Have I mentioned how much I hate not having a laptop? I hate it lots. So guess who is getting one for Yule? Yep, me. I put one on layaway at Walmart and informed the family that I didn’t need to get anything else for the holidays and that if they so much as look [...]

This time of year brings the procrastinator out in my husband. He never shops for the holidays until Christmas Eve. I mean NEVER! Usually I shop all year long but that didn’t happen this year. Less money meant less ability. Which is fine but ultimately I still have a nephew that I need to shop [...]

I got into canning about a year and a half ago. As of now I just have the water bath pot, I am hoping that in the new year I can get a pressure canner. I am not exactly sure but I think the obsession began with a conversation on Twitter. Suddenly I wanted to [...]

I sincerely didn’t mean to take a sabbatical from the blog! To be honest, I had writer’s block. I think that National Novel Writing Month (which I failed but that is ok!) really tapped my brain to a point in which nothing but the monotonous was left. I did not want to write about my [...]

I didn’t mean to take that sabbatical. Life just got in the way. Friday I set about being domesticated in the kitchen. I am not very domesticated, I like convenience even though I know it’s not the greatest option. When winter months hit though something snaps and I have to be doing kitchen stuff. So [...]