Happy Homemaker Monday - #5 - 2011

Good Morning everyone, I hope you had a wonderful weekend :) I have to take Nicholas to the doctor this morning for a follow up on his pneumonia so I wanted to get this up before I left. The weather in my neck of the woods: 48 degrees, cloudy and we're getting rain today.  I love a good rain :) T…

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Upcoming Dramas and Mini Series

I'm a huge fan of a good drama or a good mini series and more so when it's either from England or one of the bigger networks like Starz, HBO, Showtime or AMc. I love a good show so I'm always on the look out for upcoming series and as such, you know that I love sharing them with my read…

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You know you're getting old when.....

after a day of giving your son's room a really good deep cleaning, you sit in bed with the most grating pain in the lower back. Oh it's not just from the room, the older I get the worst my back feels.  Do you know that I can't stand and do dishes for more than 5 minutes without feeling…

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Thermal Tote Giveaway Winner!

First I want to thank Caitlin from Thirty One Gifts for the great giveaway. Now, thank you to all who entered and as always, I just wish I had one for you all, but don't let that stop you from purchasing one of the Thirty One products, they are inexpensive and totally cute :) I used Random.org …

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The Life of a Military Wife

We are trying to make a decision, a decision that will affect our futures and so therefore, it has to be made taking everything into consideration, looking at the pros and cons. It may not seem like a huge thing to some but if you're military, you know that when the time arrives to retire, you …

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Flowing beautifully

I began this journey feeling that I need, or rather should, stick to a schedule.  That we should begin school at a certain time and end by a certain time, that we should eat lunch at so and so hour and dedicate a certain amount of time to studying this subject or that. We tried it the first few da…

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Cooking Thursday - #4 January 27

Crazy Pizza Bread Credit:  The Ivory Hut 1 teaspoon yeast 3/4 cup warm water 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup Lindsay Chopped California Ripe Olives or 1/2 cup Lindsay Large Pitted Black Ripe Olives, sliced 1 1/2 cups favorite toppings, chopped 8 oz. shredded mozzarella ch…

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The first "I want to run away" day....

because quite frankly I knew it would arrive. When you first throw yourself into homeschooling, you're pretty much like a baby learning to walk, some days you're courageous and adventurous and you just get right up there and do it and then there's those days that you stumble about looki…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - #4 - 2011

What a crazy busy week we had last week all culminating in a trip to the ER for a sick little boy with Pneumonia.   I'm hoping for an uneventful, quiet week! On with today's Happy Homemaker Monday, and please do remember to link directly to your HHM post and not to your main blog, it makes …

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Week in review

It's been a pretty crazy week for us as I'm sure you can tell by my absence from the blog, sure I did the usual Happy Homemaker Monday posts and the Cooking Thursday, but not much else. The reason is simple, we've been busy with Homeschooling, Dibels testing and I've also had my lit…

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Thirty-One Gifts Tote Giveaway

Oh do I have a good giveaway for you ladies today. Just think beautiful thermal tote and faith based company all in one?  Thirty-One is a faith based company with their name derived from Proverbs 31 and the virtuous woman. A.MA.ZING! I was contacted by Caitlin and asked if I would be interested in …

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Cooking Thursday - #3 January 20

Quick Cinnamon Rolls 1 loaf frozen bread dough (thawed, just let it sit out for about an hour or so) 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened (for the filling) 1 cup brown sugar, packed 2 T ground cinnamon 3 ounce cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened (for the icing) 1 1/2 cup c…

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