Why We Wait
How long are you willing to wait to save a few bucks? I’ve been asking myself that lately. I was ready to paint the boys’ bedroom in July, before school started. Except my home repair envelope was empty. I hosted…
House Updates and Clip-on Lenses for an iphone
Last week I started back to school with teacher meetings. I usually only teach 1 hour a day, but the week of teacher meetings I’m at school quite a bit more. I don’t mind. The staff is fun to be…
How to Prep Ahead for an Easy Week
We went camping this spring to visit my sister-in-law and her family in Colorado. To save money, we cooked our own food at the tent site on a portable propane stove. It was the EASIEST week of cooking that I’ve…
Meal Plan Shopping Lists Made Easy
When I started my meal plan service the hardest thing I had to do was generate the shopping list. In the early days I spent 50+ hours a week on the meal plans and wondered what I had done to…
Step 1 to a meal plan you’ll actually follow
Drumroll please……Here are the survey results! If you don’t meal plan, you are in the majority. I didn’t for years either. When I lived in the country and could only get out to shop once a month, I planned…
When a Meal Plan is Important
When I was a young wife, I didn’t meal plan. I didn’t WANT to meal plan. I have a crazy talent of opening the fridge taking out a few bits of that and a smackerel of this and pulling it…
Step 1 to Finding your Cooking Groove
What I’m about to tell you is so simple, I’m expecting eye rolls. Even so, it’s the #1 cause for losing your cooking groove.
It’s “Getting Food on the Table” Month
Happy August! It’s my birthday month and my husband’s too. Plus our daughter, his mother, his sister, my grandfather, my aunt, our niece, and a cousin too. Everyone shall eat cake! It’s also the month that school starts. 3 of our…
A Few Cozy Touches
There were some things in my master bedroom plan that I had planned on doing from the beginning, but needed to wait to save up a little more cash and take the time to search for just the right thing.…
DIY Stump Table
All summer, our town has seen one storm after another. There has been some tornado action, some microbursts, and some general strong wind. So far everyone has been safe but there are a lot of trees on the ground. Some of them…