How do you spend your Saturday afternoon? Reading a book? Catching up on housework? Hanging out with your family? For me, all of those are a possibility, but the one thing I never skip? Meal planning. It's not the most exciting way to spend my day, and there are plenty of other things that I find more fun. But I know that the time I spend planning our food is worth it. I want to feed my family mostly homemade, mostly unprocessed food. And it has to taste … [Read more...]
How Planning Ahead Saves Money on Household Items
A few months ago, I was making my shopping list for groceries and household items. And I realized that I was nearly out of several things: dishwasher soap, diapers, baby wipes, stain remover spray, and tape, to name a few. I hadn't done a good job of keeping track of those things, and now I had to scramble to find the best price on those items. I managed to find a sale on the dishwasher soap, and I found a coupon for diapers, but everything else? I paid full price. photo … [Read more...]
How To Menu Plan And Shop Less Than Once A Week
When we lived in Iowa, we had one tiny grocery store in our town. While this was fine for fill-in trips and occasional splurges, it wasn't ideal for regular grocery shopping to feed our family of six. So every 2-3 weeks, we made the 45-minutes-one-way drive to a larger town that had an Aldi and a Walmart. Whether you live in the middle of nowhere like we did, or you find yourself making constant trips to the store with your grocery budget running out of control, you may be looking for a way … [Read more...]
Planning, Executing, and Finding Motivation
I don't know what it is about July, but it always feels like a fresh start to me. Maybe it's the return of all the school supplies in the stores. Maybe it's that the novelty of summer has worn off a bit and I'm ready to dive into something new. Maybe it's just the realization that I have things that I need to start working on before life gets busy again. Whatever it is, July is always a good month for me to start planning. photo credit Planning comes really naturally to me. I like … [Read more...]
Day In The Life Of Our Homeschool: 2017 Edition
Maybe it's the observer in me, but I love taking a peek into how other people live their daily lives. Not the big exciting event days, not the holidays, just the normal, typical day. Maybe you do too? Here's what a day in the DeDeyne household currently looks like. 5:30-6:30am. Jesse wakes up. The kids wake up. For those who are new here, we have Jonah (age 7), Matthew (age 5), Hannah (age 3), and Elizabeth (age 2). I am still getting up in the middle of the night fairly often with … [Read more...]
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