Family is huge to me! We have a sandwich family, with three kids, two at home and one Grandma Linda living with us due to dementia.
I write about all different family topics like dementia, adopting from foster care and other fun family "stuff".
Here are a few of my recent posts to get you started!
Dementia & Alzheimers Caregivers
We are so fortunate to be able to care for my husband's Mom in our home. She fell last year and was hospitalized for two weeks, after which she moved in with us!
Here are my best tips and ideas for being a caregiver!
Grandma Lilly Mae would have made her pie crust from scratch. She would have squeezed every lemon by hand, probably humming something while she worked, and the result would have been the kind of pie that made grown adults close their eyes on the first bite. She was that kind of cook. I am not…
Continue Reading Old Fashioned Cream Cheese Lemonade Pie - The Easy No Bake Version
My husband and I are selling our "big house" and downsizing. Two of our three kids still live with us… one recent high school grad and one who is in college. That said, they spend A LOT of time outside of the house so it felt weird for my hubs and I to be living…
Continue Reading We Sold the Big House… and We're RENTING. Here's Why!
Let's get one thing straight right out of the gate: this recipe uses imitation crab! Krab with a K. The stuff that comes in a package at the grocery store, costs about four dollars, and somehow tastes like a beach vacation anyway! My mom would NEVER. She was a real-crab-or-nothing kind of woman, and the…
Continue Reading Old-Fashioned Cold Crab Salad - The Budget Classic We're Not Apologizing For
Seven categories that will change how you look at everything in your house When we decided to downsize from our 3,300 square foot home, where we raised our kids and had Grandma Linda living with us - to something significantly smaller and closer to the friends and family we love, I knew I had a…
Continue Reading Tips and Ideas For Classifying The "Stuff" In Your Home When You Are Downsizing
If you've ever sat down at PF Chang's and ordered their famous lettuce wraps, you already know. There's something about that first bite - crisp, fresh, cool, and packed with flavor - that just hits differently. When my husband and I lived in Denver, PF Chang's was practically a date night staple! Then we moved…
Continue Reading Mini Lettuce Wraps - The Low Carb Appetizer That Actually Tastes Amazing
Here is something I need to tell you. I am a grown woman. I have owned multiple homes. I have raised children. And I have only recently discovered that people wash their walls. WASH. THEIR. WALLS. Like, regularly. On purpose. As a thing they just... do! I am sharing this because we are getting our…
Continue Reading I Have No Idea How to Clean (And I'm Just Now Finding Out At 59)
Read all my Caregiver Articles!
Natural Living
I am a tree hugging, pescatarian eating, allergy sufferer from way back! With that in mind, I am always looking for natural ways to keep my home clean and our family healthy!
Here are my top posts about natural living:
Read all my Natural Living articles!
Adopting From Foster Care
We adopted our kids from foster care! They are amazing and wonderful, and sometimes a handful to handle because of past trauma.
Here are my best posts about what we learned about adopting from foster care:
Grandma Lilly Mae would have made her pie crust from scratch. She would have squeezed every lemon by hand, probably humming something while she worked, and the result would have been the kind of pie that made grown adults close their eyes on the first bite. She was that kind of cook. I am not…
Continue Reading Old Fashioned Cream Cheese Lemonade Pie - The Easy No Bake Version
My husband and I are selling our "big house" and downsizing. Two of our three kids still live with us… one recent high school grad and one who is in college. That said, they spend A LOT of time outside of the house so it felt weird for my hubs and I to be living…
Continue Reading We Sold the Big House… and We're RENTING. Here's Why!
Let's get one thing straight right out of the gate: this recipe uses imitation crab! Krab with a K. The stuff that comes in a package at the grocery store, costs about four dollars, and somehow tastes like a beach vacation anyway! My mom would NEVER. She was a real-crab-or-nothing kind of woman, and the…
Continue Reading Old-Fashioned Cold Crab Salad - The Budget Classic We're Not Apologizing For
Seven categories that will change how you look at everything in your house When we decided to downsize from our 3,300 square foot home, where we raised our kids and had Grandma Linda living with us - to something significantly smaller and closer to the friends and family we love, I knew I had a…
Continue Reading Tips and Ideas For Classifying The "Stuff" In Your Home When You Are Downsizing
If you've ever sat down at PF Chang's and ordered their famous lettuce wraps, you already know. There's something about that first bite - crisp, fresh, cool, and packed with flavor - that just hits differently. When my husband and I lived in Denver, PF Chang's was practically a date night staple! Then we moved…
Continue Reading Mini Lettuce Wraps - The Low Carb Appetizer That Actually Tastes Amazing
Here is something I need to tell you. I am a grown woman. I have owned multiple homes. I have raised children. And I have only recently discovered that people wash their walls. WASH. THEIR. WALLS. Like, regularly. On purpose. As a thing they just... do! I am sharing this because we are getting our…
Continue Reading I Have No Idea How to Clean (And I'm Just Now Finding Out At 59)