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About My Sweet Mess

Hi, and welcome to My Sweet Mess where I share a look into our messy family life and all the things I’m passionate about. I am a full-time working mom, fiancé, home cook, holistic nutrition student, and creativepreneur. This is my little spot to share with you all the things in life that are meaningful to me which include, healthyish recipes, my family, mom life, home decor, travel and much much more.  Thank-you for joining me and my sweet family on our  little journey.

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Mom of 2 👧🏻👶🏼
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Trying to live ordinary life in an extraordinary way

Kristen ◈ Type A Creative
Happy Father’s Day babe @clintleastwood 🖤. Happy Father’s Day babe @clintleastwood 🖤. 

If there’s one thing I can say without a doubt - it’s that you are an incredible Father and co-parent. Luna and Wilder are so lucky to have you as their Dad. 

Thank you for all you do, not just for the kids, but for me and for us. Although it may not always seems like it - I do notice and I am grateful. 

So here’s to many more years adventuring together as a family; getting punched in the balls, head butted, kissed, snuggled, poked in the butt, farted on and so much more.  Isn’t being a Dad great 😂. 

Love you no matter what
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Flashback garden season by a couple years to when Flashback garden season by a couple years to when we had the most successful #homegarden to date. 

We grew all sorts of herbs and greens, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, scallopini squash, zucchini, carrots, beets, beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more. 

Gardening is a trip, we do a lot of trial and error and sometimes it works and sometimes it definitely doesn’t. But, teaching the kids about growing our own food, the time and commitment it takes, how incredibly lucky we are to have this opportunity and getting to make meals from the fruits of our labour together is pretty damn cool!

Hoping this year will be a#a repeat of 2020 and we can spend all our time outside taking care of and stuffing our faces with all of our home grown goodies.

Have you planted your garden? What are your favorite things to grow?
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Already pulling rhubarb from our young plant and c Already pulling rhubarb from our young plant and craving these lemon rhubarb streusel muffins. I’m a sucker for anything with lemon in it. 

You can find the recipe on the blog, link in profile and in stories.

As for the rest of our garden 😭…who knows what will happen this year, it’s not looking good but I’m hoping that will change. I started the seeds too early, and we don’t have enough sun to keep them going for as long as I needed to. Then I started a new batch and there was no sun for awhile so a few popped but not all, then it snowed and hailed in the same week and we had to keep them in. Then I direct sewed some too thinking we’d be ok and well it snowed again and dropped below freezing 🥶. Sooooo, I’m hoping we can get everything planted by next weekend and fingers crossed 🤞 the weather will be good to us this summer.

But if nothing else out rhubarb is good and our raspberries are looking good, so there’s that.
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Motherhood - equal parts amazing, anxiety provokin Motherhood - equal parts amazing, anxiety provoking, beautiful, challenging, fear inducing, and guilt ridden while at the same time every moment being wrapped up in undying and uncontrollable love and joy. 

Never in my life have I experienced anything that plays on every single emotion across the entire spectrum on a regular basis. I want to be honest about motherhood because I think it’s important to recognize it all - from the moments that are the most incredible to those that are the hardest and to those that are the most isolating. I don’t think there is anything else that can make me feel grateful for every moment, while at the same time has me wishing I could run away. 

But I won’t, because I’m here for it all. For every giggle, every tear, every belly laugh, and every fall to my knees breakdown, every snuggle, and every moment I’m told “I’m the worst”. I will be hear to listen, learn, grow and continue doing better with every conversation, every problem, and every moment that feels disconnected. I am truly inspired to be the best human possible for my kids, for my family. 

So thank you Luna for making me a mom and breaking this heart wide open. Thank you Clint for letting me figure it all out as I go along without an ounce of judgement. And thank you Wilder for showing me that I’m stronger than I think. 

You, my little ones are my now and forever.  I love you no matter what 💕. 

But can you give a girl some space 😂. All a Mom wants for Mother’s Day is to go pee by herself. 
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Our Family - as drawn by Luna 💕. Luna’s on t Our Family - as drawn by Luna 💕.

Luna’s on the right wearing a dress, Wilder is the little - almost invisible one in pink, he’s naked. Clint is the blue one and he’s also naked and I’m on the left - it looks like I have a penis between my legs…but it’s actually even better. It’s “your vagina in your undies” 
😂😂😂. 

I’m dead 😵 , I can’t stop laughing, and I’ll never look at my body the same way again 🤭. This is parenting a toddler in a nutshell.

Kids drawings are maybe the very best thing in life. Please tell us about a funny picture your kid(s) drew or something you drew as a kid.
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Mini egg cookies - what more do I need to say? It’s raining and kinda chilly so we’re making these. 

These are our favourite thing to make for Easter - well this and mini egg cheesecake. But these are way easier than cheesecake.

Recipe is linked in profile and on my stories. https://mysweetmess.com/2021/03/01/mini-egg-cookies/

Do you have a favourite Easter treat?
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Happiest 4th birthday to my Little Luna Bug 🐞. Happiest 4th birthday to my Little Luna Bug 🐞. 

4, WOW. I honestly can’t believe it’s been 4 years since you made me a Mom and changed our lives forever.

4 years of sweet, sassy, smart, stubborn,  strength and I am so damn proud of you for all of it. At only 4 years old, you question everything, speak up when you don’t agree, you call other people out (mainly your brother 😂), you stand up for other people, you say how you’re feeling, you love fiercely, feel absolutely everything, and most of all you are unabashedly you at every moment and I’m so grateful for that.

Your confidence, empathy, kindness and silliness are an inspiration for me to believe in myself, to remember to love those around me and let them love me back and most of all a reminder to not take life as seriously as I often do.

Raising a strong, outspoken woman is not an easy thing (sorry Mom, it apparently runs in the family), but I am all in on the challenge because you my love bug are going to change the world and I can only hope I’m here to see it. 

I love you no matter what, and I am always in your heart ❤️.
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😂 anyone else?!! Just when we’re getting int 😂 anyone else?!!

Just when we’re getting into a good sleep routine with both kids (only took a year and a half with Wilder), something happens that throws it all to shit.

I feel like one of them is always waking up for something - wet diaper, coughing, stuffy nose, runny nose, sore tummy, hungry, and lately it’s been them taking turns barfing (thank you stomach flu, then another stomach flu, then food poisoning) 😖. And it’s never at the same time so you can get it over with, it’s always one, then the next one, then back to the first one. Nothing like working from home with sick toddlers for what feels like months on no sleep.

So the other night I went with my niece to see House of Gucci  and while it was a decent movie it was soooooooo long. I cannot sit anywhere for 3 hours staring at a screen, so I definitely fell asleep at some point. It’s so easy when you’re in those recliner chairs, nighty night 😴. If I was on my own I’m pretty sure it would have been 3 hours uninterrupted until the end when the kid that was working would have had to wake me up 😆.

Cheers to motherhood, keeping it real since the beginning of time 👊.
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It’s #nationalhotchocolateday today and perfect It’s #nationalhotchocolateday today and perfect timing because the weather is getting colder again 🥶. 

This one is topped off with a mini version of my double chocolate chip cookies. Recipe link for the cookies is in profile or on my stories. 

Hot chocolate is filled with memories of playing outside in the snow in -30°C in Winnipeg as a kid. Completely unfazed that it was cold out, we would come barrelling  inside with frozen toes, fingers, ears and lips that could barely move with icicles attached to our eyelashes and scarf. My mom would pour us a big hot chocolate with tons of marshmallows and we would sit together and defrost. I think about it now and it makes me cold just thinking about it but it always seemed so worth it as a kid. 

Are you a hot chocolate fan? Does it bring back memories?
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