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Beautiful & Tasty Bottled Apple Pie Filling
Years ago, I shared a family recipe for my great aunt’s apple pie filling. It was my go-to recipe for as long as I can remember. I think I clung to it out of nostalgia. That pie filling was the only one my mom and grandma ever made. I just kept using the recipe every […]
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How to Winterize a Camp Trailer
Cold weather hit hard and the hubby was out in the big rig for a couple weeks so that left winterizing Mountain Meg to me. This is definitely not my favorite chore, but when the weatherman calls for negative temps you put on your big girl pants. What does it mean to winterize a camp […]
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Instant Pot Easy Peel Boiled Eggs
With this whole pandemic and kidney craziness, I’ve been cooking SO much more than I can ever remember doing in all my years of motherhood. 3 meals a day plus snacks for 6 people- 2 of them being extra hungry big dudes takes a lot of time and food! Then add on my youngest’s dietary […]
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Master Bedroom Phase 2
This coming Thanksgiving will mark 10 years in this home. I never fully tackled our master bedroom because other projects were always more important. Funny how we women do that… put ourselves last. Here is a pic of our bedroom the week we moved in back in 2010 and another from maybe 2012-ish. For my […]
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The Remaking of Great Grandma’s Quilt
I have repeatedly found myself not sharing here or on social media because I worry that my photos aren’t magazine quality. So many beautiful moments I’ve missed documenting because of my own insecurity. How silly. No, these aren’t perfectly staged photos with a detailed tutorial, but I just really don’t care and my great grandma […]
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50 Journal Prompts to get through Quarantine
Holy smokes, I don’t know about you but my anxiety has been through the roof lately! I feel like the mom in Pride and Prejudice, with “tremblings, such flutterings all over me– such spasms in my side and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night […]
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Rain, Little Kidneys & COVID-19
Where to even begin? Take a seat, COVID, it’s not your turn. Before the Storm When March rolled around, I had no idea the mayhem that laid in store. I was excited for Birthday Month, well, as excited as someone in their late 30s can be about birthday month. With our trucking business fully staffed […]
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