I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Homemaking on Dec 21st, 2010
After my recent visit with another cloth diapering mom, I thought I’d post a little “report” of how our various types of diapers have held up after almost 4 years of constant use. I hot wash, cool rinse all my diapers with Allens Naturally detergent and line dry my pockets and covers 95% of the […]
Posted in Children's Books, Homemaking on Dec 10th, 2010
I should have reread Anne of Ingleside before I went with Derek to his 10-year high school reunion, when I almost worried myself sick beforehand about making small talk with Christine Stuart types who would see me as just a perpetually pregnant “little woman” married to the Valedictorian with the impressive-sounding legal career… “Anne Shirley! You haven’t […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homemaking, Tommy on Dec 8th, 2010
This week I decided we needed to do something Christmasy to distract from last week’s events. So Tommy and I made homemade cut-out cookies Sunday (using Emily S’s classic Kingdom Group recipe), then we had our neighbors over to decorate Christmas cookies with us on Monday. The boys both frosted just two or three before […]
Posted in Homemaking on Nov 24th, 2010
So I have NOT been good about keeping to the food budget this fall. With being so sick for so long, I had to resort to quicker (and more expensive) meal options, and more eating or ordering out than in our previous six years of marriage combined. But when turkeys went on sale for $0.29/lb […]
Posted in Homemaking, Tommy on Sep 16th, 2010
Posted in Homemaking on Sep 4th, 2010
When Derek went down again to put down some traps, he saw that our guests are actually bigger rodents than we initially thought–he thinks a squirrel and possibly a chipmunk or something else ratlike with a fuzzy tail. Our traps are too flimsy–we have to wait for the pest control people, who won’t come until Tuesday (because of […]
Posted in Homemaking on Sep 4th, 2010
Well, actually, there are at least two. I’ve been hearing them in the basement, but Derek actually saw them this morning. Feeling a bit grossed out. Hoping the mouse houses work. And that Derek’s around to dispose of them if/when we catch them. Yuck.
Posted in Elizabeth, Homemaking, Tommy on Aug 27th, 2010
This morning I woke up to Tommy shouting from the hallway that he needed to go potty. He can’t just get up quietly and go–no, he has to wake up the rest of us. Then the unpleasant realization dawned on me that I’d invited a couple from church over for dinner tonight and my house […]
Posted in Books, Homemaking on Aug 26th, 2010
I think my generation of homemakers needs help. After all, how many of us were formally trained in the kitchen? My mom taught me how to make a white sauce from a roux and how to knead and bake bread, but sadly, I did not pay attention much past that. How many twentysomethings actually own […]
Posted in Homemaking on Aug 10th, 2010
As long as we live in a socialist state where milk prices are fixed (forcing us to pay more than double what we paid for milk in Chicago), we figure we might as well buy direct from the local dairy! The kids and I actually think it’s pretty cool to get our milk in glass […]