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Are you looking for an easy salad to make? This Asian Chicken Salad is out of the bag quick! Delicious and all the flavors you’d expect in an Asian salad. Are looking for something else to make for dinner? You might like to try our easy chicken recipes. Sometimes I like taking shortcuts when I’m cooking for the family. When it’s hot out, when I’m busy or when we’ve been out at the beach all day, or if we have been working and when I have all the grandkids over… You get it. When do you like quick and easy...

I get it! We are all tired and ready for summer break! But what if you can start your year organized, prepped, and ready to go? Here are a few tips on setting yourself up for next year while wrapping up this year. Before you dive into all these great tips, grab this EOY Checklist (best of all, it’s FREE!) In this freebie, you will find places you can put the tips below into action. Each category follows a tip, so as you wrap up your year, you can check those items off your list! There are multiple options to...

s Large Family Homeschool Life – Week 22 of 2021 The Renaissance, the library, and an outing that didn’t go as planned (including hitting a deer) made this week rather exciting! Read all of the Large Family Homeschool Life posts HERE >> MONDAY It’s a rainy day here. Yesterday, we saw a bobcat by the creek – not expecting that today with all the rain. I had peanut butter and banana toast and coffee for breakfast. I use a caramel protein shake in my coffee as creamer – so good! After breakfast, I prepped for school this week. We are starting...

We may have some new readers who haven’t thought about doing this. You may have the binder and the dividers but you haven’t had the time to put it together. As unfortunate as it may be, most natural disasters and emergencies tend to show up unexpectedly, or at the least, with very little notice. I have a link at the bottom of this post for my FREE emergency binder contents. That’s why it’s so critical for your family to be prepared for these situations far ahead of time, especially if tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes play a factor in your...

Wood-infused filament has been around for awhile now, and while it can be used to create some fairly impressive pieces, the finished product won’t fool the astute observer. For one thing, there’s no grain to it (not that every piece needs to show grain). For another, you can’t really throw it on a fire for emergency heating like you could with actual wood. But a company called Desktop Metal has created a new additive manufacturing process for wood and paper waste called Forust (get it?) that gets a lot closer to the real thing. It might be an environmental savior...