I am a little slow at getting this article done. As you well know life can get in the way. With family visiting, baking and making gifts etc. It has not slowed down. But, I could not go on with…

In my quest to get back to being healthy I have been on this search to find the most healthy alternatives for my diet, that includes the holidays. This time of…

Giving gifts is not a new thing. It has been around for centuries. The reasons why we give gifts vary from person to person. Then how much do you spend on a gift for a person, how do I…

Winter is a magical time of the year. It is one of the times where the out in nature it transforms into bright shiny silver and hues of blues. Looking to the sky in anticipation of the first snowfall…

Traditions over any holiday are important in all families. It does not matter how small or how big the tradition or traditions. I am a firm believer that it makes a family closer when you have traditions. An interesting…

I don’t know about you but I have a huge amount of plastic bags. I have reusable shopping bags but I always forget to take them in the store with me. I am getting better about it and I am…

Here is a fantastic story I heard the other night while binge watching Hallmark Christmas movies. Hindsight I should have written down the name of the movie that made reference to the pickle. The story the actress told was that…

I know this is after Halloween but I could not resist one more article on the holiday. I love the holiday season and trying to keep up with all the things that I want to do and never enough…

Well, as much as I planned and planned for Halloween I did not get as much done as I would have liked. More ideas than I have time. As for the scary pumpkin I only managed to get one…

The idea to write about this topic is about my long time of doing caregiving for family. I was almost born into caregiving for family due to our constant moving and our family dynamics…

For those of us where are children are grown and even if they don’t really trick or treat any longer here is an idea for you. Personally I love holidays, all holidays. I love decorating for them, I love cooking…

Autumn is one of my favorite times of the year. I love to start pulling things out to decorate slowly on the first day of school. The first thing to go up is usually the wreath. Apparently I love making…

I had not thought about writing on this topic until recent family health issues and people kept asking me what I am doing. This topic deserves a blog of its own and I will put a link here when…

I don’t know about you but I continuously decorate until the next holiday. I am always looking for some new tiny thing to add to my decorations. I try to use the decorations from last year and change them all…

Since finding this old fashioned gumball machine I have been trying to figure out what to do with it. I did not want to do the normal thing by filling it with gumballs. For me this was to easy and…

We had just gone to a wedding in Temecula, California. The wedding was wonderful as was every person that we met. Traveling to a wedding can be exciting and fun or it can be horrible. Our own issues were very…

I am crazy about fall or autumn, which ever you wish to call it. I love the smell, the colors, the hot chocolate and long walks in the leaves. I love the changing of the seasons and every thing that…

Decorating with mums in the fall is a lot of fun. There are so many ways to use them as well. Many of us use the…

I hear about people trying to lose weight all the time. And there is enough fad diets out there to totally confuse even the most experienced of dieters. I fail at counting calories. I fail and most diets. I even…

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Once I got started on the article on Senior glamping I found that if I included everything in the first article it would be so long no one would want to read it. So I focused…

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I had never really gone camping until I was in my 20’s and the first time was with my daughters at a very young age. My youngest was only 5. I…

I started on this journey of food safety many years ago when I found out I had an allergy to formaldehyde. Great! Where the heck am I getting that from. As I have mentioned before I got it from…

This is a great time to decide to change your life for the better. Why not do this with a 30 day challenge to clean eating. I will be putting articles up off and on about healthy eating. Let…

It had been years since my last campout.. So long in fact ,that I was worried about this trip and yet excited. I used to love camping many years ago and I thought that…