The Meaning of MY Life
Occasionally throughout the thirty-three years of my life, when I feel I am being pulled in fifty different directions – often at my own doing, but sometimes not – I shut down and ponder the meaning of life. Everything seems vanity and I get frustrated at the very basic activities of life.
“Why should I make [...]
Frugal and Fun Family Daycations
My husband and I are the youth leaders at our church and we love working with the children and teens. The interesting thing about our youth group is the ages range from 5 – 13 years. We have been able to successfully bridge the gap in our Sunday School classes, but recently we’ve been faced [...]
The Supper Challenge Recap and Link-up
Wow, what a crazy week. I feel as if I was in a daze through most of it. A couple of days I didn’t feel well then the other days was full of different activities. Because of that supper this week was not everything I had planned, but I don’t believe anyone went hungry. I [...]
The Supper Challenge: Day 4 and 5
Day four’s supper was another hit – Black Bean and Ham Soup. My family loves beans so I knew they would like this dish.
It made enough to provide lunch and supper for Day 5 and because we are trying to eat frugal this week I will have to forgo supper plans for tonight and eat [...]
Book Basket: 3rd week of June
I had intended to post my book list the last 2 weeks – the first week I forgot and before I could post the next week I got a call from the library reminding me I had 25 books overdue. Once I was home and in recovery {$17 non budgeted “donation”} I realized that I [...]
Mommy’s Kitchen Helper
This post linked to Wordless Wednesday
The Supper Challenge: Day 3
Tonight’s meal wasn’t on the menu but I forgot to soak the beans overnight for the Black Bean and Ham Soup. What’s worse is I realized I didn’t have enough chicken for the Chicken Divan. But then Amy at Amy’s Finer Things reminded me about her Desperation Dinner and I knew that would the perfect [...]
Brain Food through the Summer
Summer is here, the time most of us look forward to a break from schooling. While we enjoy a less demanding schedule through the summer, we still do what some would call “summer school”. However, I hope I am successfully teaching my children that learning is a life-long and fun process and that we should [...]
The Supper Challenge: Day 2
Supper tonight was a quick throw together meal which is good because I had several errands to run and a piano lesson late in the afternoon.
I found the recipe for Mordecai’s Chicken in a church cookbook Come and Dine put out by Antioch Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN. A year ago I was flipping through [...]
Value Menu @ Sonic
Going out to eat is a rare treat for us, but occasionally we’ll splurge. In the summer especially I like to take the children to the park and have a picnic. Sometimes after a trip to the park we’ll run by Sonic for Happy Hour when their drinks are 1/2 price.
Recently we had been working [...]
