10 Minute Cheese Ravioli Bake

10 Minute Cheese Ravioli Bake

There are moments in life when you just need to believe you are a rock star in the kitchen. With that believing, the old adage, “Fake it till you make it” may just come into play. Am I even allowed to say that here? Absolutely!! Sometimes we let so much...
Wrestle Hard

Wrestle Hard

I wrote this post initially for (in)courage: home for the heart of women. While many of you that read Balancing Beauty and Bedlam may not come from the same Christian world and life view, I think that challenging our teens to wrestle through hard topics and issues of...
Sunshine  Fruit Salad

Sunshine Fruit Salad

There’s nothing I love more than a huge fruit salad on a hot summer day. No, I take that back. There’s nothing I love more than a huge fruit salad on any day when someone else washes, cuts and makes that delicious fruit salad. In reality though, the person...
Saving Money on Vacation (on food)

Saving Money on Vacation (on food)

Since I just returned from the beach, I thought I would share some of my past tried and true tips about saving money on food while vacationing. Believe it or not, one new trick I did this year was to bring a big tub of frozen cookie dough on the road with us. Wow,...