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This sounds lamely sim­ple but before I started using it, my boys made me gray! Sched­ule Rou­tine. Profound…I know. I took a small dry erase board and put it up in the kitchen with the weeks sched­ule by the hours. This way the boys would wake up and know exactly when some­thing was going to occur. […]

You guys were crack­ing me up with last week’s WFWM post — Using a Pres­sure Cooker. Now that I’ve declared my love for the pres­sure cooker I have some great recipes for the PC. (Real quick — I use a 6 qt that is NOT elec­tric. I chose not to use an elec­tric cooker because I’ve […]

Recently, while look­ing for some home­stead blogs, I found a lady who was giv­ing a recipe which involved a pres­sure cooker. She had quite a num­ber of com­ments and prob­a­bly 90% of them said they hadn’t used their pres­sure cooker in years. I was floored! My pres­sure cooker is prac­ti­cally part of our 10 Commandments. […]

You know those blue-haired ladies at church that rule the potlucks?  This recipe is SO good, they ask me for it all. the. time. *seri­ous eyes* Cream 1 c. sugar and 1 stick of but­ter.Add 3 large mashed banana and 2 well-beaten eggs.Add 1 t. bak­ing soda + 4T hot wat­er­Add 2 c. flourAdd 1/2 c. […]

I don’t know about the rest of the US, but Mis­souri is heat­ing up already! We were barely into Spring and the temps were in the 80’s. Which means the boys are already doing the revolving-front-door dance ask­ing, “Got any­thing to cool us off, Mom?” [Ok, so it’s more like…“MOM…We’re dying!!!!”] I would love to […]

I can’t stand the price of Chest of Draw­ers. And if you get the cheaper ones, they’re made with ply­wood and plas­tic. Also, I’m a sucker for things that are multi-functional. So when I saw that Tar­get had these cubby draw­ers on sale, I jumped on it. The boys use it for all cloth­ing except […]