Happy Maewyn Socket Day!

Round these parts, we take a low-key approach to St. Patrick’s Day.  We wear our green, but don’t do any carousing at the local pub.
We did have a green dinner – Tex-Mex Americana style:

Guacamole burgers (minus the bun, cuz I was out), french fries, and broccoli.   It all kinda cancels out, right?
If you haven’t seen [...]

Swimming Pools: Cheap Fun with Kids!

We’re working hard to trim our budget, so we aren’t as footloose and fancy free as we used to be when it came to spending money on  fun kid activities.
We recently discovered Arlington county pools have “free swim” for kids on Saturdays.  Meaning, you arrive between 1 and 3pm, pay for the adult(s) and the [...]

Joining the Coupon Crazies

I’m trying to live more frugally and have joined the ranks of the crazy coupon ladies. I’ll share more of my exploits another time, but I did want to show off my recent haul from Giant:

I got all this for the low low price of …

$33.48!  And actually, it was $5 less than [...]

February Round-Up

Is this thing on?  Hello?
Sorry, I’ve been slacking on the blogging … been busy trying to jump into the world of couponing … but I’ll save that for another post.
I’ve been meaning to do a February Round-up, but geez … I hardly remember what happened in February.  The basic gist was lots of snow, and [...]

Tex Mex Cooking

We had friends to dinner last week (note:  we’ve done more entertaining in February than we’ve done in the last six months, I think!) and I decided on a tex-mex themed menu.   Perhaps a risky choice, considering our guests are from the great state of Texas, but fortunately, everything turned out great.   Since it was [...]

Shapes

This week’s You Capture theme is “Shapes“.  Here’s a few examples from around the house this week:

We made pretzels yesterday, following Sweet Pea’s recipe.

Moments ago, I wondered what could be keeping Asher so suspiciously quiet.  Apparently, he likes rectangles.  And greenbacks.

Lastly, a look at some circles that can always be found in our house.   Often [...]

WFMW: Decreasing Toy Noise

We have one of those fridge farm magnetic sets.  When the kid puts the two pieces of the animal into the set and it sings a little song.   Or if they just push a button it plays a little ditty.  Cute, but annoying.  Especially when the toddler likes to press the button over and over [...]

SWAK

This week’s “You Capture” theme is Kisses.  I wasn’t on the ball and didn’t get any good kissing pictures, so I decided to break protocol and look back over the years and see what kissing pictures I have taken in the past.   You won’t be impressed with my artistic eye, but hopefully the cuteness of [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I hope you had a nice day – we did.  Ours was a low-key kind of day.  We don’t make a big “to do” about Valentine’s – my big thing was having a V-Eve party the night before.  We are trying hard to crunch our budget and reduce spending, so neither of us spent much [...]

Valentine’s Eve Sweetheart Dinner

We hosted a pre-Valentine’s dinner party for some friends on Saturday eve.  It was 4 couples + 9 kids (all six and under) – I wasn’t sure how crazy it would be, but we had a wonderful eve!
The theme was fondue — cheese and chocolate  (not at the same time, of course), rounded out with [...]