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!
Growing up in northwestern Pennsylvania, every mom had her signature salad. And I mean every mom. It didn't matter if it was a cookout, a church potluck, or a Tuesday - somebody's mom was showing up with a bowl of something creamy, fruity, and completely irresistible. Lucky for me, I had a talent for dating…
Continue Reading Banana Split Fluff Salad - Nostalgic, No Bake & Easy
I still remember the morning my mom put a box of store brand corn flakes on the breakfast table. No Tony the Tiger. No bright blue box. Just a plain white bag with the word CORN FLAKES printed on it in basic block letters. My dad had just been laid off, and apparently the era…
Continue Reading 11 Ways to Make Store Brand Groceries Taste Gourmet
If your junk journal has been a little too cheerful lately, I have just the thing to fix that! These free vintage true crime junk journal pages are moody, dramatic, and absolutely packed with dark collage goodness - think police lineups, crime scene tape, mysterious detectives, vintage newspaper headlines, and one very suspicious black cat…
Continue Reading Free Vintage True Crime Junk Journal Pages - Dark Moody Ephemera for Mystery Lovers
You know how some recipes come into your life through the most unexpected people? This one came to me through a college boyfriend's mom - and honestly, she's the best thing that came out of that relationship! Every time we'd make the trip home from college, she'd have a big bowl of Pineapple Fluff Salad…
Continue Reading Old-Fashioned Pineapple Fluff Salad - A Retro Classic That Never Gets Old
Some recipes just belong at a folding table under a canopy. You know the ones - the dishes that show up in a giant bowl covered in plastic wrap, get demolished in the first ten minutes, and leave three people asking for the recipe before dessert is even out. This Cowboy Pasta Salad is exactly…
Continue Reading Cowboy Pasta Salad - The Ultimate Summer BBQ Cookout Recipe
There's a moment that happens somewhere in your 50s where you stop pretending you don't already know the answer. I hit mine a few years back. I was sitting across from a woman who had been talking about her business for a solid five minutes - circling, describing, explaining - and I finally just looked…
Continue Reading 11 Quotes About Women - Not Vintage, Seasoned, And Dangerously Smart!
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:
Growing up in northwestern Pennsylvania, every mom had her signature salad. And I mean every mom. It didn't matter if it was a cookout, a church potluck, or a Tuesday - somebody's mom was showing up with a bowl of something creamy, fruity, and completely irresistible. Lucky for me, I had a talent for dating…
Continue Reading Banana Split Fluff Salad - Nostalgic, No Bake & Easy
I still remember the morning my mom put a box of store brand corn flakes on the breakfast table. No Tony the Tiger. No bright blue box. Just a plain white bag with the word CORN FLAKES printed on it in basic block letters. My dad had just been laid off, and apparently the era…
Continue Reading 11 Ways to Make Store Brand Groceries Taste Gourmet
If your junk journal has been a little too cheerful lately, I have just the thing to fix that! These free vintage true crime junk journal pages are moody, dramatic, and absolutely packed with dark collage goodness - think police lineups, crime scene tape, mysterious detectives, vintage newspaper headlines, and one very suspicious black cat…
Continue Reading Free Vintage True Crime Junk Journal Pages - Dark Moody Ephemera for Mystery Lovers
You know how some recipes come into your life through the most unexpected people? This one came to me through a college boyfriend's mom - and honestly, she's the best thing that came out of that relationship! Every time we'd make the trip home from college, she'd have a big bowl of Pineapple Fluff Salad…
Continue Reading Old-Fashioned Pineapple Fluff Salad - A Retro Classic That Never Gets Old
Some recipes just belong at a folding table under a canopy. You know the ones - the dishes that show up in a giant bowl covered in plastic wrap, get demolished in the first ten minutes, and leave three people asking for the recipe before dessert is even out. This Cowboy Pasta Salad is exactly…
Continue Reading Cowboy Pasta Salad - The Ultimate Summer BBQ Cookout Recipe
There's a moment that happens somewhere in your 50s where you stop pretending you don't already know the answer. I hit mine a few years back. I was sitting across from a woman who had been talking about her business for a solid five minutes - circling, describing, explaining - and I finally just looked…
Continue Reading 11 Quotes About Women - Not Vintage, Seasoned, And Dangerously Smart!