Great appetizer: Chicken on a Tree!

In anticipation of a visit from a posh, elderly lady, I'd gone through the house like a human whirlwind, removing all the evidence of a household suffering from neglect. As a final touch I sprayed floral scents all around me, making the house smell like a meadow. Or a very cheap bathroom. I even remembered...

Whenever I read Marie Kondo's bookThe Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up I get this itch to uhm, do some tidying up. This has cost me a lot of stuff. Stuff which I sometimes regret throwing away later on.  But it has also helped me get my house a lot more organized and less cluttered....

Have you ever had this problem? You need a bit of aluminum foil, so you start pulling on the roll. And it tears?! And then it gets stuck, and for the life of you, you can't get a decent peace of aluminum foil? And it looks a bit like this: Here's some good news: there...

Have you ever noticed that housekeeping can be a lot like surfing the internet. One thing leads to another, and before you know it 4 hours have passed. Here's what happened to me. On New Year's Day I decided I might as well take down the Christmas tree. It was really starting to drop its...

This post was not sponsored. I'm just really happy to see this mop! Sometimes when I'm cleaning our house I wonder: 'Is this how the real housewives do it? Am I doing it right?' Because after 20 years I still feel like an amateur. When my kids were at the crawling stage, and they combined...

I've been blessed with five children, one husband and a house in the country. Which is why I absolutely love my freezer. My chest freezer to be exact. Secretly I would have prefered a freestanding fridge freezer, but I was told you can't put as much stuff into those as in a chest freezer. And...