May 2020 Family Funnies
Emma: “So do you have the lemon disease? Or the lime disease?” 😂 (I had just told Lizzy that we had 2 lemons that needed to be used soon. And we talk once in awhile about how Lexa & I have forms of Lyme disease. …
Author: Martha
Weekly Gratitude Post 5/31/20
Today’s Gratitude Post is brought to you by… me! 🙂 I am thankful for grace & forgiveness. I am thankful for my husband of 21 years, and having date night at a restaurant this week after 3 months!! I am thankful for time with friends …
“Armbruster Yardworkers”
Xanna, Lizzy & Logan have started a small business called “Armbruster Yardworkers”. They do a variety of odd jobs inside & outside such as: mowing, removing sticks, planting flowers, weeding, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Including running errands – grocery shopping, …
Stuffed Peppers & A Favorite Rice Recipe
The whole family has said this is the BEST way to cook rice from now on! A new favorite! 😊 For this meal, we cooked up a batch of rice (our kids love this rice plain, so I always make a big batch. We’ll use …
2 Week Meal Plan 5/24 – 6/6
I had stopped doing our 2 week Meal Plan posts when my health was so bad. I’m ready to start it again! It feels like progress, so that makes me happy. 😊 This rotation started on Sunday, so I’m going to post it that way …
21 Years! ❤🥰💍 Our Love Story
Grant & I have a unique love story that is fun to share. I thought that in honor of our 21st anniversary that we just celebrated, we could share our story. 😊 (I know it’s a long post today, but I hope you enjoy this …
Friends Coming to Help Out
We have some friends who had offered to come for a weekend & help with any projects we needed help with. We had made plans for them to come in March, but had to postpone because of everything going on. They came this past week …
New Kittens 1.0
We have 6 new kittens that were born this week! 😊😍 Our 2nd Mama cat is also due any day! Our kids are pretty happy. (We also have chicks that hatched yesterday & are still hatching…lots of fun to have all the babies!) ❤
Lilla Rose Sale
I don’t share about this very much, but I am a Lilla Rose consultant. 😊 I got into it about 7 years ago, because having 5 (at that time!) daughters, plus myself, it adds up pretty quickly! We all LOVE their flexi-clips. They are high …
Creative Ways to Use Chicken Broth (& How to Make it!)
We had several birds in our freezer that needed to be used (that we had raised & had butchered.) I used our instant pots to cook 2 birds. Took a fraction of the time it would have on the stove or crock pots!! I boiled …