Homemade Mixed Nut Granola
I LOVE granola – it’s so good with milk or yogurt, or on ice cream. The problem with granola is that it’s so crazy expensive for what it is that I don’t buy it too often, but it’s so simple to make that…
Raspberry Lime Pound Cake
The man of the house had a birthday a few days ago, and I made one of his favorite all-time cakes – this berry cake I first made last summer. At the time I adapted the recipe from one I found on orangette.blogspot.com (who…
Tips for Surviving Airplane Travel with Kids
Traveling by plane with kids is stressful – there’s no way around it. You’re all trapped in a little metal tube for hours on end with hundreds of strangers and no way to escape. There are a few major differences between traveling by air…
Travel Journals for Germany
I started making travel journals for the kids when we went to Montana last summer, and then in the fall I made journals again for our trip to Germany. The little guy is still a bit young to fully appreciate it, but I do…
Color Matching Game for Kids
I saw an idea for a color matching game on Pinterest (searching through many many unattributed pins on that site led me to find this post which seems original although not the one I saw). I made a set for each child and brought…
Felt Boards for Kids
Over the next few days I’m going to post some of the projects I did during my ‘hiatus’ from the site. Way back in August I started on a project to make felt boards for the kids, mainly for our trip to Germany to…
Tooth Fairy Pouch
My little girl lost her first tooth last night, and I sewed up a little pouch that she could put her tooth in and stick under her pillow. I didn’t want the teeny tiny tooth to get lost under the pillow, and risk the…
Pasta with Kielbasa and Peppers
In the same spirit of frugal dinners and using up things in the pantry before grocery shopping, dinner last night was pasta with smoked kielbasa, green peppers, zucchini and tomatoes. It was super yummy and easy – I just sauteed some smoked kielbasa (from…
Savory Spinach and Feta Strata
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year is to get our grocery budget under control. We spend much more than we should on groceries, so I’m using a four part plan to try and keep the cost down this year: 1) use a…
Happy New Year!
As I like to do on most New Year’s Days, I’ve made black eyed peas and collard greens for dinner. Folklore says that eating black eyed peas on New Year’s Day brings good luck in the coming year, and eating collard greens brings money…
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