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

Just a couple more weeks until Valentine’s Day! Do you celebrate it? If so, do you eat in or eat out? Celebrate that actual day or sometime before? Or sometime after? We don’t really celebrate it. We did the first year we were dating and it was just a-w-k-w-a-r-d. We were really newly dating and Read more

Got your flapper gear all ready? Ready for Jazz to make a drastic rise in popularity? Thinking about starting a new job as a bootlegger? What? Well, the 20s are just days away! It’s almost 2020 and sometimes that just blows my mind. Otherwise, I feel every single one of those years. But I want Read more

I’m totally feeling like the holidays are in full swing. Which is odd because, as I write this, Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened yet. But we got our Christmas tree out a couple of weeks earlier than normal this year. We had been hoping to install a bathroom in the unfinished part of our basement, but Read more

I’m just so thankful that October is almost over. It was a crazy expensive month for us. A new-to-us minivan. A new dishwasher. I had an overnight hospital visit. Some other medical expenses. If you exclude the 3 times that we’ve bought houses, this was probably the most expensive month for us. Gotta admit – Read more

Tis the season! The season to dive into all things pumpkin. And apples. And soups. And stews! And Halloween costumes! My kids are getting old enough to be able to pick their own (within reason) and it’s fun to see their personalities come through in their choices. I mean, sure, I’m probably going to have Read more

Enjoy this free printable meal plan with 30 easy recipes for September! Are you ready for Pumpkin everything?!  That’s what Fall means to some people.  While I like pumpkin flavored things, I’ll admit that Fall, for me, is more about cooler weather and apple orchards and football games.  Bring all of that on! Now that Read more

Ahh…August. When the thoughts of days spent by the pool and wearing sandals are replaced by school supplies and sensible shoes for gym class. Here we are, dear August. We meet again. I’m making sure I have ALL THE THINGS. School supply things. School clothes things. Backpack things. Lunchbox things. ALL THE THINGS. One of Read more