ChainedChrysalis

Mama to 5 kids. Wife of 20 years and going on. Childrens photographer. Classic DIYer. Simplistic living, old fashioned, bunny owner. Bipolar, anxiety, autoimmune disorder. Gentle soul, seeking kindness and love. Slow down living, farm life, summer loving landlocked mermaid.

The devil asked how i knew my way through the halls of hell. I replied. I do not need a map for the path i know so well.

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Oil is expensive and butter is more so. Im finding I can swap butter and oil for things like greek yogurt, Sour cream and bananas. So a lot of my recipes are containing some of all of those ingre...


August 25, 2024

Weekend prep in Bittersweet

Today I didnt bake as much? Maybe I baked more in a way lol. I finished up the last of the ingredients for pizza sticks. I made 6 more triple meat and was out of tortillas and sauce. I made two...


I tried a recipe for pizza roll up sticks I saw. 8 inch tortillas. Leftover spaghetti sauce ( already seasoned! This batch had sausage diced into it so it was meaty) 1 mozzi stick/cheese stick p...


CEO told me we need to hire a fourth receptionist AA. I mean for one we have 5 locations, I currently man one plus help at the one next door. So Yeahhhh lol After gauging for a few weeks. Our AA...


Ok this is my first try on home made granola. (Honestly a lot of the recipes I post here, its the first time I make them lmao!) But tony eats this silly expensive granola so i thought what the ...


August 14, 2024

LOLs! in Bittersweet

My kids watching me making breaded chicken strips. OMG HOME MADE CHICKEN STRIPS MOM YOU ARE SO COOL! AHHH Excitement!! My husband in the corner grumping because he has made breaded chicken breast...


August 12, 2024

weekend baking in Bittersweet

My coworker asked me to make 5 loaves of zuke bread for her for a gift basket. I have 4/5 done haha. Would have had 5 done but.... Husband… So I need to bake a few more. I have enough for like 3 ...


August 08, 2024

15 in Bittersweet

Chase is 15 today. It shocks me all the time how fast the kids get older. It reminds me I do too lol. Hes come a long way in terms of his maturity and brain. Hes seemed to harness a lot of his ...


August 05, 2024

Parenting flails in Bittersweet

Its not a fail. But is a flail. My son is trying to adult on his own and it is SO hard. He lost his job and hes been struggling But of course he dosent TELL us any of that. He finally mentioned i...


I turn 40 in the morning. Well in about 8 hours haha. Ill be the big 40. Entering a new decade. Probably more then half through my life (given my grandparents age at death and that two of my moms...


July 28, 2024

Apple pickin in Bittersweet

We had some plans to do a little hike today but before we left. I was of course wasting time on facebook. I saw a lady posting a bushel of apples for 20. So we instead drove an hour east to go pi...


July 07, 2024

weekend kicks in Bittersweet

We went to bed late. Finishing stranger things. With the intent to get up early and go to a state park we saw a few years ago but have never been. At 2 pm the dogs were barking so the kids them ...


July 06, 2024

Housekeeping hell in Bittersweet

I am NOT a good housekeeper. Im a mess and everything is a mess with me. I need to figure out how to clean better because FFS I make NO progress at all!! :(


I decided to look up and see if you could do Banana bread with plantains. Turns out you CAN! In stead of bananas you just do plantains. The recipe said to put them in the blender. Omg so true. I...


July 02, 2024

What a stupid week in Bittersweet

Oh its been stupid already. Yesterday M was out, she planned a trip and put in for PTO but we didnt recognize it. Whatever its fine!! Thats fine. But then H was puking and I made her go home. A...


June 28, 2024

week one done in Bittersweet

Well it was a week. I mean things went fine over all. We are doing just fine. But yeah you can tell who didnt bother to watch the videos and who did. Some questions are so simple. Like dude, I ma...


The shit show starts tomorrow when we switch everyone to the new EHR, But this weekend was quiet. Saturday I went to costco and got dog food and some human food. Mostly dog food. Well we went FO...


More deaths this week. Office involved shooting. They said he pulled a gun and shot, Family claims he was getting money from the car and they mass fired on him and his car and murdered him. Of co...


June 19, 2024

Weekend tragedy in Bittersweet

This weekend started so well. On Saturday we went to the Ren Faire. It was really fun and I enjoyed it. Its quite big and we got to see Jacque the Whipper which was much shorter then I expected b...


4 cups (512 g) all-purpose flour or bread flour, see notes above 2 teaspoons (10 g) kosher salt 2 teaspoons (8 g) instant yeast, see notes above if using active dry 2 cups (455 g) lukewarm water...


June 07, 2024

Shit show started in Bittersweet

Oh man the shit. We sent the portal. Cue the calls. I didnt get a code to unlock the portal. WELL did you sign up for it? Its a link, you have to sign up, it sends a code, you log in. Like ANY 2f...


June 06, 2024

One more day in Bittersweet

One more day and we go live with our new EHR. Our person hasnt finished customizing our forms and im like ffffuuuuck me. Im learning how to do it and ill step in tomorrow. I got all our portals ...


For Months A has been playing non stop with this little girl up the road. Then TWO days before school ends she tells me she needs 3 best friend necklaces. I said for you G and who? She names thi...


Im on my phone, Playing a game and my dang birbies do the thing iove been WAITING for for two weeks and I cant get out of the game to take a video. I manage to get it on my camera. Struggling to...


I always find a red white and blueish desert for the big “USA USA” Holidays. This year im making a red white and blue cake. First up. Make a vanilla cake. You can do a box cake if you want, or m...


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