I get asked this and sometimes even ask myself: Family of 4 living on one income and you still stay home, how do you do it? First I want to give a big huge thank you to God, for placing the 4 of us together. Without Him we just couldn’t do it. He is a mighty, wonderful God who blesses us in so ...
Bathroom Upgrade: Shower Filter
Last night we installed a shower filter. It all started yesterday, Sunday, when went to Home Depot for a few pieces of lumber we forgot to order from the local lumber yard on Saturday (when they were open and we ordered the rest of the lumber we needed). I was browsing and decided to look for a ...
Activity Calendar
Last Thursday I unplugged the TV... literally.. I disconnected the DVD player, VCR, converter box, Wii, & UNPLUGGED the whole stinkin' thing from the wall. I even covered up the entertainment center with a huge piece of fabric. AND put the couch in front of it so it is NOT easy to get to ...
Kitchen Uprgade: Plastic Storage Containers.
My husband mentioned that the toy isles of Wal-Mart smell when you get close. That darn plastic smell. Have you noticed this? I haven't, just because I avoid those isles. I'm always shopping with children, and rather than saying "no" all the time, we just skip it all together. Well it got me ...
Kitchen Upgrade: Strainer
For Valentines day I bought myself my husband a new strainer. AND since I bought it early..... I've already showed him. I just can't keep a secret. We had a plastic blue one, which I have never totally liked. Mostly because when you put it in the sink and pour your pan of boiling hot water and ...
What’s in Your bathroom?
Toxins- freak.me.out. They really do. But not bad enough to totally ditch everything I own. I have some favorites, like my cosmetics. Mostly because I paid a fortune for them while I was selling cosemetics and would feel totally guilty just throwing them away. Really though, what's in all those ...
Godly-Givers
Let me start with telling you that I am a purger (On a whim I decide to throw or donate tons of things, all at once, it's usually a big production). I've always kind of known this, but a good friend pointed it out recently (because good friends can do that). I didn't think much of it at the time, ...
Cutting Cable
I think it was about 2 years ago I made a decision to cancel our cable TV. It wasn't a financial decision, but one that I thought was a good move to get the awful horrible media out of our home (the grown up shows my husband and I were watching, thinking the kids weren't paying attention, but they ...
Thoughts of The Homemaker
This is what is on my mind: Intentional Parenting- Not just letting each day slip by, and giving in to whatever makes our kids happy, but intentionally parenting our children. Training them to be well disciplined. This is a new experience for me, and let me tell you, it is H.A.R.D! Especially ...
YES! I did it! Pancakes!
My sweetheart and I had a nice morning making breakfast together. Here's what we tried today. FROM THIS: TO THIS: THE RESULTS, THESE BEAUTIFUL HOT CAKES! I used a pancake recipe I found online. I added cinnamon because I've read/heard that it's healthy. There are some statistics on it from ...
Change Two- Food
The second change we've made over the past few years is our food. I used to get so excited over a sale on hamburger helper. Then when I found Wal-Mart had their own brand of it for cheaper I thought I was the luckiest gal in the world! Until I realized the luckiest gal in the world wouldn't be ...