This month’s Spread the JOY charity is: Operation Family Fund.
One of the biggest secrets to being a Joy @ Home Mom is developing an attitude of gratitude. Spreading the JOY and giving to someone else is one of the best ways to gain this attitude. This 4th of July, let’s honor our armed service […]

Abreviated excerpt from the book, EnJOY Freedom From Financial Stress
- Helping Moms Fight the Joy Thief of Financial Stress-

Are you a mom who wants a budget that provides exact target amounts for all the areas of your budget? Including children’s clothing, your clothing, craft/hobbies, entertainment/babysitting costs ?? I did too. So I developed […]

All of these of course meet the PBandJAHM mission statement of Simple,Fun, and Frugal.. just like a PB and J!
(See the recommended links at the end for hundreds more ideas)
1) Color Water Gun Tag
Tag, you’re it! Play a safe and fun laser tag by putting food coloring into the water of your kid’s water guns and […]

(fill in your name) ,I love you! I shed my own blood for you to make you clean.
You are clean now, so believe that it is true.
You are lovely in my eyes, and I created you to be just as you are.
Do not criticize yourself or get down for not being perfect in your own […]

THIS IS A GOOD ONE
(enJOY a LOL from PBandJAHM.com)
I just want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year.
Thanks to you, I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel.
I can’t sit down on the hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on […]

Name: Stephanie M. Veillette
Name of business with link: Thirty-One;
My Thirty One
Why did you choose this company? I actually got an email from a friend and it had a picture of a floral duffle bag that I could monogram for my daughter who was getting ready to go to camp that summer. I got […]

A PBandJAHM recipe: - Simple, Fun, and Frugal
Cool Off with this Quick and Easy Home-Made Orange Pineapple sherbet!
1 can crushed pineapple
1 can condensed milk (make low-fat and use fat-free)
1 can any orange soda (generic only costs 15-20 cents a can)
Leave the opened can of orange soda out to go a little flat first.
Then, mix […]

I grew up with practical parents who had been frightened by the Great
Depression in the 1930’s. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum
foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original
recycle queen, before they had a Name for it… A father who was happier
getting old […]

We all know the health benefits of being active and getting outdoors for fitness. Did you know one of the most beneficial exercises that you can do for yourself is outdoor walking?
A few years ago, my mother and I organized a neighborhood fitness walking group. We decided that it would be safer for us to […]