Growing up one of my favorite breakfast foods was Quaker Instant Oatmeal. I loved picking out my own individually-sized packet from the box ...

Last weekend my husband gifted me a Mom's afternoon out and took over meal planning and grocery shopping for the week. I got a mani/pedi...

Biting into a ripe, juicy peach - the kind where the juice runs down your hand and drips off your elbow - means summer has officially arrive...

I am a sucker for waffles. If there is a Belgian waffle on a breakfast menu, my order is a foregone conclusion. While I've tried to im...

Whether you live in the Napa Valley or are planning a visit, it is possible to enjoy some of the best eats that Napa has to offer on a...

For our family, living a frugal life means stretching each dollar as far as it can go. What it doesn't mean is sacrificing our qualit...

On our first Christmas together as Mr. & Mrs., my husband and I received a slow cooker from his parents. While some daughters-in-law mig...

Last year was the first we planted butternuts in the garden and - 5 vines and more than 30 squash later - we learned our lesson about this p...

In our home, Sunday morning always finds me in the kitchen with a cup of tea, enjoying the task of whipping up breakfast from whatever I c...

Growing up in DC, when it came to freezers all I knew was the tiny excuse for a thing that lives in the fridge and collects half-eaten ice c...

There's a first time for everything - I don't think I've ever read a cookbook from cover to cover, but I simply could not put do...

When I left work to go on maternity leave, we decided to cut back - way back - to see how it would be to live on one income. One of the budg...