My new blog...

I have been thinking about this for awhile and decided I needed a new blog for me. This is going to be about things that I am interested in, things I love, things I want to find out more about, things that I do and sometimes how I feel about it all!

I have been married for five years now. I have learned a lot in those five years. Before I was married, I really liked to cook (or thought I did!), but when you have to cook every single meal - it is somewhat tedious. I have developed some short cuts that I would like to share with anyone who wants to know.

I have been trying to learn more about food storage. We have five children (yeah, I know you are thinking, you have been married for only five years, hmmmmmmmm and that will be answered later), some of whom love to eat and some are so picky, it doesn't matter what I make, they are NOT going to eat it. We have always lived on a tight budget since the beginning of our marriage and so I have tried to accumulate along the way, a food storage. I have some ideas; however, I have found some wonderful blogs that I will share with you. I do believe, why reinvent the wheel if someone else is already doing it. My one twist on this is that I do not live in Utah, Idaho or anywhere in the West. I am an Idahoan who now lives near the corn fields of... Illinois. I am smack dab in the middle of the state in the middle of the Midwest. We do not have the same opportunities for food storage - like case lot sales and an LDS Cannery down the street from us. If I want to go the cannery, it is in St. Louis, which is about an hour and 45 minute drive for me, I have to make an appointment, find someone to watch my kids - meaning I'll have to probably pay someone to watch them, so I can go get some food storage. Now, believe me, living here in the Midwest has it's perks - we have something they don't have in the West, a wonderful grocery store, Aldi's, that I will take more time to blog about in the future.

I do like to do crafty things although I don't have as much time as I would like to do such things. I actually love scapbooking and photography. I love to sew, although I am not an expert at all, in any way.

Finally, I am a wife to a sports-addicted, I mean sports-enthused husband, a mother of two, a stepmother of three, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a part-time accountant, an overwhelmed procrastinator and a blog addict. This is going to be fun!