Week 3 was a good week. I made a double batch of chocolate chip, coconut, banana bread, a pumpkin pie, and an apple pie for us. Spaghetti leftovers on Monday, I made the French onion soup recipe from the cookbook my cousin sent me. One night we had pepper steak in the crockpot and oneContinue reading “Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 4 of 52”
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Not Impressed With Our Debt January 2024
In my December update a full year had gone by since I last checked in and after a lot of thinking, researching and delving into our credit card statements (and a few tears I might say), I have a much better understanding of how and why our debt soared again this year. The ironic thing? WeContinue reading “Not Impressed With Our Debt January 2024”
Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 3 of 52
Week 2 was a pretty emotionally exhausting week and it showed in the meal dept. When I get overwhelmed or stressed I just don’t want to cook. Are you like that too? I made dinner four out of the seven nights. We had Italian wedding soup on Sunday night, Monday we ate out but hadContinue reading “Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 3 of 52”
SAL-Project Joyce’s Rose #22
It’s been six weeks since our last update and I should have completed Joyce’s Rose but I didn’t even pick it up until two days ago. I just didn’t feel like stitching. We have had a rough few weeks with Bob and Joyce and sickness for my hubby. But we carry on, right? How wasContinue reading “SAL-Project Joyce’s Rose #22”
Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 2 of 52
Week 1 we did pretty good in the meal dept. We only went out once and that was on Friday night because I am not cooking on a Fridays after a long work week. Period. For week 2 our groceries cost us $83.37 and I did my entire shop at Caledonia Marketplace. On the menuContinue reading “Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 2 of 52”
Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 1 of 52
Happy New Year! I am committed to shopping and planning mindfully again in 2024. I kind of lost steam about halfway through 2023 when I thought I was missing out on buying more fun things to cook with. Turns out I can still get those fun things, I just need to plan better for them.Continue reading “Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning 2024 Week 1 of 52”
June-December Cakes
Here are some of the cakes and goodies I have worked on in the last six months! I had a whopping 10 graduations this season! Only a few were cakes. The 3 layered stacked cake was one of those graduations. Fun right? I’ll update again at the end of May. -MM
Not Impressed With Our Debt December 2023
I can’t believe the last time I wrote a post for this series it was January. An entire year has gone by and we are more in credit card debt than we ever have been before. It is frustrating beyond words. You have no idea how many times I wanted to post “Hey, I give up!”Continue reading “Not Impressed With Our Debt December 2023”
SAL-Project Joyce’s Rose #21
I made huge progress the last three weeks and I am very excited to show you what I got accomplished! Here is where I left off last update: And here is where I am now. Most of my stitches were concentrated on the top bud but I also finished the top two leaves and workedContinue reading “SAL-Project Joyce’s Rose #21”
SAL-Project Joyce’s Rose #20
Still not a lot stitched in the last three weeks, but here’s my progress Here is where I left off last update: And here is where I am now. Most of my stitches were concentrated on the top two leaves but there is close to 15 different colors in those small leaves which makes progressContinue reading “SAL-Project Joyce’s Rose #20”
The Professional Domestic 