Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie - TLC Book Tour

About Garden of Lamentations • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (November 14, 2017) Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing—and deadly—complications for their own lives in this po…

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{ The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay - TLC Book Tour }

About The Austen Escape Paperback:  320 pages Publisher:  Thomas Nelson (November 7, 2017) Love Jane Austen? Then you’ll adore The Austen Escape . Falling into the past will change their futures forever. Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely e…

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 11/27/2017 }

Good morning, and happy Monday :) Here we are, after Thanksgiving and looking at the last few days of November. How insane is that? I have a busy day ahead, as always, but I must say that I am on the ball this year with Christmas.  Usually I wait until December to bring out the decorations and som…

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{ Preparing for Thanksgiving }

Well it's here, without a doubt one of my favorite times of the year. The food, the family, the atmosphere, the insane amounts of cooking and preparation that goes into it. When we were an Active Duty family, it was just the 4 of us, and so I would wait until the actual day and then get into t…

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 11/20/2017 }

Good morning everyone and Happy Monday :) It is almost 9am and I am still in my pj's, on the couch, snuggling with Marley and trying to stay warm.  I am freezing, I'm tired (as always) and I'm dragging my feet, which is not a good thing, considering it IS Thanksgiving week.  I have a lo…

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{ Crazy busy day }

I used to look forward to weekends because I knew that I would be sitting around, doing nothing but either catching up on tv shows or spending time with family. The past few weekends have been nothing like that for me, actually the more I think about it, the minute we moved to Texas, my life becam…

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{ When life just won't let up }

I'm incredibly sorry for not being around much, life has gotten in the way, worries and fears and health, schooling and work and family and just all sorts of things going on.  It's been quite difficult to maneuver around life at the moment, and unfortunately some things have been left behi…

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 11/13/2017 }

Hi everyone, I am so sorry this is going up so late today. I've had my mother in law visiting, she arrived Sunday morning and spent the night with us, and she just left to go back home to Sherman.  I was going to try and get this posted early this morning, but I didn't get very good sleep …

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 11/06/2017 }

Good morning my friends, how are you all doing on this beautiful Monday morning? It is quite a chilly one here today, the trees have all finally changed color and I feel like we are indeed experiencing Autumn and getting ready for Winter. Makes me happy :) What doesn't make me happy is the tim…

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{ The Crooked Path by Irma Joubert - TLC Book Tour }

About The Crooked Path Paperback:  400 pages Publisher:  Thomas Nelson (November 7, 2017) From the bestselling author of  The Girl From the Train , comes another compelling coming of age story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation in WWII-era South Africa. Lettie has always felt different from and o…

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{ Meal plan with me - Old recipe collection }

I'm getting ready to menu plan for the next two weeks.  I was looking for inspiration and while cleaning my kitchen cabinets yesterday, came across some of my old recipe collections. You probably have some of these yourself.  I started collecting them many, many years ago, when Jasmine was stil…

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