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It’s starting to get chilly in our neck of the woods.  Several years ago we had a huge tree knocked down.  It was going to cost twice as much if they cut down the tree and removed all of the wood, so our frugal minds were like “we can cut down the tree and use it as firewood!” OMG, hardest work we have ever done...

I really like Eating Well Magazine.  I no long subscribe to their magazine, because I can get the recipes online.  I also get a weekly email from them, and last week I saw a recipe for Green Chile smothered Breakfast Burritos, which I immediately printed out and put in my recipe binder to try. I got 4 poblano peppers – check out how cheap they...

Hannah and I had so much fun yesterday.  I knew we were going out for lunch and I didn’t get up until 9:00, so I had an apple and a piece of string cheese to hold me over until lunch.     We first went to the thrift store, only to find out that it didn’t open until noon and it was 10:30.  So we...

No, I am not talking about Hannah – I am talking about me!  It doesn’t happen very often where I get a cleaning jones, but yesterday was one of those days.  Do you have a place in your house that ends up being the dumping ground?  Well, that was our back room.  It has a t.v., my comfy chair, our computer and . . ....

First I want to thank you for all your wonderful comments about Hannah’s essay – seriously, she gets all the credit for the person she turned out to be – sometimes I wonder “did she really come out of me?” 😀 Yesterday morning I put together my chicken tikka masala for lunch, and I spent so much time on that, that as I was leaving...

Hannah is going to community college, and one of her classes is a speech class.  She had to give a speech and below is what she said – she got an A! So proud of her – she hasn’t skipped one class yet! From Hannah: If our kitchen could talk, it would furiously say, “Enough already!” Not only does my mom neglect to put anything...

Mondays are always hard for me to get up because I sleep in over the weekend.  I wish we could have a late start to work on Monday mornings! 😀 Breakfast, yet another egg sammie (promise its the last one for a while!) with some strawberries – they were pretty tart so I sprinkled them with Splenda and let them sit for a while.  Breakfast...

It’s weird, but ever since moving out to the “sticks” and since I don’t work in Chicago anymore, we only go there maybe a couple times a year.  I had two goals yesterday – one was to go to Niketown to use a gift card, and the other was to go to Fox & Obel – a high end grocery store.  I had a groupon...

While I am sitting here in my pajamas drinking coffee, I have the Chicago Marathon on in the background.  Anyone who has read my brother’s book knows that in 1998 I talked my brother into walking the Chicago Marathon with me.  Only one problem, I lived in Chicagoland, and he lived in Des Moines, Iowa.  I was doing the Team in Training program, and every...

I love not having to set the alarm clock, lingering over a cup of coffee, and I just put another loaf of bread in the oven for breakfast – I love the smell of bread baking!  I need to get more flour so I can make more. We have almost summer temps this weekend – in the 80s!  My drive into work was interesting, every...