I am reprinting this post I wrote about my son’s third birthday as part of the Birthday Cake Round-Up at Life As Mom. For some reason, one of the hardest thing for me to reconcile with our bonus baby is what to do with the toys from the first batch. When children are born aRead More
These Are Not Leftovers; This is an Encore Meal!
I took a picture of my lunch one day last week. It is comprised of a piece of leftover grilled steak, the remains of a dinner salad topped with Annie’s Natural Balsamic Vinaigrette, and Aubree Cherie’s Roasted Cauliflower with Carrots. An easy, nutritious meal that took 1 minute to prepare. I heart leftovers!
Stormy Sunset
This picture was taken by my son. He often steals my camera to capture our beautiful skyscapes. I am always surprised with these little treasures when I download my SD card. This post has been linked to Outdoor Wednesday.
Gluten-Free Oatmeal Shortbread
This recipe was adapted from OATMEAL SHORTBREAD by Laura at I’m Losing It Here. This easy recipe comes together fast. I should warn you though, that several members of my household independently described these as addictive. So remember, “With great shortbread, comes great responsibility”. Ingredients: 1 cup brown rice flour 1/4 cup potato starch 1/4Read More
Blooming Baskets
We are mostly between flowers right now. The spring bulbs have died back and the summer flowers are coming in late because of a long, cold winter. So our hanging baskets are filling in the void.The rabbits eat our petunias and pansies. I couldn’t imagine going a summer with out them, so I plant themRead More
Guilt Free Banana Muffins
I needed to use up some old bananas so I decided to make banana muffins. While adapting my Grandma’s recipe to make it gluten free, I decided to make a few other changes to make it a little healthier. I substituted applesauce for the oil, and replaced the sugar with honey. The changes do notRead More
Minimizing Watermelon Mess
To minimize the mess when cutting up a watermelon, place a cookie sheet under your cutting board: Even though my cutting board has a juice groove, it cannot catch all of the juice that a watermelon produces. The cookie sheet prevents my entire counter from becoming a sticky mess. Do you have any tricks forRead More
Menu Plan Monday – Week of June 14th
Monday – Vegetable Garden Minestrone Soup and a Garden Salad. Tonight is dessert night and I am going to try my hand at making a gluten free version of Rhubarb Cake. Tuesday – Grilled Pork Chops, Peas with Basil, and a Garden Salad Wednesday – Use leftover pork in Chili Pork Burritos, Refried Beans, SpanishRead More
Menu Plan Monday – Week of June 7th
Since I spent last week in bed, I have a fridge full of veggies that need to be used up. My menu is designed to use up as many of them as I can, so I don’t have an ugly food waste picture on Friday. Monday – Swiss Chard and Garbanzo Bean Soup and SaladRead More
To Buy or Not to Buy: The Sunday Paper Coupon Dilemma
I do not subscribe to the local paper; I prefer to read the news online, but I do occasionally buy the Sunday paper for the coupon inserts. I used to buy the paper every Sunday, but was sometimes disappointed that the coupons were not ones that I could use and sometimes the paper did notRead More
I Only Bought Ingredients
Each week I participate in Food Waste Friday hosted by The Frugal Girl. Monitoring my food waste, and documenting it with a picture, keeps me accountable and motivates me to remain vigilant in my goal to minimize, if not eliminate, food waste in my household. We did not waste food again last week. I wouldRead More
Delphiniums
Delphiniums are currently my favorite flower. While I must nurse many of our plants through our extreme seasons, delphiniums seem to thrive on our long cold winters. And they don’t mind our hot summers, as long as I give them a little water each day. I have really become fond of these hardy, low maintenanceRead More
Alternate Use for an Aquadoodle Pen
My son had an Aquadoodle set, but one day when I wasn’t paying attention he took crayons and markers to the Aquadoodle paper. I was unable to repair the paper and when I discarded it, I almost tossed the pen too but then I had an idea: I filled up the pen with water andRead More
Fun Ways to Use Bath Letters to Teach the Alphabet
When our children were toddlers, we bought a set of bath letters for them to play with in the bath tub. My husband used the bath letters along with songs to help our children first learn to identify letters, then teach them their sounds, and ultimately begin spelling words. Fun Ways to Use Bath LettersRead More
Snow Pellets
I thought I had experienced every weather phenomenon known to North America, but I was wrong.We were showered with snow pellets on Saturday afternoon. Since it was a new experience I decided to walk out into the snow pellet storm to record it. Lucky for me snow pellets are less dense that hail, so theyRead More
How to Use Sign Language to Teach Kids the Alphabet
We spend a lot of time singing songs with hand motions to our babies and toddlers, so signing the alphabet while singing an ABC song seems quite natural. The great thing is that we do not have to have anything other than our hands to entertain our children. This is one of the most frugalRead More
Gluten-Free Tip: Substitute Dry Mustard for Prepared Mustard
I am not happy with the cake I was going to share with you today so I decided to share a gluten-free cooking tip instead. Most mustards contain gluten because the vinegar they use contains gluten. However, dry mustard is gluten free. So if a recipe calls for prepared mustard, you do not have toRead More
It’s Always Winter, but Never Christmas…
We had more snow last night. More snow is expected tonight and tomorrow. My poor children are complaining of living in Narnia and hoping for Aslan’s return. My garden is barely hanging on. I couldn’t bring myself to post last week because there just didn’t seem to be anything, well at least anything positive, goingRead More
Turned Loose On Summer
My friend, Rebecca at Turned Loose, has been running a series called Intentional Summer. If you have not visited yet, you will want to do so. In this 15 part series, Rebecca reviews “an idea, method, or motivation toward making your time off from school intentionally valuable”. She warns that “the 80 days of summerRead More
Gluten-Free Triple Chocolate Cake
The first time I tried Pamela’s Vanilla Cake mix, my daughter and I fell in love with it. So when Pamela’s mixes went on sale at our local store I bought several vanilla and chocolate mixes to have on hand when I needed to whip up a dessert quickly. Unfortunately, when I tried the chocolateRead More
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