Frugal Friday: Honey Oatmeal Bread

This is the bread that convinces friends and family to go buy themselves a bread machine. Because, not only can you NOT (double negative, WATCH OUT.) find anything that tastes this good at Wal-Mart, but would you believe it’s cheaper, too? (See below for price...

Does Cooking From Scratch Intimidate You?

I was SO there. As a newlywed, I didn’t know how to cook ground beef. Cooking from scratch for me was spaghetti. (The kind with the Hunt’s spaghetti sauce.) Lasagna was especially complicated. (Again, the kind with the Hunt’s spaghetti sauce.) Our...

I Cheated

Last week, we had three different families over for dinner on three different days. ‘Twas a crazy time. Besides the normal mommying, laundrying, and dishes-ing, I had to make three spectacularly impressive meals big enough to feed two families. And if all that...

Testimony Tuesday TODAY!

As promised yesterday, here is my “five minute faith story.” Here’s a little background about The Natural Mommy: In 1982, my mom, dad, and 18 month old brother welcomed me into this world. Two years later, my parents divorced. We moved. Three years...

Meet-and-Greet Monday

IT’S STILL MONDAY. So I’d like you to meet The Daddy. He’s absolutely the Perfect Guy for me. For example: When I make a German Chocolate cake that has the potential to look like this: And yet somehow turns out like this: He insists that it is The...