So, things are looking a lot nicer around here, as far as home decor goes. Now that we’ve finally been home for a couple of weeks, we’ve gotten some pictures on the walls and everything! Check out our guest room! Who wants to come visit?? The lamps don’t match, but that’s kind of lower priority… Continue Reading
Yearly Archives: 2008
Container Vegetable Garden – Update
The plants are (mostly) thriving! I took these pictures several days ago, and they’re already outdated! The first two plants (left) are my tomatoes. They both have had little flowers but no tomatoes yet… The left one looks kind of sickly compared to the right one, and I’m beginning to think that those two may… Continue Reading
The Newest Member of Our Family!
So I probably should’ve written sometime in the last couple weeks about this… but so much was going on! First, we went to South Carolina for a week, and since then we’ve been settling in and getting our newest family member used to the way things work here. About a week before we went to… Continue Reading
Leftover Fajitas = Lo Mein! (cooking in a mostly-empty house)
I told you I’d let you know what we did with the leftover chicken and veggies from our fajitas! This was really just a thrown-together idea but it ended up tasting so delicious we’ll definitely repeat it. Cook some spaghetti noodles until al dente. Meanwhile, take the leftover chicken…… Continue Reading
Easy fajitas (cooking in a mostly-empty house)
We made these fajitas when we still only had one pot and one pan, and the movers still hadn’t come with the rest of our goods. I forgot to take pictures of the veggies cooking, but I’ll tell you about it. First, I cut up 2 onions and 2 green bell peppers, and sauteed them… Continue Reading
Cooking in a mostly empty house – easy chicken Caesar salad
How easy can it get? Cut up some chicken and cook it in a pan, then throw it into one of those bagged Caesar salads. You know the ones… the lettuce is already cut and washed, and it includes the croutons and the dressing. Of course, it’s much more economical to make your own salad,… Continue Reading
Post-Mover Chaos – NAS Meridian, MS
We tried to keep up with the movers as they unwrapped each of our belongings from the copious paper, cardboard, and tape. We really did! But it’s hard to put everything away as it’s unpacked when we’re still not sure where everything goes! So… some of it was somewhat organized-ish when the movers left, but… Continue Reading
Our New Abode – NAS Meridian, MS
So, I showed you pictures of our little garden already, but not pictures of the house! Basically, we moved up to Meridian from Milton on May 16th (a Friday) and lived in a hotel (the CBQ or combined bachelor’s quarters, really) for 10 days. On May 25th (my birthday!) we moved out of the hotel… Continue Reading
Cooking in a hotel: Chicken Parmesan
This is the last of the hotel-cooking posts, since we’re now staying in our house! I wanted to make some sort of breaded chicken, and usually I do that with flour and/or cornmeal seasoned with my own spices and herbs… but since I didn’t want to deal with a whole bag of flour in a… Continue Reading
Brinner = breakfast for dinner
If you know much about me, you probably know that I LOVE the show Scrubs. And so does my guy. And Turk in the show loves “brinner.” And so does my guy. According to them, when the stars align, you know it because brinner is on the table. I love breakfast foods too, and because… Continue Reading
The start of a container vegetable garden
On Sunday, for my birthday, my sweetheart got me some veggie seedlings, pots, and potting mix. I couldn’t be more excited! We were thinking about digging up part of the yard to make a “real” garden, but evidently that is a LOT of work… you have to get rid of the grass, till the soil… Continue Reading
Happy Birthday to Me! (And to JoyfulAbode.com)
Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 24! Woo hoo! And today is JoyfulAbode.com’s birthday. Check out the first-ever real post, from May 28th, 2007… Desk Makeover. I didn’t really do anything to commemorate JoyfulAbode.com’s birthday but maybe I will do a belated thing later… it’s hard to keep up with things in the middle of… Continue Reading
Hi! I'm Emily. I'm a Navy wife and stay at home mom of two beautiful children. I cook simple, delicious, grain-free recipes, do crafts, decorate my home on a budget, and keep a happy household. I tandem breastfeed, babywear, cloth diaper, practice elimination communication, homebirth, and co-sleep, but I'm not a hippie.
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