Frugal Babe

Last week we got a box of baby stuff from a friend who lives in another state.  She loves to shop, and had bought us several baby boy things from Target.  Mostly clothes, which we have oodles of already.  We’ve gotten more hand-me-downs than our baby will ever need.  He’s going to outgrow some of [...]

My husband had his knee surgery on Monday, and it went far better than we had hoped.  They didn’t have to do as much to his knee as we had thought they would, and it’s looking like the recovery process is going to be a lot faster and easier too.  The surgeon is considered one [...]

Ever since we remodeled our living room and added an extra office in January, I’ve been lucky enough to have an office/craft room to myself.  But once the baby is born, my office will become a nursery.  So I’ll be back to sharing my office with our guest room, which I’ve done before, so no big [...]

My trusty Honda Civic has 211,000 miles on it, and I decided it was time she got a tune up.  My dad loves to work on cars, and I was asking him questions about it when he offered to help me with the project.  Sweet!  Last weekend, I went to my parents’ house (they live [...]

Today a lady came into the library wearing a huge diamond on her finger.  The engagement/wedding band set took up all the room from her palm to her first knuckle - I am not kidding.  The wedding band was covered with diamonds, and the rock on the engagement ring was probably 4 or 5 cts.  [...]

Yesterday I came home from the library to find my husband lying on the living room floor with his leg up on the ottoman and an icepack on his knee.  He had been unicycling in a rocky drainage area near our house (a favorite pastime for him), when he fell just the wrong way and [...]

We spent all day yesterday working in our front yard.  We used to have mostly grass with a small perennial garden.  Now it’s the other way around.  We have a little peninsula of grass wrapping around from the side yard - the rest is mulch and hardy perennial bushes and plants.  We spent a couple [...]

Yay!  My new ring arrived yesterday!  We were both very excited when the DHL guy showed up.  The box was huge - they padded it well.  The actual presentation of the ring was great.  They had a white box tied with ribbon, and inside it were two smaller boxes, also tied with ribbon.  One box had [...]

We ordered my new engagement ring last night.  It’s slightly different than the first one I had picked out - we both like the 4 prong setting better than 6.  It cost $231 - and they have free shipping, so that’s it - $231.  The guarantees that they provide sound just about identical to the [...]

Yesterday I spent about 5 hours cooking.  It was off and on, and I was able to do other stuff during the “simmer” parts of the process.  It wasn’t strenuous by any means.  But now our freezer is stocked: a spinach lasagna, spaghetti pie, baked ziti, lentil curry, chili, red clam sauce, pumpkin muffins, and chocolate muffins.  [...]