About Me

I am a young wife and mom of 5 kids who loves being a parent and a mom who homeschools. The kids and I enjoy finding new challenges with our schooling and like being able to go places and meeting new people. We love the benefits that homeschool gives us!

I love to find new recipes online or in cook books and tweak them to make them mine. I never learned good eating habits as a child and that, unfortunately, went into my adult hood, and into our kids lives. I have over the past couple of years, picked up a few new friends who have been teaching me about good eating habits, and the importance of exercise. My family is reaping the benefits of all this! Some of it they are enjoying, and some of it is with kicking and screaming. But they all understand the benefits!

I am also someone who LOVES to shop off the clearance racks! I don't pay full price for anything! I know there is always a way to get something cheaper. If I know I want or need something, I look for it used first (in most cases), and if I can't find it that way, then I scour the internet for it cheap. Then sometimes have to head to the store to find a sale. If all that fails, I usually don't get it. It is rare that I buy something full price. Case in point, Have you ever needed a wire? HDMI for that new TV, ipod cord, your dog ate your laptop power cord or the cat got your printer cord.. yup, I needed all these things at some point. Did you know that box stores up their cost price 200%-300% on wires? WOW! I learned this after buying a $50 HDMI cord a few years ago. After reading about the increase I go to ebay.ca, or amazon.ca to look for these cords at a fraction of the cost of the stores. I just bought my printer power cord for $2 on amazon.ca. Amazing that the stores do that. It is where they get you!

I wanted to start this blog to share my everyday experiences with people and possibly give others inspiration in something they were doing. I hope you will enjoy reading about our journey!