Friday, February 10, 2017
I can't believe that I have written 2,000 posts since I started blogging. I wanted to share a few thoughts in my 2,000 post of what is going on here.
This post is currently finding our household a little sick. I have been sick for a few days with congestion and sore throat. I keep thinking that I am doing better and I get worse at night. I am thinking that it might not just be allergies. My son has the stomach bug that is going around his school which resulted in three loads of laundry after bedtime. Here is to hoping that we are all feeling better soon because we are putting a big dent in the tissues!!
I had a great year last year with shopping and saving money even though I went back to work with two part time jobs. I was maybe not getting every deal that I would get before but I was still getting lots of food and staying under budget. This January was not the case because I went way over budget. There is a balance for me between shopping and having time to make things at home. I have to set aside my time to make rolls for my husbands lunches, do a little preparation for the meals for the week and bake desserts and breakfast treats. I don't think that I made enough time to do that in January so I am going to try to do that more often in the coming months. I am trying to figure out how to post and be accountable for the items that I make during the week so stay tuned for the new post format coming soon.
I have fallen into a rut with making the same recipes over and over. I have added very few new recipes to my cooking in the last year. The great thing is that we have a lot of recipes that we really love and that I discovered and shared with you along the way. I have enjoyed my new Cranberry Orange Salad Dressing and Orange Lemon Shortbread Cookies. The new pasta maker is going to used this year to try out some new pasta recipes. I am going to try to make some new recipes coming up and expand our menu and special treats.
Super excited that I have finished my Valentines to give out to my preschool kids and my son has almost finished his Valentine's for his friends at school. I started really early this year and I am excited to say that I found cards and bookmarks online to print for free and we created them and laminated them all for free. There is some candy in both that we had from things that my parents gave to us so the whole Valentine process was free!!! You know that I love to put in a little effort and have a great end result without spending a lot of money. I found a tag that says Valentine's Day Is All Fun and Games. I put tic-tac-toe, maze page, coloring page, x's and o's and a bookmark which are all connected with curling ribbon. It was super easy and super cute.
Of course I am going to try to continue reading. I aim to read over 100 books every year and this year is no different. I have books overflowing from my book cases and I hope to make some progress on those books as well as a bunch of free books from the library and through my three different blogging for books sites. I love getting lots of books for free and enjoy the escape from real life but reading sometimes makes it hard to put other things ahead of a good book!!
I hope that you have enjoyed the last 2,000 posts and look forward to the next 2,000!! I look forward to sharing lots more with you.
This post is currently finding our household a little sick. I have been sick for a few days with congestion and sore throat. I keep thinking that I am doing better and I get worse at night. I am thinking that it might not just be allergies. My son has the stomach bug that is going around his school which resulted in three loads of laundry after bedtime. Here is to hoping that we are all feeling better soon because we are putting a big dent in the tissues!!
I had a great year last year with shopping and saving money even though I went back to work with two part time jobs. I was maybe not getting every deal that I would get before but I was still getting lots of food and staying under budget. This January was not the case because I went way over budget. There is a balance for me between shopping and having time to make things at home. I have to set aside my time to make rolls for my husbands lunches, do a little preparation for the meals for the week and bake desserts and breakfast treats. I don't think that I made enough time to do that in January so I am going to try to do that more often in the coming months. I am trying to figure out how to post and be accountable for the items that I make during the week so stay tuned for the new post format coming soon.
I have fallen into a rut with making the same recipes over and over. I have added very few new recipes to my cooking in the last year. The great thing is that we have a lot of recipes that we really love and that I discovered and shared with you along the way. I have enjoyed my new Cranberry Orange Salad Dressing and Orange Lemon Shortbread Cookies. The new pasta maker is going to used this year to try out some new pasta recipes. I am going to try to make some new recipes coming up and expand our menu and special treats.
Super excited that I have finished my Valentines to give out to my preschool kids and my son has almost finished his Valentine's for his friends at school. I started really early this year and I am excited to say that I found cards and bookmarks online to print for free and we created them and laminated them all for free. There is some candy in both that we had from things that my parents gave to us so the whole Valentine process was free!!! You know that I love to put in a little effort and have a great end result without spending a lot of money. I found a tag that says Valentine's Day Is All Fun and Games. I put tic-tac-toe, maze page, coloring page, x's and o's and a bookmark which are all connected with curling ribbon. It was super easy and super cute.
Of course I am going to try to continue reading. I aim to read over 100 books every year and this year is no different. I have books overflowing from my book cases and I hope to make some progress on those books as well as a bunch of free books from the library and through my three different blogging for books sites. I love getting lots of books for free and enjoy the escape from real life but reading sometimes makes it hard to put other things ahead of a good book!!
I hope that you have enjoyed the last 2,000 posts and look forward to the next 2,000!! I look forward to sharing lots more with you.