I have LOVED having my Mom visit us. I’m so sad we’re taking her to the airport today, but luckily, I get to see her again when Holly’s born (2 more months!). A special thanks to my Dad and siblings for letting me have Mom for a whole week.

I’m having loads of fun with my mom. Today we’re going to go check out the garage sales! Obviously we’ve been super busy. Here’s a quick recipe that I L-O-V-E! A favourite from my younger years. I made it yesterday and I’m tempted to finish off the rest of the pan for breakfast dessert!

Banana Split “Cake”

1/2 cups Graham Crumbs
1/3 cup non-hydrogenated margarine, melted
2 pkg. (250 g each) Brick Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 can (14 fl oz/398 mL) crushed pineapple in juice, drained
6 bananas, divided
2 cups cold milk
2 pkg. (4-serving size each) Vanilla Instant Pudding
2 cups thawed cool whip whipped topping, divided
1 cup chopped pecans

MIX graham crumbs and margarine; press onto bottom of 13×9-inch pan. Freeze 10 min.

BEAT cream cheese and sugar with electric mixer until well blended. Spread carefully over crust; top with pineapple. Slice 4 of the bananas; arrange over pineapple.

POUR milk into large bowl. Add dry pudding mixes. Beat with wire whisk 2 min. or until well blended. Gently stir in 1 cup of the whipped topping; spread over banana layer in pan. Top with remaining 1 cup whipped topping. Refrigerate at least 5 hours. Slice remaining 2 bananas just before serving; arrange on cool whip. Serve.

My modification: double the graham cracker crumb bottom. My mom used to put maraschino cherries (cut in half) in-between two of the layers.

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Meet Holly’s Thanksgiving pinafore. I love this. Conor loves this. Best part is, it only took a few hours to sew. I’m going to make a collared dress to go underneath it and booties to match. I adore this fabric!

30 weeks looks round. It feels achey and sore. Washing floors on my hands and knees is something I can no longer do as I learned today. It’s good and bad.

While Conor’s getting hot and heavy with anything grill related, I’ve been keeping busy sewing. I decided to dash anymore projects I had intended for myself and get started on baby clothing! Last week I made some knit pants for Holly – 2 navy blue and 2 pink, one of each colour in 0-3 months and 3-6 months. I couldn’t resist adding some ruffles to the bum of the pink ones. I’m totally loving it! I did, however, resist making the navy blue ones girly just in case we get a boy next time around. And even though Conor dislikes headbands, I couldn’t help but make one! I’m waiting to finalize the length until Holly’s born. We were able to pick out her head earlier this week during a couple of days in which she had flipped around and it felt big!

And just because I love this fabric, here’s what I’m making my diaper bag out of:

I also managed to make a dress with a matching pinafore and diaper cover. It’s all wrinkly from the wash though (pictures later, when I feel like ironing… ha). And tonight I cut out another dress, pinafore and diaper cover combo for a fall/winter dress. So much to sew, sew little time!