Adventures of a Wandering Homebody
Tuesday Crafternoon: Halloween Tree
My daughter, my ‘Bean’, is a project/artwork factory. Give the girl some paper/scissors/glue/crayons and she will wildly produce mass amounts of finished product. We cherish every piece, of course, but there comes a time when we just can’t do anything with it. Our house…
Meatless Monday Menu Milestone
In our household, for about the past 2 years, we have been doing our best to practice Meatless Mondays in our meal planning. We’ve been focusing on dinners (breakfast is usually meatless anyway and lunch is sometimes) and with 2 young children, many of…
Tuesday Crafternoon: Channeling my Grandma
Falling leaves have given inspiration to people for hundreds of years and every year when my lawn is becoming covered I am reminded of my Grandma Kit. I have fond memories of collecting colorful fallen leaves and bringing the huge (as it is remembered…
Got Thyme?
The green leafy herb: I’ve got plenty drying in the kitchen. The seconds, minutes and hours of the day: I come up short. Working full time (with an hour commute), being a Mommy and a Wife doesn’t leave me feeling with a lot of…
Hang Much?
I love to hang my laundry out on the clothesline. There is something about the sun and wind working their magic so that when you put your clothes on or go to bed at night you can smell nature in your shirt or on…
Got Hope?
I do. Not that I did a few weeks ago. I’m talking about the garden, of course. After the deer devastated the vegetables we put up some fencing that we had. It wasn’t enough to keep out the chipmunks that just kept eating the…
Adventures in Canning
I love pickles. My kids love pickles. Cucumbers are in season. These facts all lead me to my first adventure in canning. How hard can it be? Our grandparents did it. I already had a number of canning materials like mason jars and kitchen…
Pea Risotto
Last week the cupboards were bare. I hadn’t had a chance to meal plan for the week and we were running on empty. Sometimes I find that my best meals happen during times like these. We had the ends of a rotisserie chicken, and…
The Garden 2: Devastation
So…remember those lush photos of the garden from the last post? I’m struggling to find the words that describe my reaction to the devastation that occurred when we went away for the weekend. As we left on Friday and I knew it would be…
The Garden
When we moved in to our house there was already a small fenced off vegetable garden. Since we moved in at the end of May I hastily planted heirloom tomato seedlings, a cucumber and squash as well as planted green beans from seed. I…
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