Thanksgiving Series – Menu

Day 1 – Making the menu What does your Thanksgiving menu look like? Is your family all out traditional with turkey, gravy mashed potatoes, all the fixings? Or do you have your own “traditional” meal? I would love to see a post on what your menus look like. Here is my menu, or the things […]

Tell me what you think….

Here are some projects that I have started for our Christmas card……. http://www.seehere.com/asikes/projects/?cmUploadSubSID=4 Which one is your favorite? Card 1, 2 or 3? I would love to hear some input on these. Have an idea to make them better? Please share it. Thanks for your help! Have a great day and blessed weekend!

My Newest Cookies

I have a new “hobby” of sorts. It is decorating. Not like interior decorating, like cookie and cake decorating. I know that lots of places offer classes and such on how to do these sorts of things but that costs money and takes time. I have decided that using the advice of friends (in person […]

Body After Baby

This is the last week for this challenge hosted by Mama Note. Head over there and see how all the other mom’s are doing with the challenge. We will be turning in our points and then the top five winners will be entered into the final judging complete with before and after pictures! So, wish […]

Not Me Monday – Mouse Style!

This has been an interesting week around the Sikes household. It all started on Thursday night. It was a normal evening, I was in the living room enjoying some “down” time while my husband put the three older children to sleep. The baby was tucked in bed sound asleep and all was well. Enter mouse. […]

Sabbath Update

Well, last Monday if you remember I was asking the question about how you all prepared for the Sabbath and then how you also maintained order and cleanliness during the day without being busy with house work all day. Well, I took your ideas and used some that would work for our family and then […]

Homeschool Video

Here is the funniest, and yet so true video I have seen in awhile. Most homeschooling families like mine are so misunderstood that we appear “weird” to others. Even though we might seem different we are just people like the rest of society. Our choice works for our family. We know that our lifestyle isn’t […]

Boday After Baby – Week 6 Recap

Well this week I did all right. Not great but I did loose 1 pound. I got six out of the seven points. Kate was sick this week but Samantha (@ MamaNotes) said that getting up with baby didn’t count as not sleeping. So, my light was out for more than eight hours those nights […]