Saving Summer – Spaghetti Sauce

August 18, 2010

Growing up, we lived on a cute little cul-de-sac road. Our close family friends lived down the road from us and we spent most of our youth growing up together. I have this very vivid childhood memory of their home. It’s not your normal memory, like remembering a fun party (although I remember a few [...]

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Saving the Summer – Salsa

August 16, 2010

Salsa is one of our favorite ways to use up tomatoes from the garden. If you look online for salsa recipes you won’t have any problem finding thousands of variations. For me, this became overwhelming. So many recipes, were they actually good? Everyone has different preferences when it comes to food. I prefer a mild [...]

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Saving the Summer – Canning Tomatoes

August 12, 2010

Tomatoes are a staple in most gardens because they are so easy to grow with instant gratification and lots of fruit. Having this bounty of tomatoes can be a big blessing if you know what to do. You can only eat so many salads! So,  we’re going to talk about canning tomatoes.  I prefer canning [...]

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… and we’re back!

August 5, 2010

It’s been a while, say 3 months… Ok, longer than a while. Although there has not been any blogging over the last few months, we’ve been busy working on some exciting things around here and I’m more than ready to blog again! Over the next few weeks you’ll notice some big changes around here. I’m [...]

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Once A Month Cooking with Rebekah

April 30, 2010

Well, we did it! Wednesday my friend and fellow blogger, Rebekah and I successfully completed our Once a Month Cooking day. Right now even thinking about it makes me tired. It was a lot of planning and work, but now we can both rest assured that we have dinner in the freezer. All of these [...]

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Her Gift

April 13, 2010

Photo: MarcinMoga / Lolek’s Today was my husbands 30th birthday. We enjoyed a nice dinner together while the kids spent the evening at their grandparents. Dinner was delicious. Everything was perfect! We both enjoyed having time together to talk without any inturruptions from the kids. When we finished dinner, picked up the kids and continued [...]

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How Great

April 3, 2010

Photo: Sweet Capture How deep the Father’s love for us How vast beyond all measure That He would give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure How great the pain of searing loss The Father turns His face away As wounds which mar the chosen One Bring many sons to glory Behold the [...]

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No April Fools Tricks for me today, only TREATS!

April 1, 2010

Today was a gorgeous day! The kids were napping and I was outside working in the yard and garden. I usually wear an old pair of clogs when I’m in the garden because I’m usually going in and out of the house a lot and it’s easy to slip out of them. Today I didn’t [...]

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DiGiorno House Party

March 23, 2010

About a month ago I signed up to throw a DiGiorno’s House Party through a great new website HouseParty.com. What is House Party? (from their website) A House Party™ is thousands of parties across the country, hosted by people like you. Each event is sponsored by a leading brand and focuses on something cool that [...]

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Cookies, cookies, cookies – back to blogging

March 19, 2010

Well I’ve been super busy, baking up dozens and dozens of cookies over the last 2 weeks! I was asked to teach a technique class at my part time job. I discussed the techniques and tricks for baking and decorating cookies. It took lots of preparation and planning, but the classes went so well! I’m [...]

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