Stumbling into the book store...

Don't you just love those days when you're out and about, running errands and buying the "in fashion skinny jeans and high tops" that your tween absolutely has to have.... roll my eyes .....and then decide to just stumble into the nearest Barnes and Noble because it's two doors …

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Spice Traders Tea Winner!

Note: Cooking Thursday is just below! Thank you all for entering and though I can't give everyone the tea, I do encourage you to try some of Spice Traders Tea if you can, they are delicious. Without further ado, I used Random.org to select a number and the winner is: #11 Linda at Parker's Par…

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Cooking Thursday!

For the guidelines, you can go here . ******************************************** I love having yummy snacks ready for my children when they get home from school, and yesterday I made these wonderful little Butterscotch Bites, they're tiny but packed full of flavor. I want to see you have only one…

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Crocheting the day away....

For the past two days I've immersed myself back into crocheting, into beautiful colors and soft yarn. Into the rhythmic motion of hook and yarn while I watch a favorite show or read a good novel. It's relaxing and it's therapeutic for me, it takes away the craziness around me, the worries…

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Spring Value Fiction Blog Tour!

Title: Yesterday's Promise Author: Linda Lee Chaikin Publisher: WaterBrook Press Publication Date: February 16, 2010 ISBN: 9780307458759 Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance From the Publisher: He fought to seek his fortune. Would he lose a greater treasure: the love he left behind? As the son of the squi…

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Happy Homemaker Monday!

<a href="http://familycorner.blogspot.com" title="hhm by jasnicmommy, on Flickr"><img width="150" alt="hhm" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3608789834_4d1bac04e0.jpg" height="150" /></a> The weather in my neck of …

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Military Divorce rate increases!

I was sitting here with my coffee cup doing what I do every morning, reading the news, browsing blogs etc, when an article from the NY Daily News caught my attention. Mind you, it's not new, it's from November of 2009, but it still made me stop in my tracks. It reads "Military Marriage…

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Where have I been? (and a giveaway)

Well, living life, all of it, the smiles and laughs and cries and worries and chaos that comes with being a married woman and a mother. No matter how much I want to devote myself to posting on the blog regularly, I have come to realize that it's not up to me, it's up to my personal life and …

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Cooking Thursday!

I've been doing the Slow Cooking Thursday for so long now, years actually, and it's had a good run but I've noticed lately that everyone seems to be running out of crockpot recipes to share and I don't want to completely do away with the feature, so I thought it time to change it u…

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Renaissance Fair!

Be forewarned, this post is chock full of photographs, but I think you won't mind, I mean, who doesn't like the Renaissance Fair???? But for those who do mind, you can still see all the great photos I took on my Flickr account . Going back in time, walking the streets of long ago, indulging …

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