God bless my husband.  He has been the head chef in the household for a very long time.  When he lost his job two years ago, I was pregnant and cooking was out of the question most nights.  Until then, we’d been going out to eat 3-4 nights a week so even before that I [...]

Filed under: Family, Food/Recipes, House/Home, Money/Finances

Yesterday was one of those days…where everything that can go wrong does.  It started normally enough.  My husband had showings in the morning so I hung out with the little kids.  It was a very typical morning, except for the fact that I had a Benadryl hangover and “hanging out” consisted of me dozing on [...]

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Normally I’m all about the “anything he can do, I can do better” philosophy, but when it comes to cars I am just not one of those girls who can pop the hood, figure out what’s wrong, and fix it.  Nope, I’m more of the “call my husband crying and ask him to come get [...]

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Breaking a promise to a 7 year old is hard.  I mentioned last week that we promised him a day at the beach if his daddy’s unemployment situation got straightened out.  It didn’t get completely straightened out (we’re still missing a week and I suspect we’ll never see that money) but we did get some [...]

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Help is not something I’ve ever been able to ask for.  I see it with my kids, too…as they reach toddlerhood and beyond, there’s so many things they want to do on their own.  Today, I let my oldest son bake cookies without my help.  He’s watched me bake them and helped me with them [...]

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