Create Every Day. May Calendar and activities Roundup “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” ~ Edwin Way Teal If you go by the old saying “April showers bring may flowers” there should be flowers blooming all over the yard. April was a pretty wet month. I began to think were going to have to build an ark like Noah. Maybe that is why for some reason the ships radio call “May Day May Day” keeps popping into my head whenever I start typing about May first. I do wish I had taught my…
an Are you ready for Easter 2019? The Easter dinner groceries are bought and put away. Tomorrow we will be boiling and dying eggs for Easter morning. Some of my eggs won’t need dying thanks to my Easter Egger chickens. Tomorrow I am going to boil eggs in my Instant-Pot for the first time. I have heard it said they are the best boiled eggs ever. I will be trying this recipe from The Prairie Homestead. When I was browsing pictures of dyed eggs I found so many ideas. I decided I wanted to share the roundup of Egg…
Goals and Lifelong Learning I set myself a few goals this year to learn about a few new subjects. How about you do you have anything on your list that you want to learn more about this year? Do you have any big projects you want to get done on your homestead or home? I have mentioned before that I consider myself a life long learner because I love learning new things and am often signing up for free information sessions. A few months back I heard the term “Ultimate Bundles” mentioned. Not knowing what that was…
Fern Michaels what? I thought this series ended. The last blog post I wrote I was about to read book 20. Apparently I lost track of the Sisterhood series by Fern Michaels. I didn’t realize there were 9 more books after I read Home Free!!! Plus there are 5 The Men of the Sisterhood series. I also have to check and see if I finished her Godmother series. Looks like since my eyes are making reading hard I need to see if these audio books are in my library. Have you read any good books…
Gluten Free Bread Choices The Beginning: When I first was diagnosed with celiac disease finding things that tasted good was a lot harder than it is now. Celiac was suspected in 2010 and confirmed in 2011. I wrote my first bread review in 2011 when choices were a lot slimmer. You can read that old post here. Lets talk about gluten free bread choices and variety. There are 4 brands that I have purchased. which brand I pick up depends on which store I am at, if I have coupons and what the final price would be after…
Suzy Snooze Night Light, Sound Machine and Monitor This is something I would think about adding to my wish list if I was expecting a baby. The alternative that I found and ended up buying is the Hatch Rest which I will be reviewing soon. The combination of a monitor and sound machine with night light would have been awesome to have when my twins were newborns. Why would a sound machine benefit? Here is an article about how white noise can help soothe babies. I know from having my six kids that sometimes it was so difficult to calm…
National Cereal Week I found out through a Kellogg’s ad that today is National Cereal Day. This is also National School Lunch Week ( March 4-8). The ad mentioned how cereal has been a staple in our lives as breakfast during Saturday morning cartoons in our childhood through late night tv snacks as adults. So I started thinking about my favorite childhood cereals. Do you remember if you had a favorite cereal? What was it?? After having to go gluten free due to celiac disease and diet changes microscopic colitis I have had to give up some of my…
Amazon Give Back Box Program I heard something recently that I thought was neat. I have been recycling my Amazon boxes but I just heard of a better way of using them. They have a box recycling program called the Give Back Box. “The goal is to encourage Amazon customers to re-use their boxes to donate clothing or other goods to GoodWill Industries.” This program has apparently been around since 2012 and I am just now hearing about it 7 years later. They even pay the…
Good day, Turmeric On Valentines Day, I was out and about running errands and stumbled upon a yummy supplement. There were 8 candies in there, about the size of a peanut M&M. They were a tasty way to get a turmeric supplement. I was really surprised at how good they tasted. Do you use turmeric for a dietary supplement? These were gluten-free so they were safe for me to eat and I don’t regret one bite of that candy-coated supplement. Are you a tea-drinker? I have been drinking more tea and less coffee lately. Here are a few…
A Quick mention: 5 of my favorite products I had a coupon given to me. I thought it was buy one get one for Pearls olives. When I looked at it closer it was for one free. No buying one needed. I looked at the choices and since I have been trying to incorporate more garlic in my diet I opted for the Pearls specialties garlic stuffed queen olives. I found them so good. Better than I had expected. Perfect combination in just one stuffed olive. I expected them to be overpowering but they were the perfect balance. If…
