Learn these 3 Tips to Reduce the Cost of Eating Out, including ideas on budget planning, and great ways to track your savings. Raise your hand if the best part of eating out is not having a kitchen full of dirty dishes from meals prepared at home! Whenever my husband and I skip meals atClick to Continue »
19 Easy Homemade Gift Ideas to Make at the Last Minute
This list of 19 easy, creative homemade gift ideas has something for all of your friends and family. The gift ideas include DIY projects, delicious treats and baked goods, handmade beauty products, kitchen tools, and more! Who doesn’t love handmade gifts? Many of my favorite gifts I’ve received have been of the DIY type. IClick to Continue »
My 10 New Year Goals for 2019
My top 10 new year goals for 2019, PRACTICAL for healthy living moms! Plus unique and creative ideas for you to make your own resolutions! “I think the new year should officially start on January 7th – what do you think?” I saw someone ask this on Instagram earlier this week and I couldn’t agree more…Click to Continue »
2018 Christmas Letter
Every year I like to write a Christmas letter to you, my readers. It’s a fun opportunity for me to share with you what’s going on in our lives behind the recipes and grocery shopping tips. Granted, I DO like those things, but just like you, there’s so much more going on in our livesClick to Continue »
My 10 Goals for 2018
New Year resolutions were made to be broken. They have no plan, no direction and honestly, have YOU ever sought one through to the end of the year? I haven’t. However, I have made GOALS. Goals can be broken down into projects, and those projects can be broken down into tasks. You work on thoseClick to Continue »
2017 Christmas Letter
If you’ve been reading this blog for some time, you know that it’s a tradition to write a Christmas letter to you our dear readers. You also know that I’m not really that great at keeping traditions (especially in the case of decorating Christmas cookies!).
My Struggle to Lose Weight and the Slow Carb Diet
Earlier this summer, while the kids were visiting their grandparents, Mr. Crumbs and I ditched our phones and computers and fled the country on a big boat. A few months before that, I started running regularly again and started following the slow carb diet in hopes of feeling a little better about how I lookedClick to Continue »
25 Insider Cruise Tips to Save Money
My husband and I have a “thing” with cruises. We took one early on in our marriage, and for various reasons – like paying off debt, having kids, moving across the country and saving to buy a house in cash – we didn’t take one for 10 years. Then we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary withClick to Continue »