November 2009

23 Frugal or Homemade Christmas and Hanukkah Ideas

This is officially my favorite time of year!!!!!  I love the baking and the family time and the carols!  I love the sappy movies and even sappier commercials on TV.  I love the excitement of the children.  The holidays mean family to me… and this year will be no different. To get us started on [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

This last few years has been a challenge for our family.  While things continue to be less than perfect, I can honestly say that I’ve never been happier.  Since it’s Thanksgiving today, I want to share the things I am most thankful for this year.  I want to look back at this post next year [...]

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Frugal Thanksgiving: Make Due or Don’t Make It At All

It’s going to happen.  You know it is.  You’re going to be up to your elbows in cooking dinner tomorrow and realize you forgot that key ingredient to a dish on your menu.  Ut oh!  Time to send someone on  a mad dash to the corner store, Wal-Mart, or whatever is open on Thanksgiving day.  [...]

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What’s on your shopping list?

A few weeks ago, trying to get a jump on the season, I asked all of the children for their Christmas gift wish lists.  I’m always astounded in the LITTLE ways that our children show their differences. 13 year old Moonbeam immediately left the room, went to her sister’s book case, pulled down a book [...]

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Ingredient Substitutions List

Next week, most of us are going to be on an insane cooking spree.  In spite of the best laid plans, I suspect that we’re all going to forget SOMETHING on the grocery list.  We can often avoid the emergency run to the corner store for some random (OVERPRICED) thing we forgot by just knowing [...]

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