Why You Should Balance Your Checkbook
Why should you balance your checkbook? It’s so important, I’ve got several reasons. Nearly as important as why you should balance your checkbook is how you balance your checkbook. By using your hand with a pencil on paper, and calculator, you will better understand your statement. I know it seems old fashioned, passe, or even {Read more about Why You Should Balance Your Checkbook}
Weekly Meal Plan
Our family hasn’t been out to dinner for a meal in so long. I’m pretty sure the last time we went to a restaurant for dinner it was last summer while on vacation. I mention this because I felt a little bad this week when I was scheduled to go out to dinner with a {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
When it comes to what my family eats for meals, it’s a mixed up crazy food world in our kitchen. Pesto on quesadillas, Mexican lasagna, and the always a big hit: Mediterranean tacos- it’s a virtual United Nations of flavors. With homemade hummus spread on pita bread, feta cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and a quick {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
Since this week’s meal plan began with fish and ended with shellfish, I had to break up the seafood with some pork and beans in the middle. Not pork and beans mixed together, although I do love that meal. The beans we ate this week were not one but two nights. Tuesday’s garbanzo beans sautéed {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
The season for soups and stews is coming to a close. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not complaining that summer is coming – it’s just that I love making a double batch of bean soup or a hearty stew, freezing half of it and having an easy dinner in the freezer. It’s a little {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
Dinner two nights this week included a quinoa salad I’ve been experimenting with. It will be featured on a Fusion NW TV show soon. We filmed it in our kitchen on Wednesday morning and talked about three easy grains to cook. These grains are good to eat while transitioning away from white rice and white {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
This meal plan is our vacation meal plan from the week we spent in San Francisco, California for our home exchange. The house we stayed in had a great kitchen that was well stocked and we gave the kitchen a workout! I brought some staple food items with us and the rest of our food {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
The theme of this week’s meal plan was eat through. That’s what I like to call it when we we’re going on a trip and I don’t want to do lots of grocery shopping before we go out of town. We also needed to make room in our freezer, refrigerator, and pantry for our home {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
We’ve gotten used to eating tomato soup made from tomatoes grown in our garden so when I made a quick tomato soup this week with canned tomatoes, we all agreed it didn’t taste nearly as good and was too salty. At the end of last tomato season, I roasted all of the remaining tomatoes, in {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Gingham Drawer Liners
When you love gingham like I do, you’re always looking for ways to incorporate it into a room. Our bathroom re-do was no different and even the flooring is in a gingham pattern but the squares are so big, I don’t think anyone really noticed. One of the final components to finishing the bathroom was {Read more about Gingham Drawer Liners}
Weekly Meal Plan
This week’s meal plan went according to plan, mostly. Well, I forgot we had dinner group on Friday and our kids ate at home without us. My son had signed up to make dinner on Friday but I don’t like to assign a dinner for someone else to cook if I’m not going to be {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
Weekly Meal Plan
Another week, another week of meal planning and making dinners. The freshest meal this week was Monday’s dinner. The eggs were from our backyard chickens who are finally back into their routine of laying and the mustard greens were fresh from the garden. The greens had grown all winter (meaning they hadn’t died over the {Read more about Weekly Meal Plan}
National Match-Up Day
Welcome to “National Match-Up Day” where drawers and cupboards that hold all of our plastic and glass food storage containers get cleaned out and organized. This (soon to be…) nationally recognized holiday will take place the first Monday of October, henceforth. Why October? This is typically the time when my food storage container drawer is {Read more about National Match-Up Day}
The Library Book Return Basket
Having systems and routines in a household make everything run more smoothly. Keeping clutter to a minimum is another household running trick that helps. This is especially true in the entryway of a home. Order upon entering and exiting a home is much more pleasant than chaos. We don’t need to be reminded of all {Read more about The Library Book Return Basket}
Catalog Choice: To Receive or Not To Receive
Receiving catalogs in the mail used to cost us money. Even though I wasn’t actually purchasing anything from the catalogs, just looking at the non-tattered, cord-free, cleaned-up pictures made me think about how our gently used, well loved furnishings were showing a little wear and tear. When looking at catalogs, everything is so shiny and {Read more about Catalog Choice: To Receive or Not To Receive}
