Homemaking on a Budget
• Nov. 21, 2008 - Misc Family pictures
Posted By Martyomenko
 Three of my lovely boys, in our living room!
 This is how you line up to take a picture!  My lovely sister Mishael on her birthday! She is so much fun to be around! She has been taking Professional chef classes at the college and enjoying them alot!  Mishael's son (my nephew) He loved jumping on this bouncy bed downstairs, even though he kept falling off. My son T. actually took this picture! 
The Amish store- my mom and brother shopping. We enjoy stopping there whenever we visit my parents as we often find great deal there on food!
 Another portrait, thanks to T.
 On the way home from mom and dad's we snapped some pictures by one of the lakes. It was so pretty!
All four of my handsome men, they are not positioned quite right, but so happy!  T. and his hospital band after our visit to the ER
 T. head wound and staples!!!
Well, hopefully you enjoyed this little photo journey! I think i figured out how to to upload my camera and pictures here! So, hopefully you will see more pictures! |
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• Nov. 21, 2008 - My brother
Posted By Martyomenko
When my brother was leaving for Philadelphia, we all went out to dinner after a long day of cleaning.
We were all pretty tired!
Here is my wonderful brother, whom I miss already! He is one of the greatest people, we have so many of the same things about us and we "get" each other. |
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• Nov. 18, 2008 - Exchange Group
Posted By Martyomenko
i went to this little exchange group tonight. It is nice! It is a odd mixture of people, but everyone comes and have a short meeting to discuss what is going on and then we eat together and tonight people brought things they could trade. one lady had beautiful crocheted hats, whole wheat pita bread and homemade spray deodorant, lip balm etc. Another lady had a bunch of Christian music CD's she wanted to trade for certain items for the troops. I brought my loaf of whole wheat pumpkin bread, beef barley soup and fruit salad with apples and mandarin oranges in it with yogurt for the meal and so they could taste some of my baking. I ended up trading a lady the 1/4 hour I got for coming to the meeting for three aprons she had. I am probably going to get some hats crocheted too, I will see, as she has reasonable prices and I have HOURS to spend.
It is a community project that has been really good as it is a great way to use our resources instead of money as much. Times have been rough on alot of people, and bartering is an old fashioned way of paying people. One person asked me I would sew him some simple linen bags and I said sure....he baked me two loaves of this really dense wonderful bread. (I am going to get the next one in a week or so).
It takes more time than just paying out your money, but when you do not have money, sometimes you are willing to work for something. Check around in your area if there is a local barter group! It is worth it! |
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• Nov. 15, 2008 - Blog Award
Posted By Martyomenko
I got awarded my first award.....from my wonderful friend Grace! Grace has been such a sweet friend to me, even though she lives very far away in cold Alaska! If you follow the link you can go and visit her blog and congratulate her on expecting their seventh baby! Thank you, Grace!
AWARD RULES
1. Please put the logo on your blog.
2. Place a link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate 3 or more blogs.
4. Put the links of those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message on their blogs telling them they've won an award!
I would like to nominate the following ladies:
Diana- Islandlife
Diana has been a long time friend, if she could put up with me when I was 12, then I know she must be a friend for life! 
My mom- Joyce
My mom is a wonderful person whom I always know I can talk to if I have a problem, or just need to chat!
My cousin- April
I really appreciate having her around!
I could go on and on........ |
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• Nov. 14, 2008 - My First Award!!!
Posted By Grace
I received my first award! Thank you Michelle!
AWARD RULES
1. Please put the logo on your blog.
2. Place a link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate 3 or more blogs.
4. Put the links of those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message on their blogs telling them they've won an award!
I would like to nominate the following ladies:
Kimalita
Martha
Jenn |
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• Nov. 12, 2008 - Do you like to read?
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• Nov. 12, 2008 - Menu
Posted By Martyomenko
Wednesday: Vegetable soup, pumpkin bread, homemade bread
Thursday: Baked potatoes, salad
Friday: Crockpot beef barley soup, bread
Saturday: Leftover soup, Pumpkin muffins
Sunday: Black beans and rice, salad
Monday: Beef stew, bread
Tuesday: Spanish rice with cooked chicken added, salad
Let's see how well we can stick to it this week! I made it really simple so I should be able to. We did not have to buy extra food last week except for a treat when I bought ice cream tonight to go with our warm homemade apple pie! I am all stocked up on flour too! I forgot to make the beans so on Saturday and Sunday we had noodle goulosh instead and leftovers on Sunday, along with some bread that I traded sewing for! It was good, it was different, it was a oatmeal rye bread that has some kind of sprouts in it.
For breakfast the last couple weeks have either been oatmeal, peanut butter toast or sometimes eggs. I think I need to bake some quick breads to give them something else! Lunch is leftovers or PB and J sandwiches lately! I want to try this recipe I found called Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins, doesn't that sound good? |
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• Nov. 11, 2008 - Apple pie filling
Posted By Martyomenko
I had a busy day today! The boys did alot of their school last night so they could go and work for my sister today.
They cleaned out cupboards, scrubbed bathtubs and other things like that! Anyhow, I had to take Tony to the doctor to originally remove the staples, but after I told them how it was bleeding on Sunday (a wrestling match caused a problem), they wanted to have a look, but they were not sure what they would do.
I went to the doctor and got there on time, to find they were behind schedule so we went down to a toy store for a few minutes and came back. They elected to leave them in until Friday, when I have to go back to remove them. "sigh" Now to keep him still until then, no jumping, running, climbing etc...... yeah right!
On the way home I picked up the cleaning boys, stopped to mail something and remembered the post office was closed. So, I headed home to take care of some apples and since I had to make chicken pot pie for dinner, decided some apple pie filling to can and apple pie for dinner with our chicken pie would be nice. Technically, it was turkey pot pie, but it was good! We had a nice dinner of pot pies, apple pie with vanilla ice cream and I made and canned 7 quarts of pie filling. The house is a mess, but I am happy! |
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• Nov. 11, 2008 - Fun site......blast from the past!
Posted By Martyomenko
| When we were younger we had a older record player and we had a bunch of old records that people had given us, from my grandparents and others. We had the old Your Story Hour records, Sound of Music sound track, West Side Story and others. We had this one by Danny Kaye that was stories from far away lands that we really liked! It was so funny and had Nail Broth (a variation of Stone Soup), and others! Today I found a site where you could listen to it!!! I was so excited to share this with my boys!
http://www.artsreformation.com/records
A friend sent me this one too, which looked fun!
http://www.kiddierecords.com |
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• Nov. 10, 2008 - Thanks...and SURPRISE!!!!
Thank you to those of you who have prayed for me on my trip to see my grandpa. He is doing MUCH better now, and I am hopeful he will make it to see his great-grandkids in January! I am finally kind of getting back on my feet after my trip. It took me a while, due to unforseen circumstances.
Now for the surprise....WE ARE EXPECTING our 7th baby to be born on May 23rd!! I am 12 weeks pregnant! My body fooled me in September, so I really wasn't expecting it, but by the middle of October, I had experienced all of the lovely first trimester miseries, except for one, which is usually my tell-tale give away! Oh well, now I just don't have to wait so long!
We are all very excited, and of course would LOVE to have a baby sister for our one girl, but we will have to wait and see.
Anyway, now you know why I have been so quiet...I can hardly get through a school day and get dinner on the table, let alone get on the computer!!
Hope you all are doing well, and life is going good.
Blessings, Grace (and baby!) |
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