Ok my friends, I seriously love my slow cooker. Now that I’m working nights it has become such a big help in keeping my family eating home cooked meals while I still get some rest. Not to mention how low cost a lot of them are! Preparing and freezing big batches of meals can save a lot of money by allowing you to buy large amounts of ingredients when they’re on sale. This list is composed of some of…
In my long 3 and ½ year career as a mom, I’ve learned a few tips and tricks that have really helped out along the way. Some are ingenious ways of using items I hadn’t even considered to be helpful as a parent, others are things or ways of doing stuff that I didn’t even know existed. I want to share in my wealth of limited knowledge and hopefully prevent some of you from learning things “the hard way”, which…
Technology is amazing and has made everyday things so much easier for us than they used to be. Every generation brings new ideas and advances to existing ones, until it’s almost hard to remember how you managed without them. It is no surprise that our own children will never know about some the the wonders of yesteryear. Here’s a little trip down memory lane on just a few of things that they won’t have to deal with, but were so…
Here in southern California, we are having a lovely 90+ degree sneak peek of summer. It’s gonna be HOT this year. Here are a few tips for busy Moms and Dads that save both time and money in making delicious smoothies as snacks or on-the-go meal replacement. I like to freeze fruit that we haven’t gotten to at the end of the week before I go buy more. Just wash, chop, peel, and divide it into snack size baggies…
Often I feel like the I get caught up in the day to day business of work, home stuff, kids stuff, errands, plus a million other things, and forget that it’s been a while since I did something nice for the Hubs. Not the normal cook a meal or pick up dirty socks kinda stuff, I mean actually going out of my way to do something I think he will like or enjoy. Just for him. There are tons…
10 things I could be doing in the 45-60 minutes it takes my daughter to go to sleep. My daughter, bless her heart, has recently taken to fighting bedtime like it hurts. There are times when she lays down, no assistance or intervention needed, and just goes to sleep. These days are rare. Usually we do a sick twisted tango of crying, negotiating, stalling and humiliation, that almost always ends up with me rubbing her back singing the Frozen soundtrack a…