• Family Corner,  Uncategorized

    A Thanksgiving Poem – My Thanks Dear Lord are Thine!

    A Thanksgiving – Poem For summer rains, and winter’s sun, For autumn breezes crisp and sweet; For labors doing, to be done, And labors all complete; For April, May, and lovely June, For bud, and bird, and berried vine; For joys of morning, night, and noon, My thanks, dear Lord, are Thine! For loving friends on every side; For children full of joyous glee; For all the blessed Heavens wide, And for the sounding sea; For mountains, valleys, forests deep; For maple, oak, and lofty pine; For rivers on their seaward sweep, My thanks, dear Lord, are Thine! For light and air, for sun and shade, For merry laughter and…

  • Cooking,  Kitchen Tips,  Meal Planning,  Uncategorized

    15 Essential Items to Stock Your Pantry

    Have you every started cooking something and then realized you were missing that one ingredient that can make or break your recipe? It’s happened to us all. One way to avoid that is to always have certain food items on hand in your pantry. You might be wondering how you can possibly maintain all the essentials while keeping your food costs (and waste) low. Many times, the item you need is something that you will always use. It just seems to be empty at the time.  Also, remember, less trips to the store to grab another item often means saving money because people often snatch other items while at the…

  • 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…

  • Saving Money,  Thrifty Moms,  Uncategorized

    More Thrifty Tips and Ways to Save Money – 35 Helpful Tips

    I had a funny thought as I sat down to drink my coffee this morning while checking my email…I thought, “Wow, I feel like ‘old stale toast’.”   Then, I chuckled to myself about the “old” part… I didn’t just feel like ‘stale toast‘ but ‘OLD‘ stale toast.  Where did I get such a thought!   Oh well, there are days that I’m not so “peppy” in the morning and that was just a thought that came to my head. Ever have mornings like that?? Okay, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one of my “magazine style” posts…and today I’m ready to conquer that on the topic of saving money & being…