Quick Tip: Freezing Items Flat

Freezer bags certainly make stocking your freezer and dealing with leftovers much easier. You want them to be nice and flat for stacking and space-saving, but sometimes they can be a pain to get to stay flat. I happened to grab a square cake pan one day to help support a saucy bag, and it fit perfectly and worked so well! Now I use one to freeze all my bags. It provided enough support that items freeze flat, but fits in the freezer better than sheet...

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Bathroom Wishlists

Sometimes, because I'm terribly impatient, I often make little wish-lists of things I want when we have a house again. Sometimes daydreaming makes apartment living a little more bearable. Next to the yard and garden, the kitchen and bathroom are the most thought of rooms. Always at the top of my list is an awesome double shower head. I miss a good, relaxing shower. Shower heads are so fancy these days. Massaging, rain-like, ones that move up and down. I'd need a seat in there so I could spend the day! A nice big shower stool. I supposed for...

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Easy Cheesy Corndog Cups

These corndog muffins are tasty and simple, with very few ingredients. Here are the ingredients and the process: - Start with your favorite store bought, homemade, or recipe for corn bread/muffins I make my own mix, found HERE - Add an extra egg to the batter when mixing - Mix in a handful or 2 of shredded cheddar or cheddar-jack cheese (1/2 to 1 cup or so) - Generously grease you muffin pan with non-stick spray - fill your cups just shy of...

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Quick Tip: Freezing Meatloaf

I like to have a few things in the freezer for truly hectic days. Meatloaf is one of them. Here is how to freeze a loaf easily: Begin by placing a large piece of plastic wrap over your loaf pan. The meat will press it down & line the pan as you fill it. Form your loaf.  Fold the extra wrap over the loaf & toss in the freezer for a couple hours to freeze.   Pop out of the pan. You now have a firm brick-o-meat that's easier...

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We've Got Spirit, Yes We Do!

Even if we have tiny little toddler hands! =-)This year we have a Peewee footballer. Which means all sorts of family cheering! Being so far away from major stores though, sometimes things are harder to find- one of them being poms in all sorts of colors. We came up with an idea to make poms out of those cheap $1 tablecloths you can get from the dollar stores. (We got ours from Dollar General.) You can usually find these in almost every color, &...

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A Handy Solution

Evenings are hell crazy around here. Trying to get everyone fed & bathed after Scouts, football, church, etc. No one ever seems to remember to put anything away, or if they do, remember where they put there things- and that really slows things down. I thought about getting everyone cubbies, baskets, SOMETHING for them to keep their bath/shower things in & be responsible for. Everything I found was waaaay too big. They were all perfect for...

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Review: Bubble Babez

As a mommy of two kiddos with eczema, & a lover of smelly soaps, I am always on the lookout for quality soaps that are great smelling & gentle on the skin. Moisturizing is a MUST, and ingredients that are as natural as possible are too. Eczema is not commercial soap friendly. So, recently, my Twitter-buddy Nikkie began a soap company. She also has kiddos with skin issues so she knew when she began making her soaps that wholesome ingredients...

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Grocery Store Score!

Be on the look out for boxes of Total cereal with pink coupons on the front. They are for $1.00 off ONE box. ONE BOX! Not two like usual! =-) To make things even better- my local store was having a sale on select boxed cereals, 2 for $4.00. Two bucks a piece is a good deal where I live, but with the coupon, $1.00 a box for brand named cereal- that's a great deal anywhere! I may have to go back & snag a few more coupon'd box...

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QUICK- Update-ish post & a Giveaway!

Nope, not my giveaway yet! =-) But Stephine Glamour is having a giveaway on her blog. Check it out at her blog. Posts will continue to be few-and-far-between while we recover over here from summer vacation.  I have a whoooole list to blog, & a handful of half-written posts that need some attention. ...

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