Thirteen Meals I'm Planning for May

As part of our "3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days" adventure, I've planned out 13 meals which I plan to make during May. So here's what's on our dinner menu—in no particular order: Chicken/Rice/Veggie casserole Chicken spaghetti (I haven't found a recipe for the spaghetti yet. Anyone have a great recipe they'd like to share?), [...]

3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days

I'm fairly new to the blogging world, having begun this blog only 6 months ago, but in that time I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to peek into other people's homes to see how they live their lives. I'm learning something new every day, whether it be a great recipe, a frugal tip, a better way to [...]

WFMW: My Recipe Binder

I own dozens of cookbooks. But they're rarely used. It's just so inconvenient to have to search through all of them every time I want to find a recipe (and yes, I realize that's a really lame excuse). But now that I've been working on planning meals and baking from scratch, I've started collecting all [...]

Our Firearms Field Trip

We recently spent several weeks studying firearms. Not shooting them, just understanding them. The study of guns is not your typical course of study for public schoolers or home schoolers, but I felt like it would be a worthwhile study. The physics of firearms is absolutely fascinating, and the development of firearms has had an [...]

Cleaning Up the Kitchen

In May (which I just realized starts in only two days!) I'm going to be embarking on my first month of a tight food budget—$450 for a hungry family of 5—so I decided I'd better clean the kitchen and get it ready for some serious use. Strangely, I was pretty excited about doing the dishes [...]

A Providential Email

I picked up an old edition of Saxon 76 several months ago for next to nothing, thinking that I could use it with Jaden. Unfortunately, although I posted a "want to buy" request on our local homeschool forum, and searched the internet for used copies, I couldn't find the corresponding answer key anywhere without having [...]

A Lost Addiction?

My husband has been wondering what all the talk about the TV series Lost has been about. Could the show really be that interesting? So he decided to watch it for himself to see what all the hub-bub is about. He's watched probably half a dozen episodes online in the past couple days, and he's [...]

Menu Plan Monday…From the Pantry

The Happy Housewife has really been encouraging me this week concerning my grocery spending, so I'm going to be going on a $450 monthly food budget starting May 1. It's not going to be as low a budget as I'm sure it could be, but I'm taking baby steps here. I tend to spend a [...]

Donate a Net, Save a Child!

Today, 3,000 children died from malaria. But we can do something about that. We can bite back. Ten dollars not only provides a mosquito net that will protect a child from mosquitoes for three years, but it also provides education and treatment for those who have malaria. Anne Jackson, at FlowerDust.net, is challenging us to [...]

What to do with all the books?

We are book collectors. We're avid book readers as well, but we seem to collect books faster than we can read them. We have hundreds of fantastic books with great information in them—from science to history and everything in between—and I'm looking for a way to get my kids to read them. As part of [...]

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