What's For Dinner? Week 2: Maple Mustard Pork Chops

I found this week's new recipe on The Pioneer Woman's Tasty Kitchen page, which is one of my favorite places to find recipes these days.  

I am not normally a huge mustard fan, though I am a pork chop fan.  

And a syrup fan.  

So, despite my slight aversion to mustard, this recipe sounded yummy.

I made it last night, along with some cheesy mashed potatoes (kids' favorite, another staple in our weekly meal plans!) and green beans. 

The flavor of the sauce was really good, although pretty strong....so drizzle sparingly at first, then add more if you'd like.  (I actually left the glaze off of the kids' meat.)  I used pretty thinly-sliced pork chops, and they cooked through in about 9 minutes.

Click here for the full recipe.  Enjoy!

Finally!

It finally snowed!

Our kiddos were super excited for the cold white stuff to begin falling, as most other children around here probably were!  And, their time outside did not disappoint. 

They loved everything about playing in the snow.....from wearing their snow gear (Meredith loves her snowpants so much that she put them on again tonight to show Daddy) to shoveling to digging to making snow castles to sledding.

The highlight for Caleb was definitely shoveling, and for Meredith it was digging and filling up her bucket.  She also loved watching the snowplows.

 

  

 

Learning...

This is a little long, as I kind of forgot that the camera was running....but, I wanted to document the beginning stages of our latest adventure.  I just love watching him figure things out!

 I never did get that High-5!

Sight Words

Snowflakes

 It is winter, after all.  

Even though the warm temperatures and the lack-of-snow would try to convince us otherwise.

 Since there is no snow outside, I figured we could make some snowflakes for the inside!

We made snowflakes with marshmallows...

Snowflakes with glitter...

Glitter hands!

And lastly, we made "free form" snowflakes with yarn...

 Of course, we had to have a marshmallow snack afterwards....

Finished snowflakes...

Stay warm! ;)

Hoops

 Caleb had his first basketball class tonight.  It was fun to watch him try something new, and to see him so excited about it.

Listening to Coach...

Run!

 Dribble!

 

 

Shoot!

Drink break!

 

 Coach Meredith...

 (Seriously, she was yelling out commands to Caleb, and cheering for him...)

 Caleb's #1 Fans... 

 Trying to get the ball from Coach...this is my favorite!