It’s the beginning of the new year and I will be stopping grocery shopping. No not forever but just until I get the stock from our freezers and pantry are depleted. I like doing this every year since I tend to stock pile items when they are on sale. I also love leftovers because there are so many different ways to prepare the same meal you may have had for 3 days! For Christmas I prepared a delicious baked ham dinner but there are always leftovers. One day I reheated

Some of our steady readers may remember hubby and I closed our interior decorating shop of 53 years this past October. Hubby’s health is deteriorating and him at 73 and me heading for 70, it was time to slow down a bit. You can catch up of my closing our shop here: http://themarthareview.com/where-do-you-see-yourself-going/ Our new venture after 53 years of interior decorating: http://themarthareview.com/chatting-on-the-front-porch/ Wait did I say SLOW DOWN?? We have been busy with our new venture, Mama’s Minkys where we create adorable, super soft baby blankets and pillows. But

It’s already day 4 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge and I’m going to use the suggested topic which is to write about things that come in fours.  My four things aren’t something that comes in fours but it’s on the same idea. Today I’m going to share Four Money Saving Tips with you. 1 – Credit Cards While some people don’t use credit cards, I am one that does. However when using credit cards, you have to be very strict. First, I NEVER get a card that has an annual

Today is Day 3 of the January Ultimate Blog Challenge and the suggested topic is Who Do You Admire & Why? It only took a few minutes to come up with who I would write about because of his traumatic amputation but a positive attitude. Mark was in a devastating motorcycle accident in February 2018. He was obeying traffic laws, but another driver wasn’t. The driver ran a red light and never even saw Mark coming. Luckily, Mark was a seasoned rider and when he realized the inevitable, he was

For those of you that are new to my blog, I want to let you know that I can’t seem to have a “Wordless Wednesday”, I always have to add words, just like I do when I’m not blogging, I’m a talker what can I say! But I hope you enjoy my favorite photos with captions of my Great Granddaughter’s first four months. Princess Lia Faith’s First 4 Months It all started on August 23, 2018 when Lia Faith arrived with a great set of lungs. Within minutes, she was

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