While we don’t cook a lot of cookies these days, this recipe is a Savage family favorite! Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Blend together with electric mixer: 1-1/4 c. butter 3/4 c. brown sugar (I used the Splenda brown sugar blend) 1/2 c. sugar 1 egg 1 tsp...
Happy Monday morning! Today should be Marriage Monday, but I’m a little busy today… becoming a Grandma! Anne had a sonogram on Saturday and it showed that her amniotic fluid is too low. They have decided to induce her this morning. ...
As I shared in Tuesday’s post, we’ve homeschooled off and on over the years. Right now both of my teenagers are attending public school so I’m not on official homeschooling mom. But I still take the education of my kids very...
Today I’ll be joining the discussion on the weekly Focus on the Family live webcast for moms!This time, however, I’ll be doing so from the comfort of my home and the technology of Skype! The topic of the one hour show will be “Family...
I’m often asked by other moms about our school choices with our kids. There’s no easy answer to that question because we’ve done it all: homeschool, public school, private school and even lab school (here in our community Illinois State...
When Mark and I speak together on marriage, we introduce ourselves as being married “27 years…17 of them happily.” It’s a description we wish weren’t true, but unfortunately it is. Our marriage has had plenty of ups and downs....
I’m trying something new these days. I’m trying to begin dinner plans at breakfast. I have a loose schedule for meals, but I find that I serve a more well-rounded meal when I think through my meal plan and start my prep first thing in the...
Money Management for Kidsby Jill SavageEvery child has their own financial personality. Three of our children are savers. Two are spenders. Of course, they take after both my husband and me, who sit at opposite ends of the spending/saving spectrum ourselves.Regardless...
Wow! I have a couple of friends who have turned me on to the Ultimate Blog Party 2010 at 5MINUTESFORMOM.COM. This has been so much fun because I’ve been meeting so many wonderful moms and discovering some great new mom blogs! Not only that, but...
Today I’m starting what I hope to be a weekly feature on my blog: Marriage Monday. Mark and I speak and write together about marriage. Each Monday we’ll share about a common marriage struggle and how we’ve learned to handle it. You...
A mom stopped me last summer after reading a newspaper article that stated the average cost of a wedding was now $25,000. “Jill, did you read that article about the cost of weddings these days?” I replied that I had seen the article to which she referred. She...
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