From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Our Menu, 8/31

August 31, 2008

Um… where did August go?!?
We’ve had an awesome “foodie” weekend!  Friday night we served homemade ice cream and desserts to 60+ guests in our backyard after the football scrimmage.  (I made Butterfinger and vanilla ice cream.)  We attended Lance’s 20 year high school reunion picnic in the park Saturday night, and my annual family reunion cookout today.  (Sixty-eight people, [...]

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It’s Not a Bargain if You Don’t Need It

August 28, 2008

I love a good bargain. When I enter a store, any store, I delight in discovering all things CLEARANCE.
Before we moved to Tiny Town, I was a bargain shopper extraordinaire. I’d hit all the sales. Frequently. I did lots of shopping, but spent very little money (on each individual item). [...]

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Veggie Ice Pack

August 26, 2008

During the making supper before a tiny-people riot breaks out rush this afternoon, I was assaulted with the wailing and gnashing of teeth of a sweet little someone who had been in his room carefully putting away all of his toys and making his bed jumping off of his dresser onto his unmade bed. He [...]

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A Well-Stocked Freezer (Part 1)

August 26, 2008

With the start of the school year and the unseasonably cool weather we’ve had (70s and 80s in August… in Kansas… never!) my culinary thoughts are turning to comfort food. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed our light, fresh produce-filled summer meals, but I’m ready to get back to baking and stocking my freezers with casseroles, meatballs, [...]

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Generous Family and Friends

August 25, 2008

… and their food. That’s what I’m thankful for today.
For this… (and so much more just like it)

and this…

and all the peaches that I forgot to take pictures of…
and all the fresh farm eggs that my mother-in-law brings when they visit…
and just today as I was standing outside school waiting to pick up my [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – 8/24

August 24, 2008

Is it menu planning time again already?!?  My brother-in-law brought yet another grocery sack of squash, zucchini and cucumbers, and told us the sad news that his garden is for some reason dying… so we will enjoy fresh garden produce one more week!
Sunday, 8/24

sausage/egg/cheese scramble, zucchini bread (I went 1/2 wheat, 1/2 white flour and [...]

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My $8.34 Cell Phone

August 21, 2008

In our quest to live below our means and be Happy With What We Have, we have given up several things that society says we need. You don’t have that? How do you get along with out that? Doesn’t everyone have that?!?
And in our frugal journey, one thing that we easily and [...]

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Blessing Others With Food

August 21, 2008

Blessing families with food is one easy way for me to practice Christian Stewardship. I love to cook and bake, and I love to share food with others. (Just please don’t ask me to clean your house… I’m having a hard enough time keeping up with my own!)
Over at Life as MOM, Fishmama [...]

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Red-Taped Bananas

August 19, 2008

At my grocery store, they are called red-taped bananas. Bunches and bunches of perfectly fine bananas (sometimes even organic!) with red tape around them… signaling to me that they are only 39 cents a pound! For the past several months, these are the only bananas I have purchased, saving us a bundle since we [...]

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Our Teeny-Tiny School

August 18, 2008

Last Thursday my daughter had her first day of kindergarten. The First Day of School. The First. Day. Of. School… for my oldest child. GULP.
You have no idea how much I have contemplated homeschooling in the last few months. I’m a teacher, for crying out loud. For eight years (six [...]

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