I made these breakfast cookies this weekend. Yum! By now you know that I like to make breakfast as easy and tasty as possible. I also want Miss Petrie to eat without an argument. When I make appealing food for breakfast (read dessert-ish) everyone eats with gusto. I usually make banana bread with super ripe [...]
Have a wonderful, fun, candy-filled weekend! (And a fantastic birthday, Mom. xoxo)
One of my favorite ways to refresh a room is to move the furniture around. The furniture in the room has been rotated 90 degrees, the bookshelves were moved behind the sofa and we were finally able to move our leather chair into the space (it had previously been in our library, adjacent to our [...]
The dishwasher is an invaluable cleaning aid for me and I use it daily. I did a little dishwasher soap experiment this summer. I had been buying dishwasher soap/rinse tablets for a few years. They are fairly expensive at about $.25 a tablet. I bought a box of powdered dishwasher soap on June 13, 2010. [...]
We have enjoyed the company of family the past few weeks. Fall in New Mexico means perfect weather and lots of fun stuff to do. First, Mr. Petrie’s parents visited. We watched the hot air balloons from this hiking area above the city. Then my parents visited. We were so excited to take them to [...]
We made some big changes at Casa Petrie this week. We canceled Direct TV, my Verizon cell, and our home phone. We bought a high definition antenna and Roku streaming media player, ordered Netflix and got a family cell phone plan. The initial cost of some of these pieces of equipment will be offset by [...]
Just trying out a new thing here.
It was so exciting to finally get enough pole beans to make a dish for the family! I added a little bacon grease, onions and garlic to chopped up pole beans. SO good! Next year we will place the pole beans in a location that gets more sunlight such as on a trellis. I think [...]
Love = You + Me + 2 kids + 3 dogs + 1 house + 2 cars + 1 job + a lot of hard work I hope everyone has as great a day as we will!
I continue to work on the to do list from August/September. I did get a few things done. I wanted to do more, but sometimes running a household smoothly and getting daily work done is more important than the other list items. We’ve also had the pleasure of family visiting this month, which clearly takes [...]