Category: Lifestyle

  • Men and blogging

    Men and blogging

    I am surprised that we do not see more men just blogging. Expressing their honest opinions on what is going on in their homes, families, jobs, adventures, or just general sharing. Blogging about caring for a baby, blogging about what it means to be a dad, blogging about church, blogging about hygiene, what about loneliness.…

  • Little Giraffe’s Coloring Pack from Carmen

    One of the things our great grandchildren, the oldest one, loves to do is go to the zoo. They will spend hours there and walk and walk and then walk some more. ‘The children’s zoo is designed just for the purpose of entertaining the children. All I can say is it takes the young to…

  • Basic Budgeting

    Basic Budgeting

    Buying Too Much Pinky promised, I would not buy anything blog related for a while. Our daughter Cindy is helping us become really budget oriented. We have had a budget for a long time but it wasn’t working the way it should. Part of the problem is that I was buying things blog related, not…

  • Negativity is habitual skepticism.

    Negativity is habitual skepticism.

    Exercise is a good starting point.  We all know there is a reluctance on our part to get started. Could that be the old negativity still working on you.  Consider whether or not a treadmill would be to your advantage.  Check out the items listed under Health and Fitness on this blog.  Work out a…

  • Living frugally, with suggestions.

    Living frugally, with suggestions.

    written 7/14/22 Updated 2/15/23! Living frugally, with my suggestions. Everyone is writing about, talking about living frugally, but what does that actually entail? It is not something that is easy to do, it is like an acquired taste and takes time to perfect.! Can you define frugal? One of the definitions of frugal is economical,…

  • Chores, Goals and Everything else.

    Chores, Goals and Everything else.

    Hello Friends! Goal setting is still upper most in many peoples minds. Everyone is thinking about ways to get more organized, meet the goals they have established and prove to themselves and others they, we can do it. But what will we be able to realistically do if we are thinking of so many things?…

  • Puppy’s and kittens, you will love this!

    Puppy’s and kittens, you will love this!

    Remembering my scrapbooking days when I spent hours and hours in stores looking at pages for my scrapbooks. Found some beautiful paper and always stopped at scrapbooking stores and antique stores when traveling. It was always a big treat to get to go to the antiques store with my husband and I. You had to…

  • Drinking and how it affects families?

    Drinking and how it affects families?

    Personally this is something that I think people need to look at more, especially with focus on the families. How can I say that? Because my father was a wonderful man but he was an alcoholic. He always had a drink in his hand and spent evenings after work (thank God he held a job)…

  • Blogs enjoyed most by you all during 2022.

    Blogs enjoyed most by you all during 2022.

    Asking you to share with me what you have enjoyed or liked on my blog during this past year, made me go and do some research. Only went back a year, but it was so enlightening. It did show me what is of interest to those of you who chose to make a comment or…

  • Wedding shower and snow day!

    Wedding shower and snow day!

    Woke up Saturday morning to snow. I really had not expected snow, but colder weather, yes. Two of our daughters had come to town to attend a bridal shower for Josie our granddaughter who is getting married in December. Our granddaughter loves winter and Christmas time. The shower was held out in the country, the…