• Cooking,  Saving Money,  Thrifty Moms,  Uncategorized

    How to Eat Well on an Extremely Tight Budget

    to skip meals or living on gruel, but it doesn’t have to be that way with these great money-saving food tips. 1. Buy potatoes in bulk. So that they will last much longer, pop an apple in with them to prevent them from sprouting. 2. Overfill your kettle for the cups of tea you plan to consume. Use your leftover boiled water for cooking vegetables…it’s faster and cheaper to boil lukewarm water than cold water from the faucet. 3. Make your own lunches. Making your own sandwiches for work is much cheaper than grabbing a ready-made one. Take a look at the nutritional information on fast food and you will…

  • Parenting,  Uncategorized

    I'm NOT the Perfect Mom

    “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.”   ~ I Thessalonians 5:24 Ever feel like you’re not a good mom?  I do feel that way often. Let me tell you, I’m not a perfect mom. It’s a good thing that I don’t receive a letter grade in my mailbox… The fact is, there is NO “perfect mom” out there. There’s days when I feel that I just “might” be Supermom afterall…and then, the next day, all hope plummets and I realize I’m not even close to being the mom I should be. Well, the fact is, we just need to stay faithful serving the Lord Jesus.  That’s…