Minding My Peas

Healthy Groceries on a Budget #6

August 12, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 2 Comments

Welcome back to my weekly post about groceries on a budget! This week, I was really pleased with the sales I found at Kroger, partly due to the valued customer coupons I received. If you shop at Kroger and you have NOT put your address into your shoppers card profile,…

Healthy Groceries on a Budget #5

August 5, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Welcome back to another installment of my budget grocery shopping. Sometimes the best thing you can do for a budget is just not buy anything. I know, shocker, right?! For the last several weeks we’ve ended up with stuff left over in the fridge and cupboard. Not usually quite enough for…

Healthy Groceries on a Budget #4

July 28, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Welcome back to my quest for healthy groceries on the cheap! This week I shopped at Kroger, Aldi, and Walmart. I was pretty tickled with a couple of the sales I snagged at Kroger. Kroger had split chicken breasts on markdown for 0.99/lb, and I had a Kroger digital coupon…

Healthy Groceries on a Budget #3

July 22, 2016 Budgeting Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments Uncategorized 5 Comments

Hi guys! Welcome back to my quest for cheap healthy groceries. I wasn’t as happy with the sales at Kroger this week, and ended up getting the majority of my groceries at Aldi. I did pick up some boneless, skinless chicken breasts at kroger for 1.99/lb, but that’s definitely not…

This Moment

July 18, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

This moment. The one with a fussy 4 month old sprawled across my lap as hazy light from the full moon spills in the living room window. This moment will never exist again, except in my memory. There will be new moments, similar moments, better moments, worse moments, but this…

What I’m Reading

July 16, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Really, the question should be what am I NOT reading? I have a stack of books from the library, not to mention the ones on my phone and kindle that I’ve downloaded as a strategic effort to do more to better myself in the inevitable quiet moments of the day…

Healthy Groceries on a Budget

July 14, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 5 Comments

Welcome to my second post about my never ending quest for healthy groceries on a budget. I’ll be including my menu inspiration for the week and what I actually had on my grocery list. I already like doing this post series, even if I’m the only person who gets anything…

Healthy Groceries on a Budget

July 10, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments Home Education 1 Comment

For the last 4 years or so, first while we were saving for our house and again now that we’re in a preparatory job phase and living off of savings, we’ve been on a relatively tight budget. Our grocery budget is $100 per week. This covers all of our food (for 2…

Minding Peas and Combining Blogs

July 8, 2016 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

If you read my blog regularly (or at least as regularly as I post things) you might notice that I’m at a different blog address now. This is a combination blog. I’ve brought over all my old posts from my personal blog (The Story of a Girl) AND my book…

Sophia on Father’s Day

June 20, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

Name & Age: Sophia age 4 1. What is daddy’s name? Joshua Peterson? What is something daddy always says? I love you 2. What do you and daddy do together when Mommy’s gone? We play in my room 3. What makes daddy happy? Working his truck 4. How does your…