Family

Update on our Spending Looking at our Budget

12/01/2011 by Sandra 1 Comment

I am focusing on reducing our food budget for the time being. In the month of December our budget for our family of 4 was approximately 750.00. This include a new family member foster child who is currently living with us.

My goal for the month of December will be 700.00 including my Christmas baking gifts. I will do my best to get to that goal let’s see how I do later this month.

Do you have a food budget? What is your budget for your family?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments and maybe even your blog url so we can give one another tips. Thanks and Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays 🙂

Here is a link to my previous post on our spending

Looking at our Spending

For the Love of Writing

03/20/2011 by Sandra 1 Comment

I wrote my brother this week, my mom was next but I shuffled the names around because my brother need his FAB more than my mommy right at this moment. My mom will understand as we speak on the phone almost daily :-).

I do hope my card cheers my little brother up, well not little anymore I think he is in his mid 30’s. Yet always a little brother to me hehe. The card on the left is my brothers card.

The card on the right is the one I sent to a new partner on swapbot her name is thisismeAXiD. I also put two recipes that I enjoy cooking for my family in the envie. Both are recipes that my family has made for as long as I can remember.

I am looking forward to what writing I will do in the coming week. I am wanting to make few handmade note cards to add to my choices of cards I send out.

52 Letters 52 Weeks – Reply 1

03/04/2011 by Sandra 2 Comments

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I was so excited the other day found in my mail box a reply to my 1st letter. I didn’t expect a reply from this dear friend I thought I would get an email. The reason for this is because I know she is going 24/7 as a full time mom, and working full time outside her home.

Well she dropped me a nice typed letter, and it just tickled me pink.

Thanks friend for making my day brighter.

My Try At Making Cards and Note Cards

02/04/2011 by Sandra 4 Comments

We have been snowed in since Tuesday, can’t go anywhere because as you can see below the card car is stuck with snow on all sides.

My little guy is very eager to help but he can’t make a dent in it. Dad helped but even he was not able to tackle it all. So at home we stay and find things to keep us busy. Does pulling each others hair out count as keeping busy?

See told you car isn’t going any where anytime soon. Bummer I really would love to go somewhere but we are stuck and it might be several more days yet, till we can go out for a drive.

So I play with my Cricut. I am a newbie at this so don’t laugh, I see that lil smirk hahaha. I have actually avoided it because I didn’t have a clue how to do anything with it. I have been looking at You Tube videos since I got it for Christmas.

Well my kids thought it was so cute and they had smile all on their little faces. The pink elephant tickled them pink, and it is pink because I didn’t have any other paper available. Even my hubby said how cute, or maybe that was so I wouldn’t bother his television watching hmmmm.

Here is my little penguin, these are all from some great tutorial at Under A Cherry Tree.

I am getting some serious cabin fever, and I don’t see an end soon, not for another few days or more. I might have a nice collection of pink, white and red cards by then. Thing is what in the world to do with them, will anyone want them? Oh well making them was fun at least.