One modern family's journey of going country!
I may sound like a broken record, but I really don't like overly complicated recipes. I like simple, easy to make on auto-pilot kind of recipes that are in fact yummy! I don't want 5 good recipes for pancakes; I just want one amazing pancake recipe. I also want that simple, delicious, amazing recipe to… Continue reading The ONLY Sourdough Pancake Recipe
If you have hung around my house, or my blog, for any amount of time you probably know a few things about me: 1. I love eating healthy & making food from-scratch 2. I really have a strong dislike for sugar (aka "Table Sugar" or the white, cheap stuff) 3. I still have a major… Continue reading The ONLY Cookie Recipe You Need
The BeginningWhile I've always had a soft spot for ice cream, during my pregnancy with my oldest child, that spot grew. Maybe it was the developing child in my womb who also enjoyed the creamy treat, or it was easier to use the excuse, "Eating for two." I often consumed ice cream once, if not… Continue reading Valentine’s Day Treat
As a stay-at-home wife and mother of more than a decade, I feel just a tad qualified to write on the subject of grocery shopping, menu planning and making meals for my family. Yet, I still don't have it all figured out, and depending on the season, I feel as though I am a complete… Continue reading Grocery HAUL Do’s and Dont’s
As the Christmas ornaments have been packed away for another year, I am often left with an intense feeling of needing to do a major overhaul on all the things in my house. Call it post-Christmas clean-out, or a January overhaul. Either way, the stuff that has accumulated over the past few months, was neglected… Continue reading NEW Year, New…..
A Germy Little PoemJust days before ChristmasAnd inside my house,A kid is sneezing and coughingand resting on the couch. A fever is raging Making their head so hotI'm using all the herbal remediesand essential oils that I've got. While this takes placeA winter wonderland is outsideAn arctic tundra, blowing snow,Wind chills on a subzero slide.… Continue reading Just Days Before Christmas….
Okay, I know I am a bit late with this post, as the video is over a month old. I am not sure quite where the time went, but without further ado.... For over a year we have been trying to clean up our diet and create a sustainable healthy lifestyle that avoids gluten, refined… Continue reading Delicious Pumpkin Muffins
Welcome!Let's start with an introduction, shall we? If you are here because you just watched my Youtube video on this subject: Welcome!! Stick around, and check things out. I am so glad you have made it! Don't forget to subscribe to the blog so you don't miss a thing! If you are receiving this as… Continue reading Simple School Daily Rhythm
We were just days into our set aside week of together-time. My husband had been away for three months, and we blocked off the calendar with seven hopeful days of simply being a family of four again. Sipping coffee while chatting, eating homecooked meals around the family dining table, trying to make up for all… Continue reading An Unexpected Trip
The dust was blowing thinly off the field and over the yard like a worn and dingy curtain flapping disconsolately at the window of the world. Through it the old man saw the faded landscape, gray and colorless except for the line of half-dead trees along the creek. It will be another year, he thought,… Continue reading Drought and Hope