When we started the journey to pull up the carpets and reveal the hardwood floors under them I may have been a bit over-optimistic about how much easier hardwood would be to care for than carpet with the kids. Yes, I can care for it with lightweight brooms and mops instead of heavy vacuums and…
Sinful Sausage and Potatoes Cast Iron Skillet Dinner
There’s something about butter soaked potatoes. I refer to them as sinful because well we all know that feeling when you bite into a truly delicious food and your eyes roll back. These potatoes do just that. Add the incense flavor or onions, peppers, and smoked sausage and everything is just magical in this sinful sausage…
12 Ways to Save Money When Having a Baby
Spring is here and the pregnancy announcements are coming left and right. I decided its more than time to give this post an update. After all, it’s been a couple of babies since I wrote it and I have some more tips to share with all those new moms and moms to be out there….
How to Attract Hummingbirds to your Garden
I still remember the first time I had seen a hummingbird up close. It had come to drink from a flower in my front garden bed on a hot summer day in Kansas. Since that day I have always had a love of hummingbirds that I passed on to my own children. Now we make…
Blue Moon Hickory Barbecue Sauce Recipe
I am so happy it is warming up and just dying to get to work cooking out on the grill. I decided to try a different Barbecue sauce than our typical Sweet and Zesty Garlic Barbecue Sauce we do so often. Having really no experience with beer and wanting to give and easy hickory barbecue…
Grow Your Own Salsa Garden
MMMmmm We are planning our garden for the year and after playing with some homemade salsa a pico de gallo recipes we decided we have to put in a salsa garden this year for fresh from the garden salsa. While you can expect us to be enjoying homemade salsa all summer for a great snack…
How to Build the Best Garden Soil
Building up your garden’s soil is the best way to make your garden thrive this year. As we grow plants in our gardens year after year the soil breaks down and needs help to provide your garden with what it needs. If you are growing a garden to feed your family or even to make…
Garden Fresh Pico De Gallo Without Cilantro
Mmmm I love a good dish that can come right out of the summer garden. Pico De Gallo is one of those dishes that can come right out of the garden. The only issue is Pico De Gallo has cilantro. I am one of those people that just can not handle the taste of cilantro….
Duck Learning Play and Printable
I can’t get over how cute my little ducks are. Watching them flap their wings and run around the yard in a game of following the leader made the day worth all the energy 4 kids demand. Quack. Quack. QUAAACCKKK! With Mother Goose Time today, we made these super cute ducky headbands so we could…
Garden Fresh Strawberry Pancakes
I can’t wait for the fresh strawberries our of the garden. We are planting a good bit of them this year in pots hanging from the new fence we are installing. For now, we got lucky and the Florida Strawberries from just outside of the town we last lived in Florida are ripe and they…