There's a hamster in my pocket!

Lorelai got a hamster last weekend, she'd been dying for one and began checking out books at the library on how to take care of them... so we got one!  And as soon as she got the hamster she started asking for a shirt with a pocket so she could carry it around. Yesterday I found a dress with a pocket purse and she is thrilled!!!  

Clean Homemade Pumpkin Lattes!

This morning we made our own clean healthy cheap pumpkin lattes!  They were ahhhh-mazing!  I got the recipe from Pintrest, and ta-da they were fantastic!  Two cups of coconut milk, a fourth a cup of pumpkin puree (we used the canned kind from the baking aisle), some cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice, and about six cups of strongly brewed coffee!  The Pintrest recipe suggested two hours on the crockpot to warm this, but we don't get up early enough to make that happen so we opted for a stove top warming.  It made enough for more than six lattes... so next time we'll probably scale down the serving size.  But, what a deal and the house smelled sooooooooooo good!  

Fall is here y'all!  And with it comes my bae's birthday and Halloween and costumes and layers and all the things of the season we love most of all!

Fair Talent

Lorelai did amazing in the state fair talent show!!! She sang Goodship Lollipop and knocked my socks off!  

Dinner for 3, $5

There's nothing I love more than a good challenge and feeding my family for less than $5 is right up my alley of fun games!

We had whole grain spaghetti ($1.09 for the box) for dinner tonight, with store brand traditional marinara sauce ($0.89), head of romaine lettuce ($0.60)... we used salad dressing we already had. And we made sausage meatballs ($2.99 for the pound of sausage but it made enough for two meals, so a cost here of $1.50). 

Making the grand total of the meal for three $4.08 plus tax (and plus whatever the small cost of the dressing, salt/ pepper and garlic we already had on hand... so less than $5 total).  Go us!!  Healthy-ish and economical!  And we actually have leftovers too so it's really a win, win, win!!!

Front Porch Make Over

Ta-da!  New stone border, new dark rockers, and Ls rocker painted, and I painted the end table for the time being!  It looks so fresh and clean!