Did you guys see this one this morning? So pretty! My phone didn't do super well capturing the rainbow-ness of it, but it really was a tiny little glimpse of the full spectrum breaking through the clouds.

Kid- Friendly Banana Bread is the perfect way to use up overripe bananas -- while also enjoying time cooking an easy dessert recipe together with your kids! Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. The week we originally made this banana bread, bananas were, of course, …

This week's Frugal Homemade feature is... Spring Cleaning! If you can't tell, I LOVE to organize. I don't, however, love to clean, but that's all part of it. Spring is in the air, so that means it's time to give our homes a thorough cleaning before summer arrives and we're all too busy. Here are …

I promised last week to tell you more about our spring break St. Louis trip, but then had such a weekend of catching up to do -- and the kids are still on spring break through today, too! But better late than never, right? St. Louis was fantastic, and I highly recommend the trip. St. …

This post has been sponsored by The Florida Tomato Committee. All opinions here, however, are my own. If you're here with me in Illinois, you know that our weather is not particularly conducive to growing fresh tomatoes year-round -- even in April, when the sun has finally come out today. Lucky for us and our lycopene …

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store matchups, coupons, and sales. You may not have noticed... 😉 but everyone and their brother had ham on sale this week for Easter! So now... you likely have some leftover ham lying around. (If you're instead looking for a soup recipe that …