Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As January comes to a close, Steady Eddie and I feel like a runner must feel when crossing the finish line after a long, hard race: tired, extraordinarly glad it’s over, and a little bit unsure of what we just did. WE DID IT (almost)! As of last weekend, we had spent $288.15 on groceries [...]
Posted in Homemaking, In the Kitchen on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Back before the new year began (and I was brimming with organizational zeal), I declared January the Month of the Kitchen. Well, somewhere between pulling all the spices out of my cabinet and reorganizing them (which I did) and making not one but two kitchen valances (which I did exactly one-half of), my grasp of this [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I really didn’t know if Tammy would host Kitchen Tip Tuesday this week since she has had such an exciting week, but she is on the ball, as usual, so the least I can do is participate! : ) This week I’m simply sharing a recipe. This is one of those recipes that I called [...]
Posted in Menu Plan Monday on January 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As menus go, this week’s is not very exciting. We are at the end of a very long month, and I can tell it when I look at both our pantry and our grocery budget. However, as Steady Eddie reminded me just this evening, this is the first month since I’ve become a SAHM that [...]
Posted in Grocery Expenditures on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hoo boy. As January begins to draw to a close, our grocery money allotment gets smaller and smaller. Since last tabulation of our total, we have spent right at $90.00 on groceries. This brings our total expenditures for the month up to $288.15. I cannot tell you how badly I want this to work out–I [...]
Posted in Frugality, Grocery Expenditures, In the Kitchen on January 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
For last week’s Super Savings Saturday carnival hosted by Crystal at Money Saving Mom, I asked the questions How does your family work as a team to reduce your expenditures? and How do those of you who are on tight grocery budgets work bargains into your budget? Okie Dokie, who blogs at Saving $$ in Johnson County [...]
Posted in Books, tagged Christian Fiction on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Title: The Key to Zion
Author: Bodie Thoene
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Length: 351 pages
ISBN: 1556610343
Synopsis: In this carefully-crafted work of fiction, Bodie Thoene has written another installment in the suspenseful Zion Chronicles. Readers follow well-known and loved characters David and Ellie Meyer as they trek through Europe on the run from pursuers whom they cannot identify. Will the [...]
Posted in Christmas, Scrapbooking on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I keep plugging away at my Christmas pictures when I get a spare moment to scrap. I decided to go ahead and finish my pictures from 2007 before I go back and work on older ones. I figure I’ve already forgotten most of what happened before last year; I might as well complete last year’s [...]
Posted in Louise Too on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I knew I could never get away with just blogging about the funny things Lulu says. Although I am a first-born child, I remember enough of my sister’s second-born angst to try to prevent it in the case of my own sweet Louise.
Bedtime seems to bring out the best (or worst?) in my children; we [...]
Posted in Lulu the Inquisitor, Scrapbooking on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I thought it would be fun to post on my blog the questions Lulu asks me so that I have a running record of them. Getting out of bed to ask questions is her favorite stalling technique. I thought this would be a fun thing to scrapbook after I collect quite a few, especially since [...]
