Posts by butterflyblue

I'm going with mostly baked goods/fudge/caramel this year.  I always make caramel and fudge anyway.  For my mom, my sister, MIL and my brother's girlfriend, I'm making oven mitts out of scrap fabric and insulbrite batting and...

Quote: Originally Posted by BennyPai  Thanks for the input, everyone.  :)  DP is still on the fence with Elliott.  And Emberley.    He says he's not "feeling them."  He has no other...

Quote: Originally Posted by SierraBella  The potential nickname that I can think of with that name (Hardin = hard on) would be enough for me not to use it! It's like being named Dick or...

We haven't chosen a name yet.  I had one I just KNEW was the one, and DH shot it down immediately.  All of the others that I like he feels very 'meh' about, and the ones he likes I feel 'meh' about, so we haven't talked about...

My sex drive has been low pretty much the whole time I've been pregnant, but it has taken a nose dive since about the middle of the second trimester (so yeah, I feel totally ripped off by all the pregnancy books, too.  I was...

Just an FYI - the current issue of EveryDay with Rachel Ray has a section of budget meals that also freeze well, and instructions on freezing/reheating them.  If you don't want to buy the magazine, you can copy the recipes at the...

I'm gong to put on an orange shirt and put a jack o lantern face on the belly.  Nothing too fancy - I'll just be wearing it when I take the kids trick-or-treating.

I don't have any suggestions for gluten or dairy-free, sorry.  What I've got is just run-of-the-mill budgeting stuff that I do.   1.  I write a menu plan for the week before I go shopping.  I make a list, and I...

I wish I had a bigger freezer so I could make up a bunch of stuff ahead of time.  I'm limited to three or four meals, tops, though. :)   I just made some twice baked potatoes with the Pioneer Woman's recipe tonight and...

Ha ha, yeah, if I had a class led by Penny Simkin, maybe it would be worth all the trouble to go. :)