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Hi Friends! How’s your weekend? We stayed at home most of the time because it’s still very cold outside:( It was sunny but still cold in my opinion! My In laws visited and did a little baking with Mia. Last time they spent time with the kids was last NYE. We did our grocery shopping for the week, and I think we are doing good sticking to our budget:) Planning does really help and we stick to our list 80% of the time!HA. It’s hard shopping with the kids because Mia puts things in our cart without me knowing and when I get to unload our groceries there are things that definitely were not on our list. Oh Well!

I like it when I see the specific savings that we got! I didn’t include all the things we got here but we got more things for our pantry like sugar, and baking goods. Hubs has been baking lately so our baking ingredients are depleted and need to be restocked.

I love this photo of Matthew and Hubs! Before shopping photo:)

After shopping, we ordered Chicken wings but they messed up Hubs order!Ugh. He wasn’t happy at all.

Hubs experimenting chocolate chip cookie! the kids love it because they are the “cookie testers”.

I made Mississippi pot roast for tomorrow’s dinner! This is so quick and we really like this recipe. We normally just pair it with mashed potatoes or rice.

I’m feeling good with my budget this week friends! We got everything we need for our meals this week!

Meal Ideas this week:

Pot Roast

Tacos

Chicken/Asparagus stir fry

Beef stew

I don’t plan for breakfasts and lunches because we usually eat the same thing!

Take care friends:)

Hi friends! Happy Friday:) It’s been a rainy day here and the kids and I have had a cosy day of watching videos (the wizard of OZ), reading the Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder),snacking on cheese and crackers too! I’ve been watching videos about the No/Low Buy spend on youtube, and I’ve decided to join the fun because I’m really tired of the cluttered/too much stuff in the house (usually after a major holiday). I’ve been decluttering since last year but I still have a long way to go and I’m not giving up. This is really the main reason I want to do this! Less stuff=less stress!

Hubs and I are debt free (except for our house mortgage) and we would like to keep it that way! As I do this I know it will benefit my family financially too. We have financial goals this year so with discipline and work, it’s possible to achieve them all!

I enjoy reading and I plan to read the books I have before buying more. Some of the books I want to finish in the coming months!

I did a little inventory this week of what we have. This is the lists that I made and I’m sure I missed something but this is a little guide for me to have. It’s been a while since I bought shoes/candles/essential oils and I really have no plans to buy more. I’m including them in the list just to remind myself of what I don’t need to have. I will never sacrifice my family’s health just to save a couple of dollars in the end! Health is wealth friends:) It’s important for us to have quality supplements(ingredients matter!) most of what we see in the grocery stores are not the best quality,thus they are cheap. My kids don’t have lots of summer clothes so I know we will be shopping for them when the time come. Hubs too will be buying new clothes for this year!

So far this week , we’ve cooked at home and used what we have in the freezer and pantry. We did stop at Mcdonalds yesterday because Mia always gets a treat after school on Thursdays and she wanted McDs.

That’s it for now friends. I hope you can join me in this little fun challenge of low spend and more savings!

Going to prepare dinner for the fam and enjoy a Friday night here! Stay safe:)

Hi Friends! Mia hasn’t had school yet due to still have some “black ice” around the area and the local school district having bus driver shortages. Mia’s school is following the local district schedule! So we’ve been doing arts/drawings/paintings and reading the Laura Ingalls book series,watching Berenstain bears shows on youtube!

One of the many goals I have this year is to do more home cooking. Spend more time in the kitchen with Mia and Hubs (mostly weekends)!HA! I have to ask Hubs for meal suggestions though or else I will end up cooking Filipino dishes:)

Hubs has been baking lots of bread and babka this past week! Cooked fresh pasta and made gummy worms with Mia (she got this last Christmas). He said he’s baked out!HA

So aside from HomeCooking, I really want to SIMPLIFY my life. Routines, meals,house cleaning,budgeting,family life. The whole thing:) I’m sure I will share some here as I go along my journey of simplifying my life:)

Take Care Friends!

Happy New Year Friends! I pray 2022 will be a healthy and abundant year for all of us! We celebrated at home and watched the ball drop (New York Times Square celebration) on TV. We’re all in bed around 10:30! My In laws celebrated with us. Hubs prepared a beef tenderloin and we also had mashed potatoes ,salad, crab cakes and shrimps. YUM!

I cooked Lumpia (filipino spring roll) for our lunch yesterday. We like spring rolls but it’s such a pain to wrap one roll at a time.

After lunch, we did a little sledding again in our neighborhood! Not sure how long we will have all of this snow. Mia had fun!

We splurged this NY Eve celebration and Hubs got tenderloin at Costco!

Have a wonderful First day of the year friends! I have lots of things I want to do this coming year. I’m not really into resolutions as I never keep them!HA.

God bless and stay safe!

Hello Friends! We’ve had a couple of snow days here in our region and we finally got outside and played with the kids! I haven’t been out since Christmas Eve because of the weather/snow. I think we got 10 inches of snow so far. I’m sure others had more. Matthew didn’t like it at all! He was whining and just a miserable child on the sled. Mia loved every second. Just the opposite:(

We still had some fresh seafood we got for Christmas so we ended up cooking them all and have a little seafood feast!

The New year is almost here friends! I did a little clean up around the house today. I have lots of things to donate but with the snow, the roads are not the safest right now, my donations can wait till next week. Looks like it’s snowing again right now. More snow days for us!

Take care friends!

Hello Friends! It’s the day after Christmas and I hope you had a great time with family and friends or even alone. We had a wonderful time with family at home (white Christmas for us as it snowed Christmas morning!). Lots of yummy food, opening gifts and family time celebrating Jesus birthday! Happy Birthday Jesus and thank you for coming and saving us:)

Christmas eve we had Chinese food and played the scoop money game we’ve seen online. I’m still laughing thinking of that game, Hubs was a mess playing that game. I cannot remember how many times I’ve watched the video of him playing.

Christmas morning!

Have a wonderful and safe week friends!

It’s officially Christmas Break for Hubs and Mia here, we’ve been doing all the coziness that we wanted to do. Lots of holiday movies, popcorn and hot cocoa, eating cookies and treats! The kids wanted to go biking/scooter when it’s not raining, and they were able to once or twice. We are forecasted to have some snow Christmas day! Mia is loving the Little House books series by Laura Ingells Wilder. We read every day and watched some episodes already.

Christmas is almost here! We are ready to celebrate Jesus birthday!#lessstress

Stay safe friends!

We did some shopping at the Filipino store and got some Jollibee (filipino version of Mcdonalds). Kids love their spaghetti.

Hi Friends! How’s it going? It was a quiet weekend on our part. Mostly stayed home (because it rained a lot!) and Hubs bakes some bread and I cooked most of the time:) We did drive around our neighborhood and watched Christmas lights then visited Mia’s school because they had Christmas lights/decorations and live performances of the nativity! We stopped by at my In law’s house after because the kids wanted to see their Christmas decors:) With Christmas just around the corner, I’m really trying to be intentional with our time and focus on things that matters (Jesus, family, home).

One of our neighbors decors!

Nativity at Mia’s school!

Take out night!

Finally hung our stockings!

Hubs made us savory crepes! Gruyere cheese and ham:) YUM

I cooked Beef mechado (filipino dish) and Pancit! Lots of leftovers for this weeks lunches.

Sister prepared creme brulee for us!

Hubs baked Pandesal (filipino rolls)

We watched lots of movies this weekend too! (Rich Crazy Asian, Lord of the rings, Hallmark movies). Sis made us yummy drinks to go with our popcorn!HA

Take Care and Stay Safe!

Hi friends! Happy Wednesday:) This past weekend, we finally put up our fresh Christmas tree. Hubs and I thought that this year it would be nice to have a real one (I think it was 5 years ago we had a fresh one). Too much work though with kids !HA we had meltdowns when Hubs cut the tree at the the farm. We visited 2 Christmas tree farms before we finally found ours. We really like how open this one is, making it easier to see the ornaments. Thank You Hubs for doing most of the work, from cutting the tree to putting all the lights and ornaments!

Hello Friends! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration this year with your family and friends! Despite the craziness this year, lots of reasons to be grateful for and appreciate God’s blessings everyday. Our thanksgiving this year is extra special because my sisters and BIL were able to join us!

Aside from the traditional thanksgiving food that we normally prepare, my sisters and I cooked filipino dishes too like roast pork belly (lechon belly) and Lumpia (spring rolls)! They were a hit:)

Hubs and BILs birthdays were right on and the day after thanksgiving! Happy Birthday guys:) Special times!

Sis and Hub prepared our charcuterie board! Another crowd favorite:)

Have a great Sunday night friends! Happy Thanksgiving (belated). Stay safe:)