The Birthday Project

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Many, thanks to The Birthday Project

for inspiring me to do good deeds, random acts of kindness, spread the love, cheer others on, be positive, say please and thank-you, hold the door and SMILE

all in honor of my birth!

Wednesday, March 7th

Come back to see where this journey takes me, who I meet and the lessons I learn, the joy I share by truly giving of myself.

I am so excited!

xoxo, Mama Bird

39 candles on my Birthday cake

I am so excited to have seen The Birthday Project on pintrest!! I have been really kinda blue about my birthday, which is odd as typically I try to milk it for the entire month!! This year I am doing something that I know will bring me joy and I hope that it will bring 40 others a little unexpected joy as well. No, I am not yet 40, but  as a kid I always had 1 extra candle to celebrate one to grow on!! Now. I say why not have that one extra to celebrate what is to come?!

39 Acts of Random Kindness to celebrate my 39th Birthday!!

Wednesday, March 7th which happens to bed the day of the week I was born!

I am going to see how far I can spread my birthday cheer!

Robyn, the creator of The Birthday Project had 300 people share the Acts they did!!

Will YOU share with me?

Have ideas on what I should do?

PLEASE leave a comment and come back to see my LIST!

SOUPAPALOOZA {Mema’s Potato/Tomato Soup}

Growing up, my memema made her “famous”

Potato/Tomato Soup

when it snowed, when I had a cold, when she didn’t know what else to make.

Now, my Mom, Aunt, cousins we all make it,

a little different.

As every time you would ask Mema how she made it she would tell you the way she had most recently made it. I think it was based on what she had in the fridge/pantry at the time. Much like the way I cook!

So feel free to tweak the recipe based on what you have on hand, from my families kitchen to yours.

 

This is the original recipe card that I wrote back in the 7th grade! That was when we moved to G’boro and I was in charge of cooking dinner. Started with the family favs.

POTATO/TOMATO SOUP

3 medium baking potatoes, diced

1 large onion, diced

3 ribs of celery, sliced

1 t salt

1/2 t pepper

1/2 t garlic

Cover with water, salt, pepper & garlic.

Simmer until fork tender.

 

In sauce pan mix:

2 T butter

2 T flour

2 c milk (she always used whole I use 2%)

1 T Worcestershire sauce

1/2 c catsup

3 T mustard

2 280z cans tomatoes (I prefer whole, and rough chop. you can use diced, whatever you like!)

Melt butter, mix in flour, add milk; mix well (adjust to make thick) Blend in remaining ingredients EXCEPT tomatoes and stir for 5 mins.

Add to potato mix and add tomatoes

It gets better the longer it sits! And it makes a ton!

I hope you enjoy, as it sure reminds me of my Mema, snowy days, football games, curling up on the couch!  

“Come join SoupaPalooza at TidyMom and Dine and Dish sponsored by KitchenAid, Red Star Yeast and Le Creuset”

xoxo, Mama Bird

Super J’s party! {the food}

Not sure how I forgot to post about the yummy treats I made for j’s party!! I even made all my own printables! for the food and “super shot”! Pop on over to see the decor , all which I up-cycled from my garage or borrowed! And to see the invite I made!!

jumbo marshmallows dipped in white chocolate

& super sprinkles

“super” lunch bags

“HERO” sammies

carrots for x-ray vision

grapes for elasticity

 

power shots!

lime gatorade, dash of sprite & pop rocks!!!

kids LOVED them!!! BIG HITI

the cake!!

vanilla cake with vanilla cream frosting

cupcakes

famous chocolate with cream cheese frosting

Everything about this food was fun and worked perfectly with the “SUPER” theme!

Fun times! xoxo, mama bird

Thanks to Heather Machut Photography for taking the great pics!! <3

Halo cake

Sweet Turner loves the video game Halo and so here is a Halo inspired birthday cake!

xoxo, Mama Bird

Happy Valentine’s Day!

For my class!

“You make my heart glow!”

Heart crayon & a glow stick

For Jack’s class

“Our class would “KNOT” be the same without YOU!”

friendship bracelets

just got a pack of mixed colored cross stitching thead ($5) did a few strands thick of each thread, braided and knoted. took apx 1 hr to do 20!

close-up of the crayons

Bought 6 boxes of 24 crayons ($3), broke into 3’s placed in mini cupcake silicon heart mold, 250 degrees about 10 min. These are Roseart brand, highly rec using Crayola as the melt faster, and stay more colorful.

Thanks to pinterest I have some great ideas!

xoxo, Mama Bird

 

Gilbert Wedding

I can not believe I haven’t posted this yet! WOW!! What a sweet couple to work with. Joe, the groom is a good friend of Hubs and he was a groomsman. I love that the bride went out of the box and went with COLOR!! She loves yellow and as bright as this looks on screen it was a really pale creamy yellow in person. I got all the flowers from my fav girls at the Farmer’s Market and hand cut and placed each flower. I was really pleased in how it turned out!!