Enjoy this November meal plan with a printable calendar and easy, family-friendly recipes. Wow – can you believe it? It’s almost holiday time. Thanksgiving will be here before we know it, then comes December with all of it’s holiday glory. Are you ready? I admit that this year it’s kind of anti-climatic. Without (major) Black Read more

Welcome Fall! So glad to meet you. So glad for soup weather. And sweater season. And cozy nights spent inside after mild days outside. And an easy-to-follow meal plan. Fall. I’m a fan of it. I don’t enjoy the SUPER HOT days of summer, so when fall gets here, it’s a welcome change. And this Read more

Enjoy this September meal plan with a printable calendar and easy, family-friendly recipes. It’s Fall! Or at least, almost Fall. But what a weird Fall it will be without Nebraska Cornhusker football. It’ll just seem odd. But it’s just one more thing that’s different about life these days, isn’t? School is different. Work is different Read more

School is starting soon! And boy, do we have a lot to think about as parents. Homeschool? Remote learning? Private school? School full-time? Depending on the school district you’re in, you might be in the same boat. Whatever choice you make, just know that it’s a hard one! And that you can always change it Read more

One more month of “social distancing” done. How many more to go? It’s sooo hard to say. I’m definitely feeling it this summer. With the boys at home and hardly anywhere to go, it feels much different than last summer. Last summer was lots of trips to the zoo (all the parts!), splash parks, pools Read more

Last month when I published the May 2020 menu plan I said that I had at least 5 more weeks of working from home. Scratch that – more like 10 more weeks to go! My company is taking volunteers to return to work, but I ain’t one of them. They’ve also said that anyone can Read more

Well, I’ve been working from home for 6 weeks now and have at least 5 more weeks to go. I suspect even when we get the “All Clear” to return to work, things will be different. And that makes me kind of sad. It’s been a pretty unique time to go through that’s for sure Read more

When 2020 started, I was NOT expecting this. This = no school. This = working from home. This = little to no extracurricular activities. This = staying at home all.the.time. And, yet, here we are. Nothing we can do except to make the best of it and survive. That is, survive where we have to Read more

Some months fly by. Some months crawl. This has been a flying by month. I mean: March already? The Earth must be moving faster and faster as it’s going by in a blink! The weather has been wonderfully warm lately (well, you know, for the end of February in Nebraska – it’s a relative thing) Read more