Save Some Money, Buy the Refill

I'm always trying to find the best deal on things we use on a daily basis. My most recent discovery, buying Dial handsoap refill and using as bodywash. The Dial White Tea handsoap refill is the exact same thing in the bodywash section and it's around the same price of $3-$4. You can get about two bottles of bodywash out of the large refill, plus it creates less trash.

Ranger Cookies

I was at my sister-in-law's house last week searching for a recipe and ran across a recipe for Ranger Cookies. I loved them as kid, but my mom hardly ever made anything other than chocolate chip cookies. What did I do the next day? Made cookies!

Ranger Cookies

1 stick of unsalted butter
1/2 c. crisco
1 c. white sugar
1c. brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla

Cream sugars, butter, and crisco together until light. Add vanilla. Add one egg at a time and mix until light and fluffy.

2 1/4 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt

Mix above ingredients together with a fork or whisk. Add slowly into wet ingredients.


1 c. oatmeal
1 c. coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)

Add oatmeal and coconut and mix well.





1 c. Rice Krispies (or rice cereal)

Stir in Rice Krispies by hand so they don't break down. Drop by spoonfuls on parchment paper lined baking sheet. I'm a HUGE fan of parchment for two main reasons - clean up is simple and they help put a nice crisp on the bottom of the cookies. Bake a 375* for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.

Enjoy! These cookies are really good with fresh fruit like strawberries or peaches.

Dear Walmart

What's up with your tacky bright blue and gold color scheme? Simply said, it's obnoxious. And now that you have moved everything that was on the right side of the aisle to the left, I hate you even more. And let's not even talk about how you have jacked up the prices on my every-week items now that the store is in utter chaos.

I hope ALDI kicks your competition butt when they move into town.

Summer Reading and Discovering Beverly Cleary

We have been participating in the summer reading program at our local library. If you haven't found these programs for your kids during the summer, it's a must for next year. Not only can you read books for prizes, but there are usually weekly programs that you can attend to help break up your week. We learned today that our local library will have an after school reading program that start in September.

This summer, with help from the summer reading program, Alex discovered Beverly Cleary. Right now, he is finishing up Socks before moving on to Henry and the Paper Route. Alex asked me if we could keep going to the library to check out books when the summer reading program is over. I wonder if he will continue reading Beverly Cleary or find another author that he likes.

Welcome to my World

Today, I was mopping my floor thinking about blogging. I don't know about you, but mopping is one of those times when you get grand ideas just like when you are in the shower or trying to fall asleep at night.

My goal in blogging is to share you the things that I'm doing while I have this time at home. I'm currently unemployed and trying to re-prioritize my life. When I lost my job, I realized that I gained most of my identity through my career. I now feel like an awkward teenage trying to figure out who they are and a junior in college who has no idea what the major in.

Join me as I re-prioritize my life and maybe get a few projects done at home.