This summer, I planted some chocolate mint in my garden. I love the smell of fresh mint, and chocolate mint is one of my favorite flavored mint varieties. If you’re not aware, mint grows quickly and loves to spread. I placed my mint in containers to help keep it from taking over my garden. Still, […]
Four Ingredient Crock Pot Cola Chicken (Plus 10 More Delicious Crock Pot Recipes!)
What can you do with a can of pop and a bottle of ketchup? Make supper of course! (Wait, that wasn’t the answer you were looking for?) Although it involves a seemingly strange combination of ingredients, my recipe for four ingredient Crock Pot Cola Chicken is absolutely delicious! I had my first taste of this […]
Keep the Spirit in Christmas Gift Giving
I’ve been pondering why it is so complicated to simplify one’s life. It seems especially challenging during the Christmas season. We want to give our loved ones all of the gifts we can to express our love, yet our budgets simply do not allow it. (There’s that word again – simply.) How do we simplify […]
Five Simple Arm Exercises
If you are like many women, we search for quick & easy ways to exercise while we are busy doing other things! Here are a few simple arm exercises that can be done anytime. It just takes a few supplies that you have available in your kitchen! Kitchen Supplies as Weights Grab a couple of […]
Five Year Olds and Simple Joy
Over this past summer, my 5-year-old grandson spent a week with us. It has been a while since I’ve had a 5-year-old around, and I appreciate the things I learned from him that week. Five-year-olds find joy in the simplest of things. How nice it was to be reminded of simply joy in my own […]
