If you are stumped on what to serve your family for meals this holiday season, take a look at one of the great programs that helps me plan my dinner meals. I use a meal planning service called eMeals. They send me a weekly emeal with dinner entrees and side dishes so I can find…
One of the things I inherited from my Dad is a love for books. So naturally, when I receive new books here on Hobbies on a Budget I often share them with him. Today he is beating me to this book. He read it and is posting his first review here on the blog. Thanks…
What is better than M&Ms by the handful or cookies baked with gooey M&M’s? How about Gingerbread M&Ms or cookies with these special seasonal M&M’s? I love the smell of Gingerbread cookies during the Christmas season and can’t wait to try these new Gingerbread M&Ms! But you also know that I hate to pay full…
As a Mom you have many treasured scraps of paper, school art projects, favorite costumes, photos of special moments. It’s impossible to keep them all. Most of the time the memorabilia gets moved farther back in the closet or under the bed each year and you just forget about it. But my Aunt and Mom…
Critical Reaction: a novel is the 2nd release by author Todd M Johnson. His first book, The Deposit Slip quickly became a favorite in my world. As soon as I finished it, I passed it to my parents who both enjoyed it and then passed it on as well. This newest release is sure to…
Do you have routines in your house that the kids know by heart yet you hear yourself repeating them every day as if they would forget if you didn’t remind them? Brush your teeth! Pick up your dirty socks! Dry the bathroom floor. And my personal favorite during the school year – Wash off the…
It’s November! That means Thanksgiving is coming in just a few weeks and Christmas will be here faster than that. I also have the added pressure of having our house ready to show to a realtor or prospective buyer at any moment. After a long summer of kids accumulating toys and outgrowing clothes, and the…
Forced to give up his hard-earned retirement, Harry Bentley goes back to work as a detective. Receiving a bizarre undercover assignment that sends him across the country by train. Things suddenly go awry when it appears one of his new neighbors may be part of a smuggling ring and suspicion rises about his own son’s…
I am not an amazing photographer. I don’t even capture the best shots most of the time. But I do love to explore the world around me by looking through the viewfinder of my point-and-shoot Nikon camera. There’s just something amazing about being able to capture a moment in time so we can all enjoy…