Happy New Year from the Warfield Family!
I know this is a few days late,but better late than never.
This is a recipe that I have been making a LOT! I love having a warm breakfast, but it needs to be fast too. I eat at work and so normally it is instant oatmeal or a breakfast sandwich. I love cooked oatmeal better than instant, but as long as it isn’t cereal, I won’t complain. Some mornings I don’t mind cereal either, but something warm is great too. I got a free coupon for the McDonalds maple brown sugar oatmeal. I went and tried it, and of course it was great! The calories aren’t that bad, but it is knowing all of the extra bad stuff that they are putting in that makes me not want to eat it. Also, the price, I can buy everything and make a TON of them at home for much cheaper. So, I was on the hunt for a copy cat recipe and one that was doable at work.
This year for Christmas, I made some of the gifts, not necessarily because they were cheaper but because I had the time and the drive to make them. The break down of gift this year were 10 of our gifts were made, 10 were won, and two were bought. I was pretty happy with this because if I hadn’t won these giveaways, I don’t know if we would have been able to give everyone gifts this year or any at all. For my Dad, Nikolas, Jason, and Daniel, I made the pies in a jar found HERE. For Kira, I made a clutch purse; for Simon, Grant, Andrew, and Wilson I made toiletry bags. Then for my Mom, I made the necklace below.
I don’t know if you noticed, but we were finally able to get a new domain name!!! When we first got a blog, all of the normal ones like thewarfields.com or thesimplehaus.com or thethesimplehaus.com were all taken, so warfieldninjas.com was the funniest we could find. Well yesterday, I was looking at my Sister in Law Sarina’s blog and noticed that she had gotten grashamfamily name.  We were excited for them. Grant and I were randomly talking about how sad it was that we hadn’t gotten thesimplehaus.com, and he decided to look it up. Domain names are bought for a certain amount of time, if you decide not to renew, then they are open to people to buy. The one we wanted was available! So, we snatched it right up and are excited! It is sad that we do own a lot of domain names just encase we need or want to use them for something later. If you go to warfieldninjas.com, it will just redirect it to the new domain name. So, if you read our blog, you don’t really need to change anything like bookmarks or google reader feeds; it was just something we were excited about! Hope your week after the Holidays isn’t too ruff. We are having a hard time regulating our sleeping schedules… sounds like we should have kids to say that,but we just keep staying up late and getting up early. I hope this weekend will help!
This year it was the “Grasham” Christmas, we switch off every year, and next year we will probably be in Ohio. I have to say this was probably the best Christmas that we have had as a group since Grant and I have been married! We really missed Kira and Andrew since they weren’t able to come. Also, we forgot to take a group shot which really stinks. Oh well! My sister Julia got engaged, we ate great food, and had a lot of fun just being with family. Obviously by the time the break was over, we were ready to go home even though we did have a great time.
As you saw before, I made the first stocking for a contest, but we didn’t want our other stockings to look like that one. So, I found this tutorial and inspiration here. I love her blog and read it anyway, but her step by step instructions are great!