Category Archives: home life
Back on the WWWagon
After my younger daughter was born, I gained some weight. Okay, that’s a bit of an understatement. I, who before I had my older daughter, had the metabolism of a hummingbird and couldn’t get my weight above 112 pounds (until … Continue reading
Filed under home life, Weight Watchers
Prayer Answered
When our 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee had A/C problems last summer, we weighed our options. It was going to be a pricy job, but we figured we’d be able to get another couple of years out of the car after … Continue reading
Filed under home life
Change of Plans
Well, we were all excited to have finished our full emergency fund and have money socked away for an iPad 2, an iPhone 4, and vacations this year. And then my car decided it was old enough and wanted to … Continue reading
Homeschooling and Organization
I used to be an organized homeschooler. I need the organization, but when I worked part-time from home while we worked on our debt snowball, I became a kind of molecular opposite of organized. Our school work started to suffer, … Continue reading
Filed under home life, homeschooling, vocation
IHM, Washington, DC, June 2010
Travel Man and I are blessed to have some very good (and very kind) friends in the DC area who host us annually and then watch our girls while we go to the IHM Conference in Chantilly, VA, each year. … Continue reading
Filed under home life, homeschooling, housekeeping, misc.
Simple Crafts: Make a Balloon Barrette
I’m turning into a real artsy-fartsy, homemaker kind of gal lately. I’ve got a bread machine, I made homemade chicken stock, I’m cooking up a storm, and now, I’ve started to make clips for Little Girl’s hair. I can’t take … Continue reading
Filed under arts and crafts, home life, Simple Crafts
Home-Made Again
I’ve tried my hand more than once at baking bread from scratch. I honestly like it. Like the way the house smells as it bakes, like the way it tastes, like that I know what’s in the bread. It’s nice. … Continue reading
I &hearts Mac
Dear iPhoto, I cannot believe that I didn’t think to look under “File-Print” for options on printing. You have a beautiful interface for taking digital photos and printing them for framing (or for our nifty wall display)! I am now … Continue reading
"Because It’s Actually a Government Program They Pay Into…"
Dear FSA Account, Every time it comes up, you sound like a good idea. But it’s not so great to have a handy debit card for my prescriptions when said card will not work at my pharmacy. And, no, I … Continue reading
Snow Pictures!
Did you hear about the blizzard? (Of course you did!) Well, here’s what things looked like yesterday in our neck of the woods. Little Girl didn’t know I was taking her picture here. She was just making a snow angel, … Continue reading
Filed under God's beautiful creation, home life
Christine the Soccer Mom
