It’s Wordless Wednesday and below is link up for you to share your wordless or wordful post. Each week there are numerous pictures I never get to share and this week these are a few I don’t want to get lost in the shuffle. A morning sky where the sun was battling rain clouds Dresses with matching shorts from “Mayme”…
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Saving for college vs. Feeding my family
Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Family Values, Motivated Moms Tagged With: agriculture, family, food, where my food comes from 8 Comments
I shared yesterday about feeding our hungry like a pack of wolves teenager. The family food budget is big portion of our monthly budget. But another pressing item on our budget is saving for college. The reality is in five years, I won’t be 40 years old and will have a child graduating from high school. How are we going…
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Hunk of Meat Monday: Fast & Easy Chicken in a Bag
Filed Under: Proteins Tagged With: chicken in a bag, cooking, hunk of meat Monday, protein 8 Comments
As the weather warms, I spend less time in the kitchen and more time outside after work playing with the kids. One of my fast, easy and affordable meals to feed my family on nights like this are Gold N’ Plump Chickens that come seasoned and cook in a bag. I stock up on the chickens when they go on…
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Video of Mother’s Day Piano Recital
Filed Under: Family Values Tagged With: family, holidays 11 Comments
This afternoon, our teenager had a piano recital in a local church. The video is 3 minutes and 30 seconds in length. You will hear him play Better Is One Day, which I have showed on the blog before and he made a few tiny mistakes that he would prefer you didn’t hear. But, after the first song, he played…
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Work Mom Travel to the Center of North America
Filed Under: Family Values, Life in North Dakota, Motivated Moms Tagged With: North Dakota, prairie, prairie life, rural life, working mom 10 Comments
I have a fantastic business career. It has energizes me. It fuels me. It connects me. But on a Friday afternoon when I am sitting on the floor of an airport starring down at not one or two but three boarding passes to get me to the center of North America, work travel wipes me out. There is no glory…
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