Beef! It’s What’s For Dinner! Yesterday, I picked up ~80lbs of grass-fed beef from a local farm. Grass-fed beef is considerably more expensive than your average grocery store beef, but it is so much better (for you and the cow). If you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend watching Food, Inc. to get a...
Well, with winter in full swing, my hands are cracked and miserable again. I used to have a hand lotion I kept in the car I really liked, but it ran out, so I finally got out and bought some more and my hands are feeling better. Here are my tips for preventing/treating dry...
When it comes to teacher gifts, I like to give something homemade and also hopefully useful. For the second year in a row, we gave our teachers some holiday goodies packed in a reusable lunch container. I like the BPA Free, bento-style EasyLunchboxes container — a 4 pack is only $13.95. This year I...
A few years ago, I posted a list of advent ideas to provide inspiration for daily fun activities with the kids. I’m not organized enough this year to have something planned for every day, but I do hope to do many fun and meaningful activities with the kids. Some things are just fun to...
When we married in the late 90s, I requested and received a set of Circulon cookware. Over the years, I have become disenchanted with non-stick cookware in general, and my Circulon in particular. So, I’ve been slowly converting over to other styles. One of our first non-stick purchases was a pair of cast iron...
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to buy the kids matching Christmas jammies. It’s the one present they get to open Christmas Eve, so that everyone can wake up Christmas morning looking all cute and photo-worthy . So my photography skills may leave something to be desired, but the cute still comes through!...
A while back I shared that I wanted to do more hiking with the kids. Well, we’ve only gone once since then, but I still have high hopes! In the meantime, I thought I’d share a really cool idea I picked up from my sister-in-law to memorialize the hikes. Every time you go hiking,...
Have you heard of the “You are Special” Red Plate? I first learned about this concept from a mentor mom in my MOPS group several years ago and it has been a tradition in our home ever since. The basic idea is simple. When setting the table for a meal, give one child the...
My personal grooming habits are most definitely low maintenance. If it’s not cheap, quick and/or easy, I’m probably not doing it. While I love mani/pedis, massages and all the rest of that salon service stuff, I rarely indulge as it’s just not valuable enough to me to take up room in a limited budget....
I have never been a domestic diva, by any stretch, and laundry has always been my Achilles heel. Before we did our addition, our washer & dryer were down in our dingy unfinished basement and I hated going down there. So I kept finding new clothes to wear until my hubs got fed up...
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