I love the leaves changing, the cooler weather, and the fall holidays. Fall colors are some of my favorites! So, when At Home® stores invited me to give our living room a fall refresh on a budget, I was in…
Summer camp wardrobe by… Menards?
The camp our kids attend has a good way to group and keep track of the kids. Each cabin is assigned its own color, and the colors are also the campers’ team colors for the week for all of their sports and “color war” play….
My deck stain report: Two years later
It’s 2017, and I’ve had numerous requests from readers asking for another update, as it’s deck-staining time again! Several people have requested “many photos” this time around, so here we go…
10 items to pack in your bag for summertime
Summer weather is right around the corner! If you’re headed out for a warm-weather adventure with your little one, it’s important to bring everything you’ll need for a fun day in the sun…
An “expensive” jewelry lesson and a bargain-priced professional dress
I bought a new dress recently to wear to a work-related speaking engagement, and while I like the dress very much, I thought that it needed a piece of jewelry to accessorize it a bit…
Our family’s 2016 “What Is It?” Christmas game
Last night, our extended family got together for our annual Christmas Eve dinner and the second annual “What Is It?” family gift swap. You may remember that this is a game my sister dreamed up in 2015 for our family…
An Easy Bake blast from the past
A commercial for the children’s Easy Bake oven came on television. My youngest son watched as the girl on the screen baked up a mini cake, and he said “Why don’t they make something like this for boys?”
Repairing my favorite leather boots
I love boots, and I wear them throughout the fall and winter seasons, but I was fed up with how quickly my synthetic boots were wearing out. 2014 was the year that I decided I was done buying plastic boots…
Kitchen and bathroom cleaning with Mean Green
One of my readers asked me to tackle a “dirty microwave” and see what Mean Green could do. In preparation, I stopped wiping down the inside of our microwave for (yuck!) two months. All in the name of research, I assure you…
Putting two new HD television antennas to the test
Our existing roof-mounted antenna is old and has multiple broken elements from tree branches falling into it over the years. Antennas Direct offered me two antennas to review, and I was really surprised…
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