Keeper of the Home/Kitchen:
These are in no particular order… I haven’t had time to organize them.
Please note that most recipes have a printable listed with them, so I will not be adding those links here 🙂

These are in no particular order… I haven’t had time to organize them.
Please note that most recipes have a printable listed with them, so I will not be adding those links here 🙂

Please keep a special family in your thoughts and prayers this weekend as their little one was just diagnosed with AML.
It reminds me of our diagnosis and brings back all those memories… we would never wish this on anyone but we hope that we can help them as they travel this path.

So please keep them, and all the families who have received a cancer diagnosis, in your thoughts and prayers as Sunday, February 4th, is also World Cancer Day. No one ever expects to be one of those affected by cancer until they are… please pray!
If you have any special prayer requests please leave your name in the comments and we will add you to our prayer list.
If you or someone you know has been recently diagnosed then you might find this list helpful… it was geared more towards having a young child but you may find some tips and ideas for patients of any age:
Oh my goodness! It’s the beginning of a new month and I just sat down to do my monthly orders plus place my weekly grocery order and I about fell off the kitchen stool when I saw the totals in my carts!
SERIOUSLY! I moved to the dining table so the fall wouldn’t be as bad and where I could settle in with a fresh cup of coffee and figure out what the ‘essentials’ also were and make sure to cut out the ‘extras’ which have already been pretty slim on my budget.
Continue reading “Groceries Gone Wild!”We made it through January! I sometimes find it helpful for me to see what posts and resources we have used over the past little bit and to see what other people have been looking for as well. Here is a quick round-up of just those things from our blog this past month.
As many of you already know, we bought this house and it has already been well-loved. It was definitely in need of some TLC… a bit more than we had realized at the time but we’ve been making improvements as time and budget have allowed.
We had a lot of hopes and dreams for this house when we first moved in but there were so many issues that happened and had to be dealt with that we just had to focus on those. Plus the pandemic had just started, we were dealing with an unexpected high-risk pregnancy and then a stressful premature birth with a NICU stay and other complications, and then when we thought things were getting better we were sidelined by an unexpected leukemia diagnosis.
Continue reading “Shared Bedroom Makeovers… Two become three”