As those who stay at home know, most days are a frantic mess… the constant “two-steps-behind” feeling that just makes you want to crawl under a desk and chew your hair in frustration… when you look around at the end of the day and wonder what on earth you have to show for all your … [Read more…]
I’ve been interested in making food from scratch for some time now. While I’m by no means militant about it, I do try to “make it at home” whenever possible. Initially, it was simply because I couldn’t trust that the restaurants… or the factories… really went out of their way to ensure that it was … [Read more…]
First, the bad news…. NO SNOW. If you heard the sound of weeping and wailing this morning, that was the sound of all upstate South Carolina children as they woke up to find, not snow, but freezing rain. Oh, the disappointment in this house was pretty severe. Several children expressed a great interest in packing … [Read more…]
Wow… turns out that Faith & Family also had a post yesterday about making things from scratch! Great minds think alike, huh? *grin* Anyway, in that post she links to A Year of Slow Cooking, which takes us all step-by-step through making yogurt in the crockpot! I guess I have no excuse now… I’m going … [Read more…]
I just can’t figure out WHY blogger decided to stop notifying me of comments posted on my blog. So, in an effort to make sure that no comment gets unnoticed… and no one feels unappreciated when they graciously took the time to stop by and write something…. I am putting comments on “waiting for moderator … [Read more…]
… but, the way things are going around here, you just never know! The kids have all had the same “bad-cold-with-REALLY-high-fever-can’t-get-off-the-couch-and-can’t-stop-coughing” thing going, which (of course) turned into a raging ear infection for several of them. Yippee! I hope… HOPE… that we’ve seen the last of this, and we can all get back to normal. … [Read more…]