Birthday Tree Fun

We are planning a new birthday tradition this year – a birthday tree. I think it will be a big hit with all the kids. If I would have come up with the idea before the little guy’s birthday, I would have started it with him, but I didn’t think of it til halfway through [...]

What to Do With an Abundance of Bananas

I got a big bag of bananas for 39 cents a pound the other day and the kids didn’t get to them all. So, I needed to come up with some ways to use bananas, or at least save them for later use. Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem. We’d make banana bread. However, normally, [...]

New Chicks and Other Cheep Stuff

I know. What a corny, corny title, right? But they really were cheap little cheepers! We hatched them ourselves from our own eggs so the only cost was the price of the electricity for the incubator. They are just the cutest things around. Fingers crossed that at least most of them don’t ever emit even [...]