Author Archives: Angela
Green and Growing
I planted my garden a few days ago and little green shoots are coming up. The garden is more shaded than it appeared to be in winter before the tree leaves appeared. So it is a great experiment if anything will grow. This bed has sprouts of green beans and okra popping up their heads. [...]
Mulberries
The kiddoes are picking mulberries off our tree in the back garden. They got about a quart with more to ripen soon. I’m trying to post a photo from my phone. Crossing my fingers that the wordpress app will work this time.
Posted in Family, Food Preservation, Gardening 1 Comment
Garden Update :)
Here’s a reminder of what my old garden spot looked like: Two weeks ago we had a garage sale and while I sat in the garage helping customers, Darren cleared my garden spot! What a relief. I didn’t know how I was going to find time to do that. Then he built the beds for me too! (I bought kits [...]
Posted in Gardening 6 Comments
Low Carb Burger
My In-laws came down several weeks ago to help us work on the back garden of the house we are trying to sell. Dad offered to go and get low-carb burgers for everyone from Hardees because I had no food or dishes to cook with in the vacant house. It was delicious! It was basically a large [...]
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Darren’s New Toy
Don’t forget to enter our giveaway here. The winner will be chosen Friday, May 4th. How many times can I say no before giving into His handsome face? I started to think about all the things I plan to ask for this year and felt myself softening up. His little boy pleading eyes were too much for [...]
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Why I Went to the Hospital
Don’t forget to enter our giveaway here. The winner will be chosen Friday, May 4th. I’ve been sewing for 20 years…or maybe a little longer. So I was as shocked as anyone when I made a huge safety mistake with my sewing machine. I haven’t volunteered much up at the kid’s new school. I sent the [...]
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Grant’s First Birthday
Don’t forget to enter our giveaway here. The winner will be chosen Friday, May 4th. It doesn’t seem possible that my baby is 1. The past year has been a blur for me, but I wouldn’t do it differently if I had the choice. I never felt quite myself this past year. I don’t think it was [...]
Posted in Baby/Pregnancy, Family 4 Comments
Meet a Superstar and enter a Giveaway
The Giveaway is now Closed. What a great group of entries! Sandi Sullivan, AKA Mom CEO, helps mothers start their own home businesses in the natural household products industry. One of my readers, Danielle Ray, took a risk, clicked on the square button ad and sent Sandi an email. Now she is head of the fastest growing [...]
Posted in Cleaning and Laundry, Giveaways, Home Business 214 Comments
Homemade Baby Food