Let’s face it most gingerbread is for looking not eating. If sandwiched next to a chocolate chip cookie the poor gingerbread boys will die of loneliness. How to make Gingerbread you want to eat is a whole different recipe. Building houses and vintage campers with the gingery dough gets my creative juices flowing! But eating…
The Mom Village -Stories of Strength and Courage
I am thankful for the opportunity to participate in The Mom Village Project. As I gift I am offering my chapter for free. If you choose to purchase the book, 100% of the money raised benefits Agape in Action medical clinics in Guatemala. Paula Rollo of Beauty Through Imperfection speared head the project graciously allowing me…
Best Gingerbread Cookie Baking Gifts Under $20
Our family gingerbread cookie baking evolves every year. Scanning Amazon this year several baking tools excited me! A raised cookie rack would certainly clear more counter space, what amazing colors could I create with new food coloring set, and be sure to check out the piping bottles for storing royal icing. Pin this for later, maybe…
How to Find the Best Free Camping
Free camping is abundant! Often called disbursement camping many of our public lands offer camping off the beaten path for free. Defined by the USDA Forest Service as: dispersed camping is the term used for camping anywhere in the National Forest OUTSIDE of a designated campground. Dispersed camping means no services; such as trash removal,…
How to Winterize Your Vintage Travel Trailer
Closing up the Vintage Travel Trailer for the winter hits me hard every year. Summers last a millisecond in Colorado. Winter arrives in late October hanging around sometimes through April. Forgetting to Winterize your Vintage Travel Trailer in this harsh climate is a big mistake! (Be sure to click here for gifts for the vintage camper lover…
How to Choose the Best Gingerbread Cookie Frosting
Get the best results from your gingerbread cookie frosting by choosing the right type of frosting. Yep, the type of frosting changes based on your end goals. Who knew? (For the Best Tasting Gingerbread Cookie Recipe Follow this link) Gingerbread Cookie Glue Little hands apply a lot of pressure on gingerbread houses during the decorating…
Why Are Children So Obsessed With Gingerbread Cookies?
Our families obsession with gingerbread cookies started many years ago as the result of a book and class project. In those early years, Run, Run As Fast As You Can, You Can’t Catch Me I’m the Gingerbread Man tickled my sons into fits of laughter. The youngest designed a kind of hide and go seek…
How to Make an Inexpensive Treadmill Desk
Make a treadmill desk for almost free! It is crazy how much these new treadmill desks cost! (Looking for how to DIY a sitting Desk in a small space jump to this post.) Even A. J. Jacobs in his book Drop Dead Healthy talks about making a treadmill desk instead of purchasing a high priced…
Win the Battle with Your Time Wasters
Time wasters are serious business for a work-from-home mom. They rob us of the one commodity we must have to be successful–time. Battle Strategy Against Time Wasters #1 Know your enemy Time is not your enemy, but how you choose to spend it is. Write down the three biggest time wasters in your day. Examples:…
How Friendsgiving Saved My Marriage: A Love Story
Friendsgiving is such a strange term. All I can see is the cast of Friends, Ross, Monica, Joey, Rachel, Chandler, and Phoebe sitting down to a very late turkey dinner after some emotional struggle almost crashed their friendship. Isn’t that what all the episodes were about? A relationship issue that threatened to destroy the”Friends” bond. Be Sure…