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Filed Under: Home Management

A Kid-Friendly Kitchen Cabinet

Garage sales can help with kitchen cabinet problems for kids as you can see from my own experience. PROBLEM: My kids were too short. My kitchen cabinets were too tall. And I was too lazy got tired of getting the dishes down for my kids all the time. SOLUTION: When I happened upon this two-door […]

Filed Under: Home Management

Conquer the Clutter

Does anyone know of a CTC (Conquer the Clutter) club available in your neighborhood? I'll admit it. Although I wouldn't call myself a pack rat, I do tend toward clutter in my home. In fact, this tendency is why the bar in our kitchen is covered with picture frames—to prevent us from piling it high […]

Filed Under: Menu Plan Mondays

Menu Plan Monday: Week of June 30

Menu plans often go awry and last week is a prime example with a save toward the end of the week with pizza pockets. I had high expectations last week of making lunches since our dinners were taken care of due to evening VBS all week. But (*sigh*) as usual, it didn't pan out. Other […]

Filed Under: Family

Starting 'em Young

When there's a fifth Sunday in a month, our church holds a Fifth Sunday Singin' instead of our regular evening service. For a Fifth Sunday Singin', anyone who wants to, can sign up to sing, and of course, both  my girls wanted to sing. This is the second time Joely has sung in church and […]

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How to Chop an Onion

I'm still a novice in the kitchen, and up to this last week I still hadn't gotten the hang of how to chop an onion the right way—well, at least in such a way as to produce little pieces of onion that are even remotely similar in size. But this last Saturday I was able […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

A "Thank You" from my Mom

My mom wants to send my readers a thank you for your prayers for her during her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers that went my way. There were definitely moments I would rather not go through, but God has a way of catching our attention. I never felt really nervous or scared at […]

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