Having a baby or know someone who is? Springtime usually comes with a baby boom. This makes springtime the perfect time to collect baby freebies for you or your friends. Collecting freebies is a great way to save money when having a baby. Registry Freebies for Baby 1. Amazon is one of the largest online…
Tips For Surviving Allergy Season
Allergy season is here in full force now. It is a bit worse in our house because we are pulling up carpet and revealing a good 50 years worth of dust that worked its way under the padding and out of the reach of even our Shark vacuum. I know it will be worth all the…
7 Uses For Coffee Grounds
I love coffee. It has been a major part of my everyday life since my teens when I started taking on a bit more in life than I could chew. That hasn’t changed as a mother. I used to toss out my coffee grounds into the trash but it felt so wasteful. When I started…
How to Clean Hardwood Floors
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…