Googling My Way Through Life - Visual Cookbooks

I have a 21 year old son who is learning to cook.  He is autistic and cooking is hard for him in less it has a microwave involved.  My son gets overwhelmed very easily. We do a lot of cooking and baking together because he really enjoys it.

I have been trying to develop a somewhat visual cookbook.  Where things are broken down with some pictures. A lot of visual cookbook ideas I googled were for lower functioning people or for recipes we don't use at our house.

Visual Recipes for Non-Readers

This is the start of my personalized book I am making for my son. Below is a sample page.

I used Project Life App to create the page. It is so easy to do this way.

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Day 21 of 100 days of Creativity

I whipped up this little scrapbook page for my older son.  He got to go to a shellfish farm with a school group.  I made my page entirely using the Project Life App .  This literally took me 5 minutes.  I did change it around 3 times but even that was easy. I love love love the app.  It is a free app to boot but of course, if you want to add some flair you can do in app purchases of different scrapbook kits.

100 days of Creativity - Days 3 and 4

Sometimes creativity needs adventure.  I got to take a rare girls day adventure.  My favorite 14 year old friend was having a pointe shoe fitting for her first pair. SO EXCITING!  I got invited to go along with her and her Mom.  Since we were in Seattle, we visited the University of Washington cherry blossoms in the quad.  They did not disappoint. There were so many blossoms and so many people. Then we took the light rail into downtown Seattle.  We walked the downtown area and Pike Place Market. I got over 17,000 steps and according to my fitbit over 69 sets of stairs. I was tired when I got home. When I got home at 9 pm.  I decided to crank out a couple scrapbook pages. I use the digit project life app.  I literally did 2 pages with journaling in 10 minutes. Then this morning while drinking I knocked out 2 more. I thought I would share one below.

I am huge fan of Project Life.  I use the phone app probably 95 percent of the time.  The phone app is free by the way.  I also am a fan of the Cultivate a Good Life podcast which is hosted by Becky Higgins, creator of project life, and her friend Becky Proudfit.  I was really thinking about their Episode 26 Travel Documenting when I took pictures. I noticed how much more aware I was.

What is Saving Me Right Now

I linking up with Modern Mrs Darcy's What is Saving You.  Check out what is saving everyone else.

We have reached the half way point of winter. This is perhaps my most serious version of what is saving me that I have ever put out. It has been a stressful winter so far.

Savings Account
Our savings account literally saved us.  My husband was a working government furloughed worker.  I feel blessed that we had that cushion.  We literally had a no frills budget. We had enough to pay our bills. It was one thing that we had to stress about. I am thankful. I know thousands of workers didn't have that luxury.  That really sucks.  I feel grateful to my community how they stepped up to help.(food bank and many others)

Dave Ramsey and others such as Jessica at Life at Mom have talked about how to create Emergency Funds. One of the best adulting decisions we have made.

Pantry
My pantry saved us because of the above mentioned furlough.  My son said we won't starve.  We literally ate through our pantry.  It was a good exercise in cleaning out, too. There might have been some expired rice crispy treats. Hey, no one died.  Also who has 4 ham bones in their freezer and a turkey. Below is a excerpt is of my furlough diary. Designed in Project Life App.

Humor
Eclectic_twist on instagram  posted a joke that I literally sent to EVERYONE and it was the levity we needed to get through the day. The joke is kinda inappropriate so if swears aren't your thing don't look up the punch line - What do you call a constipated detective?

Unexpected Bloom

We had an unexpected mild January here in the Pacific Northwest.  I still have a few calendulas blooming.  It was a bright spot in a rather dark gloomy winter.