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n saying he would be down to visit on sunday which changed my plan for that day never mind i rose to that challenge too breakfast was easy and simple warm coffee cake cubes of cheddar cheese and half a banana john brought the banana home friday he said he d bought two thursday while he was at work and ate only one i considered it a happy bonus addition to my foodstuffs this week continue at april 25 2014 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the housewife the housewife my days are days of small affairs of trifling worries little cares a lunch to pack a bed to make a room to sweep a pie to bake a hurt to kiss a tear to dry a head to brush a bow to tie a face to wash a rent to mend a meal to plan a fuss to end a hungry husband to be fed a sleepy child to put to bed i who had hoped some day to gain success perhaps a bit of fame must give my life to small affairs of trifling worries little cares but should tomorrow bring a change my little house grow still and strange should all the cares i know today be swept quite suddenly away where now a hundred duties press be but an ache of loneliness no child s gay ribbons to be tied no wayward little feet to guide to heaven then would rise my prayers oh god give back my little cares by tramp star at april 24 2014 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest coffee chat i said i would oh hello do come on in i m a bit ready for company so i m glad you could stop by there s some gingersnaps with a bit of lemon curd filling sounds tasty doesn t it i made a cocoa ripple coffeecake friday before the weekend but it s all gone now i d suggest we go outdoors but it s quite warm out there which is nice but isn t if you ve been working all morning and a good portion of the afternoon too we had quite a cool spell end of week and weekend i didn t expect that and was quite shocked to read the weather reports and even denied they could possibly be right well for once they were right i had all day last sunday alone here at home and i spent it cleaning getting ready for passover planning how to use the last of the products that contained yeast i decided to have toast for supper that night and to make french toast for breakfast which took care of half the loaf of bread that we had on hand in the end i threw out the other half loaf and 1 packet of dried soup mix i d bought to make a dip for chips i was very proud that i d managed to use so many things and that i d kept a watchful eye on my pantry and hadn t overstocked those items the cleaning was a little more detailed than usual but that was because i just felt i needed to be thorough the cleaning reaped far more dirt and crumbs than i might have imagined it might considering i do housework daily i was surprised but then again i shouldn t be i did say i was being very thorough so i cleaned under the stove top and under the oven dishwasher and fridge places i normally swipe out about once every few months not daily continue at april 21 2014 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest meal and jobs plan for april 20 27 spring spring you re so lovely and so very fickle it keeps us on our toes shall we need heat today or air conditioning a little of both none of either it has been lovely really and there s the bonus of getting to wear both some of my favorite winter things and some of my favorite summer things we had inches upon inches of rain earlier last week and then finished the week off with a few more inches as well planning meals has taken on a whole new twist i plan to make salads for supper and the temperature drops so i dig about in the freezer for frozen soup to heat i plan to grill and it pours rain so we pan roast apparently spring this year is all about being open to change i need the practice so i m trying to go right along with it all adding to my planning woes my freezer stock of meats is very low i hope we get to restock this next pay period i have set some money aside to use for this i have no idea what the prices will look like this time around needless to say i ve already planned unnecessary items to be cut out of that usual purchase budget and then there s the new normal of one short pay period each month there s the added challenge of not stocking up and decreasing the grocery budget for that pay period by half what we d normally spend and no we don t get to make it up on the healthier pay period nothing quite like forced cooperation in lowering an already tight budget is there lena asked last week about red black and blue salad tomatoes and lettuce slices of cooked roast or steak blue cheese crumbles with sour dough croutons this is a tasty warm weather dish we didn t have warm weather this past week nor the roast i d meant to make so this dish got bumped from our menu as well just five meal plans this week i ll be on my own two days this coming week continue at april 20 2014 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest my frugal week april 12 18 saturday i didn t have time to prep foods for today due to our commitments yesterday no matter i did have an easily prepared meal in the freezer i thawed and heated spaghetti sauce it took a minimum of preparation to make our dinner we had our supper this evening on the back porch it was so nice to sit there in the shade listening to the birds catching the slight breeze and eat our meal it was what we dreamed of when we sat on the covered patio at the sandwich shop early last spring in the interest of being nearer the temperature we expect to keep the house this summer we bumped the thermostat on the ac up by 2 degrees today we also did not turn on the heat at all this morning choosing instead to put on sweaters until the sun warmed the house continue at april 18 2014 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest harvest day pay day i ve been asked to share our harvest day i thought i d done so already but it must have been over on the old xanga blog so i will explain our process to you first let me say that we didn t always refer to it as harvest day it was pay day just like it is for almost everyone else but it occurred to us one evening that john sows the seed of time and labor into his job i sow the same into our home and what money comes into this house is a harvest of our efforts hence we renamed it harvest day it s been a great reminder of why we do all that we do and of the importance of our roles john works as a paramedic he puts in some long hours our goal has been that he will work only regular hours many of the folks he works with in his unit also work 2nd and 3rd jobs that is not what either of us want believe me during our early married years he put in plenty of hours and we made a lot of sacrifices as a family for this job now that he s nearer an age to think of retiring in the next 5 or so years we re not nearly so interested in amassing hours as we are in learning to live on what we might reasonably expect our retirement income to be continue at april 18 2014 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels budgeting weekly meal plan there s a green world outside my windows and it s a lovely warm world as well bees are buzzing birds are chirping and the brief glimpses we caught of neighbors homes between the trees can no longer be seen it s spring well and truly now is the time for warmer weather menus i ve been going through cookbooks looking for new recipes to tempt us i attempted one this past week i look forward to experimenting further john s just made a meal request which happily falls in with my menu planning i have a small challenge ahead of me this week as we observe the feast of unleavened bread i ll be creative with breakfasts and suppers this week more so than with dinners what a privilege it is to observe god s word even within my kitchen sunday i m on my own i have to run to the grocery store this morning to pick up a few things to observe passover tomorrow evening i ll grab something for my dinner from either deli or freezer case it is my plans to go out extra early and return home to work on cleaning my kitchen really really well continue at april 13 2014 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest my frugal week april 5 11 saturday shabat at home this week i prepped dinner on friday needed only to cook today quiet easy day at home getting much needed rest john walked down to get mail we got our latest dvd from netflix watched that and will send back tomorrow washed a full load of dishes turned on fan instead of turning ac down rinsed out a soap bottle to make enough soapy water for hand washing filled the lid to the pie keeper with soapy water and washed the dishes in that instead of filling the sink sunday packed john s lunch made his breakfast continue at april 11 2014 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest coffee chat april showers and sunshine come in come in so glad to see you stop by i d thought we d have our chat on the back porch today but alas all this pollen only makes me itchy and sneezy and hoarse but before you rush in do look at that heart shaped puddle it s still there showing up each time we have rain it amuses me that it s there no clue why it s there because the area where it forms is not heartshaped at all but isn t it fun an uneventful weekend just behind us and for one i am deeply glad i needed to rest up since we ve run pretty hard lately on our weekends saturday we mostly just relaxed rested and ate i worked on sunday but intermittently it was a relaxing day overall i looked at genealogy stuff until i felt light headed and cross eyed to boot even with breaks to actually do some real work i was at the history stuff entirely too long but it was worthwhile with more bits of information to add here and there i ve found it to be true that if i look for something else nine times out of ten i stumble upon information related to my own ancestors if i actively seek information it s like walking about in the dark the moment i look for information related to someone else or the history of a town boom there s a fairly big piece of information continue at april 09 2014 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest weekly meal and work plan another new week we greeted it with april showers in our case the flowers have already come along the world outside my windows already transformed into tender green leaves grass that must soon be mown and pollen it hasn t been as tough as in some years but there is a film of yellow powder on everything welcome to spring i find as we re getting more and more accustomed to the new work schedule that for the most part i need to plan only about 4 5 meals per week i tend to eat leftovers or am going out to dinner with mama on john s work days so i ve started planning 5 meals most weeks instead of 7 it just makes more sense this week i am focused on using as many of the products we have in house with yeast powdered yeast or yeast extract in them i ve been especially careful not to stock up on those foods over the last few months i can buy kosher foods that are yeast free but they are so pricey that it seems to me wiser to just buy limited quantities of foods that might have yeast in them i have started a list which i m keeping on my desk of foods that i know i shall have to use or throw away it has helped tremendously with menu planning this week continue at april 07 2014 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the modern home economist cooking lessons cheese souffle and baked ham as a new homemaker many many years ago i came to my new home with a hope chest of sorts in it were most the items i d use to set up my first kitchen plates silverware glasses a crock pot 12 and 3 purchase seals from premium saltines a set of pots and pans no linens for beds nor towels for the bathroom closets only items meant to prepare food and serve it that s a telling thing i realize i even had a collection of recipes carefully saved from several magazines one of the saved recipes was from seventeen magazine for cheese souffle i d read an account in a peg bracken article in one of the women s magazines of a dinner she had to prepare on the fly her husband had a business meeting with a man whom he d invited home for dinner he called her at noon to give her notice and she went into a dead panic peg bracken s whole line was that she hated housework which she wrote a book about with tongue in cheek imagine the declared clutz of housework having a dinner guest by the name of james beard well she pulled together a meal at day s end on her menu was a baked ham and a cheese souffle continue at april 05 2014 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels home economist questions answers and comments oh my hello there thought i d answer questions make replies to your comments from march i m going to do this a wee bit differently i ll answer or reply to all comments on regular posts together meaning i ll answer all on menu plans and all on frugal friday in a lump i thought it might be a little less confusing and link heavy that way menu job plans mar 2 8 lena the recipe for tuna roly poly is simple enough but i never got it made the can of tuna is still sitting in my pantry it s a biscuit dough base with tuna but you can substitute salmon or chicken either one the recipe i ve linked to is online mine is an old cookbook and similar i d leave out green olives entirely if your kids dislike them continue at april 04 2014 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest my frugal week mar 29 apr 4 saturday lori brought food from home for the children i made waffles for the adults breakfast this morning i had sausages as well but knew that john coming in from work would be extra hungry so instead of making more sausages i decided to scramble eggs to go with the meal the kids made peanut butter sandwiches for the children and gave them apples with a yogurt dip then they went off to enjoy some alone time john and i had sandwiches when he woke up from his nap funny what kids will enjoy the new toys this time to the toy box was a cardboard box big enough to sit in an old aluminum coffee pot that poured out blocks all weekend long neither one of those items cost me a single thing but they were sure enjoyed in the music room there was the new drum with cymbal it cost a whole dollar and the kids enjoyed it too continue at april 04 2014 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom finish line contact form name email message search this blog blog archive 2026 14 june 4 may 2 april 1 march 3 february 2 january 2 2025 177 september 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