Budget: Recommitment
The hard thing about budgeting isn’t the budget. I mean after you take the weeks to put it together, then refine it, it’s pretty much done. The hard part is having the guts to stick to it,
Snow Day
There is something magical about a snow day. It’s as if the world stops for a moment and you have the most precious gift of all, time. There’s no place you have to be, nothing you have to do, nothing that really has to be done because… it’s snowing.
Budgeting: Meal Planning Side Effects
Having a plan means all my grocery shopping is done in two hours while my son is at preschool. The food in my freezer is added in to the weekly rotation and there’s no food being wasted. My fridge isn’t overflowing and I’m not running out to the store to get the one ingredient that turns into $50 of impulse groceries I didn’t really need.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Ralph Waldo Emmerson said it best: “For each new morning with it’s Light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For Everything Thy goodness sends. Father in heaven, we thank Thee.” Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Pottery Barn Santa DIY
Confession time. I’ve been wanting to make the Pottery Barn Santa Canvas for a couple of years now. His jolly face starts showing up in my Pinterest feed starting in September, taunting me until the end of January when Easter DIY takes over. This year Santa’s smiling face and jaunty hat will be MINE!
How to start?
Seriously, I’ve owned this site for about four years and I keep telling myself I’m going to do something with it, I’m going to start blogging because, well, let’s be honest, since I’ve become a stay-at-home Mom, my circle of connection to the world outside has grown much smaller and I think my husband gets tired of my Pinteresting projects […]