Thanksgiving Leftovers

One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving is leftovers. I love to make an open-faced turkey, mashed potato, stuffing and gravy sandwich. I am getting hungry just thinking about it! It is nice to have a bit of variety in your leftovers so I am posting a few Thanksgiving leftover makeover recipe ideas. The most [...]

Getting Ahead

I finally feel like I am getting ahead of the lice game. We still have a steady stream of laundry because I don’t want to take any chances of the lice spreading. In the past 5 days I have only found one live bug, so I consider that a step in the right direction. We [...]

Sweet Picking

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Provisions

Don’t you just love it when God provides an unexpected blessing? Last Thursday at church I was chatting with friends about our camping trip and a friend offered to loan us Therm-a-rest camping mats as well as warmer sleeping bags. I followed her home from church and picked up the supplies. Those camping mats made [...]

Site Upgrade

We are in the process of upgrading the site, so it might look a little funny for the next day or two. We are working to fix the problems and hopefully the site will run better when we are finished!

Smoothie Tips

Smoothies are a favorite at our house. Over the past few years I have learned a few tips to making a better smoothie.
Freeze your fruit, a colder smoothie tastes better. I usually freeze almost brown bananas as well as other fruit I am able to purchase on sale. If you don’t have frozen fruit remember [...]

Quick Commissary Deals

I had to make a quick run to the commissary today and I noticed two pretty good deals.
Betty Crocker cake mixes are on sale for $0.79 a box. There are coupons hanging on the shelves for $1.00 off 3, as well as a coupon in the paper a few weeks back for $0.50 off 2. [...]

Slippery Socks

I know I am not the only one who has a sock problem. My single sock box has gone wild. We have so many single socks I cannot even close the sock box. (This is sounding like a Dr. Suess book)

I decided this weekend I needed to tackle the sock box. I knew there had [...]

Measuring Shortening and Peanut Butter

One thing I dislike about baking is measuring sticky items like shortening and peanut butter. Actually I don’t mind the measuring, it is the clean-up I don’t care for.
Here is an easy solution my mom taught me years ago. Take a glass measuring cup and fill it to the 1 cup line.

Then add your sticky [...]

Too Many Towels

Have you ever noticed that the people who design bathrooms expect only one or two people to use a towel. Sometimes they even place the towel rack above the toilet??? With six kids sharing a bathroom I needed a big solution. I tried over the door racks but my kids (except) one were too short [...]