{ CFE International Saltfish Blogger Recipe Contest }

Hello everyone, I'm back with another recipe contest, this time from CFE International . I was asked if I wanted to participate in this contest and try out some delicious salted cold, or pollock.  I immediately jumped at the chance of the salted cod. I'm Portuguese, I grew up eating salted …

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{ Happy 18th Birthday to my beautiful daughter }

18 years ago, this beautiful red haired angel was placed in my arms , after a bit of a complicated labor and birth. In that instant my life changed!!!! The time has flown so fast, it feels like just yesterday I was rocking her to sleep.  She's reached so many milestones in the past 18 year…

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 04/24/2017 }

Good morning friends, hope you've all had a wonderful weekend. Here we are yet again, another Monday that seemed to have come straight out of nowhere.  Is anyone else feeling like this year is flying at a turbo speed?  It needs to slow down, like seriously. I'm going to get this post up pr…

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{ Jasmine's 18th Birthday Get Together }

She's not officially 18 until Tuesday the 25th, but when you have family all over the place, and her birthday falls on a week day, it's easier to throw a get together the weekend before, or after, whichever works for the family. I had planned on doing it next weekend but my mother in law is…

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 04/17/2017 }

Good morning, how are you all doing? Well a new week is upon us, we are now halfway through April, already. What on earth? I kind of want to go back to when I was a kid and the days would drag, but only because my kids are growing so fast and I want to slow it all down. But, alas, I can't …

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{ Five Senses Saturday }

It's been, oh, a long time since I last did a Five Senses Saturday, but I was sitting here on the couch listening to the wind outside and smelling my coffee next to me and remembered that I used to love this feature so much. It was a way to bring together a full week of sights, sounds, aromas …

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{ Rain and Crochet }

It's been a week of rain, taking it easy, and quite a bit of crochet. Even though the temperatures have been in the 80's, we have had quite a few storms roll on through, which I love, but my husband on the other hand gets frustrated because the grass grows faster, which means more mowing L…

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