Whose Your Daddy Mac (n Cheese)?

Last weekend was Victoria Day Weekend here in New Brunswick, Canada. I wanted something other than BBQ for a special meal and my kids LOVE ham so I decided to make a big ham dinner with, you guessed it, mac n cheese. I souped up (pun intended, haha!) a mac n cheese recipe with a can of mushroom soup and made a couple other changes and voila! Creamy, rich, and oh so good, Mushroom Mac n Cheese! I kept things pretty simple since it was a holiday and I didn’t want to spend too much time slaving away in the kitchen so I served the ham and mushroom mac n cheese with green beans and home canned veggies like pickled beets and mustard bean pickles. I’ll share my recipes for those in a future blog post so stay tuned!

Did you do anything special with your family over the long weekend? I’d love to hear from you! Comment below and share what you did! I’m looking for ideas of things I can do close to home or right in the backyard this summer! My boys are little and due to COVID I think this will be another summer of staying close to home. I don’t want them playing video games all summer so this Mama could use some inspiration! Over the weekend, we stayed busy working on the chicken coop which I hope will be done this coming weekend. The chickens are growing so fast. They really do need to be moved outside soon into their own space. They’ve been living in a large box in our den for the past several weeks and are now starting to flutter up and almost out of the box. My husband has been trying to work from the same den, haha. They make his daily morning meetings interesting! I do think his colleagues enjoy having a close up visit with them when he occasionally clips the video cam onto the side of their box. Check back in for my next blog post where I’ll share progress on their new farmhouse style coop. It’s so sweet, I absolutely love it! It’s a great addition to our backyard for sure!