One modern family's journey of going country!
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
While I have absolutely nothing against pumpkin or a real Pumpkin Spiced Latte, I do feel that recipe is a bit overdone each fall. My inspiration for today's recipes is two-fold. First, it is still rather hot outside in my "neck of the woods." Second, one fall this flavor was a one-hit (season?!) wonder at… Continue reading Maple Coffee: Two Recipes for Fall
At the beginning of this week, I made a simple goal for myself: Write for 15 minutes each day. Sounds simple enough. Very doable. But without a designated time slot, it happened a whopping zero times. Now, as I sit in front of the computer to work on video and photo editing (the things I… Continue reading In Control of My Days
Before my husband left on an extended trip outside of the United States, someone asked us the duration of the trip and responded with a casual, "Oh, that will be easy!" I bit my tongue to keep from responding with a tart, "For who?" Of all the ways for a person to respond, that phrase… Continue reading Six Things to Say to a Spouse of a Deployed Person