Have I mentioned before how great Menu Planning is? I feel like when I talk about it I get so excited that people think I’m trying to get them to join a cult. If you join the Menu Plan cult though it would be the best thing you ever did for you and your family. ...
A few weeks back we went over to our friends’ house for dinner, and Chris made this amazing salsa and added a peach to it. It was delish! He didn’t use a recipe, so I couldn’t steal it from him. I had to come home and make one up myself. So I started with a...
I’ve not been great at keeping up with the blog since the kids started back to school, so today I’m devoting some time to blogging. I had thought that things would settle down when the kids went back to school and that suddenly I would have all this time on my hands to work on...
When the kids were young I read the Harry Potter books to them. We only made it through book three before they were off and reading on their own at night. After we read each book we would watch the movie as a family. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban seemed to take eons...
This giveaway is now closed, but please stay tuned for more great giveaways and other fun stuff! The Winner is: Amy who gave us this piece of wisdom about getting the kids back in the school routine: “To make going back to school easier we focus on having the kids help, too. It all goes...
Wasn’t it just about five minutes ago that I carried sweet Prince Henry in a wrap snuggled up against me? In fact, this is how I carried him into Sam’s preschool each week, and how I carried him just about everywhere. But somehow, without me even realizing it, Henry has grown up a bit. Just...
We ran away from home this past weekend. If you recall past posts, I’ve talked about how we endeavor to escape from reality every so often to recharge our batteries. It was another idyllic weekend spent escaping the to-do list. Here’s a summary of our weekend, in the form of Facebook status updates (that I...
Look at all of these adorable little freckle-faced children of mine… and a future freckle-face, I’m sure…. they come by their freckles honestly, that’s for sure….
This Giveaway is now CLOSED! Congrats to Diana Powers who said … My sister and I want to take our families and our dad to the Old West Festival this year for his birthday. There are so many things I think that both we would enjoy, as well as the kids. A day out with...
School is back in session, so I have vowed to be better at menu planning, since it saves me so much time, money and stress to have everything planned out. And I vow to stick to that menu plan! It’s so much better to have our family meals at home, so we are saving restaurants...
I have been spending quite a bit of time in my kitchen this week, trying to stock up my deep freeze for the coming months. When I cook dinner I’ve been doubling and even tripling recipes to stick some in the deep freeze for easy dinner cooking later on. We’ve also been freezing some of...
Each Sunday I want to share with you a few words of wisdom. These might be words that I have stumbled upon during my day to day life, lyrics from a favorite song, a poem, a knock-knock joke, a quote from someone famous, or even from someone not-so-famous. Sometimes I see a quote, or hear...
