High Protein Cottage Cheese Pancakes

What’s for dinner?  Breakfast!  A stack of pancakes, a piece of bacon and a cup o’ decaf sounds like a really good dinner to me.  Let’s see what we can do about making that a bit healthier with High Protein Cottage Cheese Pancakes, shall we? Please don’t throw me out thinking, “Who uses cottage cheese […]

Weekend Wrap Up

It felt like a really busy weekend for us, so I thought I’d catch up on that and do a weekend wrap up.  Even though it’s Tuesday and the weekend seems like a long time ago. Dinner Out and Live Music We had a little celebration Friday night with our DFs Evon, Barb and Stu […]

Target’s Spring 2023 Home DĂ©cor

Both the Magnolia and Studio McGee released their new lines and BAM.  Immediately Target was sold out.  But some items were restocked and here is this week’s visit to Target highlighting their Spring 2023 Home DĂ©cor selections. Home Organization Target’s Brightroom organization line is really fantastic.  There are literally aisles and aisles of bins and […]

Vegetarian Chopped Salad

If you’re lucky enough to have a True Food Kitchen in your area, you might be familiar with the Vegetarian Chopped Salad which is a popular menu item.  It’s delish and this week DF Evon inspired me to make a copycat recipe at home using the template from Blythesblog.com. Here is what I did. Ingredients […]

Motivation for Small Organization Projects

January is traditionally the month of the overhaul.  For a fresh start.  Diet, fitness, self-improvement – you name it.  Any of those can be a lot to chew. How about just a tiny bite?  How about just some motivation for small organization projects? Organizing projects are high on the list of January resolutions. In fact, […]

I Canceled Amazon Prime

My Amazon Prime membership came due on Christmas Day.  And.  Here’s what I did.  I canceled Amazon Prime. These are a few reasons why this membership no longer works for me. Increased Dues Membership dues increased to $130 a year.  Factored in with other memberships I’m paying, such as Costco, those fees are adding up […]

Hello, There 2023

No reflections on 2022 here, but thank you for sharing my journey.  And, hello, there 2023. Let’s do this, shall we? Resolutions Do you make resolutions?  Neither do I.  What’s the point?  If something needs to be fixed or changed, why wait for a new year.  Am I right? So let’s not crowd the gym […]

After Christmas Clean Up

Merry week after Christmas to you.  How are you spending this week?  As is my normal practice, I’m all over after-Christmas clean up. I’m always anxious to clean my house and put Christmas dĂ©cor away, but this year it seems really fitting because our temps are in the 70s and spring cannot be far away. […]

A New Project – German Schmear

It’s been awhile since we’ve tackled a project. But here is a new project – German Schmear. Or German Smear, just in case you’re not German. Remember when we redid hub’s office with a faux brick wall? We have loved the look in there, but the wall is pretty red and it didn’t have much […]

Sneak in Some Squats

Thank you for joining me on the last day of my December Fit Challenge. We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but to keep on track the last few days, I’m going to sneak in some squats. The best thing about squats is that you can get an easy set of 20-30 in just […]