Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/24/2014

Good morning ladies, how was your weekend? Mine was quite uneventful, as usual, and just the way I like it.  I do have a bit of a busy week ahead, but as always I look forward to getting through it with a smile on my face, and I hope you do too. Come on in and sit with me a little, as I type up my …

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As I get older, I get more emotional.....

It's just the plain truth! Having moved back to where my children were born, and where I first started my life as married woman AND in a new country, has been a blessing, and a joy......and extremely emotional. For so many years I envisioned coming back *home*.  I even had dream after dream wh…

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Week Round Up!

Hello my dear friends, how are you? It feels like forever and a day since I last updated my blog with a good ol fashioned homey post, you know the ones where I tell you what I've been doing, what I've been seeing and I give you a bunch of photos to look through. You all know how busy my lif…

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Beat the cold season with Lysol!!!

As a mom I am well aware that my kids transfer germs like little germ making machines. It's no easy task trying to keep a clean healthy home, but I do believe that Lysol helps immensely. Here are some interesting facts from Lysol: Most families think they can fight off infection with hand wash…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/17/2014

Good morning my friends, I'm hoping you had a good weekend.  Mine was very good indeed and we were so busy that I feel I didn't step foot in my house for longer than an hour or so.  Craziness! Alright, let's get on with your Happy Homemaker Monday, hope you have a great week of work an…

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One door closes, two more open!!!

Our God is an awesome God!  There is nothing else to say to that. You know over the last few months we have been shown over and over just how gracious and amazing He is.  We struggle and we cry and we want to hide our heads and never come out, but one thing we know for sure, and that is that God i…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/10/2014

Another Monday, here we are plodding right through February.  Had a good quiet weekend but just wish it had been longer, I really would have enjoyed another day of doing nothing and watching my favorite shows.  Oh well..... As I look outside my window::: The sun is shining brightly outside which mak…

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Playing St. Barbara by Marian Szczepanski - TLC Book Review

• Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: High Hill Press (August 1, 2013) In the Depression-era coal patch known as The Hive, miner’s wife Clare Sweeney keeps secrets to survive. Stripped of her real name, she hides her friendship with a town pariah, haunting guilt around the deaths of her three infant s…

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Relentless!!!

This snow, it just doesn't let up does it? I would have been happier with it around Christmas time, that is when I wanted to see it turning the whole world white.  That is when I wanted to feel the bitter cold and enjoy a cup of hot cocoa while watching the flakes floating down by the light of…

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And down it comes......

Slowly, whizzing around the sky, sometimes slow, sometimes fast, but always there. Remember when I was back in Arizona and I used to say that I missed the snow??  And that I missed the cold weather, and the different seasons?? Well......I missed, and missed being the key word, because at the momen…

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