I love, love, love, love, love CHRISTMAS! Almost everyone around me knows it, and at opportune moments throughout the year, they are joyfully reminded, by me, of the number of days remaining until that blessed date. Listening to Christmas music
Thanksgiving is less than a month away and this year you have more than a month after that ’til Christmas! This fills many with incredible excitement and some with little bit of trepidation or apprehension. Apprehension that there might not
This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. We live in South Central Washington and were pretty excited about eclipse day, August 21, 2017, when the sun would disappear behind the moon for a brief couple of minutes across
This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. It was just ten years ago on a hot evening, in late July, that our son’s dog Daisy – a beautiful golden lab mix – gave birth to a litter of twelve
WHAT A COLLEGE FRESHMAN NEEDS I remember like it was yesterday getting our eldest off to college, even though it was a number of years ago. Every bit of her dorm room stuff had to travel a thousand miles on
WHAT TO BUY IN APRIL! Each month we compile the best buys for the month and season. April has both Easter and Passover, this year, along with some great associated buys. There are great seasonal foods you’ll find here and
“I am a disorganized ‘messy!’” There! I said it. BUT deep inside I am also a perfectionist. My sister and I shared a room when I was about ten and she was thirteen. I made it such a mess, and
WHAT TO BUY IN JANUARY! CLEARANCE STUFF! CHRISTMAS CLEARANCE – Walking into a department store in January, I was absolutely stunned to see racks and racks and racks of clearance. In fact most every department had shelves and shelves of
Almost everyone has images in their mind of the perfectly organized relaxed Christmas. It may be images from childhood, ones we’ve seen in the movies, or those we’ve pinned to pages and pages of Pinterest. It’s pretty normal to dream
I’m not going to lie! This current Presidential Election has been one of the toughest and most hateful elections I can recall. The last one I remember being this rough was when Kennedy ran against Nixon in 1964. I was