, one word made my head and my heart agree on!

That word is:

BALANCED

This word I think is a good fit for me expecially for in 2022!

I had ended up going with this for a couple reasons. When I had thought of this one it had stuck with me in the back of my head even while I was thinking of other ones! With the last couple years we defentily had a couple twists and turns along the way! As i’m sure everyone had some unexpeced turns occur in 2021!

This year I know that I needed to be able to handle my days a little better! I do defentily have anxeity and tend to overthink and just struggle with my own thoughts throughout some days! This was doing no good for anyone!

This is why I am hoping and planning to simply just tyr to BALANCE my days! I tend to think that there is really only one way to do something! Everything should be done and done right! This is not the way I need to be thinking!

There is more and more reason when I think about it of why my word of the 2022 year is BALANCED!

As a stay home mom, a wife, trying to keep the kids fed and for the most part contect. With everything that we do as a mom and a wife we are then also ALWAYS reminded that we need to make sure to take time for A,B anc C! This was not a strong suit of mine, in the aspect that I will not stop until its ALL done! Which some and probally most days is not possible to do everything that we are told we need or should be doing!

I picked the work BALANCED to remind my self and to try too become more BALANCED!

If you try to do to much at once it will be too hard!

If you try to put to much on one side without a balancer on the other side then you tip!

The one thing that I have been telling myself is “It’s not about how much I can do, it’s about being happy when I do it!” I can’t be scared to fall when I know that I might fly! If I can learn to balance my wings then who knows how far they will take me!

How about you? Do you use a word of the year to help with any resolutions that you may of made for the year?

I am planning on having a wonderful year with more fun with the blogs and more content on my social pages! If you are ready I would love for you to join me in the 2022 year!

Follow along on the blog I have a goal to get my life more organized and our house running as smooth as we can with so many people and so many different age catagories! I will also leave a link for my facebook and instagram! I have set goals to be more BALANCED with the pages and to have more talks with ALL OF YOU!

Until next week!

Have a wonderful day, a productive week and a smooth weekend!

Bye for now!

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Homemade Burgers For The Win! 😎

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Summer time!

We tend to what seems like eat way more in the summer months!
Maybe it seems like it, maybe because I don’t want to cook, when it’s so nice out.
Who want to do the same thing everyday like cook supper when you can be out playing in the sun.
This is a reason why I love freezer meals, but if freezer meals is not your jive, or you don’t have any on hand.
Have no fear mama Kandis is here lol.
Hi I’m Kandis a stay at home mom and wife. I have 4 children ages from 12 down to 2 years! I tell you food can go fast here, I’m always thinking on what’s the next thing to make! What to do for supper again tonight Lol!🤣
So let’s talk burgers, easy, fast and will save you money!
Sounds magical to me lol, so let’s start!
There is always those go to summer meals. Those foods that seem ok to constantly eat over and over in the summer.
In this house one of our staple go to foods is good old burgers!
What is your staple summer foods, something that no matter what the family will eat and usually enjoy!
With burgers it’s just easy right!
Make a salad, or some fries or just have the burgers! Grill them, bake them fry them it does not matter!
Have them at home, bbq at a friend’s house or camping!
You can have them anywhere!
So here is how I make my burgers that take only minutes to get ready.
Pre cook some pop them into the freezer, or leave them uncooked and freeze them.
It does
Either way that works or just eat them all and save none because, well they are yummy haha.
I have been making my burgers this way for years, and I will not stop making my homemade burgers. Actually would you believe me when I say I have not had a premade burger in at least 8 years. 🤤
That is really how quick and easy and of coarse delicious they are!😉
If your ready then let’s go, and talk burger making!
This is a recipe that can be make small or big you will see how easy it is to make lots at once.

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!

For more daily tips and tricks make sure you go ahead and hit that follow button for all the upcoming blogs here on Classy Classic’s By Kandis.

Also follow me on Instagram under Kandis Blask and Facebook at classyclassicsbykandis.
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 🥂

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Teacher Gifts 2019

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Another year, another round of giving! Do you give out gifts for the kids extra people? This year is all about simple and thoughtful!

Hi good morning and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis!

Can you believe it’s almost time for the jolly man to come? This year for the teachers we thought we would keep it clean, simple and cute.

With the year coming to an end…. a very long emotional, stress testing year, I decided it’s all about the giving, in a smaller way!

My kids have 4 teacher gifts to give out this year. I am the mom that will put so much thought and extra into gifts that it almost become more then it should! So this year I went to the dollar tree and had it set out for about $5 a teacher. This may seem little but I really like how they are coming together!

If the gifts seem “not done” that’s because, well they are not! Hahaha.
I wanted to get the blog set up tho to help with so e cute ideas for this holiday season when it comes to the “other” gifts.

The teachers, bus driver, leaders, coaches ECT.

These little gifts that are probably the cutest I think to make, but can add up quick if you don’t pay attention. I did around $5 each to make under $30 for all the extras. They are also all the same other then the towel design is different, just to show some extra thought. This is also tho we are from a small town where everyone knows everyone. So if that is not your case or style it is very easy to make them all the same and be fine.

How ever like I said they are not quite done, only thing that is missing is small items for in the cup, and the cookie trays are not done yet!

Next week I am picking up the stuff to finish and the trays will be done by then as I have the baking mapped out on my weekly to do!

Head over to my blog on 5 tips for a stress free Christmas, to see what I do to help break, up the tasks throughout the weeks.

So back to the main thing haha…. squirrel brain!

This year I really like the feeling on these!

There is a cute mug, travel cup, Christmas towel, cookie tray done by me 😁, then to finish it off I am going to fill the to go mug with little goodies and hot chocolate mixed!

All hopefully tucked in a cute basket wrap! This is also cause would you believe when I went to the store I could not find a cute Christmas basket!

All wrapped up I think they will be so cute, easy to carry and very yummy and thoughtful!

I’ll make sure to post updates as they get completed. We however have about 2 weeks till they need to leave my house, so as I said they will get finished this week!

I hope this gave you some ideas for those little gifts. You can also head over to last year’s posts on Instagram.

Make sure to follow me on Instagram under Kandis Blask or over on Facebook Classy Classic’s By Kandis. There will be the finished product there also lots of daily posts on day to day fun and ideas. Lots of motivation and everything in between!

I hope you enjoyed this week’s blog, make sure to leave a comment so I know if you like this kind of blog!

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Till next week I hope you have a great day, amazing week and of coarse a thoughtful warm December!

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Evening Routine Is It Bed Yet

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Does it ever feel like the day just slows down? Time almost stops when your waiting for it to fly by? Evening just blurr together, especially on the nights mommy needs a shower haha.

Hello and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis for another routine blog! This one is our evening one! This tends to be the busiest time of the day!

I’m not sure if it’s because everyone is home now, or if it is because mama is ready for her day to end lol!
Either way evening can get long and I tend to need my routine to stay on track for this time of day!

What does an evening look like in our house of 6!

My evening routine is roughly from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. This is yes counting my relax time ideally from 9:30/10:00 – 11:00.
I try to be tucked in bed around 11:00 pm, as 5:30 am comes oh so fast!

With the evening we start it at say 6:00 pm at supper! Supper comes and goes, then comes dishes, clean the table off, get the kitchen wiped down and a quick sweep! This usually will run us close to sometime around 7:00-7:15 pm.

I will try to have homework done before supper, if that did not happen we then will finish off homework.
Showers and baths have to get going. The big kids can have theirs before or after supper depending on everything else.
As for the little ones I try to have them going in around 7:30-8:00. We don’t bath them together as Dawsyn the youngest is still in the baby tub.

If time is permitting my daughter Valary the oldest and myself have been trying to stretch together. This only happens on a rare base!

I have been trying to get back into read aloud for the last 15 minutes at night, however just like everything it is harder then it sounds!

Then it’s time for bed. I am currently in the middle of actually trying to get the young ones in bed for 8:30 now.
The big ones can have free time in their bedrooms, I ideally have them in bed for 9:00pm.
What is your kids bed time?
I was having everyone in bed at 9:00 however I’m greedy and would like bed time to come sooner. Also they are up early.

Dawsyn still gets nursed and snuggled for bed. Yes this will come to bite me in the butt, however it’s also a reason for me to sit and chill with snuggles!

With all the kids in bed and chilling in their rooms, if there is a task that needs to be finished, without little ones around I will take 30 minutes to work on it. Example is getting my basement done!

With all of that it is then time for mama’s time.
This is when I will sit in bed with my hubby, watch a  movie, hang out and chit chat.

Then just like that it’s bed, unless I have already fallen asleep! Yes, this has been happening a little too much!

How does your evening go?
Got a standard routine?
Do you stick to it?

I try to just because a clean house is addicting haha, I love waking up for my coffee and day with a “fairly” clean house.

With that, that’s it, that’s all! That is the last routine in my house! If you haven’t read seen the other routines be sure to head over and read about the morning and afternoon routines. I have added links at the bottom for them!

Till next week when a new adventure awaits!
Make sure you subscribe to the blog for notifications on new blogs, and of coarse follow me on Instagram under Kandis Blask or over on Facebook Classy Classic’s for all the day to day fun that happens.

Have a wonderful weekend, amazing week and productive day!

Links to the other routine blogs:

Morning routine:
https://classyclassicsbykandis.blogspot.com/2019/11/morning-routine-with-4-kids-and-coffee.html

Afternoon routine:
https://https://classyclassicsbykandis.blogspot.com/2019/11/morning-routine-with-4-kids-and-coffee.html.blogspot.com/2019/11/after-school-routine-trying-to-do-it.html

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After School Routine Trying To Do It!

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Hi good morning and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis. It’s another week, another start, another routine.
There is always time for a strong routine. When placed in the right time zone can be extremely helpful, thrown together, and not thought about is just a waste.
In my mind it is that is!
I have routines to help set up my day! Between all the demands and different job tasks that are required as a stay at home mom, it can be difficult to remember, coordinate and accomplish it all.
I will point out that it is not our job to do it all.

Remember ” you can do anything, but you can not to everything” this is a saying I’m trying to keep in my mind!

It can be hard when there is always something that needs to be done, and always someone that needs some mom time. How to do it all.

In my afternoon routine it is broken down to help me on track and focused. I get detracted really easy! With this I can keep my mind focused for a couple minutes as most tasks if just done should not take long.

What does a afternoon look like for this house? The afternoon is roughly from 12:00 pm till around 5:00pm.

I start with lunch, as its just the 2 little ones here for lunch depending on the activities in the day will depend on lunch.
Yes, they do eat lol, maybe it’s all day snacks, maybe it’s soup and sandwiches at exactly lunch time. It all depends!

With Masyn getting a little older I am currently weaning him off of naps! He will tend to fall asleep still in random places lol, and only get to nap for an hour or so.

Baby Dawsyn I try to get to nap in the afternoon, if I’m, lucky for a couple hours!

The afternoons are not as productive for cleaning, as it is in the morning. Hubby gets home around 2pm, the kids get home around 3:40 pm there is really only a couple hours in the afternoon. I will try to tidy up….again, maybe sit and relax a couple minutes. Depending on how the morning went finish those little things from my zone that day!

From noon too about 2 pm there is just small things getting done,

Lets get to after school when the business sets in!

I try to have a snack either picked out or prepped and ready for when they get home. The after school routine tends to not always get completed as time waits for no one. However we sure try lol.

When the big kids gets home it’s go time for this mamma as I am needed in many places all at once.
We will unpack our backpack, I go through the agenda’s and get them signed and back into the school bags, they unpack the lunch kits, wash their hands and have a snack. Then on to homework! There is not much as they are in elementary however there is still some! We do reading, spelling and if there is other homework due then that also.

If everyone needs showers that nightwe try to start before supper.
Then they have some free time before supper.

I then prep or finish making supper, clean off the table… there is always something there lol.
We set the table and get ready to eat.

This is roughly how the afternoons tend to look.

Now a lot happens in the afternoon other then getting what needs to be done for the next day, for the smaller stuff, as I do more tomorrow stuff I  my evening routine.

This is for next week, what an evening looks like in our house of 6.

How do your afternoons go?
Let me know do you have a routine?
Set out tasks to complete?
I would love to hear, how your days go!

Stay tuned for next week’s blog on our evening routine!

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Ps…
Sorry for the lack of pictures as the afternoon is really just that! Catch up and prep for the evening!

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Morning Routine with 4 Kids And Coffee!

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Good Morning! Birds are chirping, sun is coming up, and kids are waking up! Coffee is brewed and mamma is enjoying a cup! Mornings can be hard, whether you have kids in school, or little ones at home. In my case I have both, and I tell you my morning routine is proving to be very important here for a smoother morning!

Hi I’m Kandis and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis. As I said I am a mother of 4 kids, a daughter who is 10, and 3 boys ages 8, 2 1/2 and 8 month old! Things can go from 0 to wow in no time! I have learned that we need a strong morning routine here. Do you have a morning routine? Let me know, how does it work for you?

I hope whether you have a routine or not you enjoy this blog on our morning routine and how we try to get the older kid’s ready and out the door for school, and mamma gets a couple things done. Let me know in the comments if you liked it, and I will be getting ready to post the afternoon blog here next!

Here we go my morning consists of the hours from 6:00 am to roughly 12:00 pm. This is “my morning” I get up at 5:30 but other the coffee and my planner nothing is happening as far as I hope in the morning. I have a “block system” I have wrote about, go have a read on how I break up my hours. I will also be doing an updated version soon.

Ok so…. 6 am oh my so early, this is because my hubby needs to get up and ready for road bound, as he is still dealing with his accident from March! So 6:00-7:00 is getting him up, having coffee and a quick chit chat, before he leaves usually before 7 am if he is running late then it’s by 7 he must be out.

7 am comes fast, if the stars have lined up then all 4 kids are hopefully still asleep. The younger ones tend to get up way to early some days. At roughly 7:15 it’s time to get the big kids up for school. If I have not made my bed and gotten dresses yet I will do this as I wait for them to get downstairs.
They are to make their beds, and get dressed before coming down to get ready for breakfast.

Breakfast depending on the day depends on what the choices are. We aim to be eating by about 7:30 as my children feel the need to take forever eating breakfast.
They then get ready for school with their morning list it can help, as they can go threw the list themselves. Hahaha they “should” be able too!
They are supposed to: make bed, get dressed, breakfast, vitamins, brush teeth, wash up, brush hair, pack backpack, and out the door! Yap that’s what they need over an hour to do!

After the kids are off to school, I get the little ones settled and content.
Then it’s kitchen clean up, nothing to big, unless its kitchen zone. Then I would have more there! Just a tidy to get ready for the next round. Then the baby is ready for a nap, usually he will take a nap in the morning. He will usually nap till about 10:30-11:00 depending!

Masyn my toddler will watch some tv, and have play time. This is also when I get my zone cleaning or specific tasks done, that can be with him awake. We will look over me zone cleaning soon. This is breaking the house into “zones” to help with outlines.

We then will try to get outside if weather is good.

Then just like it’s time to start lunch!

There you have it!
 My morning in a nut shell, this is how my first 6 hours go!

There will be more on my tasks when the block system is updated and out, or go on over and have a read on it while you wait for an updated one.

How does your morning go?
How did you like the routine on our morning?
Think you might create one or change yours up?
Have any questions or comments?
Let me know in the comments below or on one of the social media pages! Follow me on Instagram under Kandis Blask or over on Facebook Classy Classic’s.
I have posts there as much as I can haha!

Till next week have a great day, wonderful week and a smooth morning!

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I Learned A Lot In 3 Weeks

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Have you heard the expression “you can’t have your cake, and it it too”!
I have always been the type that says “watch me”, I’ll make it, bake it, and have it too! Lol
I always say “can do anything, give me 24 hours”. Anything can happen in 24 hours!

There is a actual reason why my friends said the doctor was a smart man, not putting me a boot. I will keep going, always something to do. Little by little, task by task it will all get done.

Here is a fun fact about me lol I have troubles focusing on one task. I have squirrel brain haha. I will be cleaning one spot, do the mistake of taking something to another room, to put away.p then see something and start tackling that. It can be hard to complete one task, and so it never feels like I got much done because I am so everywhere.

These week’s I have not be able to really do that. With not being able to just be on the go, bounce from here to there I had to be focused on the task at hand.
I had a goal to do at least one task a day, two if everything was going good, and they were not big tasks.

With needing to pace myself, but still needing to keep things even a little in order I set out and made a 2 week plan. Cleaning and food.
I could pick my couple tasks a day and roll with it. Needless to say I did good! I ended up pushing myself a couple times, but having to take a break and put my foot up, sure kept me in line haha.

My tasks were broke up instead of having a zone that I would work in, I did a task for the day.
One day I cleaned my counters and deep cleaned behind all the stuff. The next day I vacuumed my floors, as I can not sweep, so I got on my butt and vacuumed haha.
Bathroom was a day, other then the tub as I can not clean it yet.
This was how I tried to keep the grossness down as much as I could.

These 3 weeks that I had crutches was sure a learning curve for not only me, but the whole house!
I could not just do it for everyone, some tasks where just left undone.
What kind of tasks you may ask?

A good example is:
My 10 year old informed me she was out of socks! I asked her
“Ok, so what should, be done”?
Her response ” I need to wait” 🤔
Oh wait for what….. broke foot or not they are required to simply bring down their dirty clothes. So why is it when I have a cast they feel they now need to wait. I would not of been the one to bring down the dirty clothes anyways!

Kids I tell you lol.

I have learnt that it is ok, to have some stuff out till later, it’s ok to let the floors go for  a little.
Those little snuggles are only here for a bit, as the dirty floors truly are not going anywhere!

Those milestones that come and go daily is a true gift!

Dawsyn the baby stared to crawl…. EVERYWHERE and that was a special thing to be on the floor with him,also sitting up by him self! He loves trucks, and animals, and crumbs haha. 😩😅

Masyn the toddler, loves to read….. in the morning more then any other time of the day. He loves to give hugs and jump on pillow piles, vaccuming and of coarse eating. He eats so much tho!

Valary and Dysyn my big kids, love to cook, just not clean up haha. They love to play with the little ones, and to read to everyone!

I have learnt so much, about being able to sit, and relax as I really am not one to stop.

The house can be done little by little, and it’s ok.

This is all things that I thought I knew before, however it took having too just sit to fully realize and accept it!

I guess everything does happen for a reason! It may take time to see that reason, but in the end it was how those cards were actually supposed to be delt!

I have a goal now more then ever to take the time for my whole family, just like everything one at a time. Each person needs some time, a hug, a kiss or just a simple I love you from time to time!

In the end everything will work out. I hope everything will line up in your house, your world and in your stars. I hope you enjoyed this blog. I will of coarse keep you updated on the foot, house, and take you along as things start to slowly get back to normal, with the exception on those extra snuggle times, extra couch sits, extra mamma time.

Make sure you hit that follow button for all the upcoming blogs and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram under Kandis Blask or over on Facebook Classy Classic’s By Kandis for more daily posts.

Till next week have a great day, an amazing week!

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One Week Update Who Won Doctor or Mamma!

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Might need to add silver!

Good Morning everyone how are we today? Welcome to CLASSY CLASSIC’S BY KANDIS. I hope you had a great week! Fall is officially here. Leaves are changing, morning are frosty, birds are not singing happy warm songs!

October is one of my favorite months! There is something about me for you! The air is crisp the scenery is so beautiful. My husband’s birthday is the beginning of the month, thanksgiving and Halloween. There is so much fun in October!
I love reasons to theme anything, to have a big gathering. Nothing beats a bbq and drinks with friends!

So how is the foot you ask?
September 25th I headed into the doctors bright and early. I got told I broke my foot!
If you haven’t had the chance to read it go have a boo. It’s All I Wanted Was A Shower! So a week went by with mommy on the couch probably not as much as I should of but still lots…. especially for me! Healing food, and rest we set off for the healing week.

What did the doctor have to say when I went in? I was told it could be 6 weeks to the end! I informed the doctor that his time frame would not work for me 🙅‍♀️ and it had to be faster lol. Did he listen?
On October 2nd, yap my hubbys birthday we head into the hospital for an 8 am appointment! Heading out the door by 6:30 to make the drive and get in.

A fun fact is that I have been with my doctor for many years! At least 20 years… don’t even know how long. With this he knows me very well. This can be a good thing and a bad thing.

Morning went pretty good out the door and to the hospital. Doctor came in pressed and poked my foot. It is still bruised and a bit swollen. He first said to put me in a boot. My response arms in the air yeah yes let’s do it. Then he changed his mind.🙁

Into a cast for 2 week’s.
Why you may ask? He proceeded to say, I am going to do to much. I will carry the baby, walk around and power clean like everything is fine!
This is absolutely true I would of! If I don’t stay off of it, and rebreak it, it would set me back possibly up to 12 week’s!
“Do what you want, have the boot, hurt your foot and come back”! Yap this is my doctor and I love him. So I told him he sucks haha true story, he says it’s for my own good and he will see me in 2 weeks.

So with a matching out fit as I had a mental talk with myself the night before knowing it was a good chance that it was going to be a cast.
Pink and black with silver. My favourite color scheme, pink cast it was.

What to do now? How to do it all? Cleaning, lunches, prep, kid care just mom stuff!

I’m kicking it back and taking a mental day so I don’t have a break down. Playing and planning in my planner.

Remember: how do you get across the pond? One lily pad at a time! Don’t underestimate yourself but don’t over do it!

This is how I will make it through the next 2 weeks.
I have plans to try to do one task, at least one task a day.
Little by little it will get done.
As I am behind now on my goals and tasks, least fall is here. I don’t feel as bad about not getting outside as much.
I will get those little things done!

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I would also like to say thank you to everyone for all the wonderful wishes.

I want to know have you been stuck with a cast?
How did you manage? How did it all work out?

I will keep you updated on my tasks and how I’m doing it! Along with fun adventures with a hobbling mommy lol.

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Till next week, I hope you have a wonderful day, amazing week, and a productive list.

Foot up…kinda getting garden carrots and dishes done!
I did a post note and filled in each day as needed or seen able too!

Any body else have issues with dump spots?

Is just better in every way!

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All I Wanted was A Shower!

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I had my evening all planned out in my head! It was going to be great! Kids to bed, hang out with the hubby for a bit and shower followed by some planner time!

Sounds like a amazing night…. Right?

So what happened will blow your mind. I still can’t get over it and it’s making mommy a little ok a lot emotional!

Hi good morning and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis. Oh the blog today is not what it was supposed to be! It was going to be that start to a beautiful 3 week layout of routines. Followed by a new updated block system.

Now I’m sitting on the couch with a stupid cast on, waiting for October 2nd to come. We are heading out at 6:30 am to head to the hospital to get my cast changed or possibly off and into the boot!

Yap mama fractured her foot!!!

How you may ask? Well I’ll tell you, you won’t believe it, I still hardly believe it myself.

Sitting on the bed about 9:30 all the kids are in bed, I always hang out for a bit before getting into the shower in case the baby gets up. Hoping for the best I did about 10 minutes in my planner and was just telling the my hubby I should get into the shower.

That is when Dawsyn the baby starting making noise. I know he’s 8 months I should be letting him cry for a bit, let him learn to go to sleep. Its hard for me sometimes.
So upstairs I go. Grab my baby sit on the chair, and nurse him as I get him back to at least lala land.

It has been almost impossible for me not to fall asleep getting him to bed, being all comfy and warm. So much love and comfort from the little one. That was a mistake this round! A big, big mistake!

All of a sudden I wake up, think to my self damnit all I wanted was to hang out with my husband and have a nice shower. I went and feel asleep again.
Baby asleep in my arms, I get up to get him to bed and go from there. Knowing I missed my whole night and not super happy with that. Still partly asleep I go!

Up we go, now the rocking chair is literally about 3 steps from the crib! That’s all 1 step 2 step 3 step done. Nope didn’t make it.

I get up 1 step, 2 step and that was it. As I stepped on my left foot, I felt it roll under me. The side with my pinky toe I feel my foot roll, and then the rest of my foot goes under to. A full step on my top of the foot. It was so painful, I caught myself, and took that 3rd step.
Can not believe still I didn’t drop the baby!

Got the baby in bed and yes he woke up slightly! He went back to sleep, trying not to cry, and wake him up, I knew something was bad!
Got downstairs, wanted a smoke but my foot hurt that bad! Into my bedroom I go, managed to get my pajamas on and into bed. Keeping on my socks as my foot was so sore already and oh so cold.

Husband is asleep, I crawl into bed. It hurt so bad, I was so cold and worried!
There is no way that I broke it! I keep telling myself it will be ok. I can’t believe I did that!
Why did I do that?
How is that supposed to happen?
Why on earth did my foot break?

It’s ok, it’s not broke! All I could tell myself as I try to fall asleep!

I hear the baby in the monitor, I sit up and it hurts still! I look at the clock it tells me it’s 4:30am!
Ok my foot will hurt I tell myself it only happened a couple hours ago! I get out of bed and start to cry. I drag my butt out.

Hubby gets up with me, he looks at my foot swelling, and I tell him what happened. Baby went quiet, and I try to get back to the bed. I make it to the foot of my bed sweating. I’m going to puke I say as he goes to get me a pot. Poor guy sure not what he expected I tell you.

“Your going to the doctors in the morning” he tells me! I laugh at him! Literally I did. How do you want me to go to the doctor with 2 kids when I can’t walk! Laying down the alarms start going off, as I’m up at 5:30am to get things ready for him to go to physio every morning.

Baby wakes up, he gets the baby for me which is not easy for him as he can’t bend his knee still from the accident! He brought me the baby and I lay down with him and nurse him as the three of us fall back to sleep.

It’s 7:45 Oh crap Derryck we have to get up. We are late as I start to panic again. He gets the kids up and brings me coffee tho!
“Where is mom, why are we late”! Kids don’t get why dad is there and I’m not. As he explains to them that mommy hurt herself and I’m in bed and heading to the doctor that morning.

Kids are off to school, I get things lined up to take the little ones to the city, Derryck calls the doctors and off we go.
My doctors is amazing and will always fit us in to see the doctors. They didn’t know what to think with him calling for me as its me that calls lol.

Off we go to the doctors he asked how I was my response ” freaking horrible, and yourself”. To the hospital for x-rays and a soft cast. Now I’m really mad. Who has time for this not me as my list of stuff to do is flying through my head!

Ok got in and done now to the foot doctor, he also asking how I was with the same response lol.
I broke the side of my foot right under where the little toe goes to the foot.
It’s not broke it’s fractured I corrected him, as it did not move shift nothing. Its not broke I keep telling him. He said I win that fight and he will let me go with that lol. Yeah me on that one.

One week I go back. 7 whole days with crutches and a mad mom. He says one week and the cast will go to a hard or into a walking boot. Well it’s the boot I tell him, we will cut this down by as many weeks as we can Yes! I was in and out with a cast in no time, tell the ladies I’m sending my hubby in to pay as I forgot my wallet. Have a little chit chat with how it’s not broke and cracked and I win that one also haha.

So there you have it. How my nice chill, me time night turned into at least a week of mommy on the couch, and mad.
Who brakes their foot putting a baby to bed? It happens more then I thought I also found out.

Thsts the story behind what i did. Stay tuned I will keep you updated on the healing. I will also share what I’m eating and doing or not doing the first week  with foods we are having trying to get this better fast.

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Till next week have a great day, painless night and an amazing week. Have a wonderful one and I will write soon!

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Peaches Peaches 80lbs what did

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It’s funny how every year it can be the same! You know it’s coming, you prep and prep, give yourself a self calm talk. Mark it down in the planner, but still get stressed thinking about doing it all.

Hi I’m Kandis and welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis!

Every year in our town we get a “case lot sale”. I stock pile what I can for the winter, this is also where and when I get my peaches! ❤
When I do peaches, the smallest batch that I purchase is 80lbs!😮 Yes, the lowest is 80lbs!

Why so much, and what do I do with it all! Let’s talk about stocking up on peaches! Well let’s start at the beginning.
The cases are 20lbs each, so get them loaded into the house, I then sort them, softener and still hard.

These get sorted for time frames and what is being used for what. I do/ make with these: canned half peach jars, jam, peach leather, and of coarse some sliced for in the freezer for easy asses for mostly pies!

Oh I love stocking up on peaches, I stress out more then I should as I have been doing this now for years, and it’s looks more intimidating then it is.

Let’s start with canning! Take your desired peaches, wash them up. Then you blanch them! This means simply put them in boiling water for 1 minute then into cold water. This will allow the skins to “peel” off. So go ahead and peel them, cut in half and take the pitt out. Place the peach halves to the side. I use a medium syrup this is 3 cups of sugar to 4 cups of water. Heat this up not boiling, but to make the sugar dissolve and liquid hot. Sterilize your jars and seals. I use 1L jars when making mine. Fill your canned and place on stove and start to heat. This will take some time to get it boiling so I start it early. So with your jars clean I put them in the sink with hot water and the seals in a pot of boiling/ hot water, as the jars and seals need to be hot when packaging up! Take your hot jar, place the peach halves in the jar pitt side down and layer them, up to the top leave about 1/4 inch for room for the pressure. Add your hot syrup and wipe the rim, add seal and screw top. Place in canner! When canner is full of the jars add hot water to cover the jars. Bring canner to boil and let boil for required time. This is refured to as a water bath.
So that is how I do some of my peaches!
A good chunk of the  any ways.

Next jam! I made peach/ cherry jam this year.
The cherries on my tree did wonderful and so I needed to use them. For this I simply blanched, peeled, pitted and chopped the peaches, and pitted the cherries. Add the  to a BIG pot, with required amount of sugar. Depending on what kind of jam and your sweet tooth will depend. I don’t use any added thickened, so I do a long boil. Then as your peaches, fill hot jar, place a hot seal and lid. Boil in the “water bath”….. the canner for required time for the jar size!

So now that there is canning and jam let’s move on shall we.

My mom growing up always made Apple leather!
Home made roll up but with our crap apples after she made juice.
So now I make Apple leather but also peach leather! 😍

Take the peaches and cut the pitts out, these do not need to be blanched. With the pitted peaches, peel on put into a blender, I add honey, about a tablespoon per I dunno 3-4 cups. This just helps keep the color and make it more pliable. I use a dehydrator, put parchment paper on the racks and pour the peach sauce on. Leave on the dehydrator until peach sauce is dry and a leather!

One of the last things that I do with the peaches is slice the, for the freezer to make any peach goodies through the year. Simply cut in half remove the pitt, slice the halves. Put into large freezer zip lock bags label and put into the freezer!

There you have it, how this mamma went through 80lbs of peaches this year, to help stock up till next summer’s case lot sale.

Do you do canning?
What do you can?
I will be sharing more stocking up tips thought out the month.

Getting the food prepped and stored for the winter months! Do you do anything with peaches, or large amount of friut.

Our Apple tree didn’t produce this year as every some years it does however I will share what I am doing with what I get this year.
I hope you enjoyed this blog all about stocking up on some extremely yummy peaches.
Got a question?
I will sure try to have an answer!
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I would love the questions, comments and input.
Till next week I hope you have a great food stocking week.
What are you storing this year?
Let me know.
Till next blog, have a fantastic week!