Homemade Pizza a HIT!

Last night was pizza night, as per my Menu. I had never made either recipe before and was beginning to think it wasn’t worth all the trouble to prepare. I told Dearest that if the pizza wasn’t knock down good I wasn’t going to bother with it again! As it was cooking it smelled wonderful [...]

Menu Plan Monday – Week 2

Last week we went to the in-laws for one meal and then had an unplanned event so 2 meals are carry-overs from last week. BREAKFAST ~ eggs (cheese omelet, boiled, fried), cheese grits, oatmeal LUNCHES ~ P.B. sandwiches, fruit, salad, left-overs SNACKS ~ fruit, carrots, homemade WW bread, Ovaltine MONDAY ~ (carry over) Veggie Pizzas w/ [...]

Sharing…

Here’s the picture I captured as I quietly opened the back door so as not to disturb our human bird feeders. Baby Girl crawling I saw a great bumper sticker today that said “Somedays I wish I was a missing person” LoL We’ve all been there haven’t we? We’re off to my in-laws [...]

Wondering what to post Wednesday?

I wanted to blog a Wordless Wednesday post of my children being human bird-feeders but in our home we have a monster that likes to eat batteries so I have no batteries to boot up my digital camera with. That will have to wait I guess. Then I wanted to blog a Works for me Wednesday post [...]

Menu Plan Monday

Here’s my menu for the week. I’ve linked to recipes where I could. We try to eat a whole foods diet for the most part. We’re not perfect as evidenced by the brownies I’m drooling over in the oven right now but we try! BREAKFASTS ~ whole wheat millet muffins, oatmeal, fruit LUNCHES ~ Leftovers, salads, fruit, peanut [...]

Count your many blessings!

A few days ago I was so very thankful to the Lord for how he has blessed our family. I was rejoicing in the little ways He has shown us that He cared. It was definintely a “mountain top” week. Then came a “valley”…Among other things, I was discouraged because of several unexpected bills that came in [...]

Easy as pie…errrrr bread

I came across this recipe/method in Mother Earth News awhile back but because I didn’t have a Dutch Oven I forgot about it. Then my mother-in-law bought me a beautiful, red 6 quart Dutch Oven for my birthday and because I’ve been so excited to cook any and everything in it I looked up this method again. I’m always on the [...]

Think about it Thursday

What if . . . . . God decided to stop leading us tomorrow because we didn’t follow Him today? What if . . . . . God couldn’t take the time to bless us today because we couldn’t take the time to thank Him yesterday? What if . . . . [...]

Is YOUR bedroom a retreat?

Today, I read an encouraging post entitled Retreating to our bedrooms….. You should check it out and maybe do a little evaluating I know a lot of ladies that struggle with keeping their bedrooms uncluttered and kid free. For some, their bedroom is the last to clean, therefore often going undone because of the demands of [...]

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