The first time I heard of this meal, I’ll be honest, I thought is sounded super gross. So I’m glad I was at a friends house when I tried it, otherwise I don’t think I would have even sampled the dish. The flavors go together much better than I had anticipated! I was actually surprised …

My oldest child, who is almost seven, decided that she wanted to get her ears pierced so my husband and I needed to make a decision on where to do it and such. In the past I have heard from many people that you should never take your child to a mall for a piercing …

I have had this silly vision in my head of exactly how I want my house to look, but I haven’t been able to pinpoint the exact color that would convey it. It has literally taken me two plus years to decide on a color because I hate painting walls that much, so I refuse …

I want to know how to can/preserve anything and everything that we eat on a regular basis (except maybe tuna and olives ;). I like being able to control what is in our food and knowing what every ingredient is, is important to me. Canning mushrooms is something that I attempted for the first time …

A couple of weeks ago I had purchased a new bag of pecans from Costco (the cheapest store I’ve found so far to buy nuts for baking) and I’ve been a little slow at getting them vacuum sealed this time. However, since my dad also gave me a gallon bag of them when I was …

I’ve been wanting to replace our smoke detectors since the day that we moved in. They were super gross and you’ll see why it has been bothering me so much as you look at all of the pictures… Anyway, the only reason that I put it off at all is because I thought that it …