Has this ever happened to you? You suddenly remember that you need to bring a dessert to an event, and you need to leave in an hour. Growing up, my mother used to make these cookies when we would forget to tell her she was in charge of snack or something like that. These [...]

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I am so excited about the Conquer the Clutter challenge being hosted at my other blog this month. When we moved (and displaced all of our stuff) much of the junk rose to the surface and now sits in piles around my house waiting to be sorted, tossed, filed, passed on, put away, etc…
I have [...]

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This week my brother and his family will visiting at the beginning of the week, and then we all head off to a family reunion of sorts. I am bringing the snacks and smores. It will be a blast I am sure! Once again, I will be feeding 13 this week, so I took many [...]

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My tip today is to wear an apron. I almost always wear one in the kitchen while I am cooking or cleaning. In the past, I ruined many nice clothes by splattering food or oil on myself. Now I wear an apron, it protects my clothes and I wash it every few days. Recently, I [...]

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As I am sure many of my readers know we just moved into a bigger home. I have a dilemma that I would love for my readers to solve for me. There is coat closet right across from my kitchen. We are not using it as a coat closet because I have a wardrobe that [...]

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One thing I love about my little kids is that they still think chores are fun. Unfortunately, there are many chores that they would love to do, but they are just too little. It doesn’t help that I have two really capable older kids that can do any chore in the house as well as [...]

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As I am sure everyone knows by now, we moved last week. If you don’t know this, then you just happened to miss a week of my blog complaining, and that is probably better for you anyway.

If you were a visitor in my old house you would probably think I am a neat and orderly [...]

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When I was a child the thought of drinking powdered milk sent chills up my spine. I couldn’t stand the stuff, and always knew when my mom made powdered milk in “real” milk jug. Now that I am older and wiser (I hope) I see the wisdom in my mother’s ways. Even as I type [...]

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After a week of moving, I feel like we are finally getting settled in our new house. We still have a long way to go, (my bedroom and the garage) but we are making progress. This summer my goal is to sort through every bin, box and cubby we have in our house and get [...]

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Last week’s menu was a total bust. I think I only made two of the five meals I planned. I just didn’t have time to cook anything during the move. If I had been smart I would have purchased some prepackaged meals from the store, but I didn’t, so we ended up eating fast food [...]

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