Yummy Potato Soup

This is one of my new favorite meals hands down!!!  So we were at a friend's house for dinner and she served this and she told us how she made it.  I wrote down the directions in the car on the way home I'm not sure if it is exactly what she told me but I still love it just the same.

What you need:

1/2 stick butter
2 cans of cream potato soup
1 can of sliced potatoes
1 pint of half-n-half


Melt the butter in a pot or crockpot.  Then add the rest of the ingredients and heat all the way through.  Then when you serve you can add chopped green onions, shredded cheese and bacon bits if you like.  Also I love dipping rolls into the soup.  It serves about 4 people.


I can't wait for the next time I make it, this week that is for sure!

Getting Pen off of the Wall

Remember this post where I cleaned the stairs for the monthly cleaning goal?  Well about two days later my daughter decided that it was too clean for her and got a hold of a pen and drew lines up the right side of the stairs!!  Life with kids some times I know.  Anyways I had no desire to clean them again but I did some research to give some ideas of how to get it off.  I don't remember if I read it or just thought of it, since you use hairspray that has alcohol in it, why not use rubbing alcohol.  So this past week we have been working with our son on going to sleep on his own, so while I was upstairs waiting for him to go to sleep I tried it out.

    Here is one spot of the wall before. I used a cotton ball with a little bit of rubbing alcohol and it came off immediately!!!!!

AFTER!!!!  I was so excited that it actually worked.  I noticed that about halfway down the wall my fingers were getting a little white, and that I was pushing kind of hard but once I backed off I didn't have problems with paint at all.  I'm not sure how it would work on different colored paint but I'm glad that I was able to get it off so easily.

January's Cleaning Goal

I hope that everyone had a great New Year's Eve/Day.  I know that we did, this was the first year that we really celebrated it with my daughter but her celebration was earlier in the evening but it was still a blast.  Here is this month's cleaning goal, I'm going to hit these goals the next 6 months really hard because we are moving in June and the less I have to clean than the better!!!