Laundry and Learning

On this What Works for Me Wednesday I have two more things that work for me. It seems like every week my post has something to do with laundry, but I can’t help it. It is always around me. My husband bought and installed a retractable clothes line for me. Since we have a [...]

Make it Yourself . . . Monday

I had this grand idea of hosting a “Make it Yourself . . . Monday”, but someone beat me to it.
I could use that verse in Ecclesiastes here:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
So, anyway, I am going to [...]

This Crazy Week!

It has been a crazy week. My husband asked me when we are going to be out of pure survival mode, which we have been in for most of this week. Lots of things are going on in my family. My friend’s 8-month old daughter had surgery (her daughter and mine are [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I blogged about my chocolate chip cookie recipe on my other blog. It is not my recipe; it is Betty Crocker’s, but in my opinion it is the best. So check it out here!

Simplifying my life . . .

I really am not attached to stuff. I never have been. It works well in my marriage because my husband cannot stand too much stuff. Shortly after we got married we went through everything we had (Ha! We just got married. We barely had anything!). We made a big pile of stuff in our living [...]

Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

I just had to share this recipe. I never make my own dressing, but I had this dressing at a cooking school demonstration that I attended. It was so wonderful and I do not like mustard so I was very surprised I liked it. Here is the recipe.

Menu Plan Monday – May 18, 2008

So, again I am trying something new. I am trying out a Master List of Meals. Which means we will be having roughly the same thing for each meal each week. Now, I don’t mind having the same thing for breakfast or lunch really. For dinner, my husband’s favorite meal is any meat, mashed potatoes [...]

CVS Deal – May 17

Here is this week’s CVS transactions. My husband’s one rule is that I only buy things that we can use. So he was happy with what I bought because we needed diapers and contact solution!

Transaction #1:3 CVS brand saline contact solutions $2.79 each3-pack Orbit gum (it’s my favorite) $1.50 each1 Pert Plus shampoo plus conditioner [...]

Kids again!

I went to the grocery store and left my husband in charge of our son and our nephew. The boys are both under 3 and six weeks apart so they can get into some trouble. My husband went inside for a minute while they were playing in our little sandbox and when he got back [...]

Homemade Strawberry Jam

Tonight I hosted our Monthly Cooking Club. I invited my great-aunt over to show us how to make and can strawberry jam (oh so delicious). She came over and explained to us the process of making the jam. She also told us the difference between jelly and jam. Jam has fruit in it and jelly [...]