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Super Simple Sugar Scrub

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With the hustle of the holidays behind us all, I know that the last thing on everyone’s mind is gifts.  However I love having little things around the house that I can throw together for friends.  Gift giving is not a strong suit for me, however I am trying to embrace it. Sugar scrub. It’s an all natural way to…

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How to Make Play Dough

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In this crazy house, there is always at least one ziplock of play dough laying around!  My boys love playing with play dough.  We have a huge box of cookie cutters that I found at a garage sale that are just for play dough.  My boys love to make snow men armies, it’s a boy thing! A few weeks ago…

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Pickles

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Today I tried my hand at making pickles.  One of the bloggers that I follow had mentioned that she made some pickles that were to die for and since my garden is producing enough to feed a small village I thought I might give the whole pickle making thing a try.  I will mention that I have never once jarred…

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Dinner Idea

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Today I tried a new recipe.  I like trying new recipes but I will be honest that most new recipes I try I try when hubby is out of town.  So tonight I tried this “Stupid Easy Paleo Spaghetti and Meatballs” recipe and it was so yummy I wish I had more!  I am not a paleo eater by any…

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Birthday Boy’s Cookies

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Today is Big brother’s birthday, can it be that he is seven years old?  Sakes, where has the time gone.  I will admit that with each passing year my birthday does not seem like a mountain yet, the birthdays of my boys seems to eat at me a little more each year.  Today for brother’s birthday dinner I made him…

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Pumpkin Muffins

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I found a recipe a few months ago for a very simple pumpkin bread/muffin recipe and I have used it multiple times.  With all our pumpkins that we grew in our garden I made a bunch of puree pouches, I simply made puree and then put them into quart zip locks and froze them flat.  This morning I made some…

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Crock Pot Oatmeal

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I have been toying around with the idea of trying oatmeal in the crock pot and since hubby bought me a new crock pot in October I am ready to try a recipe.  Last night the snow began falling and I was not sure if we were going to have a snow day or not (we did not for the…

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Dough

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Today I found a new recipe for play dough and it claims to be the softest play dough ever.  Since the weather is changing I figured a fun new dough might be something to keep little brothers hands busy. The recipe calls for: 1 1/2 cup water 1 tsp of gel food coloring or 6 drops of liquid food coloring…

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Stacks of Love

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Last summer we were over at a friend’s house and she got out of her freezer some mini pancakes that she had bought at the store and my boys thought that was just about the coolest thing since, well, sliced bread.  Since then I have made some of my own.  This weekend I made the boys pancakes and I made…

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Skinny Spaghetti Squash Alfredo

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With daddy working out of town I decided to make a dinner that I knew he would not like.  While at the grocery store this morning I grabbed a spaghetti squash, yes I had to buy one.  I thought when I planted my garden that I had planted some spaghetti squash it turns out I did not.  I was super…

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