The Facts of Life

I had this great opportunity a few weeks ago to attend a luncheon at the convention center with Lisa Whelchel as the speaker. Some of you may remember that she played Blair on the Facts of Life. She has an incredible testimony and her message that day was inspiring. Mostly she gave a lot of encouragement [...]

Birthday Bliss

This past week we have been preoccupied with Birthday Madness. Having both Zoe and Zack’s birthday fall within the same week has proved more challenging then I thought. I spent months trying to figure out how I was going to handle the parties, with Grandparents visiting and Zack’s being so close to Thanksgiving. I finally [...]

Fall Festivities

I Know I’m  late in getting these posted, but I thought I would go ahead and post them anyway.
We have enjoyed our Annual trip to the pumpkin patch, painting and carving pumpkins, our playgroup costume party, and this year we took treats to a nursing home, as well as the fall festival at church. We [...]

Sleepless Nights

Heard this morning at 3:00 A.M. by Zoe   
Zoe: “Mommy, my bed isn’t working for me”   
Me “Why not Zoe?”
Zoe ” I don’t know, It’s just not working for me anymore”
And so we entered into the night of no sleep

Menu Planning Monday

Ok this week, we went WAY over the grocery budget. I’m pretty sure it’s because Steven and the children shopped with me, and when I shop with Steven I always go over the budget!!! I’ll just have to make up for it the rest of the month. Ok as for the Menu for the week [...]

Frugal Friday

My tip for this Friday, is to use popcorn for packing things that you are going to ship. Use plain air popped popcorn and place in grocery sacks to pad what ever items you are mailing.