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Holidays

Yay, America! Happy Birthday to You!

July 6, 2011 Holidays

"I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it." — Alexis de Tocqueville I admit, for most of my 31 years of life, I was complacent and took our extraordinary country and all the freedom and opportunity we have for [...]

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Gingerbread Day: You’re Never Over

July 3, 2011 Holidays

To celebrate the life of our beloved cat, Gingerbread, whom we lost last year, we have dedicated his birthday—July 3rd—to him and all things gingerbread. Long-time readers might remember the first annual Gingerbread Day last year which featured homemade Gingerbread Ice Cream. Today, not as warm and sunny as this time yesteryear, so it was [...]

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Working Weekend

May 31, 2011 Holidays

Hey, blogadoodles!! Long time no blog, right? We were pretty busy—and HOT—this holiday weekend. Temperatures hovered around 90F degrees every day. It’s not even noon yet! Did I mention I hate humidity? HATE IT. And our central air is not working right; it’s not cooling down the house, so we haven’t even put it on—no [...]

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White Bean, Baby Cuke, and Grape Tomato Salad {Recipe}

May 27, 2011 Holidays

We’re planning on having a yard sale this weekend! Only problem: We haven’t gotten the items together just yet, LOL. Excellent planning and preparation. We also haven’t advertised it yet. So if it’s going to happen, we have to do all of this in the next 6 hours or so. We can do it! I [...]

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Zeeeelicious Ziti

May 8, 2011 Holidays

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there! My little 4’10” (or 9”?) mother likes to keep celebrations low-key. Dinner and done! Nothing fancy, no restaurants—she’s pretty straight and to the point, lol. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s sort of nice to take it easy for a change. We just celebrated [...]

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Easter Feast 2011

April 25, 2011 Holidays

The Easter bunny visited us and filled our baskets with goodies! Yay, Easter bunny!! After eating candy for breakfast, I went on an hour-long hilly walk with mom. We covered about 3 miles or so. The hills were brutal! And the bugs took advantage of my huffy-puffiness when we got to a steep one. I [...]

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Deviled Eggs and Peeps in Purgatory

April 23, 2011 Holidays

I don’t know why these Peeps are in purgatory; they weren’t bad, they were quite good! Hehe. We bought this hot chocolate mix at Nature’s Pantry last fall and finally decided it was time to try it being we have a plethora of marshmallow Peeps for Easter. I borrowed this idea from my grandmother. Remember [...]

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Because You Always Want Some More {Peep S’mores}

April 19, 2011 Holidays

I love holidays, mainly because of the food! In our house, all holidays center around food first, everything else can come as it may, LOL. So long as the food is decided upon, that’s all that matters for our celebrations. Well, of course being with each other, but that’s sort of a given. We do [...]

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Doctors and Lobsters

February 15, 2011 Holidays

I picked a great day to go to the doctor, despite HER presence. When I arrived at the office around 12:15 pm for my 12:30 pm appointment, there was only 2 others in the waiting room! Score! On any given day there’s usually at least 5 or 6 people ahead of me. It may have [...]

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Napoleon and Josephine

February 14, 2011 Holidays

The love story of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine is one of my favorites. Even though it ended tragically, I still find it to be so passionate and intriguing. So on this day of love celebrations, how fitting to share a meal with their names in mind. While I prepared dinner, I had a HEARTY salad [...]