About Me
A Study in Numbers
Number of children I have: 6
Age of my oldest child: 8
Number of children in diapers: 2.5
Number of diapers I change in a day: 16
Loads of laundry I wash each day: 4
Time I get up in the morning: 5
Times I wash my hands in a day : 78
Times a day I run the dishwasher: 1.5
Number of times a day we empty the kitchen trash: 3
Number of songs I sing before they finally fall asleep at naptime and bedtime: 5
Number of children’s books I read in a day: 6
How many years I’ve been without cable tv: 3
How many days a week that I bake bread: 2
How many days we really eat oatmeal for breakfast: 4
Number of times we go out to eat in a year: 1 (thanks, Mom!)
Number of times I’ve been to the movies in the last year: 1 (thanks, Mom!)
Number of glasses of water I drink in a day: 20
Hours I spend in the garden in a week: 7
Months we lived on our food storage: 27 (Jan 2007- 2009)
Months we had to restock: 9
Months we've been living on our food storage again: 6 (mid-December 2009-June 2010)
Frequently Asked Questions
A: Most of the time, yes. I do manage to get some other things done. When I make enough for leftovers, I have more time to do other things, so leftovers are a regular part of my planning.
A: Yes, everyday.
A: I taught myself how to cook. Cookbooks are a wonderful thing. Friends in college were a big help, and when I lived in Europe I asked lots of questions.
A: I made food and I took pictures of it. All of the pictures of food on this site, including the headers, are pictures that I took of food that I made.
A: Not all of them. I bought some used on ebay and at resale shops. When my oldest daughter went from a size 6x to a size 7, where clothes cease to be modest, she reached the age where I started making all of her dresses.
A: Yes, I will! I would add some more things, though, if I had money to shop for them: more eggs, lots more cheese--especially goat cheese, cream, milk and ice cream. Of course, moving to a small farm and getting chickens and a cow could solve most of those and I still wouldn't have to go shopping too often!
Update: In February of 2009, I began to slowly start restocking our pantry. In December 2009, we started living on our food storage again.
A: I currently do not have a blog on this site. My website host does allow a blog aspect, but it doesn't allow pictures or text editing (for size or fonts), and it takes you offsite to read any comments and archives. It also does not allow me to edit comments in any way, so I cannot delete offensive comments or spam. In addition, it is not compatible with an RSS feed. Until this changes or I can get a designer to volunteer to design a blog for me for free that will work within my site, I cannot add a blog.
A: New items are linked on the home page in the photos, and new recipes are featured on the menus and recipes page on a regular basis.
My goal for 2010 is to add one new page a week. Having a new baby again has slowed me down a bit, but I still have several new things planned.
To make it easier, I added a What's New page to the menu bar.
A: I get asked this question a lot. I have links to Amazon.com on my site; if you follow my links and make a purchase through the links on my site, I will earn a small percentage of your total. Thank you to those who support this site with your purchases! Even if you're buying with a giftcard or with Swagbucks, I can still earn part of your purchase, as long as you add it to your cart after clicking to Amazon through my site.