Slow Cooking Thursday - Super Easy Skinny Veggie Crockpot Lasagna

This one looks delicious and a pretty healthy version of a lasagna. Can't wait to try.  Thanks to the wonderful blog A Pinch of Yum . Image credit:  Pinch of Yum Super Easy Skinny Veggie Crockpot Lasagna  Serves: 9 Ingredients (2) 24 ounce jars or cans of Italian tomato sauce (see notes) 9 thick…

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Sweet Rain!

Oh it felt so very good to see the rain coming down.  It started last night and it continued throughout the whole day, and it's still pitter pattering a little. We needed it so badly, because the past 3 weeks we've had the worst haze and fog lingering around, so this glorious rain came to …

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Period and Historic Book List

So we got the TV series, documentaries and movies covered, but what about books??? My sweet friend Elizabeth from Attempting to be a Super Mom asked me if I could compile a list of some Period books, and I of course jumped on it because it's one of my favorite genres to read, and it would be qu…

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Where to watch your favorite shows!!!!

I think most of you know that I watch 99% of my favorite shows online.  The main reason being that most of what I enjoy is in the UK and so I can't watch live here in the States. Another reason being that I don't always have the time to catch them when they're on TV.  Some are on way to…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 01/27/2014

As I look outside my window::: 22 degrees at the moment, cold, grey, foggy....AGAIN!  I have to say that as much as I love Idaho, I'm actually starting to feel quite claustrophobic.  It's been foggy for 2 weeks, I haven't seen the beautiful mountains in the distance in what seems like f…

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A day of puttering around....

It's been a good day.  A nice, quiet, relaxing day of just plain old pottering around my house. My niece had a dance performance today and unfortunately we were unable to attend, so my brother and sister in law and niece and nephew left around noon and have yet to return.  It means my little fam…

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Friday evening!

Hello my sweet friends.  Well, it's after 7pm and I am showered, in my warm pj's and sitting in bed with the laptop and my crochet. It's been a bit of a long day for me, I couldn't get to sleep last night and ended up out of bed very early this morning. So early indeed, that it was…

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The In Between Hour by Barbara Claypole White - TLC Book Tour

• Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harlequin MIRA; Original edition (December 31, 2013) What could be worse than losing your child? Having to pretend he’s still alive… Bestselling author Will Shepard is caught in the twilight of grief, after his young son dies in a car accident. But when his fathe…

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A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith - TLC Book Tour

Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionall…

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