I'm not a complainer. In fact, I'm generally a pretty easy going person. But there are just a few…okay, quite a few things that really bug the heck outta me. Maybe you can relate? So here they are — thirteen things that annoy me, in no particular order: People at the grocery store who pay […]
Archives for November 2008
Family Night on the Cheap
Family nights could become expensive if we went out but we have found one way to a cheap version of family night that works well for us. My husband and I are homebodies. We love to stay at home. Our idea of a fun evening is curling up on the couch (or in his case, […]
My Favorite Baking Substitutions
I want to share my favorite baking substitutions because they are easy and very necessary at times. Have you ever starting making a recipe, only to discover that, after already mixing together the dry ingredients, you're missing a crucial ingredient like vegetable oil or buttermilk? That's happened to me more times than I care to […]
How to Teach Phone Skills
Teaching your children phone skills will eliminate the answer "I don't know" when you ask who called? I used to work as a telemarketer for a phone company — and I hated every single minute of it! But the experience did give me the opportunity to observe how completely awful many people’s telephone skills are. […]
Menu Plan: Week of November 17
I haven't been cooking much lately. My schedule has been such that we've done yo-yo dinners almost every night. But I'm getting really tired of that, and I think my family is too. Time to break out the good ol' crock pot and start cooking again! So here's the plan for this week. Monday: Slow-Cooker […]
My random seven…at long last
Four score and seven years ago…well, maybe more like a three and a half weeks ago…my dear friend Kate tagged me to blog seven random facts about myself. I obviously didn't take up the challenge immediately. Instead I worked on transferring my WordPress blog to my own domain. So now that that's all done, I […]