It was a beautiful sunny day perfect for garage sale hunting. I found a few bargains and the kids are home from the cottage.
Here’s a pretty song by Alison Krauss called Simple Love. I wanted to share it with you before catching up with my family, the laundry and digging into a new novel. I [...]
I’m actually all set with everything for the kids to go back to school. Sorry if that annoys you. It drives me crazy when people tell me they’re finished their Xmas shopping early, but school is starting soon.
Hit factory outlets
I got lucky because my kids are older and fussier but we found a Bluenotes outlet [...]
This is one of our family’s favourite recipes and I make it a lot. It’s based on The Joy of Cooking’s fruit crisp recipe. If you don’t have the Joy of Cooking, consider getting it because it’s one of the best cookbooks out there. It has just about every standard recipe you could think of [...]
Thanks to Leisure Guy at the blog Later On, I found a homemade Gatorade recipe I could stomach. Some recipes call for Koolaid and others for much more salt but this one seems just right.
The ingredients are simple and include sugar, salt, lemon juice and water. He also throws in a couple tea bags for [...]
Our camping holiday was a little simpler than what I intended. I couldn’t get a signal anywhere and we didn’t have access to a vehicle.
To top it off, our old coleman stove didn’t work because the tank was the wrong size. I suggested we use the lid of it to cook our food over the [...]
Our family went to Canada’s Wonderland yesterday (Tuesday) thinking it might not be too busy. Wrong.
Luckily we did land in there early so the kids weren’t stuck waiting for hours to get on the Behemoth. If you haven’t heard of the Behemoth, it’s an insane roller coaster that loops and speeds all over the place [...]
I have mint growing everywhere in my front garden and I don’t even know where it came from. Since I have so much of it I thought I would look into what I could do with it besides make tea.
Mint is very soothing on the stomach so try making a tea with it if [...]
I read a zillion laundry soap recipes and decided just to wing it with one of my own that’s similar. I’ll save some money because you only need 1/3 to 1/2 cup of soap.
All the ingredients are much kinder to the environment and you can reuse containers to store the laundry soap. I used a [...]
