From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Eat From The Pantry Plan – Week 3

January 17, 2010

Since I started writing down my menu plan, I’ve made an earth-shattering discovery. Not really, but I like to think that I did. We don’t eat 5 dinner meals a week. We just don’t. Plain and simple as that. I can’t de-program myself from cooking large amounts of food. Growing up in a house with [...]

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Once Lost, Now Found

January 16, 2010
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This passage has been on my mind throughout the last week.  It’s one that I want to remember every day.  Taken from Luke 15… A Lost Sheep: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which [...]

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Help For Haiti – A Time To Give

January 15, 2010
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My heart is so burdened for the people of Haiti.  The pictures, the news, the stories, the reports, the devastation, the lack of food and water, the dead, the orphaned: this all weighs so heavily on my heart. We are blessed and we have SO much to be thankful for, yet we are often grumpy [...]

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Friday Fails – Keeping it Real!

January 14, 2010
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I can’t believe how many “fails” I’ve experienced this week. Okay, maybe in the last TWO days. After a frosting disaster, a paperwork overload, buying shampoo instead of conditioner and cleaning out the refrigerator for the first time in months…yeah, it’s been a pretty insane week.  I won’t bother mentioning that I gathered TWO bags [...]

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$5 Dinner Mom Cookbook Winner

January 14, 2010
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This was a super fun giveaway!  Seriously, I wish I had a cookbook to give to each of you! But I only have one. {sniff, sniff} The winner is…via Random.org 107 Timestamp: 2010-01-14 21:22:28 UTC Congratulations to Raye Ann who blogs at Center of the Home! Thank you so much to all who entered!  I [...]

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Breastfeeding Tips for New Moms

January 14, 2010
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When I first began breastfeeding one year ago, I was totally unprepared to deal with how hard it was.  I thought it was a no brainer: food + hungry baby = success.  Not exactly!  I read several books, but nursing is just one of those things, like giving birth, that you have to experience before [...]

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