Twiddling our thumbs

Remember how I pulled everybody out of extra-curriculars last fall? We’re still enjoying our time off. You can read about what I’ve found out from our little experimant here at Segullah today. By Hildie | Filed under Uncategorized 1 Comment Share

January 31, 2011

Preparedness and a mini-breakdown

First of all, the preparedness item this week is Spaghetti Sauce. It’s a pasta topping! It’s a pizza Sauce! It’s multi-talented! If you are aiming on spaghetti/pizza/etc. once a week, that’s going to be 12 jars. Think you can handle that? If that’s too much for your pantry (or your… Read More

January 29, 2011

The room that refuses to be decorated.

Ugh. Three days later I’m still painting York’s room. He was semi-suprised to be by himself and is thrilled to sleep without anyone “breathing weird” or touching his sacred Legos/Nerf guns/Star Wars junk. I still haven’t been able to find any attractive, cheap bedding. So York is using an ugly… Read More

January 26, 2011

The Great Switcheroo

York, my petulant almost-14-year-old, is tired of sharing a room with his 11-year-old brother Finn. And who could blame him? Finn is a slob. Plus sharing a room is a complete drag when you’re a teenager. York has been begging for his own room for a couple of years now.… Read More

January 25, 2011

Item of the Week–Mac & Cheese

I was thrilled last week to find several great deals on cereal. I hope you stocked up like I did! This week we’re going to keep the Family Favorites category going strong with Macaroni & Cheese. I’m sure there are kids out there who don’t like this, but they are… Read More

January 21, 2011

Fess-up Friday–kitchen edition

Today for Fess-up Friday we’re going to talk about kitchen disasters. My biggest disaster had to do with an egg. A hard-boiled egg. I made several in a pot of water for my kids and I. When I peeled the first egg I realized it wasn’t quite done. I’d heard… Read More

January 20, 2011

The weather, The church and Cranberry Beef tacos.

I have written nearly five different blog posts over the last week. Long ones. But I’m really disliking all of them so they will stay tucked away in my Drafts folder for now. You know how sometimes you want to eat something but nothing sounds good? It’s like that. But… Read More

January 17, 2011

Item of the Week–Cereal

How did everybody do with peanut butter last week? I ended up getting nine jars which should last us for a few months. This week our item is Cereal. (Dry cereal, not oatmeal.) Is there any food more beloved to people than cereal? I mean, who doesn’t like it? It… Read More

January 14, 2011

Fess-Up Friday

I’m starting a new feature that will run once or twice a month; it’s called Fess-up Friday and the whole point will be to (I’ll bet you’ll never guess!) get something off your chest that maybe is not so great. Today’s theme is Non-Green As in “what is one of… Read More

January 12, 2011

A tisket, a tasket, a homemade casket

My mother is a major tightwad. Especially when it comes to things that are death and burial-related. It’s all a rip-off as far as she’s concerned. Thus we had this conversation a while ago (I swear this is absolutely true). Mom: “When I die I want to be buried in… Read More

January 10, 2011

Item of the week.

It’s time to get started with the grand kick-off of the 2014 Get Prepared-a-thon! Here’s the plan: I don’t want to overwhelm you with talk of a year’s supply or wheat grinders or dry pack canning. I want you to get your three month supply of food and water. We’re… Read More