Book Review: How Children Fail

As my husband is a teacher by trade, he has read several books on children and education that he recommended I read. One of these is How Chi...

What To Do With Your Expired Coupons

So I had heard before that expired coupons can be used by military families stationed overseas for 6 months after their expiration date. How...

Meatless Mondays

When perusing Skinny Bovine Kitchen I came across a link to Meatless Monday . Their goal is to get people to reduce meat consumption to impr...

Book Review: The Essential Mormon Cookbook

I received The Essential Mormon Cookbook: Green Jell-O, Funeral Potatoes, and Other Secret Combinations by Julie Badger Jensen as a wedding...

Why You Should Probably Be Taking a Prenatal Vitamin Even If You Aren't Pregnant

The process of growing and breastfeeding a child for six months sucks out 5 years worth of nutrition from your body. This means that if you...

March Giveaway: Austenland by Shannon Hale

This book doesn't have much to do with the things that I normally blog about, other than it's a book. But it's an awesome book....

Easy Homemade Chicken Stock

I love soup. I eat it about once a week, spring, summer, winter and fall. (It's just something that MLM deals with.) I have a couple coo...

Skinny Bovine's Kitchen

Recently I stumbled on this blog. Britt is a stay at home mom who loves to cook and for health reasons can only eat healthy things, and like...

Book Review: Fascinating Womanhood

My mother-in-law gave a copy of Fascinating Womanhood: How the Ideal Woman Awakens a Man's Deepest Love and Tenderness by Helen Andelin...

Confessions of A Mother of a Picky Eater

I thought that my daughter was picky, until I had my son. That child would not drink formula. The only baby foods I ever got him to eat were...

How to Cook a Great Steak Part 2: The Hand Doneness Test

A few people commented that they didn't know how to tell when a steak was done. My husband (a.k.a. Meat Loving Man) uses the Hand Donene...

Rainbow Cupcakes

I found this festive idea in the March 2010 issue of Family Fun Magazine . They were fun, and my daughter loved them, but they turned out t...

Corned Beef and Cabbage with Mustard Custard Sauce.

I thought I would try making something traditional for St Patrick's Day, but then I have to work on St. Patty's and the last thing I...

Pink Eye- What It Is and What You Need to Know About It

Pink Eye is the common name for conjunctivitis, and it is very common in children. What it is, is an inflammation of the clear mucous membra...

Book Review: 101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix

I have read a few Cake Mix Cookbooks, but 101 Things To Do With A Cake Mix by Stephanie Ashcraft is my favourite. My mother-in-law gave thi...

How To Cook A Great Steak

A few weeks ago I came across this article: How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steak into Gucci “Prime” Steak on Wisebread.com. When steaks went o...

BBQ Baked Beans

So last month when I did the pantry challenge , I discovered that I had a lot of canned pork in my pantry, and I wasn't really sure what...

Appreciation Can Save Your Sanity

I've talked about appreciation and gratitude before, and when I was in college I studied a little about its health benefits, but recentl...

BBQ Chicken and Wheat Salad

Ok, for those who haven't ever had something with wheat berries in it, just stay with me. You need to try this. Using your wheat can be ...

Book Review- What Happy Working Mothers Know

I don't agree with every point in this book, but man I wish that I had read it years ago when I was trying to balance working full-time,...

Everything I Know About Plants & Gardening

Water, weed, good dirt is necessary, um that's about it. Today would have been my grandma's 86th birthday and I've been thinking...

Giveaway Winner

 Congrats to Sarah from Indiana, who won the giveaway for February. I do apologise to everyone who was unable to comment on the website beca...

Just A Reminder

If you are having one of those days where you are really frustrated with your life just remember: "The way that mothers nurture their c...

Pantry Challenge Review

In the past couple weeks this is what we have been eating: Navajo Tacos, Chicken Fajita Pasta, Beef Stew, Noodles and Company , Chili, Banan...