April 8, 2020 Mister Baker Part of our lifestyle is creating healthy recipes or healthier versions of favorites like chili, marinara, applesauce. We prefer natural, less sugar, more healthy food options to serve, but our budget is limited. I try to stay at $50 per person or less. About 10 [...]
April 6, 2020 Muddy Water Day We are a crazy outdoor family. After one 6am epic three-player (connected our little old computers together with LAN – the girls’ new love) Age of Empires (old school from like the 90s) game, we are technologically pooped. As we are winning our Age [...]
April 4, 2020 Being Lifted Up See Lucas? See Louis? Yes. Louis is lifting Lucas up to get ice cream out of the freezer so they can use that milk on the counter because Lucas wanted to make cookies and cream milkshakes. Sometimes you can’t reach what you want without [...]
April 2, 2020 February Birthdays So for my entire life, until last year, I was the only February birthday in my family – by birth, then by marriage, and then including my children and the sister- and brother-cousins. I was the only February birthday! I had the whole month to [...]
March 31, 2020 Beautiful Beach Day I know by the time this gets published, we aren’t going to be allowed on our beautiful beaches anymore due to what my teens tease the history books will call “the corona shutdown,” but don’t judge us. Anyway, after making sure you understand that [...]
September 16, 2019 Beach Time I love the reset my body gets from the beach! The salty air does wonders for my sinuses and makes me feel clean again. On the first of September, a beautiful Sunday afternoon, we took the whole family to the beach. The clouds were amazing, [...]
September 8, 2019 Leaving My Little Love I’m looking at the man cross the coffee table as I talk. I knew even though he said it was okay to bring my baby (at this point, I’m 8 months pregnant) to work with me, there would come a time when my [...]
August 30, 2019 Kimberly and her Birthday Twin Louis & I decided to join the church we have been attending. After attending a newcomers class, we brought home our study books and Kimberly looked over it. (Our purpose was to let Christina and Becky look over it. I wasn’t expecting [...]
July 10, 2019 Cranberry Sauce Sweet’n’Sour We had a few leftover cans of cranberry sauce from around Thanksgiving. (A few? Like a dozen or so!) We don’t like to waste stuff, you know, waste not want not, and since we’d given so much away our family didn’t need any more [...]
July 8, 2019 Targets We have enough of a spot to set up our archery target (big fat canvas block thing) and our bb gun target (the windfresh bucket with three aluminum cans) and safely target shoot at those. On perfect days when Mom and Dad are out, the question [...]