DAY IN THE LIFE OF A LARGE FAMILY MOM ｜｜ TATOR TOT CASSEROLE AND SMALL HAUL

Good afternoon everybody and welcome back to today's vlog. Today is Tuesday. No, it's not Tuesday. Why does it feel like Tuesday today? Saturday felt like Sunday. Now today feels like Tuesday, but it's Monday, March the 28th. Millie is actually eight months old today. Oh my gosh, I cannot believe that y'all. She is eight months old. She's so close to one. Anyway, I am about to head out for Ali's dentist appointments. I'm taking most kids with me because y'all know that I have my nephews with me, my three nephews, so we can't all fit into my 12-inch turban at the moment, so I'm taking most kids with me. A couple are staying here with Kylie while I take her to the dentist. I need to find Emily a little bonnet because she is having a character day at school tomorrow. She's got a dress that she failed to wear, but she's going to be Laura Ingalls, so I need to find her like a little bonnet for tomorrow. Take Ali to the dentist. I got a small Ingalls curbside pickup order, just a few fill-in things that we needed, and we're going to come back home. We've got some school done this morning already. We had lunch. The kids are outside now playing. It's going to be the warmest it's been in several days. It's going to be like 67 today without all the wind, so it's nice out there right now. Anyway, I'm wearing my new shirt from wearing my new shirt that I ordered from Jessica's website. His promise still stands. I love the shirt, and it fits great. Like sometimes t-shirts, I don't know how they're going to fit on me because, you know, they all fit different, but I love the fit of this t-shirt, and it's very true to size, so if you do go order from her, make sure you order like your size because it's very true to size. This is a size large, and it fits perfect. Anyway, we're about to head out. Take her to the dentist. She has a tooth that needs to be looked at. Also, she has a cleaning today, so we're going to head out. Say hello. Miss eight months old. She's got slobber all over her chin. I think she's trying to get some more teeth. Are you adding to those toothies? Hey, say bye-bye. Say bye-bye. All right, so we are back home now from the dentist and my little Ingles pickup order, so I'm going to turn the camera around real quick and show you what I picked up for our little Phil and Holla Ingles. So I'll start over here. I got a big bag of potato chips, some more King's Hawaiian rolls, and this is new. This is the Chobani coffee creamer hazelnut. Pretty excited to try this. I'm going to be trying that. I couldn't decide between this or the sweet cream, but I got the hazelnut, so I'm going to try that, and then I got some more iced coffee because I'm all out. Speaking of iced coffee, I'm actually about to make myself a cup here in just a minute with my oatmeal, and then I got some more sharp cheddar cheese. I already have a huge bag of this in the fridge. I just wanted to add to that, so I'm going to be using a good bit tonight. I got some of these little cheese bars. Girls love to snack on cheese. Two bunches of bananas. This big thing of mac and cheese was on sale, so I went ahead and just picked that up. Two cans of infant milk formula for Millie, some Ritz crackers, strawberries, some chicken salad. Again, y'all, this stuff is the best, and we've already got into it. I had some, a couple of the girls wanted some with their Ritz crackers, so we've already been eating on that. Some pimento cheese to make some sandwiches with. I got two bags of tater tots because tonight I'm actually going to be doing tater tot casserole, which I have not done in probably a good year and a half or so. I'm making that tonight, and then I got two cans of these mini cinnamon sticks. It comes to 24 in a can, so I got two of those. Three boxes of blueberry waffles, a rump roast, and then I got two more gallons of milk, and then this is all cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, and four cans of pineapple chunks, and that is it. That is what I picked up. Okay, hang on. That's not all that I picked up. I actually got this strawberry banana yogurt, but I went in the bag. Can y'all see all this? Just stuck my finger in it. There's yogurt everywhere, so I just cleaned this off. I'm going to transfer into another bowl with a lid, and we'll try to eat this up soon, but the yogurt like literally busted all in this bag, and I had to wipe the cheese up and the cinnamon sticks. Anyway, I had the yogurt too, but I had to set it to the side. All right, I got my cup full of ice, so I'm going to fix myself some iced coffee real quick, and I've showed you all this before. I like to use this along with this Planet Oat Extra Creamy, so I'm going to fix some iced coffee now. There we go. Okay, so it is dinner time now, and instead of doing one, we're going to do two of these tater tot casseroles just because we have more people to feed, so we've got all this ready. It's already sprayed. Kelly has actually volunteered to take over dinner tonight, so I'm just kind of walking her through it. It calls for one pound of ground beef, but I'm doing two pounds. That way, we can just split it in half, so once this is brown, we drain it, and then we put in two cans creamy mushroom soup, mix that together, and then I'll show you what's next after that. All right, so once it's brown and you've got the creamy mushroom mixed in, we split it in half since we're doing two, and now we've got ground beef in this one, ground beef in the other one, and next we're going to layer it with tater tots. This is a super quick, easy dinner. I just forgot about it. I used to make it once in a while. I haven't made it in a while. It's really good. All right, so after the tater tots are on, you go ahead and layer it with some cheese. It says two cups of cheese each. We'll probably do a little bit more than that because most of us like our things cheesy, so we're just adding the shredded cheese now. All right, now we're going to stick this in a preheated oven at 350 for about 30 to 45 minutes. We're just going to watch for those tater tots to get golden brown. All right, we are all done with dinner. That was really good. We ended up doing the two tater tot casseroles, and surprisingly, we have a whole one left. The little kids didn't eat much because we had that. We had a pineapple casserole that Kylie made. What else? We also had some sweet carrots, cucumber, so we had a pretty big dinner tonight. We still have a whole tater tot casserole left that I will put up, and we'll probably eat that either for lunch or dinner tomorrow night and just do another side with it. Maybe green beans tomorrow night or something. I don't know. Anyway, it was super good. Kids are, of course, back outside playing this time of year. It's like they come in and eat, do school, whatever they got to do, and then they want to spend the rest of their time outside when it's beautiful out there because when summer hits here, y'all, nobody really wants to go outside and play because it is so hot outside. So spring is like the perfect time for the kids to get out there and play, but I am in here in the girls room, and I'm about to straighten up because I'm not going to show you the whole mess because it's a disaster. So I'm going to get in here and straighten up while they're outside playing because that's usually my time. I'm trying to open the blinds. You see how bright that is? So I'm going to straighten up real quick. Definitely not perfect, but it's better. We've got the toy bins filled and up under the bed. I left a few other toys out that they were setting up playing, so not perfect, but the floor was like literally an absolute disaster. I just need to vacuum in here now.