All tagged Stay-at-Home

Giving Props

Giving Props

Barb Pellicer Paton
Healthy Family, Products & Gift Ideas

There will be a thoughtful point to this post but it may take a story or two to get us to it.

I got married later in life, I was thirty-three. I once had a career in advertising and I made three times the amount my boyfriend (before he was my hub) was making during that time. But a year or two before we got married, because of total burn out, I became a pre-school teacher. It actually cost me money to be a teacher because my income was practically nothing after my expenses. {SIDE NOTE: the Thoughtful Pinch blog exists because teachers are special people}.

Good Scents

Good Scents

Barb Pellicer Paton
Healthy Family, Holidays/National Days, Politics & Religion, Products & Gift Ideas

Our Thanksgiving Day dinner menu this year is: turkey (Martha Stewart’s brine recipe), mash potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole (Trader Joe’s recipe), gravy, corn, cranberry sauce, rolls, pumpkin pie and apple pie (with ice cream). It’s basic, yet fancy enough for us because we only eat these foods in this combination once a year. Each of these menu items have a unique scent and anyone who enjoys eating these foods would welcome their scents like a warm hug.

Opposite of Thoughtful

Opposite of Thoughtful

Barb Pellicer Paton
Healthy Family, Travel & Leisure

For years my friend Christy and I would laugh about doing things that were the opposite of being thoughtful. We would chat about people who didn’t care about others - wouldn’t it be so liberating to only think about ourselves? Whenever we shared stories that included someone being selfish we would say, “Let’s put that on the Un-thoughtful List.”