The Dominee Huisvrouw

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer a paper credit card statement.   I love getting mail, even if it's just a credit card bill, it's...

Last week I was visiting my parents in the States, and the kids and I did a bit of shopping.  I was using my American cash as much as possib...

This year, for the first time ever, I bought the kids chocolate advent calendars. I left them on the table, and I was not home when the kids...

 I went shopping a few weeks ago at the thrift store.  I always look in the Tupperware aisle. I'm on the hunt for more canisters, I don...

A friend of mine suggested I share this handy laundry tip with you.  So, here goes.  If you have long haired people in your household, you k...

I've got a "counter" on my phone that has been counting the days since we first entered any kind of lockdown for Covid.  Today...

 Merry mid-week what day is it ? My family has asked this countless times in the past week. Last week Chad & I were trying to figure out...

Whenever I do this... I hear this.... 

  A special treat....

Are the children getting too old to Trick-or-Treat?  Not according to them! We had a pair of Hot Dogs And a pair of Black Cats (but the kitt...

  I have a binder full of recipes that I've found on various parts of the interwebs.  Some are things I've searched for, some are fr...

I have always had a issue with Munchies Snack Mix. I don't think the pretzels belong. Munchies is a summer staple for us, we...

This homeschooling thing is no joke, but we're doing it.  We just made it through the first 2 weeks of real school work (we did 3 weeks...

This year the kids really wanted to do an Easter Egg hunt.  There were a few factors that were going to make this difficult: 1. Chad gave...

It's crazy times.  Who would have thought that we'd all be hunkering down at home not from a natural disaster or some freak weat...