I really work hard to make choices that use what we have and if we spend money, use that money wisely. Here are some frugal choices I made last week. I consigned 4 bags of kids clothes earlier this summer and redeemed some of my credit to buy Miss Petrie two dresses for cooler weather. [...]
It’s been a few months since I took the girls for pictures. Instead of heading to the portrait studio, I thought I’d take the girls outside to photograph them in the splendor of summer. It took some coaxing of the littlest Petrie… …but eventually I did get some better pictures. I took about 100 photos, [...]
This is the first year we have planted heirloom tomatoes. This variety is yellow and delicious! Heirloom tomatoes are from seeds that are passed down from generation to generation, rather than lab created hybrid seeds. Nature is truly amazing in all its diversity. I have been serving our garden tomatoes as a side dish at [...]
We met friends at a local playroom last week and Elmo surprised us with a visit. Elmo is really for toddlers, but both my girls seemed to enjoy seeing Elmo and posing for pictures with him. Miss Petrie and her friend loved taking photos with Elmo. It was pretty cute to see them go from [...]
I have to admit, the past week hasn’t been the most thrifty. We had frozen yogurt at Menchie’s, a date night and made some Amazon purchases. We’re very moderate usually, so I know we will balance out these actions with acts of frugality. We ate from the garden. We enjoyed iced coffee using leftover coffee. [...]
(I love deconstructed salads. Actually, I love using the word “deconstructed” to describe food. It seems so snotty, but it just means separating food instead of mixing it up.) Our tomatoes are finally ripening, so I picked up some mozzarella and grabbed some basil from the garden and we have our favorite summertime salad. Mr. [...]
I planted a couple of sunflower seeds in each vegetable box. They are very tall and started to flower this week. The bees are going crazy for the sunflowers. We’ve had such a wonderful experience watching insects of all types enjoy the garden. Have a sunny day! This post has been linked up to An Oregon [...]
On Sunday we harvested one Patio tomato, a handful of purple beans, two lemon cucumbers, two eggplant, a summer squash, jalapeños, an Anaheim chile and lots of basil. Which I promptly turned into several little containers of pesto. It is so nice to get food from the garden. It doesn’t fulfill all our produce needs, [...]
I really work hard to make choices that use what we have and if we spend money, use that money wisely. Here are some frugal choices I made last week. We made all of our meals at home this week. No restaurant food for us! We visited friends at their new house. They made us [...]