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  • My scalp is tingling…

    Revlon Colorsilk haircolor runs about $3 at grocery and drug stores, but it’s either really irritating, or I’m allergic to it, because it makes my scalp burn like nothing else!  I’m no stranger to haircolor;  for the past several years I’ve been bleaching and dyeing my hair all sorts of natural and un-natural colors.  I…

  • Expensive end to our expensive trip 😛

    We came home to a non-working garage door opener and quickly realized that our electricity was off.   I called our electric company and found out that they apparently hadn’t processed my August payment, and even though I already made the September payment, they had disconnected service, without any warning at all. I get e-mail notifications from…

  • Dinner Meal Plan: 10/1 through 10/7

    I don’t go out of my way to plan breakfast and lunch unless it’s a special occasion.  I keep breakfast foods (bacon, eggs, sausage, pancake/biscuit mix, etc.) on hand at all times.  Lunch tends to be sandwiches, leftovers or convenience (fishsticks, anyone?) foods.  Planning dinner is important to me since dinner tends to need the…

  • Vacation Time!!!

    Okay, so we don’t leave for almost a week, but I know that time will go REALLY fast! 🙂 My kids and I have been performing in our local community theater’s production of Oliver! so we’ve been extremely busy the past couple weeks with dress rehearsals, sewing costumes and the performances…so I’m a bit behind…

  • Gratitude

    So I missed logging a few days of my gratitude project, but I did jot my thoughts down on real paper 😉 over the past week…included them below. Today I am grateful for a day to rest, cook and sew.   My kids have a friend over–he’s such a sweet boy and I’m happy he’s…

  • Gratitude

    I decided to start a gratitude journal today.  I might express my gratitude in words, or pictures, or both…  🙂  I’m sure it goes without saying that I am very grateful for my family and friends…so I don’t want it to appear that I’m leaving them out or that I’m more grateful for the “things”…

  • You know you’re spending a LOT of time with your son when…

    …you inadvertantly call your husband “buddy” or “bud.”  Oy.

  • Why I’m using up my stockpiles…part 2.

    Part 1 is here. I’ll tell you why it is, for me, and for friends and acquaintances I’ve observed.  Once you have a stockpile, the mindset is that you need to keep it ramped up.  There’s this constant scouting and push-push-push to get more of those items every time they’re really cheap, or free (or…

  • Once-a-Week-Cooking

    If you’ve been a home-maker anytime over the last 15-20 years, you’ve probably heard the term Once-a-Month-Cooking, or OAMC.   Basically, this is a concept involving cooking an entire month’s worth of dinners all at once, and then freezing (or otherwise storing them) so that you can prepare them as needed. I’ve done this off…

  • Getting Organized | Kids’ Clothes & Shoes

    My two youngest share a bedroom.  It’s a nice-sized room with a great walk-in closet.  I’d been hanging some of their clothes in the closet, using the shelves and floor for toys and cramming undies, socks, pjs, leggings and the like into their cute, but very small dresser. When we recently purged a scary amount…