Category: Collective Bias

I’m not a picture printer by nature. I take pictures. I hoard pictures on flash drives, hard drives and CDs. I look at pictures on my phone, computer monitor and even our TV. But print them? Hardly ever. My mother on the other hand — picture printing…obsessed. She prints every picture she takes…in duplicate (sometimes triplicate!).

As many of you know, February is Heart Health month, where many products and services let us know that it’s important for us to take care of our physical hearts. That’s an important topic to me, since both of my in-laws succumbed to heart disease. But ’emotional’ heart health is just as important, and it’s often something that I need to work on by connecting touches within my own home.

I don’t know if you’re aware of Gary Chapman’s “The Five Love Languages,” but it is a great insight on the basic five ways that people experience love. It’s broken down into; 1. Acts of Service, 2. Quality Time, 3. Gifts, 4. Physical

In the community I grew up in, Lent was not a thing to take part in. When we moved, I genuinely had questions about all the ‘fish’ deals popping up before Easter. A few questions here and there and I finally understood. We don’t practice Lent in our home (although I probably should, there are a number of things I could sacrifice for 40 days and it would likely make my life a lot better because of it), but fish once a week is something I do.

I have a smile on my face every time I walk into my dining room and this is why.

Are you counting? 20 days, that’s it! I cannot believe that there is less than 3 weeks until Christmas! I don’t really have a ‘list’ per say, but one thing everyone who has me on their holiday shopping list knows is that they can NEVER go wrong with coffee! Bold, Decaf, Flavored, Ground, Beans, K-Cups, T-Discs, you name it, I CAN BREW IT!

We do have a Sam’s Club membership, and go about once a month, but with only 3 people in our family, there really is only so much bulk shopping one can do. However, coffee is one of those things that is on the Sam’s Club shopping list, and as I mentioned a few

There’s nothing like the face alight like a child’s on Christmas morn. But, oh, my, I’m pretty sure with the right gift my face looks like that too!

The Holiday Celebrations 2012 eguide, is the ideal blend of gift ideas and holiday entertaining. The guide has beautiful photographs and nuggets of information on everything from decorating to fashion.

I am tempted to just e-mail the link for the #HolidayGuide to my husband as there is no way he can get it wrong this year if he has this to help him. It’s so easy even a husband can use it!

Regular readers of my blog will know about our family’s ongoing saga of testing and moving with our high school aged daughter. For those of you who don’t…let me do a brief catch up for you!

We homeschool our 16 year old daughter Amber. She’s the kind of kid who when she gets interested in something, gets a little obsessed with it and focuses her energy into it hook, line and sinker. For her that happens to be video games, fantasy realms, writing and drawing.

I’ve always been a frugal shopper; clipping coupons, shopping sales – if friends or family want something for the best price, I’m usually one of the first people they come to asking where they can score a deal on what they’re looking for.  The rising cost of, well pretty much everything, has me checking out resources on where to save a bit more here, and get a little bit more income there.

Blogging is actually fairly new to me, I’ve been doing it for 4 1/2 years, but before that back in the early 2000’s I was all over the internet,

A couple of years ago we needed to invest in a new TV (okay needed is sort of an over the top word for a TV, no one NEEDS a TV, but you get what I mean…). My husband always on the forefront of technology decided we should get a 3D one. Back then it was quite a risky thing to do because no one really knew if this ‘at home 3D thing’ would take off, you could hardly even buy any movies for it then. Although we paid quite a bit up front for it, over the past few years it has actually saved us a lot of money because we rarely go to the movie theater anymore.

My husband works weekends, so it’s not often that we get to spend family time together on the weekends, but with the Labor Day holiday, he had some time off, and so we celebrated by having an indoor Family Game Night picnic.

Why indoor you ask? Well it was unseasonably warm the other day (over 100 degrees) and WINDY! So rather than chase after our Tyson Chicken Nuggets, we decided to do our picnic in the family room.