Crock pot lava cake

So good!!!! instead of adding the whole bag of choco chips add half so it wont be so chocolaty. Its rich watch out. (credited to http://jamiecooksitup.net/2013/07/chocolate-lava-cake-crock-pot/)

What you'll need:

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix
• 1 1/4 c of milk
• 1/2 c of veggie oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 (3.9 oz) instant chocolate pudding
• 2 c milk (for the pudding)
• 1 (`12 oz) bag of chocolate chips
• parchment paper

What to do:

1. Grab a 3-4 quart crock pot and line it with parchment paper. Spray the inside of the paper with cooking spray. The parchment paper helps the cake cook without burning along the edges. You can make it without the paper, just be sure to watch it closely.

2. Find yourself a nice chocolate cake mix and pour it into your stand mixer or medium-sized mixing bowl.
3. Add 1 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 cup oil and 3 eggs. Beat on low-speed for 1 minutes. Scrape the bottom of the bowl and beat on medium speed for 2-3 minutes or until the batter in nice and glossy.

4. Pour the batter into the lined crock pot.

5. Pour one small box of chocolate pudding into your stand mixer or medium-sized mixing bowl. Add 2 cups cold milk and beat it until the pudding thickens. Should take about 3-4 minutes.

6. Pour the pudding over the top of the cake batter. Don’t stir it. Really, cross my heart and hope to die. It will cook up best if you leave the layers be.

7. Grab a bag of milk chocolate chips and pour the pretty little things all over the top of the pudding. Again, please do not stir it.
8. Cover the crock and cook on low for 2 1/2 hours, or until the top of the cake is set.

Enjoy:)

Facts about postpartum and Newborn care

Yeay!! you made it. Congrats, welcome to motherhood. Here are some facts about postpartum and newborn care from my experience. All people are different.

• You will bleed for about a month and it sucks. You cant use tampons, all you use is a giant pad and underwear that looks like a diaper. Get as much as you can with the victorias secret hospital brand underwear (lol) and pads. Also ask for a lot of the numbing spray and cooling pads. 
• When you leave the hospital grab as much stuff as you can. Your paying for it why not. 
• After you have the baby you will be exhausted. Your body went through hell and back give it a break. 
• When you have kids you never get a day off. Even when your sick. You cant get sick at all.
• Your gonna spend a lot of money on formula if you are not breast feeding or if your having a hard time with your milk coming in. Buy the parents choice I save $10 on a big jar of it.
• Bills suck!!! after your home for a couple of weeks thats when the bills start comin. Usually they mix your exams in with your hospital bill. It is very expensive to have a baby. But the
  
   good thing is...is that you can put them on a payment plan and pay them monthly. Even after you have the baby there are gonna be more. Especially if your baby has jaundice, or problems with delivery. I had to stay 2 extra days cause I got a fever during labor and my baby had to stay 3 days cause I had a fever and he had trouble breathing and he had jaundice.
• Speaking of jaundice...jaundice is the yellowing of the skin and eyes. And when your baby has it they check the bilirubin. If its above 15 you have to put your baby under a certain light that the hospital gives you. It is normal for it to be high after birth. Bilirubin is a yellow substance that the body creates when it replaces old red blood cells. The liver helps break down the substance so it can be removed from the body in the stool. Thats what causes jaundice. To prevent this put your baby under sunlight.
• It will hurt and feel weird down under. I got stitches and it sucked I couldn't stand for more that 10 min at a time. Whenever I would stand up I would swell really bad and would have to sit down. And you'll have a hard time walking, you'll do more of a waddle. 
• Don't plan on having sex for a while. At least 2 months or after 6 week check up:).Sorry its gonna suck.
• At first your baby will sleep all day and stay up all night. So no sleep for you and your husband. When the baby naps you nap. Don't clean or get caught up just take a nap and relax. You can worry about housework later. My baby started sleeping through the night at 3 months. But like I have been saying all babies are different.
• If you have a boy get him circumcised ASAP (if you want). He will be in pain for a couple of days. Buy a huge jar of patrolium jelly and slab it on his diaper like crazy. You don't want his little wee wee getting stuck on the diaper. Also buy infant tylonol it saved me from goin crazy. Make sure you give it to him every 4 hrs so it won't fade. When you give him a bath be careful just gradually put warm water on it, it'll probably feel good to him.
  
• You will get pooped on, puked on , spit on and peed on  there is no way around it sorry so get use to it. When your baby poops you'll shout for joy cause no more belly ache and he isnt constipated. 
• You will become a morning person:)
• While breast feeding don't drink to much caffeine. It affects the baby. Also don't eat Brussels sprouts, broccoli, some chocolate, and spicy things it will give the baby gas and it sucks.
• Your baby will have hiccups.. all the time. And sometimes it will hurt him/her. 
• You will not be able to go to the bathroom for a couple of days. And when you do it will hurt. 
• Watch out for hemorrhoids. I never had them till now and they hurt and they suck. Hemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels in your butt. Get the hemorrhoid cream and pads it helps a lot. 
• Things will be bruised. My hips and vagina got bruised. 
• There will be people to help you nurse. All my nurses helped me get him latched on and to nurse. 
• At 6 week check up for you think about birth control. I got the IUD and it isn't that bad I couldn't feel it when she put it in. But you will start having normal cycles in 6 months or so.
• Shots suck for you and baby. Vaccinations are important and its sad to see your baby go through that.
• Don't take your baby out for a while. I started taking my baby out to visit people at a month old or older and to wal mart when he was almost 3 months. I had my baby right during flu season.
• Gradually plan on a sleeping schedule for your baby. Don't rush it, give him/her signs that its bedtime. What I do is I put a certain lotion on him and on me so when he smells it that means its bedtime, its a night time lotion that has lavender in it. Also I don't make eye contact with him and I dim all the lights in the house. I sing him certain lullabys and hardly talk to him. I give him a bath every other day anight. I started out doing it at 7 and he was in bed at 8:30 now I give him a bath at 8 and its quiet time from then till morning. He passes out at 9:30 and wakes up at 7. I also feed him before a bath so he'll be happy during the bath and relax. Then at 9 Ill nurse him till be falls asleep. If he has his bath and a clean diaper and a full belly I'll just put him in his crib and he'll fall asleep on his own.
• Teach the baby to sleep on his/her own. Babies have a hard time getting to that REM cycle and they sometimes need help.  Also teach the baby to sooth himself. But wait till he/she is a couple of weeks old. I started when my baby was about a month old for him to sooth himself. 
• Watch your babies head. Some baby's heads get a cone head. The cone head will go away but your baby will favor a side and that side will be flat. 
• Learn to swaddle. Best thing ever, get a good swaddling blanket.
• Let the baby have a "cry it out" time. If your baby is fussy for no reason stick him/her in the crib and leave. Go outside and breath and wait for 5-10 min if he is still crying go and cuddle him for a min. 
• Babies will have a fussy time every day. This is normal, my baby has fussy time from 7-bedtime. That's why I give him baths at night so he can keep focused on something other than being fussy.
• Teach your baby to nurse and to bottle feed. Well you can if you want, I did and its nice for when I'm gone. I also give him formula.
• I'm sorry for saying this but you will have what I call a "pudge". Its that flab left over from having a baby. Ya you just had a baby don't worry about it. It will go away in time, your uterus went from a cherry size to a watermelon. It'll probably take at least 6 months for your uterus to go back to normal. If you are breast feeding that will help it shrink and it'll help you loose that baby fat.
  
• Have fun and dress your baby up and take a lot of pictures. My baby is gonna be 4 months already, I wish he was tiny again. So don't wish all those tiny moments away.
• You will probably get depressed. Its cause you had a baby in you and now since its out you loose that sensation. 
• Your stretch marks will itch and hurt. Mine were deep and short so they weren't that big but they itched and hurt. Keep that lotion on them and keep them moisturized it will make them feel better. Don't worry about getting rid of those just yet. Just concentrate on your new life.
• When you get home the first couple of days your boobs will hurt like hell. They will swell and get hot like crazy. If you don't pump or use nursing pads you will leak milk EVERYWHERE!!! All boobs are different. Hop in the shower and let the hot water run on your boobs, it feels so good. My milk production got short when my baby was almost 2 months. I would drink odouls (non alcoholic beer) and I found out root beer works really good too.
• Talk to your baby and just cuddle him/her. Enjoy it.
• Get your baby use to loud noises. My baby sleeps through me cleaning, talking, my husband cutting tile, people working on our basement. He still has a hard time with the vacuum haha.

Facts about labor and delivery

Welcome to the birthing process. This is a big time for you. Here are some facts from my experience. All people are different and all labor and delivery are different.

• If you get induced be prepared for a long day. When i got induced it took 12 hrs for that to be over. Also its so much better if you go into labor yourself than being induced. (from what I heard).
• Wear your hair up. Put it in a ponytail or put a head band on. I didnt and my hair was all wet from sweat and it was gross.
• If you get an epidural eat a lot of ice chips. During it you'll be extremely thirsty and stiff. 
• There will be blood. Lots and lots of blood. 
• Just breath; it will hurt but it will all be worth it in the end. Hang in there.
• Watch for labor signs and make sure that they are real.
• Yes the epidural is scary. When I got it I didn't feel a thing and I felt sick during it but it really wasn't that bad. After I got it I felt like I was on a cloud. It was the best thing ever. I would sit there and be like "O look I'm having a contraction and I cant feel it". There are more options for pain relief if you choose not to do the epidural. If you do get one eat and drink a lot before cause you can't have any food or water till that baby is out of you. 
• You can do natural birth. But be prepared to be in extreme pain. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't get pain relief. You'll have pain in your back, stomach and down under. 
• Do the skin on skin if you can. Best thing I ever did was hold my baby right after he came into this world.
• If you need a c-section do it. I didn't get one so I don't know how it feels.
• It will exhaust you. Your body is doing a big thing and trying to help you know when to push.
• It might hurt. I had back labor and horrible hip pain even with the epidural in. 
• Some people push forever and are in labor forever. I was in labor for almost a whole day. I pushed for about 4 hours. Some people push for like 15 minutes. 
• The first baby is gonna be the hardest. Cause your body is trying to figure out how to make it and get it out of your body. But it depends on the person. 
• You'll probably get an episiotomy. An episiotomy is a surgical cut from the vagina to the anus to make the delivery go by faster.I didn't get one cause i tore the crap out of everything and got a lot of stitches. 
• You might have to get forceps or the vacuum assistance. I got the vacuum and it helped a lot. My baby got stuck in the birth canal. 
  
• When the baby comes out its gonna feel really weird. My baby came shooting out and my belly instantly shrunk. I had to catch my breath when he came out. That was the weirdest feeling I have ever had. 
• Before you go to the hospital make sure you have everything packed and ready to go. That includes the baby's coming home outfit and other important things.
• Make friends with the nurses. Trust me its worth it. but I really wish I would have brought some cookies or a treat for them. 
• Your gonna cry....a lot. I have never cried so hard in my life when I saw my baby for the first time. (well maybe from my hip pain too.)
• You might scream. Haha I did. I screamed like they did in the movies. Mainly cause of hip pain and I just wanted the baby out of me. 
• Don't be afraid to ask questions. I asked a ton of questions and my nurses didn't mind at all. 
• Don't have too many people in the delivery room. Its nice to have a couple of nurses, the doctor, and your husband. I had some nurses, the doctor, the anesthesiologist, my mom, and husband. So that wasn't too many people. 
• You are gonna be naked and spread eagle throughout the process so get use to it. You'll be in pain so you won't even care. 

There is more info about this subject on babycenter.com.

Easter egg wreath tutorial

This is so cute and so simple and cheap. Try it out. You can get the eggs for a bag of 40 at wal-mart for 1.97. All i needed was one bag. The wreath wire i got at wal-mart too for 2.47 i think i could be wrong about the price. o and i was doing my oil pulling while i made this.

What you need:

• Any kind of plastic eggs. I chose pastel cause they were cheap.
• Wreath shape
• grass
• glue gun
• anything you want to put in the middle

Now start at any place and start gluing the eggs on the wire.

Keep goin till you meet in the middle. You can do a second layer if you want. 

Do the same with the second layer.

Now add grass be careful not to burn yourself. I would bunch up some and put glue on it and stick it where i want it. Or put glue on the place you want the grass and stick it there....carefully. You can add as much grass as you want.

Trim some of the grass and ta da the finished product. I added the little bunny cause i thought it was cute. 

Hope you try it out..enjoy.