First-Grader Bento Lunches

turkey & veggie cream cheese roll-ups, carrots, ranch dressing in the red container, a babybel cheese wheel, blueberries, mini chocolate chip cookies
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I started making bento lunches for CJ.  We have had a fun-filled year of lunch adventures. Thanks to my friend Keiko, my bento stash has expanded [...]

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Quick & Easy Chili

This has been a family favorite for a long time. I don’t remember which cookbook I copied the recipe out of, but I have tweaked it a little bit over the years until it feels like my recipe now. The chili tastes great the first night, but is even better the next day. We serve our chili with cheese [...]

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Easy Lemon Cream Pie

Well Now that I’ve missed posting in May entirely I thought I’d try to catch up a little. I have wanted to blog. I’ve thought about blogging so many times about many different topics, but honestly I been busy and kind of in a funk. Some of you may remember that we moved to the Eastern USA [...]

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Make A Monkey Smoothie

Here is my current breakfast favorite – a Monkey Smoothie. Just writing this post makes me want one, even though I had one this morning. I don’t know what makes it so good, I think it’s just the combination of ingredients. The regular recipe is listed below, but you can also substitute sunflower seed butter for the [...]

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Have You Seen Cozi?

As part of our new “get organized” plan my hubby and I have been looking for an online family calendar that both of us can view and edit. The first one we tried was Google Calendar. We liked it because we both already have Gmail, but my husband had to download all of the events [...]

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Hands Off My Salad!

 
I went out for a girls’ lunch with my friend Julie recently. We split a salad and each got our own burger. We were having a good time chatting away when the waiter came by and asked me if he could take my salad plate. I looked at my plate and noticed there was a little [...]

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Baja Style Carnitas

Now that Christmas is over we have spent a nice, relaxing week being lazy and cozy. In fact, I’m having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. It has rained a lot here and that makes it easier to stay inside and be close. We’ve spent our time playing board games, watching [...]

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Old Fashioned Gingerbread Men

I got together with a bunch of women in my neighborhood this week and hosted a cookie exchange at my house. We had so much fun! There were 15 ladies who brought cookies of all kinds. These are the cookies that I made – Old Fashioned Gingerbread Men. This recipe is so easy and the [...]

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My Christmas Notebook

 
The holidays are almost here and I can already hear the moans of all the moms who have too much to do. After several years of struggling to find my Christmas card lists, remember what gifts I gave last year, and find my grandma’s peanut butter ball recipe, I decided to get organized. I wanted to share with you how I [...]

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Magic Snowman Soup

Here is a fun little gift that CJ and I made for his preschool friends last year. It makes a nice party favor too. Be sure to have extra marshmallows on hand, they seem to “magically” disappear.
Magic Snowman Soup
1 package of cocoa
2 chocolate kisses
1 candy cane (The Magic Stick)
1 handful of mini marshmallows (Snowman Dumplings)
Place [...]

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